Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-31

ri only contributed to overthrow the administration OF
Ihn @ Adams, but advocated with ability and zeal,
tie leading measures which brought GOWN upon trs
dnt Jackson the rancorous hatred OF the Wings Inc
memorable Expunge, intended as was alleged by the
Nbius. TO fix upon them that burning shame they had
fered to the laures of the President, was assisted
through the Senate by the parliamentary abiites OF
IMr Rives The Whiggsh denunciation against HIM,
which, before, had been continual and bitter was as
the cheering voice of praise, when compared to the fe
rocv of its character then Language IS incompetent
TO describe it. No violated conhdence-no oetiayal
trust-no measure of ingraude to the corda! trends
who reared the fortunes of Mr. Rves, could provoke
from the Democratic party the remorseless fury then
manifested towards him by the Wings
: Since then the flushed and elevated Wings, backed
and encouraged by the mighty contrvances ofincorpo
r.tod wealth have reunited and embodied their hth
erto dscordant forces and now constantly proclaim
their ability and determination to crush the PRESIDENT
and the Democratic party. 10 pamper TINS VAN exui
tnton the Conservative leaders have made their appear
,nce and drawn their weapons in the ranks OF the oP
position They professed to have mustered troops IN
defence of great constitutional principles; ana ior sea
son stacked their upon neutral ground ana coidy
cved the battle field But the leader OF the Northern
Conservatives, to secure sway IN ms ha've lahu, Soo
vent over to the enemy in bold and free defiance; and
now in the national Senate wages fierce, unnatural
relentless war; upon the political party with which he
so lately and so cordially co-operated
The commander of the Virginia Conservatives more
cool and wary calculated with crcumspect mind the
hazards of the enterprise and felt and measured the
Ground on which he has determined to move. But he,
too has lately DOTTED his neutray-eft his former ge-
ncrous and conidng frends-and crossed the Rublcon
of party strife
him with deg Rt and freely forgave his previous sins
Nav in the overowngs of ecstatc joy, they have la
bored with the most pexeyerin5 asslduy to return MN
to the National Senate where he plunged dagger IN
their precious fame and whose records they assert nc
had mutilaed and deed with the most cold, selfish,
coIculotnu and deliberate baseness.
For this sudden, extraordinary support OF MT fves,
the great organ of the Wing party in Virginia had no
UNSUITABLE precxt, that am aware Of ] he editor OF
The Wing and the leader of the Conservatives, did not
aurec even on the great financial question OF the day
/ For while Mr. Rves considered and denounced that
measure curse to the national prosperity MI fiea-
SAINTS considered it the wses and safest financial mea-
sure which Congress could then adopt do not UNDER
take to quote his language, but to state III te
views which he entertained upon that subject and which
he published to the world. The opposition OF Mr. kves
to the Sub Treasury scheme could not therefore, have
endeared him to the editor of the Wing II should, IN
the ordinary of human reasoning have wldened
the breach between them. No. the ground boldly and
openly assumed by the editor for the support of Mr.
Rives was, that with his assistance, the Wings could
carry the elections and get command OF the government
4 This was the doctrine gated by the press and
echoed in the halls of the Legislature, by gentlemen OF
the Wing party, who claimed to represent the virtue,
the principles and the patriotism ofthe Commonwealth
of Virginia.
If gratitude be among the number of gentleman $
virtues and the greatest beneacors deserve the warm
est returns of gratitude, what beneiactors can Mr.
Ryes compare with the early and devoted patrons who
gave him whatever OF power ana dishctioh ne mas &c
qured'
Our country too, whose ever grateful eyes his ri
peninr worth so cndery could see, that scarce she
breathed an accent to the skies but what winged
with bensons for him! Yet, instead Of gratitude for
this rare delicate and generous appreciation am sor-
nv TO believe only feeling now, pervades his heart
feelings of unkndness, not to say hostility towards
the great body of his former political friends the cor
dial and condlng friends, who placed hm IN the lead
of his fellow men, cheered and sustained him IN every
: strife. and aimed to raise him to the Presidential
hegth.
And who gets the benefit of this painful and unnatu-
raj abandonment of his former friends why, politl-
, cians who have covered Mr.. Rives with every
crime that can degrade humanity; politicians who but
lately declared that he had made his namy universal
and eternal politicians who have recorded that "the
6ddinp Of Ncro-the cruelty OF Caligula-the cold
blooded tyranny of Tiberius, may be forgotten the
long catalogue of crime, which stands mcmento OF
human depravity may fade from the page of history,
and vanish from the memory of man, but his bare sup
port of the Expungc, untouched by the finger of time
{ shall remain shame nature, to the latest age
The men who, in the presence OF an assembled nanon
before their country and their God wliuy and dclibc
ratelv pcriured themselves, and placed the perjury
record need expect to be forgiven Charity
vany essay to mitigate the niamy OF their deed, but
names VIII never
v tue has votary, vice is to be deprecated
ave the charitable of party strif sin
ercly wish that the order OF Providence
that all the perpetrators Of that dark tragedy on our ccnt no
nor might he cursed with immortality here that they might
on % nT and r 40 Of ne
day. be dashed naked through the world
at is proper say good time, and empaicay that the
Southern Wings cannot and fa not support a" E4ns' for any
II is utterly hopeless therefore, to expect that any
policy supporter o: the Administration can satisfy
discordant inconsistent and voracous party who labor
under political disability TO be pleased with any thing
that the Government do who employ in their SER
vice principles they condemn, and politicians they re-
VILE and who mean to continue discontinued with
every statesman, with every man, and every measure,
which may operate against the installation OF theiI-
selves into power and place.
few words upon another subject, which has engag-
ed the public attention, and agtated the public mind
during the present session of Congress, and Will
close my communication.
When at the commencement of the present session,
the FIVE Wing members from the State OF New Jersey
presented to the House of Representatives the creden-
tias of their Governor, importing that they were duly
elected supported the prcensions oil those members
to the seats they claimed; because, was unwilling to
believe that the Chief Magistrate of Sovereign State
could far forget his dignity, his duty, and his place,
grant credentials not warranted by the laws, and
the evidence before HIM.
But the Committee of Privileges and Elections have
since produced to the House Report which satisfies
me- fully that the five Democratic members whom the
Governor excluded, by the credentials aforesaid had
received at the last Congressional elections in that
State majority of the lawful votes of New Jersey;
and should have received the credentials which were
given to their opponents. And have now the salts
faction to inform you that this exciting question was
settled on the 10th of this month"; under the judgment
Of the House of Representatives, that the five Demo
cratic members from that State were entitled to their
seats.
All the pretexts under which the Chief Magistrate
of New Jersey, for political effect affixed his great seal
to what am reluctantly constrained to believe was
false record have been fully refuted and condemned in
the House, bya majority of thirtyone. And his ES.
cellency stands convicted of what must be permitted
to believe, bold, audacous attempt to defeat the
elective franchise of his native State, and to parayze
the public will of the whole nation by returning to the
House of Representatives fraudulent majority against
; the measures and policy of the Administration.
And it is worthy of remark that when the House
was brought to vote upon the proposition to admit the
} five New Jersey members, who had until then been
excluded one of the opposition asked to be excused