The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-02-02
THE CONSERVATIVES.
From the Richmond Whig, Jan. ~
SENATOR ANDERSON, OF BoTErouRr.

SENATOR ANDERSON, OF BoIkTouhf.
The speech Of this gentleman the election OF
Mr. RIves United States Senator, appears /" enS'h
to-day and the reader will have opportunity ofludg
ing for himself how grossly and scandalousy ooionei
Anderson has been misgepresenied by the Enquirer.
Col Anderson is a Conservatiye--one OF that small
but patriotic band, which, governed solely ana Demon
strably by patriotic impulses separated from Van bu
renism and placed itself in position To be raked oy
The cross FIRE of the great conlending parties TO
sustain their principles and maintain the Constitution
To no body OF men does the country owe more Tor
that redemption which, after so tremendous struggle
has been secured to institutions against the noads
of Loco focosm. New York and Pennsylvania were
carried by their gallant and timely cooperation with
the Wing party. Virginia carried, too, although
the voice of the legitimate voter was smothered by
fraud and her Electoral vote counted for Loco ocoism
We are indeed heavily if mainly indebted to Con-
servasm for that great revolution which has convert
ed national mourning into national joy In this aspect,
il is hardly to be wondered at that Loco-focoism
gaIds the Conservatives with morbid and mortal ha-
tired Hence its venomous and rancorous assaults
upon Mr. Rves lately in this State It's prime favor
lite and idol. Hence the protracted and desperate
struggle of two years TO defeat his election and the
illmitabe ISLANDERS which have been poured upon his
head Hence the malignant Misrepresentation OF
Col Anderson, Of Bstetourt, of MIR. Foniane, when
the slightest pretext offers ITSELF and of all others Of
that school who are in public stations.
1t singular but not uncharac,eristc that the most
maleyolent and untlTing Of these assaiants OF the
Conservatives is the Editor of the Enquirer himself
Conservative from 81, when the party formed TO
late period of '3S, when finding himself unable TO de-
tach the bslk of the Jackson party in Virginia from
The sub Treasury and fearing be supplanted by his
opposition to it, he turned tail upon his a,owed
principles and his Conservative allies, and summer
setted himself right into sub Treauryism No
man had SO unqualifedly denounced it. Not another
had placed il upon such odous grounds, cenjured
up such visions of horror and ruin from its adoption
We speak Of facts which none have forgotten
Without assigning for change of opinion
without pretending TO have changed THE de-
serted his Conservative allies whom he had princi-
pay made Conserv aves and melted to make a stand
against what he and they deemed the alarming inca
of the sub Treasury. Had he stopped here sim
pie reachery had been all but the character of the
Renegade is incomplete unless TO treachery be added
hatred of the betrayed No sooner had he abandoned
the Conservatives without any cause their part but
the maintenance of his own repeatedly and solemn,
declared principles, than the Enquirer opened fir,
OF detraction and Misrepresentation against them
which is kept up TO this day with an increasin.
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