Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-08-26

hood. cannot say what the President will do, or how
he will reconcile these conflicting endorsements /
doubt not he will act firmly, but ,csely.
SHOW much better for Congress, The President and
the People, had the pledges given in the late contest been
respected! The country would have been prosper.
Gus and happy-no Bank bills would have been retocd
no Tariff bills would have been petoed- Distribution
would have ceased-a Revenue bill per enucted-a
suitable Exchequer provided for the public monies, and
all things would have moved s,cimmingiy The
People would have been happy, satisfied and prosper
ous Now, all is confusion, uncertainty and dssatis
faction-a state Of things which has been supernduced
by the Federal Clay Wing leaders in Congress "io
head Captain Tyler or die, and make The Gerry ,corst
man in this wide spread Union President Of The U. 5.
"Ought the President in any spirit of compromise,
under these circumstances to do anything TO relieve the
FederalIss from the consequences of their mad
and d'soreanizing measures; question it, As they
began, so Let them end their occupation of President
making, until the judgment OF the people be heard
upon it,
We truth IS, the surrender Of the principle of disr
button is concession TO The Presidential part and
parcel of the game which has been played during
the whole session to make Mr. Clay President. The
leaders saw plainly that distribution would murder the
Tariff interest," and that that interest in turn, would
murder Distribution, and that their favore would be
crushed between the upper and the neither milestone.
This is The secret of their patriotism 1t was TO save
MIR. Clay and not provide supplies for John Tyler.
-No-they would willingly starrc him, if in doing
no worthy and sufficient motive, why Congress should
persist in lis efforts to drive the President from his
peculiar notions tile Tariff, and TO violate the
Compromise act, which he as well as they came in
pledged TO stand by and yet rnst that there is sdom
and honesty enough in Congress to egislate on the
basis Of the Compromise act, and to suspend any fur
Their distribution of the land sales. Were this subject
stripped of e1traneous circumstances, believe the
President would return it in hour with his bjec-
lions; but a. il is, unable TO say what he will do
knop, however, that General Jackson put an
objectionable bill in his pocket; and that the present
President himself, as his justification 10 posery for
signing objectionable b felt il duty to place his
reasons among the archives OF The State Department.
1.-THE President, however, may be saved yet from the
embarrassment of acting the bill as it passed the
House 1t is said to day, that the Whgsin the Senate
would oppose it, and, PERHAPS number sufficient TO
defeat it.. portion Of them are anxious 10 pass some
bill, and in ord.r to make the Democrats support it, am
told, will modify and amend it in Committee in many
important particulars. hope the Compromise may
not be departed from seriously, that the President
can sign it, ] have heard too, today that Mr.. Clay
had written to his friends in the Senate to break up,
and not pass Tariff bill but | do not believe il.
Il is too plainly against his interest to credit any such
rumor. All is doubt and uncertainty here-no one
can tell what day is TO bring FORTH but it cannot be
long it is hoped, before all speculation will to
an end, and the country be correctly informed TO
its condition. Congress will not dare to sit longer
than Monday to be sure; and by that time, the "ago
n.y., one way the other, will be ''over."
1.-THE Treaty is gaining ground in public opinion, a.
can hear in conversation with all Of prudence
and intelligence. II is said by many TO be one of the
BEST treaties ever entered into between this and
foreign country MIR. Calhoun defended it most ably
in the Senate; and willing to take him. who stood
up SO manfully in the late war, may Mentor in mat
ters affecting the national honor"