Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-24


tho use of large sums of money in elections IS sub
rersire Of free suffrage and fatat TO liberty
If the spirit Of the country is not aroused against
these foul practices they not put down. and line
rrnnt of fraud every where branded with
the iniamy due the most agtious crimes our cleo
tions will henceforh become mere mockery, the mo-
rails of our people will be corrupted, our institutions
subyered and scandazed; national character dis
honored and our very become the scorn and bye
word of the enemies of liberty throughout the civilized
| world.
Americans, the present is alarming crisis in your
history Your free institutions in imminent danger
Is there intelligence and virtue enough in the country
to stem the tide Of corruption and Memo few
weeks will decide this question, and perhaps decide 1t
forever; o! that had voice that could reach the
heart ofevery true American in which there is spark
of the fire Of liberty still smoihered, we would hope to
enkndle it into unquenchabe flame, pure and holy
as that which burned the breasts of the patriots Of the
better days of the Republic.
MIR. WEBSTER IN RICHMOND
After introducing himself TO the audience and say
hing in substance, he is 'Rot soft enough" to talk to
them about his Federal notions of the Constitution and
public policy Mr.. Webster declared that 'fke topics
ioaieh are agitaing the country, aad achirh hare
brought as here to-day, hare relation rhdtecer r
those in ,chch differ from The opinions she lirss"ta
has crcr eRtertained.
Is this true Does not every man Of intelligence
know that the .'niiSgorernmcnt Of which Mr. Web
ster has been complaining for years, is Tit DKsrRuc'
ToS OF THE UsIrED STATES BANK; Is 1t forgotten
that in public Speech after he returned from the IN
successful assault General Jackson Administration
At the pa session Of iS32- he declared that the agl
taton of that year WOULD REPEATED until the
cause was removed-that is, until the Bank oil lie
United States restored to all It's privileges ana
powers over the Government and the people was
not the establishment of Bank one or s main
expediens to put end 10 the present 'MsRuLE, as
| avowed in his recent speech at New York Does he
scarcely speak converse among the people OF the
North the politics of the times, without urging me
,ly A,.d ,ln MT n
know that the re.esiabshment of such an institution
is one of the chief objects of the Federal Na!g lead
ers Such Bank involves not only the question oil
strict construction of the Constitution, butts IN the last
degree consolidating in its tendencies point on when
Virginia has been peculiarly tenacious. MIR. Webster
is onot soft euough to touch upon this subject or these
principles in Virginia, but is harry enough to declare
that no such principles involved in the contest
Mr. Websters clients in the North look TO this con-
test involving also an increase OF the tarif, enabling
them as anusacturers further to tax the planters oil
the South and the farmers and mechanics OF the whole
Union for their emolument; but Webster declares IN
Fngnia that the present controversy involves no such
questions.
In fine, although the Fcderalists Of the North look
upon the contest destined to restore the principles
Of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, the Bank
and public debt of Hamilton, and the Tariff and Inter-
nal Improvement of Henry Clay their great represen'
tat,ve tells Virginia that has relation whatever to
such topics
pie are opposed TO the Administration and ners great
influence in the Executive power, be ouse, under such
circumstances, il requires him. and the achote army q
Federal iaCyers to perambuate and agate the coun-
try, overthrow it, The fault Of his argument lies
in the assumption of premises that have no foundation
in fact. The people every where becoming salts
fed with the Administrations had discovered that
It was not the Administration, but the Bank, MIR. Web
ser, Mr. Clay and their political associates, that selfish
purposes got up all the panic and distress of 1881
\ IN had tho InieDpnlput Treasury.
instead Of being a measure Of oppression and rob
berry, as represented, but plan TO prevent the
peoples money being lent out 10 spectators and
others in violation of the Constitution, and to keep
it for the purposes for which they pay it into the
Treasury they had discovered that all the assaults OF
4 ten wears warfare Democratic Administration
originated in schemes hostile to their interests and de-
sructivc 10 their rightfu power their own Go
yernment In this state of the public mind, it required
u mighty effort change the current it required new
and unheard of to alarm the people and destroy
their confidence in their chosen rulers. Not in the in
faence of the Erccutice, but in the Increasing cont
deaee of The people in The wisdom and integrity OF the
PRESIDENT and his advisers, was found the necessity
of resortng TO extraordinary to excite and ms
! lead the public mind
Iffur,hcr proof of this is wanted, it may be found in
the character Of the means rcsorted to. They are
First, cmaigamatica Of all P"rties and factions
mony, Federas,s and State Rights men, Masons and
4 Anti. masons, Bank men and anti Bank men, Tariff
men and anti-Tariff men, Aboltioniss and Slavehod-
ers Secondly, these amalgamaed factions, instead OF
uniting upon any general principle or object confess.
ediy rotc aside all principle conceal erery Oec and
apparently contend only for putting one set OF men
out of Office and another set in. TO use Mr. Web.
sers expressive language, they are "no soft enough
to their principles and objects, knowing that
they have no common principle or object, except
the possession of power Of this character are all
the documents and speeches produced by them from
the time of the Harrisburg Convention, which re-
fused to present any address, down to the deciara-
ton at Richmond, from Gen. Harrison, who IS "not
soft enough TO any principle or object, to the
meanest editor of log cabin journal, whose themes
consist OF nothing but hu--a for TIP and 1y, and aonse
ofhc administration. Thirdly, having thus united the
leaders Of factions, and adopted course Of universal
conceament as TO Their own object and prlnc'pes'
We have seen put in operation system OF wholesale
abuse and downright falsehood III relation to the
measures and motives of the Administration, from
one end of the Union to the other not only through
thousand newspapers, but many thousand. speakers,
who are ready TO assert any thing, ho'etre ground
less, and dcay any thing hocrer true, rs the interests
of their cause may require. In addition TO this, ex
traordnary means resortcd tn by raising vast
of money, and printing millions OF pamphlets aud
! handhs, charged to OVERLOOKING with all sorts oil
misrepresentation, and giving them circulation under
frank IN abuse Of privilege granted for other purpo-
scs, and often lpable violation of law Finally DIS
! trusting all the means OF influence las well tley
might that party resored to the expedlent OF picking
up AL the drunken ana proHlgate 10 aiu tHeai w 'he
contamination Of their schemes and to that end make
a. many drunkards possible. Throughout the
Union they have therefore, erected, under the name Of
log cabins, schoot hoses of intemperance, prohgacy
and lying-arket houses, where men, after being con.
yeted into brutes by strong drink, sell themselves and
their glorious privileges, to be used instruments to
govern the sober and industrious classes Of the commu
nifty.
| Do these means of attack indicate that the leaders of
this party think the pabe reason to be against the Ad,
M in ri IN nj
The ccnsary9 Do they not prove their consciousness
that The public is against them, and that their
only hope is, that by resong TO selfish interests, ambi-
ton for power concealment tasehood, the cider barre
and money, they may subvcr and overthrow the doml-
MON of The public mind and carry the cleo
ton in opposition to its sober convictions:
All this effort is necessary, not TO overcome the Off
cial influence Of the President, but to CONQUER
THE PEOPLE 10 drorm reason-to Danish argu-
ment-fo make men IN cBect much their passire in
styuD,cgts as The or GRd the horse. Mr. Webster has