Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-09-05

5SD bushels OF wheat, averaging ID Dusnes per acre
this is unequalled in Virginia agriculture. His whole
crop of wheat ION 27O acres) reached the large guam.
ti,y of 5000 bushels being average of nearly 80
bushels per acre.
At Westover, the seat Of John n. Selden. Esq on
James River, 100 acres of wheat averaged 80 bushels
per acre-also noble product
70 THE E2 or gT Of TIE ENQUIRER
Gentlemen II General Cass holds the Democratic
creed MIR. Jefferson held it, and has given earnest
that he would be likely to practise as he did, without
bgotry, but with hrmness, as have been endeavor.
ing TO show, it gratifying also TO see in him things
which make an approach in other respects to
model.
here mean, in possessing stores Of knowledge be-
yond mere politics. This is altested by the various
productions Of his pen. One as sample, comes under
my eye whilst wrtng-his late address al Fort Wayne
on the completion of the Wabash and Erie canal
which, for rich reflections the genius of our ins,i
tutions, in comparison with those of the old world,
might have warmed the heart of Jefferson himself
The single remark in it, that the Pyramids "teH no
tale but Tie old tale Of oppression IS beautifully
characteristic Napoleon Bonaparte exclaimed at the
battle of the Pyramids, Soldiers remember, that
forty centuries are looking down upon you. This
very fine, but denoted The conqueror warming uP
his 10 a new victory. General Casss remark de-
noted the Republican sage II was Jetiersonan, by ITS
classic brevty and historical truth.
1t would be but common place 10 say, that Inc mind
imbued with letters, has better, groundwork for
craftsmanship, than The whose only pabulum IS
current politics. Where it IS emnently practical, aiso
with General Cass, have materials for states
manship of the first order. IL was fine remark oil
Humbolds when in our country, the great traveller
and author, (of whose renown in Prussia MIR. Wheaton
is now telling us) who, after spending day with Mr.
Jefferson sad that he had never before seen so much
power united in one man, with much knowledge
adding 'how advantageous TO the world is such
union. Gratifying tribute 10 our great Republican
leader from high source! As we have not yet pro
duced second Jefferson let cherish the men who
would initiate him in his intellectual cultivation as we'll
political opinions AS the spheres of duty increase
with such men, new and higher qualities are ever apt
to be developed So il was with General Cass, when
transferred from the home service to the court Of
France, where he enabled by mental powers high
ly improved aud disciplined TO anayze and expose The
mschies of of the most deep yaId schemes against
the maritime liberties and commercial interests, as well
as, ultimately, against the domestic institutions of his
country that could possibly have been engendered by
mingled craft, ambition and fana,ioism, IN the Cab
nets of Princes. May not the anticipation be thence
nationally justified that, if elevated to the highest
sphere in which his country could place him, he would
be found to meet all its duties in the wsest, most
larged, most dgni6ed and successful ways?
On existing and leading questions, his opinions are
satisfactory to the Democracy of the Union at large
In answers TO inquiries from the Democratic State
Convention of Indiana addressed by that body to all
the candidates alike, he has sad-First, that he is
against National Bank-second that he is against dis.
trbutng the proceeds of the public lands among the
Staes-thrd that he is against Tariff for protection
saying, that the ought be kept at the owes
point compatible with the performance OF its Const
tutional functions, and hat thus only, "should inc
dental protection be afforded 10 such branches of Ame
ricsn industry, as may require it-fourlh, that he is
against altering the Constitution, by abolishing the
Executive veto-6th that he adheres to his original
determination, not to let his be used a cand.
date for the Presidency unless nominated by the Ma
tonal Democratic Convention and that he would give
his support TO the nominee of that Convention.
have caught an idea, floating about, that General
Cass, while in the War Department. was supposed 10
want decision and afraid Of esponsbil,y Strange
idea As if General Jackson would have called 10
the head of that department man OF this description
have retained him day after his quick nsght into
has discovered any such deficiencies, which could
not have escaped him had they exstci-and not only
retained him. but retained the fullest confidence in him
TO the last of which there is abundant proof. Further
more-as if bis whole life did not contradict this
long, Western, and frontier service, full OF stirring
and perilous ncdent-his efficient share concluding
than twenty Indian treaties in regions and under
circumstances peculiarly calling for decision Of charuc
ter, and involving responsibility-and by which he
obtained for his country territory of great value and
eIten-as if these things, not to repeat the evidences
of prompt and resolute spirit in him, which my last
letter afforded, if all not with the idea
It's existence may be accounted for The War De-
partment, of all others, is burdened with a multi.
ttude of private claims. Not merely the business of
the army, proper, in its whole range of distance and
service but contracts and occurrences of endless
rety and number, under stated encies special
of Congress, embracing Indian affairs, and other in
tereststhe clearing out Of rivers and barbors-erect
ing breakwaters and other works, with everlasting
claims for extra labor, and other things not in the
tact-surveys, national roads, militia claims from the
States, pensions-a these, with the business they
create, only part of what falls The Secretary of
War; his province, 10 look after and settle. In
of I In he nd
dual interested that his quite clear-he wonders
any body doub-t only requires to have the papers
looked at, to be allowed, and paid at This he
honestly thinks, perhaps, and talks-not emitting
of the indecsion of The Secretary Of War.
But not SO, does the Secretary himself think. To
his mind, The not very clear. Perhaps he
what Lord Chancellor Edon is reported to
have said, when The London papers were saying that
he too slow in coming TO his decisions, of them
that it easy TO decide most Of his
cases. az upon the difference between black and white
.Yes," said the old Chancellor, "f they black
find most Of them grey So with Ge-
neral Cass He probably found The mos, of his
easier decide off-hand, than This eminent Judge
but on the contrary, calling Tor careful lnvesgation
to do justice between the Government and the party
This to the Impotence of the latter may have looked
like indecision-and it is no wonder, if occupied ALSO
with duties primary, because more national
amidst the great complication and variety of those tina
press upon the War Department, he could not always
find the time he may have wished for these private
cases-and thus have left portion of them unsettled
on leaving the department-as his predecessors have
done before, and as his successors always will.
Whilst in that department, his diligence is known to
have been unabated and in handling questions of great
magnitude and delicacy his commends itself 10
the appreciation of the whole nation; would add,
phat'cally, TO portions OF the South.
might instance notification in Carona, on which
porentous OCCASION whilst his correspondence for
bearing, concatory and scrupulously mindful of Stale
Rights, it was highly digni6ed and appropriate in all
other respects it not too much to cay of it, that il
well up to the models of our foremost statesmen,
being much like that Of Dir. Madison, in the Olmsted
case when resistance threatened to law Of the
United States in Pennsylvania, and advanced to the
eve OF contamination.