Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-06-02
be moro than sufficient 10 wear out the preference
- ,ha CIV months between November and May had

which the six months between NoVemoet anu hsy hau
been improved to pfoauce,
49,; ct,ha candidate named from our own State MAR
49,, ". grrry We do not propose 10 e1lend TINS
20 ove the grounds for the preference. The iu-
~ n,esent sufficiently frequent occasions Tor Inc
t;.charge Of lha, duty II enough 10 say u present.
;,I,ss word or 4 feeling OF d.sPaTagement towards
- ~ b,c distinguished and worthy competitors,
~. -. no If them justly be Claimed TO be 'a'
cldc- NJ be,lc, soldier Of the Democratic army, nor
any one Of them present scars more broad ana
or wounds more fresn Us e'eeh'e' u 'ei
of the highest reward r. .,r a;e,;n
rr;shaa sllow citizen, if believed that there would
no one day between this present writing ana the eiec
linn In take place in lS44 when the Democratic Con
ven,on assembled it will be, II It ever assemble, 10
J;nh.r, The high trust of selecting the candidate Tor
pesso n 10 Supported By lis party, would not pre-
, he name rs that Candidate we should Jnst as con
GI,, boleve that his nomination was entirely out oil
The question and that no day which could be named
,pond nroduce it, Indeed, we should, under such CIR
cumsances desire that every effort produce IL might
cease ~ once and forever under the clear CONVICTION,
,b. nomination which should subsequently be regret
tod e;,har nv the members Of the convention making
!, ~ by ,hcir constituents would only bring defeat
unon the candidate upon his party and upon the great
cause of the Democracy, consideration INFINITELY
above and beyoud personal preferences or the elevation
of any fnvorite however deservedy highly esteemed
ConGnnu our view, therefore, to Mr. Van Buren, per
sona noston in this matter and to the mere question OF
nomination we do not straw as to the month,
or the day for the assembling of the convention ana
as we do not desire his NOMINATION unless can DC con
summarized By his election, if could believe that any
ono n,on,, or day would be more likely than another
In los, the latter at the hazard of the former, TO concen'
trate The acton of the whole party at the election by
rendering any particular nomination less certain, mat
would be the month or day we would ourselves select
for the meeting of the Democratic Convention
"a, d,h ol, hen our preference TO
time We do believe in our hearts that every day, Tor
several months past has contributed TO the certainty oil
the nomination OF Mr.. Van Buren,, let the convention
assemble when it may, and that every day which shall
pass until that convention shall assemble, will exert
the same influence upon that result We believe,
if the convention meet, and make the nomination IN
November next Martin Van Buren, will be the MONT
nee and If the nomination be postponed TO May lo4f'
the same nomination will only be rendered the more
certain. Yet we have fears that post ponement may
influence most unavorably the certainty of the cleo
ton Of the democratic candidate whoever he may be,
by increasing The rriaons, already too numerous ana
too sensitive and by converting the first session OF the
next Congress into President making, instead oil
business session.
The elections have already progressed sufficiently to
establish the fact that the Republican party are to hold
the power in the House OF Representatives OF that Con-
gress This revolution of public sentiment, in the lace
Of administration and during It's lrst TWO years.
is the fruit of deep and wellounded disgust hat the
public interests ana the puUIlc
ly and wantony sacrificed, they have been for The
las. two wears to the scrambes of individual and per-
sona ambition, TO contentious between members OF tue
same party for Office and place and power and 10 al
tempted settlements Of Presidential successors Upon
all these points the whole public mind has become ex-
ensiycly akened and Justly sensitiye and the lead
ing OF the Republican party, upon their return 10
power! shall far forget what due 10 themselves, 10
their and to their country as TO fall into these
eyi! examples Of their infatuated Opponents, they may
now read their history and their end with "a much GER
tany as they can that Of the present national admins
tration
Hence il is that we prefer nomination prior TO the
meeting Of the next Congress, that the party IN the
country may present itself in united phalanx, on the
first Monday in December next, its principles avowed
as they are its policy upon all the great national ques
tons marked it is It's candidates to carry out those
principles, and that policy named and declared, ana
its in the Congress left TO the discharge
Of their strictly official duties, conscious OF their re-
united party, and in The performance
Of those marked and plain dntes conscious oil the sup
port and appreciation Of their whole party
Such preferences, as at present advised upon
points, but they preferences TO be yielded 10 harmo
nv if harmony shall require that We de- yield them
We have our preferences 10 the candidate and frank
" avow them, bat shall support, with all The power
we can command the nominee Of the convention, with
nut condition or mental reservation. So have our
preference upon the question of time, and we have
skeched our reasons for H. but, like preference
the candidate, it too is 10 be yielded the judgment
Of that great party, of which are proud to be men,
ber shall override our judgment and name any time as
more preferable.
We had intended to have said few words upon the
further question of the OF eecting delegates for
the convention, bu; space will not permit H. and We
" Ill therefore close, with The single remark, that
are too much Democrats, and State Rights men, 10
wish 10 dictate 10 democratic brethren Of any other
State upon this point, and would prefer that they
should not attempt TO dictate to US, although even here
again will not be behind the foremost in yielding
for the sake OF harmony every thing which be
yielded without sacrifice Of principle