Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-08-18
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"BotttDurt, .3ugust 10, la

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..Botetourt, august 10, lSi0.
1.-The lin Expunger' arrived in FIncastlr yes,er.
dav evening, and to-day, in the Court Yard, addressed
a large ~assemblage of the people OF Botetnurt, BEDFORD
Roanoke and Rockbridge: and was replied 70 ~ thr
am;,ble. dipniti-d, eloquent, and highly gifted, taVorIie
son of,he West, James Mcdowell Of RockbrIdse. MIR.
R;ves. in pursuance of an arrangement, made by q JOINT
committee of both parties, opened the DEBATE, III a
sDrech oftwo hours, IN which he repeated most 81 me
se r.o,vpcd slang ofthe Madisonran, IN" wing ana Inc
Yenman. without adding thereto a singh" or'sin' OF
unborknied idea, or touching at all the principles "i
H.. . candidate. In the courS. Of ms remarks he attacked
The bankrupt bill, reiterated the ott-rcinted caIna'hy ,hf'
Mr. Buchanan and Mr.. Tuppan had stated N public
sne.ches that the effects of the Sub-Treasury would De
IN reduce the price OF labor to ecr,n pcnfs a day, ana
,.ho,, "a IL cents per bnshel, when be must have known
,b,, botb of these gentlemen had publicly denied that
they ever made such a statement, and that Ar. Japan
had offered a large reward TO any man who would pro-
d,cr a speech of his that ever contained such a GccIa-
,,,ion Mr.. Mcdowell replied in an eloquent. thrilling
and mastery manner, in 4 speech of the same duration,
N the course Of which he triumphantiy defended me
| administration and its friends, particularly MIR. h'tchie
fvhom Mr.. Rives had sneerIngly pronounced 10 he te
HfupIemau' ofthe party Mr.. Mcdowell expressed
h.. as,onishment at the ingrstilude Of Mr.. RiTes, III at
,,ckinr Mr.. Richie, who had been the ablest auxiliary
n huldiug M the reputation that the gentleman han
arou;red. He sustained the Independent Treasury,
and carried the war into Africa, by proving conclusive
~ from Mr.. Rives's speech OF l-3I, that he was then IN
taynr of a II TsSlNI1LE Soblb lIa'h hDt''
GOVERNMENTAL In the course OF hts remarks
he limited that Mr.. Rives ought not, IN the position he
occuuied, to have dared to dennuncc the Sub. Treasury
system. THIS reused the ire of the wice-reJected Ex-
Senator, and in his reioinder of an hour and a quarter,
no showed by the turiousness of his manner, and the
scurrilitv of his remarks, how deeply he was wounded,
and how low a once d~irniied Senator can descend,
when he becomes the hack ola party that had formerly
doomed him to be daily whipped 'naktd around me
,eorid, rih a ,chip Of scorpions. lie called General
Jackson a roa rinr and retreatIng Lion, Mr.. Van Buren,
"a FOX AND A WEAZLE,' inns Kendall "a
PAUPER KING" Frank Blair any thing but a hand.
some man, described the Presidents whIskefs, ana
roundly asserted that by the force OF executive dIcta'
ton Mr.. V. Buren, had compelled Congress ana the Peo-
ole to give HIM control Of the public money without IT.
imitation BY law: denounced the ''pocket veto, OF zen.
Jackson, Of his bill to repeal the specie circular; de-
clared, to please his Federal friends, Cor which he was
loudly cheered by them that he had never oeen Tue
.sindiscriminate supporter of Cen. Jackson; 40, -FereT'
Strer, .Ntrerr' And to show his courage, ne Yehe.
mently declared, that he dared do rhdt any man eowd
dare. He 'scoud face the scaiy Rhtnoceros, the rugged
Tirsr. the Russian bear, and what more do you think
ne told Us he dare do:--He dare aBISE HE SIb
TREASURY, and yet it was shrew'dly suspected oy
some of our friends who noticed his staggering,
that he was afraid 10 meet our friend Extra BUY
smith, ever since the currylng he gave hun at Alaci-
son Courthouse, or he would not have lodged mn.
at Charlottesville on the Sd inst. lie denounced
the Extra Globe, and threw II contemPtuousiy al
HIS fset, declaring lhat ne womb y '',1
touch such a polluted sheet, although he had read some
IMMIGRANTS from the great Globe in his opening
speech against the Sub-Treasury scheme, and " mira
bile dietu, he asked Mr.. McDoweila short time after.
wards for the very Extra Globe that he had prom'sec
never 10 touch, and had hurled so contemptuousiy IRON
him a few minutes before. MIR. McOowei again re-
piled, and gave him the most genieel excoriat'on ina
he ever received. While he painted his Ingratituds
and inconsistencies in such glaring colors, that ihos'
who ''run might read them, he Med } was repeatedly
interrupted By the cry of USE HIN UP, "CSt
HIM Up from the Democratic part OF his audience