Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-02-18
NJ. Riccs eJout to take the field.

tn, Washington correspondent OF the providence
,.n,r has this ominous riving-out:
M aid thai Mr. Evcs, being thus freed from all cmarrass
,h4 !. attended personal canvass OF The state by
whi The question OF his appointment was pcnds intend.
% dsycs ii his time I" The subject Of the Presidential
. nav aud The field enerrrcaly and gncompomisins
t"'a"n,r, ~ The Harrison ticket in old Virginia."
Rn,-thcre is more direct authority IN the New
VI Times, from Washington Correspondent,
T, i putttd in the highest He says at once,
y, have seen letter to-day from Mr., Rves. He is
r,h spirits and will enter into the contest with
=" i aod energy. Mr. Garland Mr. RivcS and others,
. consider Virginia safe for Harrison. Mr.. Rives
I his tail, viii find themselves mistaken about
I3,;oa but there be little doubt of the "Neiled
p.,nbc, beng about to throw off the mask and take
,bc field The Wing nomEatcs hun as
HARRISON Efccr and it is said he is to perform the
, Of political missionary, and mountt!c stump, III
inbaIf of Gen. Harrison. His mouth-pece, OF the
charlottesville Republican, is preparing the way Tor
surh campai@n-by attempting to show, that these
Electors ought TO go forth and harangue the People
The Wing of yesterday rushes on, as it is wont to
do: and It's head against wall Upon hapha-
aard conjecture, presumes that the author OF the let
,r which we lately published from Caroline county,
vas "former member of Congress and upon tins
hvpothcsis 1t proceeds direct It's Liberal and absurd
,;,acks upon him. and Mr. Calhoun and all hs friends
IN Virginia The letter in question was aot from Inc
,,n Of the gentleman alluded to--and we must say,
HAT the Wing does the grossest injustice TO the nigh
character of that gentleman, the subsequent stric
,nrss !, makes upon him.-The motives, which it
: pieased TO ascrbe 10 Mr.. Calhoun, are false as
,bcv are rratuitous-and the course, which it attrI
Lutps TO his political friends in Virginia (Which il
,y states about 20 only is worthy of the print
winch processes draw their portraits 1t astonsh
mo- that they should have abandoned the Wing party
!; !, strange tina, they should scout the Federal
vino Of the army, when they find them going back to
III. flesh pots of Egvpt-to latitudnous candidate, with
81 the Federal hercses which he supports: There is
no, particle of State Rights principles about the
WIG canddae-whst they find III MIR. Van Buren,
,b most marked respect for the strict construction of
,br ConSu,ion-an Bank, anti Tariff, anti Internal
Inproyement Gen. Harrison is decidedly the re-
verse d, all this.
Bu, nothing in the whole da,rbc of the Wing is more
,Jicnous than It's assertion, that "prnciple has not
restrained them from sneaking back to the flesh pots of
rrvp, and forming dsgracefn coalition with the
,Dors Of the Proclamation and Force Bl-the very |
measures which gave them party organization III
the records of past ages from Babylon to England, can
furnish such another example of unqualified and I'M
blusng aposacy we should be glad TO know which it
!. "-Why in the name of wonders does the Wing re-
collect who is It's own candidate, and the man whom
MS irving to force down upon the State Rights Whgs'
No one undertakes to say what were Mr. Van Burcn's
u,,o;oas about the Proclamation and Force Bill-but
who does not thoroughly understand Gen. Harrison 5:
We have him upon the record lie has proclaimed the
Proclamation even without the subsequent exposition
and Daniel WebstrrS views Of it, the true ex-
position OF the principles Of the Federal Govern.
Inen;-Ile has declared his strong appreciation of the
Force Bll-and Still the Wing denounccs the State |
Rights men for refusing to .sforn diSgracen Goa
lion with the Ultra Ant-State Rights Candidate OF
tie Wings.