Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-03-16

Executive
son. Edward Smith and Isaac Gansey, uitves from
Justice land that the law Of New York of The sixth of
Nav eighteen hundred and forty, entitled IAN act TO
extend the right Of trial by jury, has been repealed by
that State)
TilG INAUGURAL.
You may tell by the tone OF the public Press, how
much dissatisfied both Parties with this first Ad.
dress Of the President Most Of the Wing papers
are damning il with faint prase-whereas the structures
Of the Republican Editors bold able and
We have published several o. these reviews-and shall
furnish others in due season The criticism in the last
Charlottesville Republican is just us il is orcibe. We
shall publish il in next Meantime lay before
our readers the following articles from the Boston De-
nccrat, and the Boston Courier (Whig) The fact
is the Inaugural Address is utterly unsatisfactory
in The summary OF The principles II processes
10 present-illl5eral towards the two immediate pre-
decessors, a. whom it aims many insdious Shaft
erroneous in lis views OF the Constitution and
If parties-and rdicnously overloaded with historical
illusions. 1t abounas will! the H"manuqac as well
as with the Ciassigue Let any compare u
with the reply of Mir Van Buren, TO tho Repub-
Leans OF Missouri (Which we shall publish in our
mex. paper J let any one compare It, either IN point
OF sentiment CO style, and he will be struck at
with the difference between the two and the two
Presidents MIR. Van Buren, makes one school
boy ars;on To Greece Rome, 10 ScythIa Scand:-
payia but all his productions bear the form and super
scrip,ion of Statesman. General Harrison, on the
contrary abcuns much with the classics as falls
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Fro,s The Boston De,rccrc,.l
HARKIsoN's ISAUGuRAL.-We briefly alluded 10
the Presidents Inaugural Address in Saturday paper
Since tha; time have given it careful peru.
SAL and the opinion which gave of it then is fully
confirmed. II is unlike any other State paper which
ever emanated from President of tie L. S. We are
disposed treat the old General and the party that
elected INN, fairly aud would speak Of this first
position ofprincpies y IN no capous or fault finding
spirit.
s.We are compelled however, from Il sense of JUS
tice love Of truth, and desire TO see the honor and
glory of our country perpe,ua;cd to say that
this address, at this particular time, and the crcum-
stances under which II is sent FORTH is little less than
an insult upon the American people.
ave were promised much when Harrison became
President. Order of beauty
out OF deormiy, prosperity out Of adversely Darkness
and despotism to give place 10 light and liberty,
the whole country had been gong 10 ruin-ts salvation
TO be brought about h. The election Of General
Harrison.
And how these promises 10 be fulfilled; Does the
Address point out the means, the time Alas deals
in vague gereracs, ayows scarcely anything openly,
and contains little that is interesting to the country the
present time Absractions take the place oil PLAN
ter of fact, and pedanry where common and com
mon honesty should be found.
The President processes to dangers, but he points
GU, safeguards he speaks of difficulties, but Of the
cause, and The remedy to be applied he is entirely ST.
lent. He is opposed to 'ehciuSire metallic
cy." What President prominent Democrat has ever
advocated one lie audes 10 the objections that have
been made 10 the sdivorce Of the Treasury from the
banking Institutions By this is meant, we presume,
the Independent Treasury The President
remarks g 1t is not the divorce which is complained
of, but the unhallowed union of the Treasury with
the Executive Department, which has created such
extensive alarm Indeed Does greater union ex-
ist between these departments than formerly ],
One who was not acquainted with the nature of this
Union might suppose that the Executive could put
his hand into the Treasury a, any time, and take of
il whatever amount he mig hit desire. This is but
version of the old charge Of "a o the purse and
the sword Under the existing law. ne use Of the
public funds by government agent made penal
offence: Under the old system, wLc for augh, we
know, Harrison would revive, The WIN Treasury was
placed at the disposal of bankers Shyocks and sharp
ers, if you please, persons who might perhaps be
made the wiling tools to do the biddiEg of the Pres-
dent being paid for their services by the oflhe pub
lie treasure. But will not enlarge THIS pout al
present In regard the currency, and Tie best mode
ofkeepIng the public funds the President has left
entirely in the dark.
awe aware that it may be stated that il not
the time the place. TO go into these matters. And
why not, Is not the country, according 10 Federal
ser,ons, rapidly going to destruction hnJer The 'run
Gus measures of Jaekson's and Van nrsns admins,
the safe keeping OF the moneys in tho Treasury If
the sword and the purse had really becsle united
not important that means should b. ediately ia
ken TO dissolve the unhalowed Union? Surely the In
definite upon these important matters. And it coni
menced with the assertion that the President about
to present summary Of his principles, Sc. Are not
these subjects intimately connected with principles
awe have said that the Inaugural was long enough.
In length It is about four times long the lnaugu.
rails of either of the former Presidents with the excep
ton Of Mr.. Van Burens and more than twice long
as that President Jacksons was the bricfes of MI
1--WE notice that the Federal prints praise Is ad-
dress for the classic eloquence of the style. Is il
Eftln rkable mt O FRESH
DENTS with the exception ct the younger Adams made
single classical allusion IN the course OF their lnau.
gural Addresses 1t would seem So We have them
all before u.s. and we find such is the fact MIR. J. ..
Adams, in speaking of internal Improvements ~ the
United States, refers 10 the roads and aquedncts OF
Rome, and makes other alluson TO that Republic or
any other What an illiterae Ounce he must be, and
Washington the elder Adams, Jefferson, Madison,
Munroe, Jackson, and Van Buren, why they, too,
are all ounces. They say nothing about the 'Ro-
man Senate, sOctavius sand Anthony, nor of
'Erutus and Of the Curt and Decii, nor of Camil-
ius and the Scpios, nor do they mention Cam or Egypt
and the Lesser Asia, of the wids OF ScythIa or
Scandinavia. They pass over all these matters and
contine themselves to others leaving the ground tor
Gen Harrison to occupy Our new President, IN the
classical purity of his style, has crowned himself with
glory!
president Harrison treats the Army and Navy, as the
project OF U. S. Bank, with silent contempt.
sour Foreign relations are despatched with master
hand The President saws
see in the personal characters the soveegns as wei as
mutual interests and of the governments with
which relations intimate pleasing guaranty hat
harmony important the interests Of their Subjects well
citizens will not be interrupted by the advancement: OF any
claim or preenson upon which honor would not
permit yield Long the defender Of couniys rights in
the field that will not see in my earnest
desire 10 preserve peace with foreign indication that
rights be sacrificed the honor Of the nation tar
ns admission the part OF their Chief Magistrate u
worthy Of their former glory
1--WE must confess Gen. Harrison sees what we are
unable to see-would that could-a guaranty on
the part of the British Government, Qor this is the
Government to which he audes,) 'that no claim or
pretension on their part will be made, "to which our
honor would not permit to yield" If that Govern