Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-03-18

but lot one word to tell whether he is FOR against
Abolition in the District, admits or denies the power
of Congress over Mat subject. Hence his careful
avoidance speak Of the right of Congress to
| the subject of slavery ut contenng himself with
the tru;sm that the citizen of State cannot exer.
else the reserved rights Of the citizen of another State
but taking TO admit his right to offer advice, and
choose tie mode OF Offering it-of whether by
Abolition petitions TO Congress- incendiary pamp
lets through the mail He expresses himself nnlricnd
" organized associations, and in this, and some o
the pies which he half admits and which, ii car
red out egitimatciy would 90 against Abolition, he
bears gently against the Abotionlsts but he has not
taken The manly, direct, Incorporating ground
against them which alone will satisfy the South and
his doctrine of Executive plability and the omnipo
tence Of Congress, is enough for worst enemies
Gut must stop here for the present, and shall, at
leisure examine the huge chaf heap, HANDFUL by hand
ful and out the seeds Of consolidating tyranny
as we come 10 them.
from the Seno York albany argus3
| TnE ISArGuKAL.-We were among those who were
willing To believe that President, seeking and obtain
ing power by the studied avoidance of expression o
opinion upon all the great questions OF the day. would
nevertheless off the disguise, when concealment
was longer considered necessary ingredient Of sue
cess We led also to expect this from the gvngs
out Of his friends; and by the anxiety with which they
pretended TO look TO the Inaugural declaration of the
Federal Chief, the panacea Tor all the evils Of bro
ken banks, vtiatcd currency, and the excuses into
which the State Legislatures have rushed under the
'snew impulse impaired To speculation and debt by
the councils and provocaives OF Federalism. 'sThe
public mind (sald an ardent and interested Harri-
son partisan few days sincc) continues painfully in
terested in the financial condition of the county,
Never there anxiety 10 hear from Europe 10
know what be the effect of the action and the
action Of the third suspension in Philadelphia II the
bills drawn by the u. ). Bank Of Pennsylvania on the
house of Morrison back, the reaction will be ter
ared n
on market, here again is alarming reaction H. too,
American stocks in good credit keep low they are
90 lower, what stock even were II that OF a new
IT, S. Bank, with the Federal Government 10 back IL,
could he taken up Our trade about to be sadly cat
up The hopes oil the revenue from must fall short
beyond all anticipation. In his state of things all fyes
IRE upon Uashin.ton the Iaangnra the reported Extra
Session, DC, &c.
Such was the language of Journal uhe National
Intelgencer( to become the official organ OF the
Administration ain this state of things, all eyes are
upon Washington and the Inaugural And yet
what single question, among all the grave topics before
the American people, the sdeong glance at Abo-
ltion even alluded to? The finances, the saic-keep
inr Of the public moneys, National Bank, The assuHP
ton of the State debts, the distribution Of the avas
of Tie public lands tie tariff general bankrupt law,
an extra session-all receive the goby For any thing
that il has said for tic "relie of the country and as
open exposition of the policy and course OF the 40.
mnisraton touching the questions that nave divideh
the Republic "a eyes have been strained IN VAN.
We have five columns of generates-passages, as IN
Lady Cobhams mansion, leading to nothlnS-aIiuslons
iinnumerable 10 ancient nations, from the building oil
Babel to the fall Of the Roman EmPre-a grave avow.
nj of oppostion TO an exclusive metallic currency-and
solemn declaration that he has profound reverence
for the Christian religion Beyond this the reader at
once in of words, which serve rather to conceal
than convey with cearness even the few avowas tnal
can be taken as indications of the course OF the Admin
istration
To the Editors Of the albany .7rgus: :,
have been much amused with the just criticism OF the
~ Y Herald on The Presidents Inaugural Cen Harr,-
son ignorance of the life and character OF Cromwell
though perhaps excusabe, considering Inc g Tory anu
high church sources from which he derived his niorEa-
ton not the ONLY ignorance he exhibits In fact, his
reading Of which he makes such display IN his w"rdy
address, seems 10 have been ever oil n sophomorica
kind His views Of the ilelvetIc confederacy savors
very much of the schoolboy, who has tor the rst time
in his life heard or read Of William Tell Now tins gar
rnlty and simplicity, ignorance, may be very excnsa
BILE in farmer very eScusable in President OF tne
IT, Let US what the facts are IN relation 10 TINS
same Hevetic confederacy, and which We qnoe from
recent writer for the especial benefit OF the Genera
- The favorable anticpatlons awakened by historical
associations in the mind of the traveller, as he aP
proaches the land of Tell and Wilkelreid are woeu
/" ly tasfed, for the most part on arriving upon lne
:" spot. If he take the trouble TO inquire INTO Tue
I" political state Of the country, he will IND 60
g vernment almost poweress, confederacy withoul
unity split into parties by dssentnent, religious ano
opposing interests and nearly every canton either
torn by contendng factions, or actually split into
!" two, and as much discovered as though 1t con-
sisted of two separate States The d'ssensons whfcf
broke out soon after the revolution OF $780, between
the inhabitants of the OF Basle and those OF the
" country led 10 civil war between the parties; and
:" bloody contest Liesthal occasoned IN 1852
the Swiss Diet TO pass act for the formal separa
ton of the Canton into two parts, called Basic Siie
I" and Basic Champagne" We might refer tile ne"
President to Disturbances Of another Canton and to the
real nature Of that ''conicderacy TO which he SO tn
umphanly audes. We might say something upon
the absurd comparison between this and the pretended
republics of other days, which had not one single lea
turc in common with ours but we leave It to other nc
ADLER hands. N.
pe The following translation of the Presidents Inaugural
topics alluded to in the original misundcr
stood in its present shape:
TIE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
"Tire La Basatette.
Called from my splendid mansion in Ohio, where
pining in poverty on six thousand dollars per an
nun, l appear before the American People as the
friend of paper money and hard cider.
1t the remark of a celebrated Roman writer
that Quosqus tandem abuiere, &c" Romulus ane
Remus were sucked by female wolf, hc, haze, hoe
and Cesar killed by Brutus. History speaks o
the Curtii, and The Decii one Roman Consul mace
his horse Senator the elder Brutus and the Jesse
Asia; Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and the Poly
nesan Islands, and Cromwell was the Dictator o
England.
have to inform you, and it is fact with which few
of you acquainted, that in the u S. the people cleo
their President, while in England, Victoria is Queen
and in New York, that excellent man, Frederick
Tallmadge, is Recorder.
Demosthenes addressed the Athenians with elo
quence almost persuasive that used by Daniel Web
Patchogue; in this country the people have th'
privilege of voting.
The great danger to institutions Isl that some ont
department may assume 10 itself too much power; ou
this charge shall never be made against the Executive
while am President; shall therefore recommend no
thing, do nothing say nothing about the finances, sigr