Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-29

nIcted in Baltimore by seven hundred moJorly' u,
district decidedly Democratic, sinnilahtousy
MAYORS first election by the same ilauau far The
cur,s and his crew, making four members lot lhs
civ. have had two terms in Congress; ana .He M
SEAL delegation were twice returned Ho': -
Jersey. And all this was accomplished, 10 80 hr
dvulred and established by the cleaIes' P: ~
hr;n1 !, few hundred desperadocs TO swear w 'ne'i
votes NJ all the different polls TO change the'r
md swear them in again in the disguise, ana 50 heeP
inc up the masquerade until the requ's", ,s
ballots were introduced TO turn the scare Va p
C,orens would doubtless have carried lne S.n'e "
pnnylvanin for Ritner but for his miscalcuatioh
tho Democratic majority in the State ne suPpos..
H., Is he introduced false ballots enough 10 vahqu'sh
The minority obtained on the Won anu -"u'i .s
tickets at the previous election, SUCCESS "o'o
achieved. This was done; but the ihcteaseu die.
vote for Porter over that Of the previous ecctio' @
concerted the scheme The system OF iraua mas WI
en- well in New York, Philadelphia, baitmoIe eno
New jersey as 10 make difference Oh Meni is.,'d
votes in the first House of Representative,
nnder Mr.. Van Buren's administration. lhs susL
Federalism the House. and defeated all the measures OF
the Administration. The same system ny ope,a''.'s =,
Tho same places had we'll nigh accomplished the same
result for the last Congress when Congress unu
great State had almost twice fallen unoel Tue mana
So, of saw villains. where was the difficulty OF ex-
,endipo The system by organization over suHlc'ent
number of closely contested Democratic States 10 turn
tho scale in the Presidential election: This experiment
is now in progress and lis efficacy will be tried III
few DAYS throughout the CHiou. ~ 10 s'@ 5'"A''
of the homes of Federalism in Harrison
THE BASIS OF FEDERAL BETS AND ROASTING;
| The stupendous Federal frauds III the lale otate
elections. which are every day coming to light, al
length furnish full explanation of that unbounded
confidence which animated the leaders OF the party
from the moment of the nomination at darrisnurg.-
Nothinp which had previously occurred, no augurles
or indications had appeared to justify their apparent
pre uosterous anlcipatons. All the elections lmme.
datey preceding had demonstrated that the current OF
popular feeling was setting strongly ana deciaeuy
| against them. They had lost seventeen out OF Inc
lwcnty-six States and in the great State OF ~ ORR
such had been the rapid dminutlon of the Federal ma
,orty at The Two preceding elections as to unsh al
most decisive evidence that third would give them
final and complete overthrow
Such was the state things and such the direct inter-
ences to be drawn from it, when the National Conven-
ton met at Harrisburg for the nomination OF
for The two highest Offices in the Government Inc
character of the difficulties standing IN the way oil una
nmi,v amonr the representatives of the different par
lies and sections brought together this occason may
he estimated from brief review Of their leading points
of difference Here met together the advocates and OPP
moments of high tariff latudinarian construction OF
The Constitution, Bank of the u 5 and vast system
of internal improvements by the General Government
Here met together the representatives. OF The most as
cordant and reconcabe interests and principles thai
were oyer arrayed against each other in the w. , and
here the delegates face To face with the Abolition
ISIS the most fatal and deadly enemies TO their lnsu
lions their property and their yes-en who had over
and over again preached crusade against them ALL and
who, not content with attempting robbery on their pro.
ppry had presented them to the eyes OF the CIVILIZED
world ssas man-srarrs and murderers; who had pour
ed upnn their heads every epiet of nb"quy and ab-
horrence and attempted to enlist the whole civilized
world in warfare their resdes, Their domestic al
(cc,inns, and their personal rights and safety
There exists not the slightest d'ubt that the mem
beers of this convention delegated from The South were
chosen and came Harrisburg, to give their shrages
4 ,lIata tht
to Henry Clay whe had attempted !" c"nc',ale Wv
south by his famous anti Abolition Speech. Finding,
however that the Abolition members, amounting u"
twenty three could not he brought n acquesce IN Tue
nomination Of that distinguished politician, the dele
gales from the South, reluctantly acqursced IN their
| demands; and consented to the nomination OF Gen.
Harrison. They yielded vital pr'ncple-they sacf-
feed the South 10 candidate received from the hands
of their most deadly and determined fnss and having
done this, separated without any declaration of prn
cples, being fully aware that no nice adaptation oil
words M sDphisry of argument, could possibly recon-
cr such mass of contradictory interests, such juan
BILE Of Inconsistencies
| II might lave been suppnsed-fnr such would have
been the inevitable conclusion of nil RATIONAL rejecting
men-thnt the denouement Of this extraordinary po-
tical drama would have operated TO the Discourage
ment of all parties conce the nomination Of
a man naturally imbecie and weak, tn whom nge ana
experience had brought neither wisdom nor PRUDENCE
who had already signaly failed against the same can
ddate and who, fran his previous conduct and decla
rations was identified with that fanatical party which
was waging war of determination against the South,
in opposition to who had few months before de-
cared himself in favor of the rights of the South
would have produced the usual consequences of such
dssensions-doubt, apprehension, and dependency
No one could have nationally anticipated angh but de.
cded opposition from the South to candidate selected
and imposed ON the convention By the AboiitonIsts
who had they not been assured OF his devotion to their
principles and purposes would never have even assent
ed TO his nomination. Yet with all these discouraging
circumstances staring them in the face with medley
of conflicting interests and principles TO embarrass
candidate conessedy inferior TO the one they discard
ed; and broad, rreconcilable difference great vi
tai principle, Inseparable from the very existence OF
large portion of the Union, what did see,
We saw the leaders of this piebald party, split as It
into thousand disnrdered fragments, all at once
assuming a tone of confidence, which, for time, APP
peared neffably absurd, that rational men, of their
party, who not in the secret wondered at the
strange halucinaton, received it as nothing more
than another and violent ebulltlnn OF that nve-
terate propensity to Dragging, which has always been
of the great characteristics of Federalism. They
not only Dragged, but they bet They predicted, with
all the confidence of second sight or inspirations the
downfall Of the Democratic Administration; they spoke
of it of event already predoomed, which nothing
could change and no human means avert; they cele-
braed their victory beforehand and parcelied out the
spos before they won There must, therefore,
have been solid grounds for these confident anti
cpations; latent and secret springs at work, to
produce result totally at variance with all outward
indications, all the deductions which observing men
would draw from the existing state of pnres-from the
past the present. and the future We shall proceed TO
a development of the apparent mystery.
The place of meeting selected for The nomination of
candidates omnous Of its objects and the means BY
which they were to be attained Ii at Harrisburg
which, little more than year before had been the scene
Of of the outrageous conspracies against the
right of suffrage and the ascendancy of the majority of
free citizens, which modern times had ever Witnessed
conspiracy to corrupt voters violate the polls defaud
the State of Pennsylvania of her constitutional rights
treat the elections if they had not been; and finally
the brave and patriotic citizens who had con-
gregated from all quarters to defend their rights in their
last entrencent Every body remembers the frauds on
the register and ballot boxes of Philadelphia the
of the recreant Secretary OF State to substitute
tile false for the true returns the violent efforts of
Thaddeus Stevens and Senator Penrose 10 secure
joriiy in the Legislature by means of this tic&ery;
every body remembers the call of Governor Rncr
the people of the State; then on the militia; nsty OF
The Executive of the United States, TO send military
c,rca ont tbroots of