Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-12-06


revenues in paper, and thus substituting paper
FOR specie circulation, universally, could long cont.
nue. ''thc dollar for aoiiar' system:
Has not the uniform experience OF the world IN ali
in semi arbarous China and civilized Europe
SHOWN, that whenever Government has by any me ans
obtained credit for paper currency, 1t has ultimate
" and invariably substituted issues 10 supply the
pnLl.c necessities instead Of an imposition oil iaxes:-
Whenever such uloaeyed and mercantile machine,
worked By the hand oil Government, boasts Inc MIRA
Gle of making papor the standard OF value to DO the
business Of exchanges and of currency, 1t - absurd
to indulge the idea that there will te any thing stable
in system, political or pecunlary. Everything
will be aloat When law Of few lines, al any
moment Of exiscncy, authorizing an issue oil paper,
would supply hour what the tay-gatherer
could not collect in years who can expect Tia. "lhe
dollar for dollar doctrine would be adhered to by an
i'm proyident or eyirayanan Administration; The pn
cipe upon which the depository part Of the plan Is
founded is TINT which the Ba"k Il" Amsterdam was
established II mace paper issues by cencatons oil
posite ard bound 10 hold the specific money
neither using T. nor lending il 10 be used,o meet the
returned certificates. But when this institution was
looked ir,o the deposes had evapora.ed So the n
system at present proposed by our great imam
cers would end our certicaions would be without de-
poses aud our issues revenues, al this moment,
would be without revenue 10 redeem them.
RETRRGTIoS
The Wing party becoming heartily sick Of ssthai
old Coon. Lay ing clam 10 all the gentility,
they blush at the means 10 which they descended
in The Of 1910, when 10 use their own phrase,
'tiicv stopped 10 conquer" Alas they have stopped
low that they find themselves unable 10 rise The
people will not soon forget the incidents of that grea,
political debauch, which did more to degrade Republic
can institutions than any thing which has happened
since the origin Of the Government. IL for this
reason, chiefly, regretted these revolving saturnaa.
We were moro panied for the disgrace inflicted upon
the country than for the defeat Of party. This
was personal and temporary; but that serious
blow the dignity and character OF the American peo
pie.
What spectacle was that for the intelligent
foreigner no came here observe the working Of free
institutions and the qualifications Of our people for
sell. government Such appeals had not been made,
in the times to the lowest popnlace oi Europe
We cannot pardontour political opponents for this de-
grsdatIon Of the American people; we can never Tor
get the fatal example. Above all things should an
American respect the character Of free Government;
Of those institutions which at so mnci Cos,
which il IS our duty 10 God md TO TRANSMIT, IN.
mpar to poser,y, and which can only be preserved
hi maintaining them in all their moral dignity. He
who seeks 10 impair lhis commits the objectionable
gin against liberty. He tcfes what IS pure; lie tram
pies under foot that which sacred than daden
sceptre.
And what have even our opponents gained by means
so lpab!e and practices usttabe: The bitter
est dsa ppontment discontinue than defeat
They talk habtually Of the hand Of Providence which
arrested their triumphant march Agreed. But do
they not recognise in that hand Judgment upon
their political sins-a retrhution for offences against
those privileges which have made US indeed Pcculia:
people:
thing like Icvty, have been inscnsbly drawn into
reflections o! more solemn character Our attention
directed 10 the su. eet By tie following remarks
from The Pittsburgh Mercury and Manufacturers which,
however severe, (pcfaps than re would have
permitted oursc!sesl must be acknowledged TO be us-
titled by Inc occasion: Hashia.ton Spectator.
''The election over, We hope, ere another campaign
be entered upon that the ridiculous and absurd practice
OF buffo singing aDd the ending alluscn 10 Htat
same oid coon will be suffered To sleep in the tomb
! Oar friends should remember that one absurdty al
nted and Pracsed will H.. yita5!y bring others in its
train, and the eventual result will be TO ill meet
lnls h idle boys, the exclusion Of those it de-
s5ous 10 in attendance. II the Wing party cannot
succeed without descending TO such bu.uonery, let rs
remain beaten aud preserve our selfrespect though We
lose cause. iumbun, all its phases, belongs 10
the f.occloco party, and iaos sincerely do hope it
may not be resorted to by the Wings hereafter
The above is from the Brooklyn News, respectable
Wing paper. We are glad that their reyerses have
awakened within them 4 desire 10 return 10 decent and
dignfed behavior, but cannot consent TO let them
escape from The odluG OF cabins and coonskns ON such
easy terms. Nor believe, that such articles as
the above would have been written, if they could
have conquered in Ohio and New York. under the ban.
ner of "lhat old Coon Talk to Hhig after
the election of 40, about the vile means by which they
carried the election, and he would laugh heartily at
the use they made of their silly DEVICES and aunt you
abou, the perfect, Of their humbugs And this
year, in Ohio, in absolute defiance Of every thing
sb!e and decent, they again brought lie beast Of
their ilolatrv, and pointed with triumph AMI sas!ac.
ton 10 "thai same old Coon" We say, then, as that
"Coon has been their glory in triumph lei il be their
shame in defeat The appellalon Of Coon party is
a suitable They virtually adopted it themselves,
and !hcy cannot be permitted shuttle it of, that
they a:e sick of il. AZ "Coons,' they climbed into
power. AS "Coons,' lei them be hunted from every
place of honor profit, into which they have ctrpt
! (Er.,a he Gts,ehrs,,r Pa Reaa6i.eoaA
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