Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-04-25
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Candidate for the Senate, IN this District have M
oppo,iIion. Both OF these gentlemen were here
and an unusually large number at the people Ia,
Assembled, as well tor the purpose OF mastering
| As to aud hear the candidates. Aner parade
| was over. MIR Cox addressed the multitude at som'
considerable length. IL Is not my design here Il
follow him in his detail of reasoning; but that III,
people may not he IN the dark rs tn the principles
| Rvowed bv man who offers for their suffrages.
desire fairly to represent HIM. lie commenced 10y
| taking n retrospective view of the policy OF th,
Wing party and their measures; he pointed to every
act oil theirs being unwisc uncalled for, and dan
gerous to the people lie amused us by the ex
traordinaty discernment he ondcnvored to DISPLAY
in his elaborate reasoning Of the inprectcabty o.
party made up Of rag tag and bOb-taii, effcctins
any thing for the benefit Of the people. lie declared
himself a State Rights Democratic Republicans"
rs such. opposed TO the Tariff. Distribution Act
and likewise opposed TO Nrginia's receiving heI
portion Of the money arising from the sales of the
Public Lands. and opposed 10 every act OF the Elk
ira Session OF Congress.
| His opposition to the Tariff was based upon the
equal that its burdens were more oppressive on the
South.
lie opposed a Bank OF the United States, be.
cause Nick Bddle had proved to be u rascal, ant
the Bank of Pennsylvania had become bankrupt
lie further opposed it, because he believed It TO be
unconstitutional.
MIR Cox condemned, above all others, the act o
the Extra Session, known as the Distribution Act
lie believed TO bc Unconstitutional; that the &c.
would be Increased on the people four dollars "a
every one that may lie received of its proceeds (hC
wound scarcely hesitate to say She believed the
measure unwlsc, incXpedi,n, and dangerous.
! lie believed in tnycin: the Banks 10 immediate
resumption, which he SAID they were prepared to
stand row, Al ever. lie asserted that the Wings
al 1870. declared 10 the people. II they would elect
General Harrison, money would hoS like water;
and that having suececCed IN his election, they have
been 10y their remedies for the relief OF the country
the whole cause OF its present distress.
In conclusion, he opposed, and would oppose
Lsts es'o, every measure of the Extra Session nj
S<SsSress. that the people had been humbuggcd by
/ SSenlns politicians; and that nothing but their
e.oh' SKINS and hard cider had given the Wings the
ascendency.
! Thus, after speech of an hour or more he sal
down. The Wings not considering themselves
fairly dealt with, determined on getting up a reply
and succeeded IN bringing out two gentlemen Capt
Clarke and Mr. Burrows (nether one having ever
addressed political assembly beiore). the first p
| farmer, the later tanner; but they proved
enough, rs will enLeavor to show you, by inin,
outline OF what passed; Captain Clarke followed
/ first; he commenced 10y impucning the political
course OF our Candidate for the Senate that as he
was not opposed m the canvass, courtesy even &c
manced tar play; that he had guessed a, things
which he had broadly asserted, and maintained as
| facts, what could not bc established.
As tor his condemnation of the Whis party and
the principles they advocate u was erntuous-tho,
assertions very different from proof. He show.
ed that Mr Cox exhibited fair sample Of Demo-
cratic haransuers:-He had declared the Wings to
I've all inconsistency; they were Fedcralsts-Coon.
SKIN and Hard Cider Boys, and nothing but hum
bugeers-Bui said Captain Clarke, | will show ,ho
people Mr. CoN's error, and convince him he had
fallen IN the wrong pew-at any rate nc would saw
Tor the good people o: Amelia, although easy good.
nlturcd folks, they were not DISPOSED To be m L,
over rough shod under whip and lash, even when
they had no opposing candidates that in his address
he h'd lily treated a large and respectable portion
OF the people; who arc 10 he reasoned with from
iaets, hut invncIbe when opposed by the spirit OF
party mlfness
by the Federal Court OF the u. S, with John Mar.
shall its head. Now, said Mr. Burrows the gentle
man, the more to nveish against the Wing party Of
On the Tariff subject, Captain Clarke assured
the people that the gentleman knew the Wings ui
Nirsinin were IN favor OF Tariff IN he laid suifi
ciently high for the purpose of derayins the ex-
penscS OF tho General Government-ior no other;
and that our Candidate dare not deny the practlca
bility OF that system, although he would intimate
II the people the purity OF the doctrine OF direct
taxes, instead Of Tariff.
In reply to MIR CoX's reputation Of the Disribu.
ton law, Captain Clarke wished to know in what
school the gentleman gained political principles
lie sand he WAS State Rights man, and yet op-
posed measure, 10 all inients and purposes de
nanded by the rights, not 10 say the deepest inter-
est OF the States; he opposed a measure the pro
pretty and consulutonality OF which has been ad
mtted 10y most OF the great leading politicians of
TINS country, Of al parties Here he read an ex-
tract from Genr Jackson's Message Of 1892 in
which he strongly recommends the Distribution OF
the Public Lands amongst the Staies-also, ex-
tracts IRON the views entertained by MIR Calhoun
MIR Benton and Others MI conceding the right of the
States TO the PuUlic I.andS.l He demanded OF Nj
Cox, TO know under what great hnnncier he had
learned that for every dollar received 10y the States
from the General Government, the people would
nave to reimburse n her four-lod or more-A
strange doctrine indeed-schoo-boy notions Such
reasoning IS vain and impoteni. Does every body
not know that the General Government raises its
revenue from duties on imported eoods-not by
taxauoni And TO add to the evils that await us.
our Candidate refuses receive tins fund amount.
ing TO from ; to $4,000 annually, at n time too
when our State is owing a debt Of 900, OOO or
more, and has been forced the necessity Of pro.
testing claims brought. against her-al tor the want
OF tins same money. Most outrageous doctrine
Preposterous notions OF financcl
Capt. Clarke, after going into most OF the ground
occupied by MIR Cox, gave way to MIR Burrows,
who made very hnppy effort, but short with the
view OF drawing Mr. Cox out again; which, to his
Qualification, he accomplished. MIR Cox ran over
pretty much the same ground before: nssertin,
a great many things, but proving nothing betook
himself TO his dignity, and appeared 10 be nm,zej
that The should be opposed m political debate by
Clarke and urrows,-the first, nc said y citizen OF
Amelia, but not a native Of the Stnte of Virginia.
the other lived IN another county, he did not know
whether Yankee or Duchman, but currier Of lea.
thcr and thus, after another hour he conc uded
/ MIR Burrows now rose, considerably excited, and
co, as he slid he would do, handle Mr. Cox without
gloves. lie said, elihough a Currcr Of Leather n.
had been tauntngly said by MIR Cox he would
prove TO the people that although he had apparently
enrobed himself up IN his dignity, doubtless, desir
ing to exercise the same office over them rs h,
had done over the youth-mas,er Of The f,rrule, h,
could curry him ioih the greatest ease. lie had n,
Advantages 10 boast OF, either wealth or high
living, vet he could boast OF being born an,
hn fN IL. -.
the ancient residence Of the Sage OF Monticello {,
inhnle the breezss that waited from him the pur
principles OF good Government; and that even Cur
rier as he was, che would to God that the peopl,
would learn Of hian lessons Of Democratic prncipies
instead Of that Dgniiary."
Mr. Burrows was very severe and sarcastc;-hl
address carried with It ability and eoquence and s,
completely wound up his antagonist that his friend
could not even help him out. lie said Mr. Cox op
posed Bank Of the United States, notwithstand.
ing The hrst charter Of that institution was ob-
tanned iron under the sanction Of the Father r.
his country, General Warrington, and was agsi,
rechnrtered by the author Of the Constitution itself
james Madison, than ehom no man knew and un
derstood its meaning better and i's Legality Cull,
recognized by Thomas Jefferson himself m permit
ting its Branches TO BIO established in tho Stntes
and having finally been affirmed az constitutions
ter utterlng al the condemnntory argument. nenns
the old u. s. Bank. would make 81 lppe,r thai I'm,
Institution was principally supported Nv Federnlists
that the first division Of the people in this countr,
grew ont Of its establishment, which he crnpboti
cally denied, and sustained himself in estoblsbin,
the fact that the two first parties grow ont Of m,
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