Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-10

party grounds, who are not only incompetent bu, Vi
cious and taithless. This is positively and totally de-
med 1t is not true. We call for proofs and spcc-
fcations.
MIR. Van Buren, "claims, and exercises the power 10
remove officers at WILL and none escape who oppose
him. Not a true bill, Mr.. Attorneys us hundreds of
Wings now holding office can testify; and this may be
said of every charge, far goes in the slightest
degree to affect either the moral purity, the official
rechude OF Mr.. Van Buren,. Well may the soul of the
patriot sicken at the infinite frauds and fctons of
Whggery which every day report brings to our ears
w 18th such specimens before US, how confde in
any statement Of facts, however "calmly made,
ing from such preudIced source: These same men,
about four years ago, had the City Of Richmond in
commotion and called anti Abolition meeting at
the Capitol hoping to injure Mr. Van Buren,: Now,
they have fears the subiect-certanly from
HARRISON since he is made the partnership candidate
OF the friends of Mr. Clay and the Abolrtionists If
HARRISON IL not to get the support OF the Abotonsts
why have the writer Of this Address and his friends
obtained from him, just such public pledge Mr.. V.
Buren, has given instead of publishing letter written
by Harrison eighteen years ago. which proves nothing,
twill not do, gentlemen Wings 1t will not do. We
people in the country distinguish between "a hawk
and hand saw" il we ignorant of the tricks aud
mysteries of stock iobbng and specializing politicians
| We know you have strange notions of honor "You
would die rather than pick private pocket and yet
without blushng you would not only, through corpo-
rate companies high prices, tariffs and other sly MEANS
pick the pockets OF the people, but actually pluck the
very bread out of their children's mouths. You will
venture your lives for friend for the honor of
a woman who has none, and yet you would not miss
great dinner to Henry Clay, to preserve the liberty
and honor of your country. We know that queer
notions exist in the philosophy of Whiggery; but how
to square them to simple judgments of honesty and
patriotism, is above our skill.
| Before leave this Wing Address, (perhaps ntoge
Their and forever, it may be well TO commend the deli
cate manner, in which our champaign and cologne
Wing Convention touch on the low and vulgar trick
of their "og cabin and hard cider brethren The sub
ject is thus tendery, delicatey and sympathetcaly
brought to notice. by the poor loafers of the Wing
Convention
" So humble and unostentatious is his life, fellow
citizens, that he has been derided by the pumps and
" parasites of power, because his habtation said
/" TO be humble and his drink simple and cheap. lis
" this the iruth?l They who clothe in fine clothes
g and feed Injuries bought by salaries which the
people pay, may well deride thus, the Republican
/" mot Uhigl who maintains himself in honest simpi
city,
| wonder if any of the poor, log cabin, hard cider
boys of the great Wing Convention, whose address is
before us got any Of the scraps and bacon skins, from
the eavngs of the great Clay Dinner. The writer OF
the Address deserved sop the pan, at least, and
mug of hard cider-"Pmps and parasites of power,
oh-how can you, gentlemen Wings look one another
in the face, without mutual consciousness of deg
radiation yourselves and to the character of Virginia
gentlemen? For your sakes-tor the reputation
| of the Old Dominion-do let that nature which most
of you inherited from honest and patriotic fathers
sert its Just claims and restore you to your lost dignity
and self.respect.
Upon the whole, the Wing Address is an unmanly,
begging of Virginia Republicans 10 vote for the Wing
candidate for the Presidency. BLAND
il no, little singular WINGS should labor hard 10
prove that Harrison is Republican, they could prove he
would not get the vote If Wing trck.
Bland has been severe upon the long Address OF the
| Wing Convention. Public rumor has ascribed II to
the pen of gentleman of talents of this City, but we
cannot believe it, Fit be really his production he was
| frt
its conception or ITS dellvery-He has done astice
to his subject TO himself Be the author who
he may yet must say, with due Difference, that II
does credit to his pen, and will render very little
vice to his cause Even the Petersburg lntellgcncer
is compelled to admit that sis rather longer than (e)
| could have wished and it is not only long whole,
but the parts wretched spun ont lis sentences
long, heavy, and indeed almost the whole composition
is trashy and vapd We have seen hundreds of Es-
says in the Wing newspapers Tint would have better
| answered the purposes of Address to the People
We have time at present to analyse the composition,
or to answer its sophstIcal argumtnts-and indeed we
much doubt the necessity of any such elaborate reply
Though Processes to be very 'temperate and candid
aud all tut yet il is written in the spirit Of partizan,
giving the color to its statements of facts
-softenng every thing which makes against General
HARRISON and deepening every charge which has been
made agans, his competitor. For example, following
the notable and noble example of William Z. Rircs,
| it palms nff upon the Public Gen H. s letter OF l-22,
/ as the true exponent of his 'sunform and always
Republican sentiments, when the Wing Convention
must have known, that almost every great principle
which he has since advocated, almost great mca
he's supported directly at with that let
ter. They claim for him the merit of being commend.
ed to you, by the confidence Of Washington and JEFF
ferson; when they ought to have recoected, that what
ever may be the fact in relation 10 Jeferson he
in the words of the Botetourt Address of 80 written
| by John r. Anderson "a Black Cockadc Fedcrast,
the warm supporter of the Elder Adams, and of his
son John @. Adams'-and in the words Of the Nelson
Address, from the pen Of James Garland, he favored
the celebrated Panama Mission (of Adams and Clay;
and that his "votcs in the Senate aken in connexion
with his letter to Sherrod Wilams) stamp Federalism
upon his politics decidedly is possible to dol
The Editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser, who once
wrote his biography, Justly remarks that "Ihere ano
Their part of Cen Harrison political creed which his
friends forgot mention; that is, his apProva! of the
monstrous coalition between Henry Clay and the
Younger Adams and his cordial support of their Ad
Observation-Disclosures first Message to Congress
Panama mssion-oss of the British and French colo
NAL trade-blunders with Don Pedro of Braz-and all
their other blunders, and highhanded mcasures.-1o
our knouiedge the General highly approved of J. Gum
CIV Adamss first message, in which he said 1t would be
casng away the bountes OF Providence, tor hun and
CONGRESS- to fold up their arms, and declare them
selves palsed by the will of their constituents This
would be such strong recommendation to the Demo
Gratis of the West, who instrumental in hur-
nu that Administration from power IN lc2S that they
| ouoht TO be put in mind Of it; but the General 5
friends seem quite negligent those matters, and there
fore we have given them the hint to improve upon.
AS one proof of the bcraity which this Address dis
plays towards the present Administration. take the
sertion that ale claims and exercises the power to
move officers at WILL and none escape mho oppose him.
Can this be true when look to the number OF Wings
who are now retained in Office under the very beard of
the President, at Washington How comes it to pass,
that there were So Postnastes in the great Wing Con-
yention of Columbus After the general sweep, which
Gov Seward has made in ~ York; after he has removed
$40 officers in 40 days. it may indeed be said, that some
times ssnone escape who oppose the Wings"
4 FOR THE ErQ UTRER
THE POLITICAL ARNOLD-His DEPUTIES AND ALLIES.
he Federasts know that norine they gone forever
Their object therefore, how return into under some
other form Undoubtedly they have but which is 10
divide the Republican, join the minority and barter with them for
the cloak Of their say join The minority because tho
iority of Republicans needing te will not buy them The
minority having other means OF ruling the majority VIII give
lie airif