Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-08-19
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e and one w'ld and universal cry was heard for the
blood and bread of the Democrats in Office Before
e ne had left the banks of the Ohio, the President
e eject was 5sset by lnruders without number, and
l. opportunities beyond the power of qualification On
his arrival IN the Capital! he found already bcsege
e ny thousands, who had trooped together from all
e parts OF the Union, to demand Of him the spos of
conquered country There an impatient ferocity
/ IN Their looks, like that Of npacous sodiery when
y restrained tor moment from the sack and plumber
!. oil the snbjugated city He was a man SCARED with
lhe inhrmitles OF a.e-of heart, | believe, that
FOUND no pleasure in the passion Of revenge, and
, therefore, when left to himself, disncned to in
q INC. without cause, upon so many men the miseries
OF general removal But neither his inirmiiies nor
ms eel ngs were respected by his victorious partz.ns
aud on the very first day Of his power within mi
nutes alter The official oath was administered and whilst
he was yet descending the Eastern porlco Of the On
p'to his friends in the Senate adnonished him of the
haste he was expected to make in the execution of ven.
geahce ana The distribution Of SPOIL by submitting in
that body the following resolution:
"Resoired, Tia. Bl1ir and Riyes be dismissed as
printers to the Senate for the twenty seventh Con-
gress."
On the seventh day after, this resolution was passed.
and thus were these defenceless citizens, without u
CRIME or even charge against them but tina; of their
opinions, deprived of their contract soemnly made
with their Senate-her bond annued and ali the ex.
penses they had incurred to execute the work. thrown
ny dead loss upon them. Here was an example the
President was expected to follow; and from that day 10
or IN his walks, public in private under all cir
cunsances, and at all lines the c;ce kers still
clustered around him. 1t was not the plea Of his in.
rmities or that of his arduons duties nor was it the
lifting OF his time withered hand with gesture re-
tire, that could the dense m lss who pursued
and imporfuncd him. In spite Of all these they fol.
lowed him up, swarmng upon him still thicker every
hour until las like hornets they stung him TO death
Nor were the errofs of death bed the solemn con.
dItion of expiring man, sufficient 10 silence their
y In Off nj ,a or
ordinates were making in his name For, upon the
authority of that NAME though nsensibe himself and
sinking to the grave the cruel Of his councillors
continued to swing the Of execution as if deter.
mined that The last mortal sound that broke upon the
of the dying President should be- not the sound Of
prayer the flia sob, but the dsressful scream Of
victim struck down in his presence. And after
his DEATH and the translation of his remains from the
Capital 10 the West Democrats were spurned from of
ce, upon the sole allegation that he, IN his life had
intended their removal
Such was the first result; and what the next,
They had declared the country ruined by Democratic
councils They had declared the single object of their
own advent to be its immediate redemption Yet,
notwithstanding this did they find themselves
alpowerful, and the people all powerless, than did
they begin 10 disclose other Objects Far different from
that-obects, in their tendency, runous to every in.
terest they had promised to foster the interest Of
the few against the rights of the many and blasting
all the hopes they had abored to excite, the hopes
of the rapacious for the plumber Of the Government
execution was delayed. Ii was important, therefore,
and well they knew it, 10 forge and rivct their system
Of measures upon the country, whilst the public mind
for the whole and by all was obeyed. Let not the
people cool down. but now while the glow and gddi-
ness of triumph upon them, let rush to the Ca
pal, and there, in the midst OF the general glee, bind
and clinch system on the nation.
This, it seems, was the policy which prompted the
convention of Congress, in extraordinary session, on
the 3ls Of May, ls4l.
On that day the Extra Session commenced, and then
il was that those measures proposed, which
press the real motives of the leaders, and which have
brought the Government and the country TO their
present condition. They were then vctors over the
whole field of power. With the Exccutive-with
majority, overwhelming, in both branches of Con-
gress there nothing to restrain the full sway of
their pleasure or their principles. This they knew,
and this they felt; and therefore il was, that their
chief in the Senate, with all the staggering indeii.
cacy Of one unaccustomed 10 success, openly pro-
claimed TO the Democracy of the body, that we had
been condemned by the judgment of The people-had
been brought together only for executions and that all
we uttered to be heard nothing, but the CON-
puins Of indicators, their way TO the scafold.
Such was the deirum Of merrss triumph, and vul-
gar revenge, with which the Federasts began their
work. and without preparing any thing in its stead laid
hold upon the Sub Treasury, and tore it TO the ground
Thus, did these infatuated men-they who had most
fasely charged the Democratic party with having CON-
mted The public treasure to the sole custody of the
Executive-with having united, in his person, both the
sword and the purse--hus did they, among the very
first acts of their power d. themselves, the very same
thing nnustly ascrbed 10 others, by the repeal OF
the only law which placed the money of the nation out
of the reach Of the President. No Bank, no law, no
resolution had they passed. to take the place of the act
repealed Nor there, to this day, any such provision,
or any such likely be, while the present Congress
remains.
And why is this If the majority cannot get the fs
cality they DESIRE can they not pass act to secure
the revenue? or do they intend to have it, it is, ex-
posed to the hazard Of official page, in order to try,
once more the coercion of the people into National
Bank?
These men came into power as we were told, upon
the HOLY mission Of guarding the sanctIty Of the Con-
s,ituon the law and all human obligations So pious
was their for the observance of contracts
that some of their number willing that this Co
vernment, though pennyless itself, and plunging in
debt should assume the debs of the States, rather than
witness their reputation. Nevertheless, these very
same men, the chosen and the anointed guardians OF
all things sacred by general act, with the name
of bankruptcy for its caption, epudiated the debts Of
the larger debtors throughout the entire nation
By his single OATH they allowed the interested party,
if his debts were large and his means considerable,
to cancel his bond, and thus to ruin the friend or
the neighbour who creditor or security, had con-
hded in his honor. say, u Tie debts were large
because if small, and the debtor poor, the expense
of the process makes the law unavailable and there
fore, nuty to him. To execute the act, the Fede-
ai judiciary passes the Constitution, usurps the
rghtful jurisdiction OF The local courts, dehes and
sourns the sovereignty of the States. But matter
for that-the greater bankrupts, the magnificent mil
onar,es othe paper system brought to bankrupt.
Cyl not by misfortune in legitimate trade-not by acct
dent yond the power Of discretion, but by the eager
ness Of an svarice seeking crafty itself the gam
blngs ofspcculaon, and then wasting in splendid pro-
fusion, all that the fortune Of the hazard placed within
it's reach. As already ruined and desperate, they
had entered tic contest OF 40, with the pledge oil
the Federaiss, that their debts should be treated as
gambling Obligations and spanged By the law and an
oath And this pledge alone, Ct the many made, has
Federalism faithfully fulfilled.
Economy, let it be remembered, had been promised
as policy proper in ITSELF and especially SO, in the
then necesstous state Of the Treasury. And yet ~
!, this very convention Of Congress, at time not APP
pointed by the law, three hundred md naety one thou