Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-07-28
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
TO THE GENUINE DEMOCRATS OF THE UNITED


TO THE GENUINE DEMOCRATS OF THE UNITED
You who have no personal interests to promote, no
AMBITION TO serve no private jealousy to indulge, and
no essntmen,s to appease but who really look to The
election of President Of the U. States one OF the
means of Carrying the experiment of free Govern
nsn for the happiness Of the People, may we'll regard
the present situation of this country deeply interest
ing. You must control and direct the action OF the
Democratic Republican pary-and that party predom-
the Wing party, according to the most ial
calculation, twelve to sevenor you must De conlroll-
ed by that elite corps which has such wonderful alac
,l,y at leaping fences and such singular sagacuy at
finding the clover side. You who profess to 60 for
measures, not men; you who are consistent and unit
form supporters Of the Virginia doctrines the constant
advocates Of those who carry out IN their Prac
ice these principles must at once perceive that your
early and decisive action the selection OF candidate
60, hs Presidential office, is all important to the we'll.
beng aad permanency OF the Republican institutions
o. country.
The Wing party give assurances OF their determl.
nation to mai! the flag Of Henry Clay to the mashead,
while the Democratic party appears TO be divided INTO
half dozen sections of parties; or, IN other words,
descriptive of the real state OF things, while the
p,iicians of our party some tor van buren, some
for Buchanan, some for Johnson, some for Calhoun,
some for Cass and for Others the great mass or
rank and file of the Democracy Of the Union, are, Us
they were 1910, ready 10 fight Tor PRINCIPLE unoer
that mans banner whose history is the index to the
rise and fall Of the Republican party OF the u States,
far more than the third Of century. Yes, MARTIN
Vas BUREy of New York is the man you should Sc
lect as your candidate He has not been tor you and
against you as this that star was in The ascendant
He has been identified with you from his boy hood lie
was the recipent Of your confidence and as the FIRE.
sdent of States, he presented and sustained the
bulwark of the Constitution against which The waves
OF faction and intrigue have dashed themselves to spray
la lo40, most unholy war, waged by the Wings
against the Democrats, was carried on under crcum.
stances proper should now revert to. During
Oh 4rn,p IF Can lack
party suffered much discussion. Many who had pro
fessed devotion TO the true faith went of-some on one
ground and some anoher-some on principle and
some for nierest-and when the time arrived for the
election of his successor, the Federasis played off
''rass de guerrc, which the American People foiled
with their most abhorrent reprobation Mr.. Van Bu-
rem elevated to the Presidential office He avowed
his fixed determination to follow IN The steps OF his
ilusrious predecessor Let it not be forgotten that
this man, Martin Van Buren, had been gall and worm
wood 10 The Fede for more than twenty years,
and that he should have been the Egs Of our protection
agans, the double headed shot of Federalism. as
our adversares could bear; but that he should
have the audacy 10 pay proper tribute to the match
less merit Of Andrew Jackson, was, in their estimation,
adding insult to injury; and hence the determination
"psr aS aut nefas defeat his reelection; then came
the struggle of 1910, that viii ever be regarded
floating beacon on The coast of tDe-a floating bescon
manned with the ghosts of slaughtered reputation,
armed with the missiles of fasehood and deception, and
spleen and chafed ambition. Owing to various causes,
hundreds and thousands of people were reduced in
their pecuniary affairs utter desperation and by
OF The disruption of all party associations, or to
speak more properly, by force Of the meretrcious
alences o. fiction, savage whoop echoed through
our land, and change was the watch word-change,
change, the cry; but against all these aad other
Vaccinations, the vtuous f,eemen OF this land stood
firm and steadfast, till the aconquering influence Of
domestic bank notes and foreign gold invaded the
hal nj hoy MI Qpf a
w'i OF 81 millions of freemen. But that kind Provi
Gehce, whose eye 10 at all times nerposed IN
our behalf and caused the scales Of and decep
ton TO ia from the peoples eyes, that they now
view win just indignation, only the loaihsome
mummeries Of their incantation but the sill more dan
gerous illusions Of Wing duplcity and intrigue; and
yet there not fe@ Of those very men, who in 1910
were open .mouthed IN their condemnation of our
cause and most vtuperatve in their ascrio,ons 10 us
Of impure motives who have the audacity now 10 dc
tate in tones of menace the action of the Dsmocra ratio
party in the selection of our candidate.
Others may pursue their own courses, and seek 10
advance their particular favortes by such the
think fit. They may institute com PARSONS, they ma
appeal the fears of the tmid they may operate on
the cupdty Of some and suborn Others but the grea.
Democratic Republican party is neither TO be ntmida-
ted nor purchased.
There be doubt but that the principles of De-
moc'acy would be entirely safe in the hands of any
OF the aspirants whose have been used; always
excepting Mr. John Tyler and his Cabinet, who deserve
not the confidence support of any party composed Of
honest But there considerations Of no small
weight which when properly regarded must point to
Mr.. Van Buren,; who, above all others at the present
crisis and under existing circumstances, stands preem
nently entitled 10 your support
Does faithful and unfnching devotion to the princ-
pies of State Rights through long life of varied en-
Payments, give man claims 10 popular confdence?-
Then you have only to trace Mr. Van Buren, through
the State Senate of New York. and The Senate of the
United States, and the Office of Governor, and that of
Minister to England and Secretary of State AID though
i1st not least through the ordeal of the Presidential
Office, to devotion TO Virginia principles which no
man, dead alive, has ever exceeded.
isiia passport to your Affections that man has been