Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-22
HENRlco ELECTION.
Reply to some Editorial Structures.

is in conspiracy has colluded with the Loco Fo-
CO party to defeat the election OF Mr. MeRae.
That this charge is utterly grour dless will sd
init OF doubt, when it is known that MIR. Young
was among the Wing candidates. the choice Of the
Democrats (see Enquirer Of Tuesday, as long as il
was supposed he would run, and upon his with
drawal they OF course concentrated upon the uomi.
nee OF their own party, Col Barker.
Again-Mr. Goddin has been arraigned for an
expression he used toward Mr.. Mcltao upon re-
cent occasion, when he said that MIR. McRae was
subject to the inlueaeo Of tho Wing Editors, and
hau no liked opinions of his upon any sub
Ject. Without pretending to say, for do not know,
whether MIR. Goddin did did not utter the Ian
guage attributed to him, l will briefly examine the
truth OF what he IL reported having said, and
deavour TO show how FAR the political course Of MIR.
! McRae has justified the suspicion that MIR. McRae
| Is troubled or afflicted with nfrmty of purpose
which should disqualify him as a representative Of
the people. Want OF time and space will alike
oolge me TO conhre myself to illustration; but
er pede Hsretieu," we may sifely infer that what
mas been done upon one occasion will lie done
again. Setting aside the fact that MIR. McRae
once upon time a Jackson Van Buren, Loco Fo.
co, aud changed his old attachment TO that party
Tor the most violent and unwavering hostility, as
signing no better reason for the change than that
the officers of the Government were corrupt-thus
unmindiul of the principles ~ which had before
secured his adherence TO that party. Disregarding
this, repeat, let me give MIR. McRae's political
opinions upon subject Of vital importance this
CITY, and we shall how successfully this con
'iifutioHal gentleman will pass the ordeal Of
| sistency.
In '3s, Mr. McRse, in giving utterance to his
opinions upon the subject of chartering an u. S.
Bank, holds the following chaste and we'll selected
language: 81 do not believe a National Bank au-
thorIzed by the letter spirit Of the Constitution
or indispensable the fiscal operations Of the Fede-
raj Government" Within twelve months to day,
from thedate of this public declaration OF hostility 10
the Bank OF the U. s., find the flexible gentleman
(hs constitutional views having unde rgone change
cOTreSDOndent nj ~ith he vie
sentiments OF large portion Of his constituency from
the City of Riehmond,) utIering the following OPP
poslte opinion: 81 am irresisby led to the eonclu-
sion that Bank Of the U. S. is indispensable to an
UNIFORM and sound currency, which is the eonsiiiu
tional design, ~ and which the OF the coun-
try Imperatively demand" | call upon any man,
friend or foe to Mr. McSac, to reconcile the discrc
pancy between these two conf citing opinions or to
give any satisfactory reason for change Of opinion
upon subject of such momento us npor ance with
IN the briet space OF twelve months, at the same
time declaring the latter opinion founded uron Eek
peuence and reflection" IL is unnecessary TO COM
ment upon this course Of policy. IL the disasters
consequent upon the suppression Of the u S. Bank
had arisen subsequent to rs, when he declared
himself 50 directly opposed IL, there might be
some reason for the change. But we had been
sroanng and suffering under the arrangements Of
the currency and general distress OF the country for
years prior TO that time. What are we, then, to in
fer from this, of Mr. McRae's frmness OF purposel--
At one time, he declares the Bank of the U. S. to
be alike without the letter and spirit OF the Consti
tuition: at another, nothing having occurred to Jus.
uy change Of opinion, he declares II the eonSttu
honaI design. God knows what he means by that
ambiguous language. His brain seems TO be filed
with confusion Of ideas.
suppore he intends TO say it the design OF
the trainers OF the Constitution. Ii so he has gone
farther than the bodest advocate of the U. s. Bank
has dared advance. How we'll this accords with
his former opinipn let Others say. II this what lie
means ey that singular expression he employs, land
| a
| unless he supposes some wal or mental power TO
exist IN the Constitution ITSELF which suppose he
has never, in his widest constitutional dreams,
Imagned,) then what faith can he reposed in such
vaclllatlng polticianl In conclusion, them let me
| ask, Is MIR Goblin dnwarranted IN saying MIR Me-
Rae IS influenced by othersl If there is who
thinks otherwise, he cannot believe what is here
written. Then If this gentleman has changed once
without cause, what security have that he will not
change again7 | trust there is no one willing TO
encounter the risk but that all will unite III support
| ing MIR Goddin, about whose principles there has
never been the shadow Of a doubt, and whose in
tesuty and hrmness Of purpose no man dare ques-
| ton. CIViS.
| iUT "Civis' brings but feeble succor 10 the very
ilIfberable attack upon MIR McRae by a COMPETE
or--an attack, TO sustain which, not particle OF
evidence has been can be adduceG. knowing the
author, we confess our surprise at his falling SO
much below himself. We would ask no better evi.
dence Of Capt McRae's claim to Wing support than
those charges which are brought forward TO estab.
lish his want Of claim.
The first is, that McRae was snee Jackson Van
Buren, man, but turned Wing, "assigning no better
reason for the change than that the officers of Go
vernment were corrupt" We really should have
concluded that this reason enough in the forum
of conscience, or any othOr upon earth! 1t surely
IS most decorous in Wigs, who were for seven
years engaged in converting the American People
from Jacksonisn, now to reproach the convert for
changing upon such slight and inryJieitnt grounds
as that the Van Buren, Administration was corrupt
We should be pleased to learn what, in the estrpa-
ton Of this writer, OOuId constitute just cause for
a change Of opinion
| Mr.. McRae IS next assled for changing his OPT
MON on the Bank, IF he has done So he has but
followed in the footsteps Of many thousands of his
countrymen, upon whom the cruel calamities Of the
country, brought upon it by the malignant dog star
Of Jdcksonism, have forced the unwilling conviction
o! its stern necessity and therefore Of lis constitu-
tionaity. Such a conviction in 1916 rallied the
almost entire Republican Party OF Virginia and the
| Union with Mr. Madison at its head, for a Bank
similar conviction has within year, converted
friends of State Rights to its support and The pro.
cess is in rapid progress II there be sin in it, let
the reprobntion light on that ignorant and corrupt
crew who ruined the country by their chsrlatanism
and tinkering not those who are forced upon the
alternatives Of remaining idle spectators Of this,
ruin Of striving to avert 1t by what they conceive
the only means that exist. II MrMcRae is one o
these, he will find in the association Of the brghtes'
Of our history, protection from the shafts OF
his assail,Dt.
But it seems that to change at all an opinion, Is
offensive to the rigd canons Of "Ciys" is il not
however, true, that it Is the wise man who changes
his opinion, but the fool never1 Is enquiry to he
forecosed? Is experience to be shut out Is re-
Fiction to be forbidden Once in error, is man to
be sentenced by this preacher Of new lights, to
eternal error7 IL COnd5ifnsy no more than bgo.
ny and obsIinucy1
But, enough said.
UAHovER, April f4th Is4I.
TO THE WINGS or HANOVER.