Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-06-12

bic way, 10 effect change. In the fuF,heranos o
this object attended the great convention at Indian
apos, last winter to nominate candidate for Govern
of this State and to respond to the doings of the ar
risburg Convention 1t while here that my po!iti
cal faith first shaken.
Instead of open frank, and direct avowa of prn-
ciples compelled TO gaze upon 4 specta lie,
alike insulting to the intelligence, and degrading 10
the character Of the American people. In yan did the
honest and devoted of the party call for this
ain vain did they ask chart BY which to guide the
political vessel i'll the coming storm They were an
swered with banners and canoes-hard cider and log
cabius-drunkenness and revealing Nothing was
heard on either hand, but denunciaons of the ADM.
nstration of the General Government and the singing
of songs. From this convention returned home, nv
mind wavering and full otdoubts.
To Investigate the charges against the Administra.
ton and the objects and intentions of the Wing party
was my first business. The public expenditures first
engaged my attention. Instead of increase from
Sl3,OOO000 in l-24 to 390UOOO0 in 1889, asserted
by Tie Wings found it TO be from $50 600 600 in l-24
TO S37 100000 in 1882 By examining the several an.
nual reports the Secretary Oft Treasury The
was the public course Of Mr. Van Buren,, about which
much has been said and written. And ascertalnng,
from authentic sources, that instead of being opposed TO-
he ardent supporter OF the last war-tha instead
of being hostile to- he the first to suggest and The
foremost to carry into execution, the proposition for
the extension of the right of suffrage in New York:
could longer look upon the leaders of a party who
would knowingly and falsely prefer such charges with
out contempt and Indignation, at the imposition at
tempted to be palmed off upon US:
Then the Oswego correspondence General
Harrison had surrendered himself into the keeping OF
John G. Wright one of the most bitter reviers of JET.
terson and the old Democratic party Could |, who
had been Democratic in my feelings, look calmly,
! and without disgust, upon such movement this: 1t
told but too plainly the character of the admnstra
ton which should have General Harrison for lis head,
and John G. Wright and Daniel Webster for its chei
advisers.
And then examined the Independent Treasury bill.
After reading ii through carefully, (Which must
1t stood before me PLAIN simple, proposition Tor the
collection sackeepng, and disbursement of the public
revenue, stripped Of all the imaginary evils with which
the Wing party had invested it, Comparing It with
the Constitution, and the laws passed by the first Con.
gress upon this subject, it appears to TO be the
only system recognized by fathers for the manage
ment the peoples funds
In short, finding that the party 10 which ] at
ached would make avowa of their principles, but
were courtlng by their silence and duplIcty, every
faction sect which could yield them the least support
however opposite in their characters, | left them
could endure humbuggcry and deception no longer.
They are not the political weapons which had been
accustomed to use. shall hereafter lend my aid, fee
bic though be, and give my TO Van Buren,, John
son, and the Independent Treasury
One of my ncIghbors Thomas Flint, has also become
convert to Democracy for the same which
produced a change in my mind
CALEB TILLOTTSON.
p. $40 one doubts but that the Democratic party
VIII succeed III ccctng General Howard Governor By
large majority. This seems to admitted al hands
in this region. c. T.