Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-01-28

sheet the Courier and Enquirer, down 10 the most con-
teuntibe rag that bears the cognomen OF wig ne"
n,nrr sheet What are they, Sir, but tissue OF iou
Channels and corrupt and filthy sewers through when
he Ics, ISLANDERS and basest lalsch"ods are c"nnhn
Gated 10 the public mind, not even inc mt"""me@ "a,
Ifioaal IaisAgeaccr!!! excepted ~" or ~" si."
principles OF reform, which arc on 'he'' arc" 10 ''t
nnro.,r,,iou Of Federalism and the downfall OF baiih
dnm;n;on and bank dictaon, the result OF the cx
animation intelligence, and patriotism OF Inc ifeehei
Of this country; they are the result Of thesoOcT
hought of the peope, winch Is never wrong. ies
sir: the cry Of Executive c"rfnpL'oh - SeiP'a y p
=, n;,b many honorable exceptions, am proud for my
IN who are sustained party by, anu iece
upon the putrd carcass OF corruption tsrn "'s'
~ ba understood as speaking politically. The cry
Executive influence is yelped by party whose Pros
noc,s necuniary and political, arc lighted up anG
boerod bv the smiles Of The banks and the credit sy
Iem and cast down and overstadowed by th'ck aarf
clouds of disnav al the frowns or dshpPo'ntnehs :"
either or both The blush oil shame, IN" '.e saeie.
cause Of truth should save the Democracy from s"ca
chorucs from such party! Against whom or what
: ~. ineruinahle war directed: Nho IS II intended
sL,Il drink this inexhaustibe cup oil SANDER ana de
traction even the trcgs OF bitterness, ana "o"ds Of
;,iou;,r; The men Of the Administration, think you:
M M, II is not against that all tins INCREASING
and unmeasurcd torrent o! caninny, detraction and
Escbood is directed. No, sir IS not intended for the
men who administer this Government, and those who
support hel Its against the cause OF Democracy, and
the free institutions of country Men are used mere
" MS instruments Of illustrations men are the mere
mediums through which the great principles CT cqua
right, and civil liberty 10 he overthrow. No
SIR: when the party tempest howis Tie londcst, and
when the storm of faction RACES highest, and beats the
hardest upon plain, simple, Republican institutions
the men who support them and ther o'tterest assa
pnts are on terms of intimacy and friendship. Yes
Sir. and even those who are the most unmcasurcd in
their abuse of the President and all his leading mca-
sures are the who to be found most frequently
al The table of his bounty and who drnE deepest from
his VINE goblet. And all tins right: these men have
no personal hostility Ia Mr.. Van Buren,. 1t would he
worse than folly the purse, the head, the heart
and poue the tongue with warfare iraught wt
such cost such inquity, and such ou! SANDER, merely
to PROSTATE the earthly tabernacle of ira men, who
by the immutabe laws Of Nature, must in few short
yeors perhaps months perhaps days, return TO then
great mother earth; become the food Of worms, and
| minole with the dust No, Sir it is not against
men this warfare is waged: repeat, that the object
! is to overthrow the Republican institutions OF our
country. When will this warfare cease: When the
men who administer this Government, and those who
act with, and support them, pay the debt OF ma
ture, think You No, no The termination of their
existence will be signal To cease hostiIIte They
never will cease until the Federal arisucrar pFcdc-
ton is fulfilled, 'dt nan IS incapable 81 sctSortfn-
msh Thet Mc people hare not TIE intelligence amt sta
biEtg 10 oorern McmsercS." This war will cease when
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many to the hands of the wise, the wealthy and the
great few-when ssthe common hCra shall become lbc
vassals of few "eIcluSircS when the mny shall
become "hewers of wood and drawers of water to the
(ew-hcn sir, will this upon human Liberty cease,
and not before.
But sir ha sc the Opposition other object IN push
ng the fraudulent claims of the Wing preteneers, than
the maintenance OF the abstract rights Of Ner Jcrscy
Yes sir, | have named one, Che election 81 wing
Speaker) Bat that, in itself, bat collateral object
! The great object is TO prop and support rotten,
lettering sinking One last dying, desperate
effort is 10 be made 10 prevent the overthrow, down
fall and final ruin Of the great and powerful Fe-
dcal action This desperate effort to tranplr IN the
dust the voice Of New Jersey, s practical demon
stration of what may expect as 10 the mode and
manner by which the political warfare ls to be con.
dnctcd in the app.oa" ng contest tor political ascend
encv II is OF action with the proceedings
and rcsu, of the Federal National Convention which
has Just closed its operations at Harrisburg. Can
any man doubt, for moment that The choice OF a
candidate for the Presidency, made by that Conven.
ton is but the tocsin of to rally the contcnang
factions of all denominations, from the remotest parts
of the Union, to the conflict against the common
cause of Democracy and human liberty Virtue, patr
otism, and good order, al! 10 he sacrificed at tho
shrine of Federal ambition IN this great contest The
man has been selected around whose standard Antma-
sonry Abol,onism, National Repnb!icaaiSm, Federal.
ISM and every other ism under the sun, except Demo
play and foul play and every other mode of warfare
known 10 the of the GARTH civilized and savage
is to be adopted and used in this All missiles and
weapons common and uncommon, brood swords, mar
row swords long swords, sor, swords, strag. swords,
and crooked swords, are to be used in Fighting under
this ring slleaked and srrck!cd banner. Fasehood,
frand and corruption, will be in market for the highest
bidder Every vena Federal sheet viii TEEN with foul
nder base detracon, and unbushing fasehood and
the tool of faction, who lie most, will receive the
|, rbaot for hIa
Christian patriotism which exhibited on the PLAINS
of Palestine in defence of the Holy Land were nothing
to compare to the zeal which will be displayed in the
conduct Of this upon the simple institutions OF free
dom The untirng efforts of the monk Peter, to rally
the Christian nations defence OF the holy cause VIII
sink into usgnicancc, when compared with the efforts
which will be used By the Federal demagoGues 10 rally
the mercenary factions to this against the common
cause of Democracy But, to common Dutch
maxim, it will b. all ''as1 rous, or it will be ap
pcablc to classic MAXIM "n'ontfs Parfurient,
/ Il rtdicuius n0Scitur mus.
| Yes, sir, a convention of the contendng factions
Of this Union, opposed TO the and principles OF
Democracy and equal rights, has been held at Harris
burg and the farmer OF Tppecanoe has been nominated
for the Presidency And the result of that convention
will be about as il in 1886, when, for the purposes
of sectional division, General HARRISON Judge White,
and Daniel Webster, were put upon the track But
| they were all distanccd It will be in $50. Old
/ Tecumseh and Undertook will distance Tippecanoe
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were capable of giving General Harrison and bis
friends advice, it would be to just put their entrance
money in their pockets, and leave the field; and iithey
have loreitures up, lei them go that will be the saving
game.
But sir, perhaps these productions may he considered
impous, for i'll the reported proceeding, that the
Rev. Mr. Sprccker pronounced benedicton upon The
convention. Now, going to aninadvcrt little
upon that bcnedctlon, and let man impugn my mo-
tvcs, attach rrcvercmrc me; for il have one feel
ING of grateful recollection for Reverend father and
pious mother both OF whom now inhabt The narrow
house, is the recollection Of the religious and plouS
prcccps and principles which they taught me in sincere
picty from my youth to manhood and although shame
fully loose in their practice, yet when forget hcm or
fail in fal gratitude to those who taught them, may God
forget If there is book earth that reverence
it is the sacred word from which about to rccitc
few passages from recollection. If there IS any one Of
the great which operate than another 10 the
pcrpetuity of our Government, the stability of our re-
ligious and civil institutions, the peace OF man here
and happy and glorious Immortality hereafter, be-
lieve il TO be the glorious of Christianity The
Rev. Mr.. Sprecker may be righteous mali hope he