Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-10-06
POLITICAL.
From the y. Y. Z. Post. !

Not long since, fellow entered house in the upper
part of the city, under the prctence OF being dIsr
butor Of tracts, aud carried eff two coaks and
b.ea Almos, all dishonest designs cloak2d uu-
der show Of philanthropy convict in the
State prison, whose letter was intercepted the other
day, desired his friend To get up petition relating TO
Sunday Schools and having obtained few thousand
signatures, to cut them off aud attach them TO petit
lion for his pardon. We remember an instance in
which very pous had his pocket picked by a
ellow who talking TO hun very earnestly about the
new birth
The knaves of the political world are as much at
home in these stratagems any set of men whatever
When you find them seized, of sudden, with fervent
zeal point Of morality, you may take for grant
I'd that they have design IN it.
A vehement zeal has lately bIazed forth in regard
to the payment of the debts of the States Men who
have all their lives been indifferent to the obligations
they under 10 their creditors cool, placid,
contcn,ed debtors magnanlmous spendthrifts, who
hold the maxim of Ralph B,god, in Charles Lamb
Essays, "that money kept longer than three days
siinks;' borrowing wherever they could coax money
INTO their hands, and taking no more thought at re-
payment than the lilies of the field have suddenly
become the great supporters OF pecuDiary faith, have
made speeches against the en"rmty OF being in deb,
and declared that, it they belonged To debtor State,
they would work their arms to The elbows such was
the exquisIteiv chosen phrase OF great orator-and
face all the m'ser;es of penury, before they would s't
down under the ,guominy oi Repudation Journalists,
who have always acted on the maxim OF AncIen, Pts
tol-"base is The slave that plys-can now conceive
Of nothing so proflIgate as The conduct of State,
which neglects 10 pay its bonds. One would suppose,
if he were 10 take their word for il, that insolvency
was some rare, unnatural CRIME, almos, unheard Of
in society, and that they who guilty of il, were
regarded with more horror than they who had committed
par.icIds
While all this ranting has been going on, we have
qu",ly asked ourselves What next, Whose closet is
to h. p!nmdtfed now; whose pocket is to be picktd'
What robbery these preachers Of morality medn :
ting; Wat scheme Of political tnavery is to follow
lh's sudden gush of honesty:
The secret ! at leng, disclosed. These decaimers,
who make insolvency worse Than murder, bu, The
guard of Cost Johnson and his scheme. Mr. John
has JUS, made speech in Maryland, IN which he
his proposal tn charge the debts OF the States
upoa the Treasury Of the Federal Government HIS
speech is published in the National Ineliigencer; the
Baltimore American comes out in defence Of il, and
several Of the Wing presses at the North have followed
in IN, same track.
The plan has evidently been nllame public OPT
Mon regard TO the enormlty of State insolvency by
Concerto appeals ofevery kind, and then, by The aid Of
the feeling excited, carry the plan of pundering
The National Treasury and the solvent States We are
satisfied for the present, with having pointed out The
hypocrisy Of the proceeding: at another time, we NAV
remark upon the arguments with which the scheme is
attempted TO BE- jnst,ied