Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-11-10

f. - = ~ has IFU UN sVtHc F"F
80, ." ~, we had designed TO pursue IN this ar
wY"s has written, shall, however, stand
'" F., 10 recall it from lis wandering, 10 re
- w = from which il started which wus TIT
Is re- sincere satisfaction at tie broad ant
,'' ,.,<< d: the general issue about to be join
>' ne ,wo great parties of the country. The
s!''" me %seolional Duplicates OF profession, the
49, n and deins,ons, which gave, A
'''. ,,,c,er and direction 10 the election OF lo4o,
go. ~ mantle the country as in on vnst ciouo OF
= 'o-' I'M and midnight blindness. The ffoFos
!. .,,ld alternate with such be w:idering variety
"f' s,s countless resources at n,eianofphnss
''l:' ,,y confessed before our eyes III MS own
o. ,.4,,ss of form-and when once reuucfo
s4 ,L,, oo,nt. If we are but true &" ourselves, iih'
: =, taurtt Shepherd boy OF Tempe, we can
gnu. .i;,nI,y in subiuing h'u TO our will. Tie
4 "1m",vr" which did the best, or rather the
. ,a, he work of 1910, can no more be raised
a n,,c horn has lost us power 10 set all VINO
. y ms ), enchanted dance. 1.-the people were
q j a"'.. Arst,des always called "the JUST"
4 q "'1',ne,.oce hes fully exhausted Itself, and
Il So s,c,ch 10 recall him with reclamation
+ !" ss,roc,sm provided he does not himself re
bis Ir,bsv were tired of the long-pro.
.and,ncv of a party, even though 1t were
y and were willing to indulge that deep.
'""n., of human nature, which IS ever ca.
4 = n.,s,v BY making experiment, tor at least
1 I'm whether there was really any relief
M. in oil the tempting promises and pro-
a 49, of the Wings, from the madaen'ns az
ssnl,,ny from a great national disease tor
: ~" 49, no, responsib,e-ihe trial has been
Gu pa ,,I,.s the Democratic party now justly
n = hsr own misconduct, their own selfish and
k's'' a,,mos.,es. the old confidence to which the
49, -, has reverted with renewed attachment, 1t
2g'' '. before they will be very anxious 10 make
il The Wings could denounce the imputed
~ o,~.,cra.c ofice-holders, and claim for them
-, mai score a virtuous d,sinterestedness OF pa
= abich could not be dlsproved, however dlsbe
4 ,bsr can do so no longer, while the memory IS
Il ''O' =. o,,.n of those days when the earth fairly
n h,g71a,n the worn pavements of Pennsylvania
a. the hungry leg,oas of office seekers shuthed
a bs,,sen the two white houses, TO and fro
q ,bpy swarmed throughout Washington, not
" .sms.ous and more voracious than the locusts
II .srs the last and worst plague Of the land
n r.rc,-when the overtasked horses scarcely
I'D on beneath the burthen of the mail bags
IL, w.h letters of application and entrea
II .et when the s,,ll more overtasked old man
II . m cyii hour for himself, they had succeeded
u ,.s President OF. was driven at last into the
....lm safe from the unsparing persecution. This
a. leas, against the party 10 which time had
seemed 10 have given almost a life monopoly OF
,fs,e. vas exploded within the first thirty days
=. ..i,rned regime and not a few Wings, at the
Il .,.ls then exhibited by their own party, already
,,.s.ssd the disgust of which it was less graceful
q. =. me defeated, 10 be The interpreters. Ii they
lsoounc- The Debt forced upon the administration
.,n.ss no fault OF its own, its huge progressive
.-.o.,,oa on their own hands turns al, these wea
"a. ,,rs arl,ns, their own breasts. The whoop and the
l..a. AZ now silent through the everglades, and
H. f3es' of'Wild Cats IS now comfortably doinesti
w. asv,aj he Father Of Waters. The once terrible
[,.o,o, Armv has vanished like the ghos;ly legIons
n arc sad sill, on dark nights, 10 muster on the
,r,is Ma-s. 20 pass in review before the shadow of a
~. man ma grey sur,out and three cornered hat. The
H., G1!t Spoon has been melted down, and is sup.
~ % Il flowing up the Mississippi. The Bank,
cs 1sses. aud dishonest, have been "rel:eved, and
|. ~arsa, the whole immortality Of the act had been
amq.ed n Is retrosp,etice application, the benefit
l 90 would base attended lis prospective action was
4. s.su.cT Aat the fallacy has been fully proved,
! he expectations ola possible reconstruction OF
L. -ya Ct tie old Credit System, which was to be
| .rat N re ;as rpllcaole way by The proposed
|sa,s af .dn tns.5ar or. MIR. Webster himselfhas set
|may1;ocal Bank as an 'obsolete idea;" and even
tms .,en ~ ~c3optlon was urged on The Vice
RESIDENT. who s'rued I'll the other bills of his party,
aM1 e. first qnarrelied with them only on trihing
49, Of detail IN this MEASURE, Il was very generally
arsd-d mat it woult not have been possible to get
/ ,,ark subscribed. so as 10 carry II into execution.
?be rsre between the two parties IS now, therefore,
JARED Of all the entanglements and perplexltes IN
lca 4. vas involved by these and various other CUES
7aS. snch were complicated into il the last time
fns selection is 10 be, more than any which the country
h, witnessed for a long period, one Of general princi-
Ne Tn States Rights and the Federal par,ies-,he
g. apostle schools Of limited and Authoritarian con-
E,1cton are now 10 meet in a more simple and direct
a., ,onisn than perhaps ever before since 1900. OF
i- ra=. ilr. Clay IS as complete a representative as
. Q-s, red; The other finds its expression satisfac
IN e'he- II the prominent candidates for the De-
aoc;1ie a9ainstIon. The country is in d condition
en- %. suitable 10 an intelligent and rejecting choice
-: Zen TIE Two Ii it should be in favor of Clay and
II ttlt IS ,acluded in the name of Clayism, then can
BE- 10 pretension that il is not a deliberate and
.~oncgsye Judgment, and that it does not 90 the
ll leng.h of the formal adoption OF a complete
ysen Of principles and corresponding measures
n allegation which could not be made with truth,
5oggh !, aas By Mr. Clay himself, without a visible
respecting the election Of Harrison and Tyler,
y one . Nondescript, and the other a Nullliier. II
: .aoGid be in favor of Clay, then was it all in vain,
al' tie slru. sles were made, which expelled both H.
der anc the younger Adams from the direction OF the
cossrnmert-all IN vain, that BY which General Jack
IN hs reelection, was so gloriously sustained, IN
h. rlcg Of which, his great Internal Improvement
.1 Bank vetoes were the chief measures. If 1t should
. & laTet of Clay, then will the perpetuation OF the
%r,a,g.on, and of the Union, Of which it is the ex'
-e>soq. have received a deeper and a deadlier wound
ban has ever been dealt upon It before.
Fr, 1t viii be the formal, not to say, final, repudia'
ION q the State Rights principle, as the governing
Ge Of Interpretation for the Constitution. Ii will be,
. paaounce, solemnly, that whole policy at an end
, crcIare the country tired of it, and anxious to fall
iuo the old abandoned track of its opposite. 1t
,lle, ,ha, which The triumph of the Wings, in 1910,
VS. no,, for they did not then dare TO venture on such
2 sue, nor to avow Clay as The exponent Of their
i'c pies and n~ediia,ed measures.
lie day Of such On event would be, indeed, the
that has ever yet shrouded the country with
a'a'H'ng for pubic calsmity-for it IS the hrmest con
ton among all our political ideas, that the State
A,is 7r'nc'ple IS the vital principle of the Cons,itu-
= aud 81 The Union, and injury TO the one cannot
j .?eetily 10 sap the foundations of the very exist
90 Of the other.
wy, look only at the fact disclosed by the SIX de-
c''''l csnsuses that have taken place since the adop-
l1 q the Cors,ilution-namely, the increase of our
92..'too at the rate of upward of 33 per cent, within
period Of ten years. What is there to arrest or
% i.;''i this ra,io' Nothing, so long as not only with.
. he borders of the older States ore to be found large
'ie''of unoccupied land, but westward, southwark,
'' ~aor'awart, stretch such vast regions, inviting the
.''jl:ai'on OF the settler. The time is yet too far re
ME At which the crowding Of population within
''i'''sl limits, accompanied by a Malthuslan
'Ssl'e Of numbers upon the means Of subslst-
,'s, car he felt among US, to check the ~rapidity
~ 's already gigantic growth; while in the small! de-
- N which 1t may begin to operate in particularly
- ss'ii-d sections, II must be more than comPen
-'i By The increased relative productiveness, both oil
culture aud all other branches Of industry cessary
lie Iude pendent, too, of the beneficial influence oil
and improving hygiene, and general informa
~ on the laws Of die,eiics, on popular health. And