Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-09-21
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'TO I0US TAIIAFERRO ESQ

Sir Political aposacy is So common III these days
that your recent vote for National Bank has rather
excited Indignation than surprise. When you were a
candidate i3r the 2oth Congress- and on many other
occasions, both public and private, you used the toll
lowing language your confession Of faith, viz
"Since the adoption Of that instrument he Constltu-
ton 10 which the States sRrh were parties, have
been able 10 discover provision IN II which a.
recily by fair construction gave TO Congress The
power 10 charter Bank, ride paet Of your Crcuior
Having been repeatedly elected under tins most solemn
and express declaration, the people whom you repre-
sent should have been made acquainted with The rea-
sons which have suddenly illuminated you Oh Tins
apitann question. You owed this to your c"nstitu-
ents nj large, and more especially to your frenos,
whose pc rsona attachment many 81 them 10 re-
nret that Won should have alsied the assertions that
they have SO recently made of your uncomprcnils'ng
opposition 10 this anti. Republican measure. your
course mori;es thri and confirms your opponents IN
their established convictions Of your ong-practsed du-
plicty
1t is now generally believed and pretty well ascer-
tanned that whilst you cave anti Bank Wings tire most
pnsitive assurances of your opposition 10 ms lnslu
ton your Bank friends made 10 feel confident
that YOU would most certainly support IT, It's well
known that you entertain ideas in regard TO the doc
trine of instruction, uncommon, IT not novel Your
ouinion is that Representative can gve The vote oil
his constituents on any measure whether ne oeie'es
II constitutional not il he - instructed 10 90 So
When YOU were asked, during the last contest you
consider election IN me IiIDl vi iistIuc
,ions 10 vote for Bank yen replied, that you co"fa
mt and thus ouieed the well grounded fears OF warm,
conscientious personal friends. Yet, notwithstanding
all this when the vote is taken, you are iouhd at Tue
tail end of the Federal members and IN Oppose
ton 10 the thirteen Republican representatives, rom
yirrinia supporting Bank in the most odious FORM
in which il has been presented ! ms eS"aofu'
nary course induces many to believe, that you nave
Welded yonr Judgment 10 the mandate OF u'c'a'' ;
and that in 80 doing yon have "suTIehcereo az c'a'"'
n The respect of honorable men-all confidence on '
mart Of the peope-a selfrespectall regard 10 mofai
"a reI,rons obligations, without observance oil
which no Government be prosperous ana no PEG,
ME can be happy" We had hoped, that you "oulu
have been independent Of party that you woua naye
bursted its trammel. and that IN The last Gays OF your
Congressional career your highest pride wond nave
been 10 have redeemed the pledges you have so IRE
quantity made We had heard there was one IN 'i,e
nni;nnol councils, whose will s poten!la-whose sh'ie
can nater and whose rown can depresS .he NopsS -
all who have eye TO the iniute "e NJ" ~,
nowcr Of Mr. Clay. We have seen the majority OF Tue
S,,. subnittng to his dctation, and the obseqnIous
nose with which his viii IS carried out ny 700 n'u'y
the neopIes representatives,. From you we iau "ope
| better things. .,, >, ou amy mar.
Far no !, from me, Sir, 10 attribute 10 you az, ~
ticuar motive; but there are many ott and rna,
bIe and who profess 10 see IN TINS suauch au wy.
I''.d conversions an effort 10 provide ior Pt"spe'
ans futurity They seem TO think that Tue 49,
ENGLISH statesman was correct IN me oPioI' ,,,io
nv man has his price, ana 'haI 'neie nas n,,nre be
| Ja;cultv in fixing on yours. Can human nature =.
a0rod as 10 warrant the suggestion, that you IA
Sossd your pledges and sacrificed your
the e' hope Of being cDe" i" this unconstitutional
Won have been long time the Representative oil un'
psnnle You have not gained much fame Tor your owl
added lasting to y"uI That D you vii
ron he their candidate, although you alone nav
bsen The cause Of their continued success roliica'
hypocrisy has long rumphed and the petty sh' hoe,
the honest and transporting, has loo long oeea
49, n,ssnor, 10 station To The reputation OF beng
yup eleconerrer you cannot attach the desirable
Of hons, politician s bseye yI ha
I ,rav;,v il inconsistent with private, mora
S Sy exist ogS,er Bu, congressional ef %
closes by own Limitation, WIN TIE Ir INQUIRY
presSs Sincerely hoping, that The who succeeds you
Be as s a, s' D your
| sstency, d. y0u " STAFFORD.