Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-07-03
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1876, we lit upon the following ENtract-whch con.
tains so many words in season, that we cannot forbear
laying il before our Readers. I~tdepicts precisely most
of the objections, which are now made To the Federal
candidatc-wlth this exception indeed, that If he was
so Objectionable four years ago, how much more so is
he at this time, when circumstances have made him
the candidate OF The Abolitionists-when he conceas
his opinions behind 4 mask, and refuses to answer the
most important intcrrogatories, coming from friend or
foc-and when we are assailcd by the most unparalleled
means and the most ridiculous humbugs, on the part of
the Opposition. fla man was then "a knavc or a fool
for supporting Gen. Harrison, why! what is he now:
There is but one more stroke of the pencil necessary
10 complete the picture. The writer of this cxtracthas
suffered his feelings to run so much away with his
Judgment, that after being a Conservative like W.. c.
Rivrs, he is now like w. G. Rives an avowed support
or of 'this ultra Fedcralst for the first station IN the
Republic" But our consolation is, if we have lost a
few Conservatives, we have gained some honest Multi
fcrs, or States Rights Wings: ("What a change has
come over the spirit OF his Dream, since the author
traced the following indignant and eloquent lInes)
What were then the arts and efforts of the Wings, are
still the same, with the advantage which they have ac-
quired by longer experience, and more audnciouS hum.
bugs But what was THEN 'ihe sentiment OF NIr-
gina is STILL the sentiment Of that noble old State:
THE SENTIMENT or VIRGINIA.
Ertract IF "a letter tram a neH-,nformed c'''-en dfyo"d
The Mountains.
81 am delighted with your review of the political
course of General Harrison. You have stripped him Of
hS bIboh ttu - 1870 - -" $3.50
oil his political errors exposed. With what consistency
Can any one object to Messrs. Adams, Clay, and Web
ster, and vote for Gen. Harrison? The politics OF the
latter are as obnoxious rs those of either ot the former,
without one. tenth Of their capacIty or political in'orma-
ton. Hc is as ultra in all his Federal doctrines, as either
OF the .tdamScs or Alexander Hamilton. What politi-
clan has ever pushed his Tariff or Internal Improve
ment doctrines 10 a greater extreme: Who has ever
advocated as strong consolidation doctrines: And yet
strange to tell, the State Righ's Republicans of Virginia
r. called uDon IN suDuOrt this ultra FederalISt for the
first station in The Republic-and in the world The
day has been, when such Il proposition to the Republic
cans Of the Old Dominion would have been considered
an insult, and the author Of 1t would have been consi-
dered a fool or a knave and his proposition would have
been received with scorn. Can we have become so de-
generate, that such an unprincIplcd proposition will re-
ceivc more favor from us, than 1t would have received
from our Fathers; 1t is not SO. The Republicans of
the Old Dominion are as honest and firm in their prn-
ciples, as they have ever been; and they will at the polls
in November give the lie to all these charges. They
sill then by their votes show to the world, that her sons
are true to her principles and TO themselves; and they
will give TO the unprincIplcd Wings (who wonld move
Earth, Heaven and He'll to obtain the spoils Of oficc) a
rebuke, which it is to be hoped, will prevent them from
attempting again to disgrace the Old Dominion, by Civ
inr her vote to a man who has always been the very an
tipodc to her in politics.
sThe Wings will again find 10 their sorrow, that they
have, as usual, calculated too largely on the Ignorance
OF the people. This is their great error. The people of
' "a ti 'I' 'Nt -~'N $4,000 ' ''>I
understand their rights, and know how 10 protect them.
They are well acquainted with the Wings too. They
understand all their dirty tricks and miserable devices
all their panics and humbuggery( most insulting TO their
understanding and they look upon them with the Ut.
most scorn and derision. As far as my observation has
extended, the Republican party were never iirmer or in
better spirits. have no doubt but that -- will
do its duty-it will give as large a majority to MIR. Van
Buren, as il ever gave to Gen. Jackson; and from what
| can learn in the Federal counties of Greenbricr, Rock
bridge, and Augusta, Uhe Wings brag counties in this
scction) the Republicans are wide awake, and will give
a rood account of themselves in November and the
brarradocia party will find them not so contemplate in
numbers, as they would now have the world to believe.
White is now considered out of the question, and all
candid men admit that the true issue in this State is be-
tween Van Buren, and Harrison. The former will re-
ccivc the whole Republican vote. and the support of the
latter will be confined 10 the old Federalists, and the
few scattering Nuliiers. You may RELY on it, that Van
Buren, will ret a majority in this State, West of the
Blue Ridge, Of at least seven or eight thousand, which
will be swelled to from ten to twelve thousand, If full
vote should be given. With all of Harrison's boosted
| popularity in the West, the November elections will
prove the truth Of what | have said. You may rely on
it, that none of the pure Republicans of the Mountains
will vote for him. Some Of them might have been
mislcd BY Judge Whites name; but the ridicu Gus
farce at Staunton has opened their eyes, and they ow
look upon the Judge merely as a dccoy duck; and So ar
from the General anne adding strength to the tic. ct,
It has greatly weakened it."