Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-09-26
POLITICAL.
SPECIFICATIONS OF LATE FEDERAL. oFFE

SPECIFICATIONS oF LATE FEDERAL OFFENCES.
The following pthy summary of The offences of
Whiggery, presented IN the Oho Statesman, would
have made fine companion pHce for the admirable
exposition Of the conduct OF Federalism IN Massachu
Sets forth in the resolutions of the Worcester
Tcnon
r.sTug ConrsG CosrFsr.-The Fall election n Ohio
is fast approaching Are the Democracy prepared for
ecton' Has DIVISION been rebnked-sec,ional interests
LAID aside for the noble work of saving the State from
bank msrule and bank plunderers? Are all ready 10
go into the contest like men, fighting 10 preserve pFn
clpes long cherished, from the foul polluted touch Of
bank myrmdons who openly proc!ini. that It they get
the power they Will establish State bank and
branches; and do which they will have to increase
the State debt, increase the taxes of the people; and,
finally to make the State Of Ohlo torr partnership
with bankers 10 plumber the unsuspeciing and unwary
If these things they should be- then action the
word
"Chargc upon tic Federal cohorts, ;iat as pariy,
they have, their utmost, resisted every attempt 10
make banks saia, and bankers honest.
"Ctarec home upon their icaders the foul treason
which they pc.petraled in breaking up The legislative
branch Of the State Government ami upon the party,
tina, they justified it.
"Chargc upon them the non-.edempton of their pro-
misses in 1910.
"Charge upon them, that their Coon Congress repu-
dated the compromise act, which their 'TIppeca
noe, we'll as Tyler too, pledged himself should not
be altered or repealed.
"Charge upon ihea that the last Congress- composed
of majority of fifty Fedeal's,s, after being ssicn
sc We months, and violating the compromise act
and repeating the independent Treasury BILL passed,
the only OF relief TO the people, the Bank
rup, act and by which millions upon millions of honest
debts wiped off by the oaths OF swlndlers.
"Charge upoR them, that so great and so foul was
the infamy of tins rcf measure, that the People rose
almost as against it, and that the very Congress
which passed II, in alright were forced to repeal H.
"Chargc upon Mcm that their President, elected in
lS40-their own honest John Tyer-ordered the troops
e tha It,,fa Ss.tas tffn Stafa IN
down, at the point Of the bayone people struggling
be free, and 10 obtain from landed aristocacy the
right Of voting, and which right, though exercised III
the State by many negroes, was refused 10 the
Of the whites and that, IN ihis htghhanded out
rage the Federal party sustained the President and a
plauded the act.
"Cnarge upon th.,n, that though they have only
been in power since the dth of March, lc4l, yet IN
that time they have already saddled large national
debt upon the country and that the expenses of the
Government, ,shich they claimed ought not 10
coed thirteen millions, now much greater than I'M
der either Jackson Van Buren, any other Demo-
cratic Administration, except during The last war with
England
"Chargc upon them, that, in $780, they said they
opposed 10 United States Bank and that soon az
they got the power they passed two which were vetoed
by John Tyler and that they only refused 10 pass the
third, because John Tyler recommended II.
"Chargs upon them, that though they now say, that
they are opposed 10 n mscaed Protective Tariff yet
i, is only because, from the elections they know
it to be an utter mpossibiiy that they get ma
r,y in Congress; and that should they ever again
have majority in the national councils, they will, a.
in The of their violated pledges regard 10 the
Bank, saddle upon ,his country Tariff, which would
project the interest of the people the 'vuture pro-
tects the lamb-tr covering, and then deyourng H.
"Charge upon them, that their leaders unworthy
of confidence they have deceived the people, and
attempted 10 demorase them-that they have made
promises before elections to break them afterwards
and that Ito use the language of John Quincy Adams
as anppd tro-n3 'thry are YOUNG together only ny
cement cf hatred every naa OF purar principles than
themselves and, II this charge be denied, appeal 10
their recollection Of the bacchanaan revels OF the hard
cider campaign of 1910 IN proof of the facts.
But there is most important charge omitted III
tins schedule 1t is that Federalism most soemny
pledged itself 10 prescribe pon, declaring that
il was against the genius of the Government to make
the political tenets of the test of his qualIhca
ton: and that the removal Of one class of men, to in
iroduce another in the offices Of the Government,
one party or other prevailed in the contest, was to
stake the Government up prize Tor comoatants,
and to render all the honor and emolument it could
fer but the wages of corruption TO the mercenares
employed 10 fight the battle for lis conquest; and yet
this party has made removals from, and appointments
to public trusts more absolutely the consldera
ton of partzln service than before in this any
other country. Under the present incumbent IN the
Chief Nagisracy the tenure of Office and qualifications
for public trust are not made dependent political
principle or opinion merely adhering to an individual,
ard promoting his personal ohjects-hmself adhering
to no party or political course, any further Than they
NAV advance his dvdual interests the sole
criterion OF fitness for Office.