Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-08-10
FOX TIE E.EQNIRIR.

To JOINS TyIrn, President ef he Uaiicd Suites.
SIR. | am of tie number Of those, who regarded
your elevation TO the Presidential Char without envy
TO be called 10 minister the affairs OF IN enlightened
and vrtuous People, blessed By Heaven bounty, with
every advantage OF POSITION climate, soil, and extent
Of territory and lnhcr;ng from wise and noble an
ccstry an illustrous ard free institutions, is, IN
general enough Ia secure even 10 men OF small merit,
portion in that nperslable fame, which is SO fully
allotted TO the beneactc:s Of mankind Not TO arrest
The career Of prosperity, in such case TO seem to
advance IL and arrest ito poison the sources Of
happincss-o battle the plans Of enerprzc-to cut the
sne,ys Of labor, and 10 corrupt tie pubic morais-wten
ALL who when left TO themselves SIN against the com
mon veal, must SIN without motive aud against mo-
tive, requires an ingenuity in wckedncss, Of which
few are capable But when, from whatever cause ihis
mischief has been already done and when the world is
looking with Management pnverty, surrounded By
the sources of alucnce: distress IN the midst OF
blessings; public and private bankruptcy, in land
tceminy with the most valuable productions: on civil
djscord in a region walled i'll b. Nature from every
cnse OF strife and utter dissolution of morals, where
every incentive and encouragement to virtue abounds
he Who under such circumstances, Is called TO the
helm of Government, is too often supposed to have
nothing to do but TO throw the ship OF State into the
full stream Of flvorng influences, and to accomplish
every good by merely designing nc evil.
How great the mistake Of those who think thus, none
knows better than Yourself at this moment and this
mistake adds tenfnld bitterness TO the lot Of h;r, who
is liable to lie ra-hly condemned because he does moi
accomplish what TO others seems so easy.
When saw you called from the quiet enJoyments Of
\ peaccful home 10 the high and awfully responsible
station YOU now occupy, thought o! all this l'ut
did not foresee the cxten. Of your difficulties ad
not anticipated that they, who had called you 10 ms
task would endeavor 10 increase lts embarrassmen's
and tina: all the pledges by which you had been tempt
"a 10 undertake it, would be 1T recalled and eau
celled You came before the People, not as cand-
dale seeking their surages but one whose services
we're demanded No pledges professions were ask
ed OF YOU Your past life was the only pledge; your
known opinions the only profession
But these pledges, these prnlessons-were 'hey
from you alone, or were they rec'P'ocaE were NJ
not understood BY you, they were understood W
those whose opinions conceded with yours, as PedSc
from The friends of Gen. IfdrriSon, who sought you
out and placed your name beside ms, that hey uu ho'
very decidedly condemn those sentiments winch gave
i,s hue and character your political lie: Was u
M, pledgc 10 support YOU in carrying out the prnc
rIes inbibcd in bnyhood from the lips OF your venera
bile father and maintained, through good ana III, IN
v,ur whole career: Words are but breath, but acts
like this speak language palmer than words. Whal
words could have we'll declared tia. points on which
vou were supposed 10 differ from Gen Harrison, were
oo ,he cardinal points Of union for the Wing partly
To repeal the Sub-Treasnry, aud 10 cleanse The Au
o.an Stable OF It's filth, the avowed purposes oil
4 union among men holding, OH other subjects, every
imaginable variety of political opinion any Fenun
caton OF opinion was made or rc'iii!cu ." my
was made By others, not by u.s. Many Of the old Fe-
der,l marty ayowcd conviction, produced by expe-
renee of Tho truth of The maxms Of the Stale lghis
school Many acknowledged, that the very cViis
acains, which we all united, had their rise ~ dise-
,ord of these mayims. We assured too, that
Gen Harrison was himself State Rights man; ana
II was precisely because Of Us were incredulous
on this point that his friends, Prootof his sincerity
and Of their own, selected you their candidate or
the Vice Presidency.
What then must be your astonlshment:-what the
indignation Of your friends TO find these men claiming
4 propery in you as President, not OF the United
States but Of party, and bound to receive as Law,
Constitutions and Gospel, whatever proigate and ar
Koran, cahal proclaim the doctrines aud views Of
that Party You not even furnished with manual
OF the ath which you required 10 profess ana pfac
tcc The grand Lama is himself al hand, aud you are
referred to HIM Would YOU know the doctrines OF tie
Party. Ask Mr.. Clay. Would you under: tand rs pur
ooses and plans Ask Mr. Clay. Would you know
what is expected OF you: Ask MIR. Clay And when
you are tcld that you are bound by pledges WINE IN
Conscious Of having gwen any, you must look to MI
CLAW for the solution of THIS strange mystery also
what ripb, have you-who hold your Office only in vir
the of an an,i1uatcd compact made more than fifty
years ago-what right have you TO have either Will
or opinion of your own, in presence Of one VINO pro-
claims himself the organ and head OF dominant Tao.
lion, speaking BY authority, the latest revelations Of
its will :
should be glad to learn from those who hold this
language how it is that MIR. Clay who now stands
forward as the representation Of Whigism, was not
himself the man selected by The Harrisburg Conven-
ton Tor the Presidential Chair Why was lie passed
BY Why postponed 10 so far his inferior in Ia
lent in political service, political experience, in pro.
mnency before the People as q Statesman and Pol.-