The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-18
From the Jets, sonian Va.) Republican.
MIR. RIVES.

We noticed last week what seemed to us a very
preposterous story, derived from the Winchester Re-
publican about Mr.. Rives intending to support Mr.
Clay for the Presidency if he should be the candidate
Of the whig pa ty, and intimated belief that the
story was without foundation. The Lynchburg Vir-
ginan demands Of us, ,chy we believe so! We might
well reort the inquiry, and ask how it is possible that
any rejecting person, who reasons from cause to et
feet and who will look at Mr.. Rives' public acts
since the wing party have been in power, can,
for a moment, suppose that he can cooperate with
the wings in their support of Mr.. Clay and in the
system OF policy his election is designed to carry out
Has not Mr. Rves, in the Senate voted against the
whole series OF favorite whg measures from first to
last-the Bank, the Bankrupt lar, the Tariff,
ditona Distribution the .Mandamts respecting the
mode of election in the States, and all the rest -
Has he not been personally and prominen ly piHed
against MIR Clay, in the conflict of debate, almost
every one of these questions which now constitute the
avOwed policy of the whigs3 With what consistency
them could he cooperate with the wings in their
lection and support of candidate for the Presidency
to carry out these measures, or with what color of
reason any candid person intimate expecta-
ton that he will do so' Mr.. Rives has always pro-
fessed to be governed by principle and by Republican
principle in his public and though from OPP
position to Mr. Van Burens system of policy and ad-
mnisration he acted in the last Presidential election
with the whgs to effect change of administration,
which he believed had become necessary, he did so,
openly declaring every OCCASION his undated at
tachment and adhesion to the principles of the old
Republican party, and his opposition especially to the
federal creed of National Bank high oteciire Tariff
&C. &c., which the Wing Convention of Virginia, in
their address to the people of the State at that time,
equally denounced, and vouched for General Harri-
sons principles being in like manner opposed to
them. But the doctrines and measures which were
then condemned and dsowned, are now openly avow-
ed the objects of pursuit. and the tests of ortho
doxy, of the wing party. 1t Is impossible that Mr.
Rves, without forleiting all pretenson to that
sistency of principle of which he has always claimed
the merit can cooperate with the whgpary in their
selection and support of candidate for the Pres-
dency on any such principles. We have no reveIa-
tion to make fprvate conversations which oft
interpreted contrary to their true and
ing, by the wishes maginatson of the collocutor
but this do kno,o that much said in this lati-
tude, twelve months ago, about phrase in letter of
Mr. Rives, in which he then declared his deter
mnation not to follow hc bold and reckless lead of
Mr.. Clay" How much the divergency between
them has been widened by questions and events which
have since arisen, il is surely unnecessary to recall
to any intelligent observer Of the course of public
affairs.