Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-04-14
ADDRESS OF TIE REPUBLICAN, CENTRAL COMMITTEE
To Ike People of Iirgiaia.

To Tie People of Ilrgiaia.
! "Frends, once more unto the breach
Once more Democrats of Virginia, we come before
you in assigned character, az vgant guardians OF
your interests, TO rouse you 10 the active and faithful
discharge in the important elections just hand, of
the high duties which you 10 yoar party, your
country, and yourselves -Alomentous Issues affecting
great questions alike Of Federal and State policy and
involving less than the maintenance of the ancient
and Ionored principles of States Rights and RepubI
cnnism and the preservation of the unsued honor of
this proud old Commonwealth, rest upon your abtra
ment and decision. To Virginans, Justly proud of
their ancient renown and Of the principles on which
it established and built up, we deem it not
sary TO repeat the unaHswerabe Arguments, by which
the allacies of ancient Federalism and modern Wing
gerry, founded laud,nous construction of the
Federal compact, and pushed to the extremes of
folly and mischief, have been again and ain ex-
posed and refued. Suffice it to saw, that writing
beneath the natural consequences OF their previous
deceptive policy, opponents have rent The veil
of mystery that shrouded their from the pub
lie eye, and for the first time, for many years, have
ventured TO stand exposed before the people of Vrg
MIA, in the worst habillments Of Federalism, and 10
prefer, for your acceptance, measures which might
well have startled their ancient prooypes-the sap
porters Of Hamilton and Adams themselves. That,
odious system of affiliated measures, each planted
| on usurped power not warranted by the Const,u.
ton, and designed by partial legislation, to foster IA
vored, monopolsing and mutually dependant, inter.
ests, a, the expense aud labor Of the whole; the
Bank;he Tariff cor protection, not revenue-and the
| odous Distribution scheme, stand avowed and
advocated. Nay, mo:e; under the influence OF doc.
trnes asserted, tie fearful scheme of assumption
! OF millions millions Of State debt though at present
disclamed perhaps be dlscerned by the president
eye, 10 lower IN no distant prospective over Us.
10 National -7-T, what say We, Fellow Citizens,
still suis you are, from the ruinous fluctuations
and ~oated issues Of that spurious paper currency
which il at created and vitiaed-st!i bearing IN
fresh remembrance, lis daring for the powers of
your own Government against yourselves, and your
appointed agents, Legislative and Executive, and bn;
now startled with horror and disgust al the fou drvcl.
opmen,s Of that whiiened sepuchre far 10 outward
seeming, but when disclosed found 10 be fol! Of rotten
ness and cofruption-the late L. S. Bank. Shall for
these things your oft recorded verdics set aside and
reversed We trust not What change can our oppo.
nents has your prime pies and conyc-
tons, that they should expect you ne yer false to true
national interests but always first in the maintenance Of
Southern rights and Southern principles To advocate
high protective Tariff by which your revenue ID crppled
your staples lowered-youf agricultural interest pros.
traed-your necessaries your comforts, and your lux
ures taxed TO the utmost and all that artificial bonn.
lies may stimulate to unnatural growth Northern and
sectional interests, and swell bloated wealth the al
ready overgrown fortunes of Northern manufacturers
To desnate the fair fields and exhaust in profllass
labor the fertile soil of your native South Won canno,
vel be prepared and to immediate yourselves VIM,
property and the us rewards Of your honest ,i,or IN
the shrne, not of patriotism bat oi avors We feel
assured, you must ever remain Interchangeable ovcrse
In the connection and indssoIuble dependence of
the Distribution poilcy-and, should il be ayowed
OF the Assumption scheme-Hith the unjust and mi
quitous Tariff policy, your sagacity would alone d;s
cover sufficient To and reject them R,,
when in addition, you find bold nfracon Of The Con
sttutlon involving the practical absurdly of rasinc
money from the people to pay II back in diminisbed
amount and IN unequal proportion TO the same people
commended to your adoption, under the specious rnsr
Of pretended State Rights measure, should not The
Implied insult to your understandings vain per
suason, that you Will not you are taxed tina; o. N
the proceeds you may be brhcd, that YOU Will bar
ter for promised mess of poagc the noble br.Erjrh
4 OF your glorious Constitution, receive your s,ernes, 70
buke and condemnation;
Bear these things all, we pray you Fellow CITIZENS
wildly IN mind when you 20, all should to the po.
10 record your in the elections for Tho Fad.r
Legislature. They should be the more remembe ROD
and acted on, that Fedora! opponents thouub no
stung by just disappointment 10 the unwon,ed cando
OF avowlng these their measures have with some th;nc
OF their former dsingenuousness and dclus ve ,rsc,
sought to withdraw from public observation ,bcr of
prescribed principles Of Federal policy bv unfoundor
canors and extravagant outcries ugains. rccen, mo,
sures of State Legislation. That thew may dis,roc,
attention from the glazing mlsdeeds Ola Wing Congress
they deny loudly and passionately the lust and in
dsPensabe measures of Democratic Legislature. and
that they may screen their immaculate sclve. Tho,
would cas-! all manner Of odlum your trusted
For thus at once seeking to cover themselves md r.
manufacture ("hat they so much needy little m
,ical capital, we may pity bu, shall nat rebuke them
Satisfied with the wisdom, necessity and justice Of oul
principles and measures, State no less Than Fade,,l
bu, thank them for the opportunity their clamor az
fords of placing the former, av of, the latter
distinctly before You, and shall proceed 10 display on
refulaon of their charges asans, the late Democratic
Legislature.
u One harped on with unceas;np clamor is the al.
lodged unreasonable duration of the las. session Tha
a Democratic Legislature, engaged The while in sedu
ous attention to the business OF The State actually con
sumed two more days than the Hing Legislature o
j lSi0-Il, and three more than the similar BODY o
lSll-42, is doubtless crime of deepest dive. and
with Wing Judges, would merit lockwood instce--
hanging FIRST and trial afterwards We believe, how
ever, they woud be found accessories to the crime
and deserve equal punshmeut-for surely we hazart
nothing in saying, that many cfeir crude schemes anc
needless speeches consumed far more than the might,
period of two or three days. la soberness, however
such recriminaton is not needed The last Legislature
were charged with many important subjects, some o
constitutional obligation, out of the course of ordinar
Legislation.
We may cite as illustrations, the case OF judge
Scott which itself consumed the two or three day
complained of-the Federal Apportionment--at task o
no less difficulty than dellcacy which recurs bu, onc