Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-07-02

COLONEL BESroS-1his distinguished Senator has
written a letter to Committee Of Democratic Meet
ing held on the Sd instant, AT Spring Garden Phadrl
pIIa winch is honorable to HIM as Statesman aud
man. The meeting had been called 10 organize
ISOLATION to promote his election 10 the Presidency,
and the letter reply to addressed to Llm to
certain his views:
WAsHiScToS Cry, June (, 1871.
Your kind letter of the i instant relation to the
Democratic Meeting at Spring Garden, the eve
ming Of the 3D. and the resolve there adopted TO hold
Meeting of the Democracy Of the city and county Of
Philadelphia to form association 10 promote my
mnation aud election 10 the Presidency of the IT, S.
the year lci4 has been received, and while am duly
sensible ofihc honor done by these proceedings and
extremely grateful for the kind motives whc! induced
them, yet must hasten 10 do every thing my power
| To arrest al the commencement, proceeding which,
however, honorable 10 ne, cannot, IN my opnion be
beneficial 10 the cause of Democracy. CONVENTIONS
for the first place have in all ages and al countries
been The bane OF elective governments and have been
fully determined ever since have been the stage
of public affairs TO have nothing to do with such
ientons. have always seen, and see, IN the
ranks Of the Democratic party many eminent citizens
who rthy TO fill the place of President; and it
my purpose now, 1t has been heretofore, promote
the election, and TO support The Administration (felcct-
ed) 81 some OF these citizens. Private letters 10 this
effect have written 10 many friends in different parts
o the Union, in to their enquiries; and what
now write TO you IS nothing but repetition of what
have already said and written TO many others
But while cannot consent to be brought forward for
the Presidency, am ready and wiling 10 do ali
that can for The Of Democracy The times
require the cxertions Of all the friends of the cause,
| and mine shall neither be withheld or relaxed. We
have gone back not merely To the Federal times oil
General lamlllon and the elder Mr.. Adams, but far
beyond them-to the church and state times Of Queen
Anne and the corporation and state times Of the first
and second George word TO the Wing times OF
Sir Robert Walpoe--whose long, corrupt and pusla
nmous administrator wasa continued practice OF Tory
doctrines upon Wing professions and the source and
origin of every which now alicts the English
people We have gone back to the English times,
when the paper system, the funding system the bank.
ing system, las banks Of crcuiallon) stock ubbing,
national debt, taxes, paper money, loans for the exist
ing generation to spend, and for posterity to pay,
chartered companies with exclusive privileges and
monopoes and exemptions from law, the South Sea
scheme, and Thousand other cheating contriyances
were all Matched nio existence under the hot incuba
ton of Wing legislation. We haze gone back 10 the
Wapole times when corporations began to lrea with
the Government EQUALS or 10 dictate it as mas
ters-when submission To insult and depreciation from
abroad and tyranny 10 patriots al home, The prac
tce and The policy Of the ae,ninstration-when the
money was spent for party objects. which should have
been devoted to the public de'ence-when, preserve
peace the nation was PIT in arms, but the minister
placed upon his kners-meen good men perse
cuted, and the bad were p,omoted-when military,
naval and civil officers dismissed from employ
ment for voting against the minister and his partzans
pu. into Office for voting for him-when secret CON-
nlees, composed Of political hacks, made in.
qusors into the conduct of their political enemies,
and never failed to find what the minister sent them To
hunt for We have gone back to the times when this,
and such as this, the work of the English Govern
ment; and when Wing Administration gave all the !