Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-10-31


head officers would be- not TO share in the great excite.
ment and the violent turmos of the agilating cam
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cuated gratis to the people of Virginia at early day
| A DEMOCRAT OF RlCHM OND.
Saturday night, Oct. %, hall past ii O'Clock.
FOR THE ENQUIRER
| TO THE PUBLIC.
! l lately announced TO you, that the Mill Boy was
coming. He makes his appearance, and my vo-
cations gone. You have always admired his great
natural gifts He will surprise you with his
learning. | hand you his circular and make my bow
| Exit. HERALD.
THE MILL BOYS CIRCULAR.
| Fellow Citizens 81 am a practical statesman. |
loathe and detest distractions and absractionsts Pc
,ica philosophers have been the pests and dis
turbers of society. Revolution IS in their BREATH and
agraranism follows at their heels They would up
turn aud destroy every ancient and honorable instu
ton and erect ephenera topa in their stead, 10 be
speedily succeeded by anarchy, boodshed and agrarl-
ansm Not year passes, that these speculative De.
mocratic absractonlss, despite The opposition oil the
Wings, do not remodel some State Constitution. To
get rid of mere theoretical and imaginary evils, they
do moi hesitate to agitate and convulse society, and
oberate every feeling of respect and veneraon among
the people for their rulers We live in evil times The
reaction that followed the French Revolution has sub
sided and The skeptical spirit OF philosophy, and free
INQUIRY which led that revolution, again stalking
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sons md disastrous change. France a smoudering
volcano The mad spirit of Democracy, ignorant and
] untameable, is al its bloody work in Spain England
reels and staggers with the internal commotons Of her
radicals and charsts. Her conservative Ministry have
given in their adhesion to the doctrines of the phoso
piers and thus signed their own death warrants
But single CLEAN of hope shoots athwar this black
and mad HORIZON, aud that CLEAN radiates from the bo
som of the Church. A Rehgionis,, (Martin Lu,her,)
BY asserting the right Of private judgment, and propa
eating the spirit OF free inquiry became the author of
all the civil dscord and revolution that for than
three centuries past have drenched the world with fra
tenal gore. As churchman set this ball in motion,
twas but right that churchmen should stop its fatal
progress 1t reserved for Oxford, always ds,In-
gushed for her Loyalty and sound conservative doc
,rines-aways opposed to change-always adhering
pertnaciously TO antiquity, for antiquity sake, and
admitting slowly and reluctantly improvements and
discoveries in The sciences, reserved To Ok
ford to embody into consistent theory the principles OF
conservatism, and to wage exterminatng war against
philosophical inquiry Doctor Pusey and the other
Tracarans OF Oxford, the great champions of Or
der the pillars of European legitimacy and of American
] Whigrery They deny the right of private judgment
They teach the people to look with reverence TO their
rulers, to appointed by God 10 govern them, and
never to attempt 10 the of their conduct,
or question the proprety of their acts They justly
and Indignantly rebuke that inhdel and slnsculotc
spirit, which tempts the TO neglec, the humble
labors for which they intended, and interfere IN
affairs Of State, about which they profoundly Ig
norant.
Rely upon it, fellow citizens, must incucae doc
trnes like these among our people, or the Abstrac-
tioniss einanating from the schools OF Fanny Wright
and Thomas Jefferson will excite spirit of dis
organization and agrariansm that will produce bloody
Revolution. Thomas Jefferson On Abstractionlst
Of the vlest kind, philosopher of the French school,
| He has based our institutions on magazine of gun
powder-or, distractions, like those contained in the
Declaration of Independence, are more explosive than
gunpowder itself
Martin Van Buren,, too, is an abstractonist Of the
New York, Fanny Wright, Loco Foco denomination
He is political philosopher, and his messages and let
tiers replete with philosophy and political economy.
Nero fddled whilst Rome was burning! Van Buren,
did When at the extra session of 1887, the PEG
Pile, in great distress, called the Government for
help, he Knocked al their calamity and gave them phi
losophcal dispositions instead OF pecunary aid Nay,
he sou ght to bring the Government itself into dsre
pute with the people, by representing it useless
and powerless thing, that could administer relief
to their distresses and rebuked them guilty Of
seryile spirit for invoking lis assistance His philoso
ply lost him his election for, the Wings in the cam
paign of 40, made issue with him this very question
of the power OF the Government TO relieve the pecu
mary dsiresses Of the people, and ousted him from Of
fee. will quote this passage from his message; first,
because Van Buren, and the Democrats at large, still
tender the ssue and, secondly, to coate it with
similar passage from Macauly, an English Liberal, 10
show you that this dangerous spirit of innovation and
philosophy is now pervading The world, and threaten
ing to destroy all social order:
aThose who look to the action OF this Government,
for specific aid to the citizen, TO relieve embarassments
arising from losses by revulsions in commerce and
credit lose sight OF the ends for which it created
and the powers with which it is clothed. 1t was es
,ablished to give security ALL in our lawful and
honorable pursuits under the lasting safeguard of Re
publican institutions. 1t not intended TO confer
special avors individuals any classes of them
to create systems of agriculture manufactures or
trade-or to engage in them, either, separately, or in
connection with individual citizens, or organized asso
Citations If its operations were TO be directed tor The
benefit Of any class, equivalent favors must, in
JUSTICE be extended 10 the restand The attempt TO be-
stow such favors with equal hand even TO select
those who should most deserve them, would never be
successful All communities apt 10 look to Go.
v.rnment for too much. Even in our own country
where it's powers and duties strictly limited we
prone do so, especially at periods OF sudden EN-
barrassment and distress But this ought not to be-
The trainers OF our excellent Constitution and the
people who approved it, with calm and sagacious debe
ration, acted sounder principle. They wisely
Judged that the less Government nerfered with pri
vae pursuits the better for the general prosperity
is its legitimate object TO make men rich or to re
pair by direct grants OF money or eg'sat'on IN favor
of particular pursuits losses not incurred in the public
service This would be- substantially, TO the proper
ty of some, for the benefit of others. But its real
duty -that duty, the performance OF which makes a
good Government the greatest Of all human blessings
70 to enact and enforce system of general laws com
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establishment and TO leave every CITIZEN and every
,erest reap under lis benign projections The rewards
of virtue, industry, and prudence.
| Thus spoke Martin Van Buren-and this 10 Phoso-
ply and Free Trade, with vengeance Let no one
dare 10 say here that he is friend of Protective
Tariff. Yet, common opponents have had all the
poverty, and poverty begets authors. The Oxford
Tracts the only readable books that directly take is
sue with the Observation-Disclosures these tracts every
good Wing ought to read, and disseminate as widely
as possible.
am now fellow citizens. the only practical states
in the world the Only man at all known to fame,
who has not more CT less acceded to the silly abstrac
,ions Of the political economists Daniel Webster has
shown the cloven foot talks Of commercial treaties and
cargoes of provisions sent TO England and Sir Rober,
Peel is fully committed against The policy of dscrmlna,
ting duties. The French Ministry are mere set OF
erati and philosophers, and, of course no statesmen
The "le, alone system of government, SO admired by
Buren,, has long since been taught in all the Unver,
sites, and advocated by all the learned men, Oxford
hold oc,,n,, ,ha ,yo,orn