Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-09-25

/ OF Inc ia December, ana SIN January, lcla.-ifS
place The Van Buren, Electoral Ticket, has been
filled by General Henry s. Foote, who is doing noble
Knights service in the Republican cause-mecting and
beating The Wing Slangw hangers Of Mississippi, on
every battle field
Capping the Gilman
We believe, the old Eastern saying is at is the last
straw that breaks the cames back We had supposed
that the Wings had sufficiently insulted the understand
Ings of the people Of virginia. They had disgraced
our metropolis with log cabin, and hard cider. They
have had recourse TO spectaces Ia eude the senses and
to humbugs 10 deceive The understanding. They have
sought TO degrade the people, and Gin all ages, the de-
graduation OF the people has been the certain forcrun-
Of the destruction of their liberties As the Char
loesville Address says, rhey have propagaed every
variety of humbugs, and refused TO appeal 10 their
derstandngs by manly argument and enlightened prin
cples." They have got up shouting professions of
huzzah boys, and promscuous Conventions TO keep up
the excitement, and prevent the voters from thinking
for themselves and seeing the truth But the last mea
sure caps the climax of faulty and folly They have
invited Mr.. Webster to teach politics to Virginia, and
| consnmmate the banms between the Essex Junto and
the Statesmen of the Old Dominion. owe speak Of
| Mr.. Webster, not as man, but rs potcian) The
invitation By the TIppecanocs-the acceptance BY the
Federal Orator-tie whole prospect, are calculated If
any thing can to show the desperation of the Wings, TO
open the eyes, and TO the patriotic pride OF every
States Right in the land.
The advent of MIR. Webster is indeed The denouement
the GROWING act of this maddened and nuratcd Party
i IL
but their organ has conrvcd to surpass hImseliand
the manifesto which announces the great even, TO the
People of Virginia. is So prodgousty audacious as well
US insane, that should not have supposed II crcdl.
bic oE any NirgIminn 10 have written IL II did not
it large life before MS, III the columns Of the
last SATURDAYS Wing. We ask every citizen TO see II,
read it, weigh it, aud then say whether he ever
any production to surpass it in the columns OF Nlr
| ginia paper. Here il IS:
".Vr Wtbster IN Rchmond.-Wc announce with great
| MI ire m Left bppn Npl
ser accepting the invitation to attend the Wing Con-
venton in Richmond on the 9th October.
"Nlr Webster S presence will attract additional thou
sands-No living man can command South of the Po
tomac where he has never set his foot, such curiosity
and anxiety see and hear him. who, in the power
of ra,loclnatlon, in the estimation of English
judges, the first intellect of the great age which
live
awe hail Mr. Webster visit, and the extraordinary
circumstances of the country which every where
inducing greater freedom Of political intercourse,
with the most lively satisfaction. They calculated
to make the American People better acquantcd-to
blend them perfectly INTO brotherhood Of afec
ton, thought and sympathetic cherish generous
sentiments and more liberal estimation of each other
10 convince all sections of the mon that each and
every one has equally al heart the liberty and glory of
our country-and 10 break down aud dssipair those
mean prrjudces which trading politicians especially
in the South have art!uy foStered for guilty purposes
| Mr. Webster has been Tor twenty years in Virginia
garded concentration ofall that odous and de-
testabe in politics. His very has been iner
haus;be trading capital 10 certain traiicng school of
Virginia politicians and Presdcnt.rnakers, who have
used it head-and bloody bones whenever II was
desirable 10 imiiame the passions of the mass.
rhc day of the power of that trading political school
has passed forever. The People know and feel the
| Federalism ofthe Washington and Marshall and Web
sier school, was moderation and 90 RcpublIcanism,
compared with the grinding oppre gson ofmodern "De
mocracy; which IS but ancien: Federalism united with
the doctrines Of Fanny Wright and Robert Dale Owen
the meeting and consolidation Of the two extremes of
system, each cxccrabe sngly, but when comb
presenting oretaste OF the riot and oppression OF He'll
itself
awe know what assert when say, that State
Rights have faithful friends and strenuous sup
porters than the honest portion of the old Federal party
/ that portion mean which, desiring office, have
not surrendered their principles to Jackson aud Van
Buren, but have continued cool spectators Of the event
fu scenes Of their dynasty This class have seen the
consequences of Federal theories developed and they
have shrunk from doctrines which produced such
suits The hgI. handed Federalism of Proclamatons,
Force Bills, Removal Of Deposites, Sub Treasures and
Standing Armies, have made them friends Of State
Right principles
/ "Iet Virginia como and hear Mr. Webster in Octo.
Der.
\ The Wings welcome 10 take Mr.. Webster to their
arms if they please The old Federal party will relish
his embraces because they anal amacd III prnci-
pies with the head of the ESSEX Juno, the John Adams
and fiamonian school. But bring such man .
the land ot Jefferson ana 10 teach politics,
is outrage upon the whole political character at NIr-
GINA "FoT 20 years!'-wy, II * ~ that
she has been regarded as concentration all that was
oiious and detcstable in politics. lie as advo.
Gated great principle, either the theory of the Con-
siiiuiion or in the practice of the Cove nuen which
Virginia has not abued. He disavows all the mmor-
| al principles of Madisons Report All his measures
belong 10 the heightened llarnnnian school-he goes
Tor National Bank, Protective Tariff large system
nr Internal Inprn vcmcnts exirayaran and splendid
,Dith o Init fu,u Of
strucon. To up the "Marshall school Of politics,
is bad enough Notwithstanding the in which
that distinguished man hed-but "the Webser
school" is the of Federal nsurpaon, and Nr-
uinian, who lends IL his countenance much less his
ogy can expect hereafter the confidence Of the
Virginia Peoplc-ro talk of the great States ght
school Of this State being alone sihc trodinn po-
ltca school, is SANDER upon the great who
originally formed and have since supported it, To talk
of Websicrs name being ''incxhausble trading
ragiiai TO a certain trahchnr school Of Virginia polr
tcians, is not only blur upon her noble -scucheon,
hut it is singularly absurd in relation to the Orator
hinIsef-because lie is the very aspirant who is TO
BE- benefited by the changc Elect Harrison, he is
attempting to effect, and this trafckng gentleman
himself is to become the first Minister of the Crown
He 'dcsire Office lou may well tell rs, that
the Senior Editor did not take Office under John q
that some of those Orators who craving, re-
citing and maddening round the land, will not some
Of them aspire TO seat in the Cabinet others will
mot accept the Office of u S. Attorney under Gen. H.!
But to talk of Mr.. Websters being State Rights
MAINLAND to nsnmate that it the "hish handed
Federalism of Proclamaons, Force Bills &c, &c
which contributed to make him so, is the very climax,
not only of folly, but OF Misrepresentation Is il not so'
NJ lust not every man of common sense in Virginia say
50: Who most distinguished by his defence Of the
Proclamation, before IT was even modified BY General
Jackson Why, it was this very new State Rights
| Orator-whose defence of the Proclamation con-
sdered by his present protegc, Gen. Harrison, "the
most eloquent and satisfactory exposition of the Con-
go
More of it in the course of the next week Meantime,
we ask if this State Rights paragon is the man, whom
Mr. Wise, but eight years ago, charged with hav-
ing lent his aid TO the unreasonable schemes OF the
Hartford Convention and if he be the great Patriot,
whose acts during struggle with foreign enemy,
have been recently de veoped in the "Boston Morning
Post Extra Of August, 1910, in the following strains
"Ths assertion in the Atlas has meaning. 1t fol-
lows close upon the display Of rHE sGSIrIcAST BAN
SER at Baltimore, by the Boston Harrison Delegation,
aud closer still upon the declaration of Mr. Daniel Web
ster at the Log Cabin gathering in Alexandra, in the
District of Columbia, the llth Of June last when he