Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-05-12

necessity of speedy preparation ana o9aHzalion WIN
view TO thu next Presidential election and recon-
mendinp 10 them the selection of MARTIN VAS buren,
of New York us u candidate tor that ONCE.
HENRY HORN, Prtsidsnt
Gro w. Don>rgT, Secry
ADDRESS.
Fellow. citizens The period has arrived when the
usages oi the Democratic party, the support oil It's
princoles and the restoration OF lis asceEdancy IN
the National Government, demand from all lis mem
bers cordial united and jealous organlzalIon with
view 10 the next election Of the Chief Executive Ma
gstra,e of the Union The necessity Tor this is appa
rent and the time for il has come. Nearly three years
have passed since the late Presidential canvass. The
manner in which it conducted; It's disastrous re-
su!;: and the deplorahle consequences that have IN"
lowed, before our eyes. For the hrsi time IN tit
history OF the American Government and People
these degrading practices were adopted which chaac
ierze the eleconeerng system Of European coun
tries where the people treated by th- ArIsocracl
an ignorant herd, and appeals are made 10 tht
passions senses, and preludces instead OF judgment
reason, patriotism, and self respect. Troops oil 'the
rant singers filed the air with their miserable songs
Hosts of travelling orators and lecturers poured iori
their diaribes in the pretence OF spreading inorma
lion among communities of intelligent ireemen, who
we're themselves far superior 10 these sell constituted
teachers in knowledge and IN honest principle oai
catures and hanoblls flooded The country, and we'gh
cd down the mails. Jubees, feasts and professions
display; and the most serious ana important I" Tux
political duties of freeman were treated win lew
ty az revolving as 1t was new. In Monarchcai 20
vernmens, here n limited suffrage, nomnaiy popu
lar, forms part Of their mere machinery, snch prac
tees may the double object OF ceceIylng those
who are kept in laborious poverty and ignorance and
OF degrading the very name of popular eleciions bu
IN Dcmocracv-s rs 1t is the glory anc pflde o
America TO hold out TO The world-a depends on The
individual virtue, Intelligence and Judgment oil the CT
tzcn, and they ere guilty OF U'ora treason TO ,he lie
public, vino adopt arts calculated, if not intended, &c
destroy in ts practical working, that plan Of Govern
men which alone has been founded on just principles
of human equality and individual right. 1t these piac
tees resorted 10 with deliberate intention 10 mss
lead the Judgment OF the citizen, then they were aci:
tending cub vert the vital parts oil the American
system. If adopted in the belief that the mass oil line
people To be marked and treated as insuscepuoie
Judgment of reason, then had they the deies'aot
Characteristic Of measures founded on sentiments TO-
tally alien 10 all free institutions.
In either aspect, 1t was mode OF electoneer'hg
which, IT is to be hoped for the honor Of the Republic
will never again be followed, even by semblance
success.
That it attended with real success in the late
Presidential canvass, we do not, indeed believe we
do not believe that, i'll reality, any large portion Of
American freemen yielded TO articles SO dlsreputable
but even the appearance of such consequence should
not again be permitted 10 We believe that the
result OF that contest produced by the unexampee
diffusion, iii apparently authentic shapes of the gfos
sest misrepresentation, and By the unsparns ant
skiiuy organized introduction of illegal votes
II is needless TO pursue in detail the numerous IN
stances of Systematic Misrepresentation Areport ny
the Secretary OF War, on plan for dlsciplnine th'
militia, boldly asserted to be deliberate scheme
undertaken By MIR. Van Buren,, 10 establish Stand
ing Army. The examination of colored person, as
witness by Court Martial, nearly thousand miles
from Washington, whose testimony was totally I'm
material, represented proof Of settled purpose
on the part of that truly patriotic Statesman, TO inlrr
!ere with the domestic institutions OF the South. NJ
statistical nvesii gationS of the transform
ed into examinations of the yaltn of property, win
view In direct taxation The NatIona! Debt, near
swept off by the economy OF Democratic ADMINISTERS
lions, represented existing to enofmou
amount by calculating the principal Of annult'es al
lowed in succession of Indian treaties. The pubii
expenditure, which reduced from thirty seven Il
twenty five millions, Notwithstanding the expenses o
The Florida war, and other temporary and unusua
charsea, declared To be boundessly cxtragagent
And, 10 close list that might be easily prolonged
The independent Treasury, expressly established
to separate the public money from all connection will
corporations asserted TO be, in fact, Government
Bank.
These misrepresentation not suffered to stes
upon the country through the ordinary medium Of la
prese. They issued with the stamp Of Commit
tees, composed OF members of Compensatory wer
fortified by documents, apparently official authentic
under the franks, and with the sanction of public me-
III high places Hand in. hand with Them went fort
declarations OF the opinions and intentions of the op
ponen,s OF the Democratic party, 80 framed as to sul
the prevailing sentiments of the quarter which the
were sent. Pledges Of future support opposition 1
n National Bank, high Protective Tariff, the Adolf
ton OF Slavery, and every question which popua
opinions were thought 10 vary, gwen in accord
ance with The views of those to whom they made
And thus, from end of the Union IL The other
| and throughout the canvass, the Republican part
were made to answer Tor acts and principles at yarIanc
with the truth, and their opponents derived the Lenef
OF spscoaS devotion TO those which they did no II
reality, en,eFialn and never intended 10 practise.
| Yet much as this studied and widely extended msre
presentation induced large portions Of The Democrat
to withdraw their confidence from the faithful support
OF their doctrines, il would not, without oihe
means, have secured success OF the votes legally
truly given at the last presidential election, it not
be doubted that majority were cast for Martin Va
Buren,. Dot of an aggregate population in the Unite
States of seventeen millions, he received more tha
eleven hundred thousand votes-a larger compara,iy
vote than had ever before heen given to any Prrsden
whose election contested, not excepting Jeffsrso
and Jackson. The vote given 10 him in 1886 had bee
increased in 1910, from hundred and sixty thou
sand, 10 million hundred and twenty thousan
rao of increase fully equal TO that OF the populu
lion. |, was thus evident that the Democracy OF Iii
Union gave 10 him their undated support. How cam
1t, then, that there large majority of electors
votes against him The IS found in the fac
that there increase of line Federal TO an exter
totally unprecedented and far beyond the real pre-
bshe proportion WHICH the population cou,d possbl
warrant Thus IN hlane, MIR Van Buren, was defeate