Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-10-20
MR. RIVES.

We noticed last week what seemed to
us very preposterous story,derived from
the Winchester Republican, about Mr.
Rives intending to support Mr.. Clay for
the Presidency, if he should be the can
didate Of the whis party, and intimated
our belief that the story was without
foundation. The Lynchburg Virgnian
demands OF US, sChy we believe so? We
might we'll retort the enquiry. and ask
how 1t is possible that any rejecting per-
son, who reasons from cause to effect,
and who will look at Mr.. Rives' public
acts, ever since the wing party have been
in power, can, for moment, suppose
that he can cooperate with the wings in
their support of Mr.. Clay, and ia the sys-
tenn of policy his election is designed to
carry out? Has not MIR. Rives in the
Senate, voted against the whole series Of
favorite wing measures from first to last
1.-The B NIX, the Bankrupt Laov, the Tariff.
unconditional Distribution. the JMandQmus
act respecting the mode of election in the
States, and all the rest !? Has he not been
personally and prominently p5fted against
Mr.. Clay, in the conflict of debate. on al
most every one of these questions which
now constitute tlfe avowed policy of the
wings? With what consistency. then.
could he cooperate with the wings in
their selection and support of candidate
for the Presidency to carry out these
measures, or with what colour of reason
could any candid person intimate an ex-
pectation that he will do so. MIR. Rives
has always professed to be governed bv
principle and by Republican principle, in
his public course and though from oppo-
.rtion to MIR Van Buren's SYSTEM Of poll
cy and administration, he acted 10 the
last Presdential~eIection with the wings,
to effect change Of administration, which
he believed had become necessary, he
die SO, openly declaring on every occa-
sion, his undated attachment and adhe-
sion to the principles of the old Repu6H-
can party, and his opposition, especially,
to the federal creed Of a National Bank,
highprofectivs Tariff, &c. &c. which the
Wing Convention Of Virginia, in their
address to the people Of the State, at
that time. equally denounced, and vouch-
ed for General Harrison's principles as
being in like manner opposed to them
But the doctrines and measures. which
were then condemned and disowned. are
now openly avowed as the objects of pur-
suit. and the tests of orthodoxy, of the
wing party. 1t is impossible that MIR.
RlFes, without (orfeiting al! pretension to
that consistency ofwinepls Of which he
has always claimed the merit, can co-ope-
rate with the wing party il their selection
and support of candidate for the Presi-
dency on any such principles. We have
no revelations to make of private CONVEX
satlons, which are SO often interpreted,
contrary to their true sense and meaning,
by the wishes or iinaginatio of The col
locutor but this we do know, that much
was said in this latitude, twelve months
ago, about phrase in Litter of Mr.. Ri |
yes, in which be even then declared his
determination not to fnliow .'the bold |
and reckless lead Of Mr.. Clay.' Flow
much the emergency between them, has !
been widened by questions and ev-
ents which have since arisen, it is surely |
to recall to any intelligent
observer of the course Of public affairs
Charlottesville Jefersonioa.