Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-12-14
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NOtnll0 is b o UtSCOuTunIHH " y, Us shS Nl
CIV which the recent defeats Of the Wings hns spread
through their ranks. Why is it 50? Have not our tao
tics prevailed over more Formidable opposition, than
now lmpedes the march Of correc; principles In . few
short mouths did we not reyolutvSpIze many States oil
the Union, ~unsettle all their recxceived political no.
tons, reconcile differences OF thirty years standing,
harmonic abolitionism and slavery, republlcan'sm and
federalism, notification and castigdtion, tariff ana anil
tariff Take either extreme OF the Union Tor an ex-
ample. Maine or Georgia. Take the latter, Was
there a State in the Union more hostile to a United
States Bank, more steadfast in her adhesion to State
Sovereignty, more uncompromIsing IN her opposition
TO duties on imports, more decidedly opposed TO Gen.
Harrison, or a more rigid s;ickler Tor economy ~ the
administration of the Federal Government: And yet,
in d few short months we taught her, that a Y. States
Bank was the great panacea Tor all national maiaaies,
that State sovereignty and notification were meta
physical abslractions;' that tariffs and gratulties were
necessary and benevolent distractions, and that Gen.
Harrison was not a whit behind General Washington
in all that is great and good: Have we achieved this
much, and do we now sink IN despair al the loss oil
some six or eight States. Generous compeers IN a no.
BILE cause untiring champions Of sound principles
magnanimous apostles of liberty and reform, where are
YOUR cooN-sSISs! !! Have they lost their virtue : Or
ure there no more coons to be caught: IT they are
swept from the shores of the Ohio, are they gone from
the Dismal Swamp, If they are gone from the Dis
NAL Swamp, are there none in the Okeienokee:-
Where is your APPLE JrIcE! Is that gone too: Have
the fair fields of New York and New England failed to
produce apples? Nay, is there one State IN the Union
which does not DTOQuCe lueU. WHEN pIUuutCuj Cuh
they not be pounded? When pounded, will they not
yield cider: And when that cider is produced, will not
time harden it? Where are your LOG CABINS: Have
they all risen to stately mansions? or has fire consumed
them' Is there a State in the Union 50 siorn Of lis
timber that it cannot supply logs enough Tor n thousand
cabins of angueStionaMe politics? Where are your
cLURs, with all their captivating ensigns and devices:
Where are your ORATORS, and the dinners, wine, BRAN
dy and ~whiskey, that inspired them: NO, my trends,
it is not for want Of coon-skins, it is no, for want of
cider; it is not for want of cabins; it is not for want of
dinners; nor is it for want Of eloquence and talents to
improve these efficient agencies, that we are likely to
suffer a lasting, disgraceful, irreparable defeat; but it
is from an objectionable apathy, or what IS worse, a
shameful lack of fortitude or spirit. Time was, when
the sight of a cabin, u cider-barrel, or q coon-nay,
when the sight OF q log, a stove, or rackoon $ tail, would
have sprung a thousand orators to the cause of liberty
and reform. Then, no labor was too arduous, no sacri-
fees too great for the great, good cause of Whiggery.
But now, we can pass large negro-quarters, ship loads
Of cider, and whole menageries of raccoons, without
emotion. At this moment, every wing IN The United
States ought to be seen crowned with q coon.skin cap;
but what is the fact: Why, this sacred emblem of our
most brilliant achievements, is actually abandoned TO
boat hands, and field negroes. With such 4 desecration
of our e%nsigns, can the dignity Of our party ever be
preserved? Can any party ever long survive Its dignI-
ty! This too has been a fruitful year; apples abound,
and cider flows in streams. But what do we behold?
Wings of the genuine stamp; Wings, once active and
enterprising in spreading the grand principles of our
party, drinking that selcsame cider before it has ac-
quired the first touch Of hardness. Yes, drinking it,
obviously not for the benefit of the party, but for the
ignoble purpose of gratifying an ignoblc, if not an un-
natural appetite. Wake up, ye once valiant champi-
ons of reform, wake up from your ~lethergy. Mount
your coon.skin caps to a man, straddle your cider-bar-
rels, and rush as fast as steeds can bear you again TO
Harrisburg. Name your President. Name Clay
Point 10 his reign of a hundred days, and ask the people
if he could do so much in this brief space Of time, what
would he not do in fourteen hundred and sixty days.
If, in one Extra Session, he could perform such won
ders, what would he not do in eight regular sessions,
and as many extras, if he should choose 10 call them!
Proclaim his tender regards for the widow-sound
abroad his noble generosity, which never stops TO in
quire whence money comes, or what the measure OF
want, when he sees the widows tears but gives by
thousands and tens of thousands-Tell the freedom
sons of Columbia it was he who taught the debtor TO
pay his debts with a schedule and IN affidavit, and to
throw the burden of settling his accounts upon his
creditor-Sure pledge of the triumph OF 1.-THE CREDIT
SYSTEM" Ask the States, 'cho took the public do
main to give to them-who borrowed money TO pay
the public debt-who preserved the Compromise Act
by the simple e~xpedient of a new Tariff-and who
would have restored the currency, if Tyler could only
have been persuaded that a Fiscal Agent with bank
ing privileges, is a very different thing from a Bank
with banking privileges. Away with such numskulls
from your ticket. Put our Southern Berrien in nomi-
nation for the Vice Presidency. He who has fought by
the side OF the Elder Adams, Jackson, Van Buren,,
Calhoun, Clay, Webster, and all the great names OF
the country for thirty years past. lie will accommo'
Na'S se PSoPN, 'lA'ou iitCtPoohS
Of conscience, when reform is demanded. He will
frame you a "Fscal Agent" so adroitly, that even the
keenest Locofoco shall support it. Let him but put
two words in 1t, and those two words shall throw n
charm into 1t that Democracy cannot resist.
Wings, r%eorganize your clubs; now, while you are in
power, and may avail yourselves of the Post Office De.
partment, for Thanking coonskins or even live coons If
need be. Place your central club on the confines OF
the Dismal Swamp, and an auxiliary upon the Qkete-
mckee. Let it be the sole business of these to supply
coons. They should not be distracted with committee
arrangements, public meetings, or private correspond.
ence, except so far as to announce their remittances.
Let care be taken, that no coons fall into the hands OF
Loco Focos, in their transit from place to place. To
this end, let Mr.. Bolts superintepd the distribution from
the central department and MIR. Berricn from the South
ern. From these two stations with proper activity, the
whole party may be supplied with coons in abundance.
Next, organize your hard cider clubs, in every Cap
tain's District in the United States, Let these be d.
vided into cider. making and corresponding committees.
1t will be seen IRON this arrangement, that would have