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

tbon almost any man i'll our country, would have
been al This time their leader in Virginia: will not
consume the tine of this Convention by exposing his
inconsistency on the Finance question, and his treach-
orv to the principles on which the present Administra.
ton was brought into power. No, Sir; any child can
do that-the country is satisfied on that subject. Mar
tin Van Buren, has been sustained, and thank God, the
Indcpendent Treasury is near its cOnsummation-a con-
summation devcutly wished for by every friend TO hu-
man liberty. Il beg pardon of the Van Buren, Conser-
vatives) Sir, the ''game OF exposing Mr.. R'ves us
not worth the candle as high and as elevated and as
pure as he nav esteem misunderstanding upon that lof-
ty pinnacle, built up in his own imagination by an in
ordinate ambition, covered up in the thin. and flimsy
ruise Of emo party" an sarmed neutrality or Conser-
yatism, and his fate is to fall like Lucifer, never to rise
arain. If circumstances or accident should ever re-
store him TO his place, he may fill IT with his body, but
his spirit has fled. But, Sir, how was this union of the
Wings with Mr.. Rives brought about after the deadly
hostility which had existed between them for such a
lenuth of timco The Richmond Wing thus denounced
those who voted for the Expunging Resolution
awe sincerely wish that il were not counter TO the
order of Providence, that all the perpetrators Of that
dark tragedy on our country honor, might be cursed
with an immortality here; that they might live on,
whilst time holds its course, to hear, in their own proper
persons, The measured and bitter cxccrations of every
honest man, and on each returning day to be dashed
naked through the world with a whip of scorpions, from
the rising TO the setting sun.
MIR. Wise said in his Speech at Norfolk: 81 looked
around and saw RINES! lcould not dcsst from speak
inr TO him. did tell him-'Sir, would to God that
1 this cup had 10 pass from YOU. Tic seemed To me 10
feel HUMBLED, and he replied in substance, and
nearly in words, 'f any one supposes that this scene is
gotten up BY me, it is a great mistake He said more,
the amount of which was, that he never expected to Be
brought up actually to the DAMNED DEED. IeoHid
not rita him; he fGI beI0p CONTEMPT.'
The whole Wing party proclaimed with one voice he
had been guilty of an act of moral turpltudc, which
+ years of penitence could not wash out that he pcrJured
himself in voting for the expunge, Is proved by the fact
that what Mr.. Wise said has never been contradlctcd.
This is what the Wings said of Mr.. Rves.-Now what
did he say of them: In u letter dated October, ISIS,
written to his friend, Major Garland, N reference to the
Ohio and Pennsylvania elections, Mr. Rives said: 'lhe
result Of the elections in these two States, Will, | trust,
teach the Wings a lesson ef humility, of which they
stand so much in need. As to the Wings, neither yon
nor have any right to expect any thing from the lead
ers or the great body of the party. OF the correctness
of this opinion, | have long since been satisfied, and the
late unpriacipied manGurring of some of the leaders of
the Wing party, has only tended % confirm Inc III IT.
This was the state of the case previous 10 the last
Spring Elections in this State; how and by what magic
means, again, ask have they been brought into a fra
tcrnal cmbracc-in what way has MIR. RIvcs been
washed clean Of the slammed dced.' and how have
the Wings gotten over the charge of "unprincipled
nanuuvring:' Policy, policy! Sir. Mr.. Rvcs' term
in the Senate was to have expired the ih Of March,
1880; parties in the Legislature Of Virginia were so
\ divided that neither a Wing or Democrat proper could
be elected; a few of Mr.. Ri,es's personal friends hold
! ing, as was believed, the balance Of power. In this
state of things, Mr.. RIvcs took strong ground against
, the Administration: charactcrizing it as bad! bad; bad.
! He despatched the Wings with praise, and called them
fellow.citizcns of a common country This was
enough. The Wings forgot their former hate, Elk
E ~punging, Proclamation, Protest and all, and throwing
open their arms to receive the little Expungcr, ex.
claimed
'Conc 10 this bosom, my own stricken deer,
6 Though thu herd hath fed from thee, Thy home is sirl here,
81 never expected TO be brought up actually TO the
: damned decd" The Wings again cxclaim-
~ care not, Il ask not, il quilts in rLat heart,
4 dad but know that love- Thee Whatever ihon art. {,
Thus the clan, Mr.. President, a base unprinclpled
r coalitiOn-a coalition like that between Adams and
Clay, for Office only: | invoke IN? country-every To-
!, yer of honesty and every friend TO man, to trown down
. this unhallowcd coalition.
Fl Mr.. President, since the extra session of Congress,
| have never had two opinions about the position of Mr..
Rives. He was then, in my estimation, exactly where
6 we now find him-hcart and soul in tie arms Of The
Uhigs.-THE BALTIMORE CONGESTION DID IT, Sir-no-
j., thing short of a revelation from Heaven could satisfy
me, that it did not exert Il powerful! influence In the de-
termination made upon his pillow, paking and Steep
, ing, 10 abandon the Administration. ! feared it at the
time; and the first attempt made by him To get rid OF
his pledge TO make this what II ought 10 be, IA simple,
solid, hard money Government, satisfied me- that my
apprehension was well founded. The second stcIi in tins
;, act of moral treason a"d r""r%""' hy2"crlsy Was the at
tempt 10 bland Inc country with no party dact r;ncs. at n
, time too, when his own bosom burned Ike y Y"icano with
purity rancOr and personal hate. Atthis second strp. I
lost all confidence in him believed he had objects in
r view, which he supposed could not be secured witllou,
cquIvocatIon-whIch he believed would bc lost by pro-
!, Tossing too much of any ONE thing. He came out fcr
:: the dcnr People, the dear Banks, md the dear Country.
He was every thing that was soft and good, and for no.
thing that was obstinate and unyiclding-The princi.
!, pies held by partIzans, were monstrous; whilst the prin.
= ciplcs he held were c~harming-forgetting, saddcniy,
that he had been iRdccd, an descriptions partizan, vo-
ting for a resolution, which he had sworn before his
, God 10 oppose. In my newspaper researches, | fcnnd
= the following hit, which must have been designed for
the gentleman himself:
81 llty meet with a man who is opposed to something which
4 he ulut~ pmt n : 4 nrlp nf III marty. IHp nj marty man IuIfp-
with him, aud bclah"rs The party, and the partisan spirit, at a most
unmerrifuI rate. But the truth is, these nondcscripts-thcse no
party men-arc men Of no fixed principles, and a variable a the
winds" But, by taking a sort al a stand for and against all par
d bitterly against other parties, and n higottcd parts, because they
! say all other parties are wrong and doing horril mischief by their
" violent con'e"ijons; and they are an nnprincipled party, because,
n by eondeInn,ne all other parties, they condemn all Other fixed
: are, IN iact' a Niolcni, hieourd, rnprinclpled, and selfish party, IN
whom nobody that sets value 10 fixed principles should tep"sc the
n traliAr them>elves-are political C.! pliers.
80 from o aud o rcnan,.''
No party men are generally cold. hearted, selfish,
unprincipled and aspiring-sclish Demagogucs who
: are ever in search of Office, and care not from whom or
how they ret il. DIR. Duncan, in his late Speech in
Congress, thus takes off the "no- party" party
> 'Sr,l >ay every Government has two parties, and every honest
that belongs 10 no party, and will show you Il man without pm
ions, and viii show You fool o. a kmaye-a man who needs a
Keeper, % one who YIN steal your horse. The proper place fnr
$ such a man is the poor house, or tie pentenuaFy.' AVOID such a
$ man: If you meet Inn. he will either beg your purse, or rob you OF
H. Party is the salt Of The nation. II establishes a watchfnlnrss
: and Wholesome guardianship" over the institutions OF our country
: II checks and rcsirains the reckless ambition Of those in office, and
L never fails TO expose the nnnfeusanCc, mlsfeasance, or malcasance
of those in power. But 1t Is possible for party feelings and party
, practices TO run too high, and thereby produce the very evils which
lhry are 80 wei calculated 10 suppress. When party feelings run
E so high a 10 subinersc political morality, the worst Of evils arc In
5e apprchendcd. Party feelings and party ambition may become
50 reckless, as 10 overflow the best prospects Of our country, pros.
trate the free institutions which constitute the basis Of civil and
81 religious liberty, and suhrcrt The Government itself IN their desc
latin. sweep; and, lmust confess, thai | have some fearful appre-
tensions that we now border on such a stat. Of things. Let US
: examine The New jersey election, which involve the present CON
Y test. The examination Of The question Will show whether my
q fears are well founded, or whether they spring from a tmid heart
or "A di-tcmpercd head"
As the Wings will no doubt be very much in need
of Conservatives at the approaching Spring Elections,
TO aid them in bearing up under the immense weight
= of the weeping willow hero, Tippccanoc, and as the
spell under which they have heretofore been manufac.
tured has been broken, ] vii! endeavor TO accommodate
them with n recipe lately discovsred-and which may
not have fallen under their observation:
"Ncp 10 make a COMMUNICATIVE q few shares Of hank stock,
a largr amount of bank loans, a few city or village lots, of any i'm
aCinablc value, but wholly unimprOrCd and mpruiurtiye, give
theta aPGs crcdt Ia 4 man calling himself a Democrat, but whose
Democracy has alHayS seemed 10 consist more "f ,clfslncss Than