Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-09-08

they can spring another Bank upon US, TO rise from
the ashes Of their defunct favorite in Philadelphia,
or something akin TO II, we shall have the honest
currency Of the Constitution, as established by General
Washinglon's law Of 80. Then, will the Constitu-
ton be saved from disruption in one of its fairest parts
the veto power which Washington, the noblesi
of all the Revolutionary Wings, approved, but which
the Wings of our day condemn-atter the principles
Of the widest Jacobins of revolutionary Francs.-
Then, will prohibitory Tariffs cease. Then, will the
public domain be saved; not wasted, as when the fool
in the fable would have killed the goose 10 get all the
golden eggs at once. In short, then will maxims Of
good sense and honesty, OF late years SO deplorabiy
lost sight of in our country, in it's enormous business
transactions at home and abroad, and now indlspensa.
bile TO the restoration of public and social reciitude
throughout our land, as we'll as TO the restoration OF
our character abroad, prevail over the visionary schemes
of our Wing politicians, who out. Herod Herod IN
abuses OF the English credit and corporate systems;
and who, after all, are but the representatives IN this
age, with only slight dimunitions in error and folly, OF
the John Laws OF a former sge.-That the nomina.
ton of General Cass by the Democratic National
Convention, will prove the most certain means OF
saving US from this train of impending evils, and Sc.
curing TO Us in their stead, as full a share of public
blessings and private prosperity, as we could reasona
bly, desire or expect, is, Messrs. Editors, my sincere
belief
These discussions are now closing. ! entered upon
them in the anxious hope of doing good, not by wha,
| should say myself, but through the possible effec,
they might have in drawing others into sim.iar tru'ns
VI hookul anu OCtkC oOS ~ ~
the whole subject. But | cannot close them without
saying something, which to me seems highly appro-
pirate TO oil tina, | have already said.
The melancholy event Of General Harrison s death,
SO soon after he reached the Presidency, throws upon
us for the future the duty of looking we'll to candidates
for the Vice Presidency. Let US take care that ts
are not deceived, as the Wings say they were at the
last national election, though am not going to decide
that point between President Tyler and themselves
For our Vice Presidential candidate, | would propose
Apdrpw Stevenson Here could make no mistake.
The talents, inte gritty, Democratic principles, and pub
lie services of this distinguished V%,rginian, are known
TO the nation. Reared in the school of Jefferson and
Madison, he has never swerved from lis tenets, but
acted upon them with ability and dignity, through
out his whole life. Virginia knows his merit, in her
own councils and p~olitics-and, as a national man, his
career in the House of Representatives as IA member,
and a long time Speaker, place him in the front ground
of that irving branch of the home service-wlllst in
the foreign service, his course as Minister in England
was aliks useful 10 his country, and honorable 10 him.
self. How he batted it for our tobacco trade-how he
fought it out On the slavery queshons-and with what
a manly and brave spirit, though always a courteous
one, he carried himself throughout the North Eastern
Boundary Question, at periods when j, was the most
menacing-and on the "Caroline' question also, until
our Government let it drop-certainly not at his inst'-
cation, as every careful reader of his dispatches VIII
have perceived. do not here recount all that he has
done for his country, or the half-but | cannot with
hold from myself the satisfaction, or from him the JUS
tce of adding, that on the great question Of search, he
led the way in England, by his powerful letters to
Lords Palmers,on and Aberdeen, protesting against ii,
though without any instructions from our Govern
ment. Blu, be acted on The true instincts Of an Anne
rican citizen and patriot-and General Cass IN his
Paris pamphlet, with the magnanimity to have been
expected from his character, took care to render 10
Mr. Stevenson the tribute to which he was entitled.
United while abroad in UNFOLDING the rights, inter
ests, and dignity of their country, as they have been
at home, can you wonder, Messrs. Editors, at my pre-
senting them in the connection | do, as worthy Of the
highest confidence of that country? | desire TO do So
but as only one citizen, though believing that | speak
the voices of many, | would do it %humbly, and with
all Difference to the OPINIONS of others in the Demo
cratic ranks. A VOICE FROM A FRIEND.
August %, 1S43.