Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-02-20

f rho = sou,ion belongs entirely Mr. Charles F. Adams
sou Of Mr. c. Adams THIS year we have WING Governor
he resolution in the rernorst received
any sanction from public meetings, resolutions ad
dssses of either of the parties, and you
mich srpr yen be- at hearing Of its adoption II dir
not spring the Democracy Of Massachusetts As there wa
udrnc which uarty Is e.ponsbeblf looking autho Mr.
G. r. qdams-a resoute extreme Whigo the Leg stature
which n,ssed uf which, year, branch under lii
SWAY If Whir and Aboonists, and this year s-and
The fact that Governor Morton did not sign tile resolutions,
Governor Briggs did,
We boldly venture to assert, that every Wing o
the LEGISLATURE of Massachusetts, last winter was
supporter of the principles oil these revolutionary pro
ceedinas With few exceptions, we look in vain t.
the Wings of the North for aid ogans, the fanatica
measure of Mr. Adams Some of the Democrats als'
are not true to the rights OF the South The grea
BODY of the Northern Democrats, on the contrary,
our natural allies" in the words of Mr. Jefferson
and will we doubt not be found ready in time Of need
Their Interpretation of the rights OF the States taes
more closely with that of Southern Democrats
thew are in principle identified with Southern feelings
The Wing, speaking OF the massachusetts, hesou
tions of last winter, says:
:. Those resolutions were sent 10 Governor Nc Dow
ell early in the session, and by h'm Transmitted to the
Legislature, without comment, as lar as we can learn
The Governor and the Editor were, alike silent upon
the OCCASION or the latter, We expected no less il
IS hard for the 'leopad 10 change It's spots but We
not prepared To see movement, 80 usingenuous
on the part Of the former.
The Editor OF the Wing, in making such serious
saults upon the motives OF gen'leIhen VINO have al
east as much interest himself IN Southern institu
TONS should no, have betrayed such gross ignorance OF
facts These resolutions were sent to the Executive OF
Virginia not "early in the session., but as far back
as pr or May last. The Wing ought to have known
better, than that they sent to him 'eary in The
session because the Wing ought to have known,
that they were sent in The first day OF the ses-
sion, along with his Message. Yet it was some time
had board oftb
resolutions, when they came to Virginia We did not
even suspect their exstence-much iess their being
sent in with the Message, unless some tine alter they
were thrown into Congress- Our readers will at once be
struck with the injustice Of this Wing Editor who
CHARGES us with having kept SILENT because the
lutions were passed, he alleges, by i Democratic
Legislature; they will at once the falsy of the
charge, when they bring to their recollection our de
nuncia,ion of these very resolutions which we have
frequently done without consulting the paltry aim OF
making political capital by shielding one party or at
tacking The other So much for ourselves As for the
action Of The Governor, put 1t to the conscience OF
every Virginiau to say, whether this Wing scribbler
has not grossly injured James Mcdowell the faithful
guardian Of Vrgnias honor and rights who is charged
with "crimina neglect Of duty, and with the mise
rable de sign OF creating political capital ut the sacri-
fee of his high and responsible duties. These resolu-
tons were received seven or eight months before the
meeting ofthe General Assembly; they made no impress
SION on the public mind, have shown to be The
in the Massachusetts, Legislature, who passed them, be-
cause they possibly regarded likely to pass of
without excitement and without I'M Jury They were not
discussed in the public papers, and they might have
escaped The critical examination of The Governor IN
his mul,farions engagements previous to the compile
ton of his message Soon after the meeting Of Con-
gress, however, the fanatical John Q Adams threw
them as frebrand into the House Of Representatives
Public attention was aroused TO the danger that might
ensue from their agitation the Legislative Halsthe
press took up the subject, and not behind IN
the fruits of what The Wing calls Loco
tnco Legislature" Then heard nothing of our "si-
lence" The Wing press began by charging them
Il pom the Democrats. We began then to investigate
their origin, and then we stood upon the defence
ne traced the source Of those proceedings to the
son of John @. Adams, and showed them 10 be
of genuine Wing origin, and hence the fife and
fury of the Richmond Wing All this happened, De
fore we heard Of tive amended Resolutions lately pass
ed by the present Wing Legislature OF Massachusetts,
and which were received and sent in by Gov. Nc
Dowell very short time before the adjournment
with message of strong censure. mo news OF
THEIR reception had reached our ears, until they
were read in the Legislature) Since his mes
sage at the beginning OF the session, he had become
fully aroused by the Iactous movements III Congress-
10 the alarming character OF the Resolutions attempt
I'd u be welded az they on the floor OF The
National Legislature-and true fnginian, he took
this opportunity in sending IN formal message,
company with resolutions, not addressed to
the Legislature, but 10 himself, OF denouncing
the fatal tendency of the Massachusetts Resolves
When his last Message was read 10 the House, was
any censure whispered against the Governor or The
Democrats for having attempted TO shield the Loco
foco Legislature" Of Massachusetts Did not the
House and the Senate unite. man, IN the strong
est depunciatIons of the Resolutions Was not the
spirit of party hushed this remarkable occason?-
ind was il not the Editor Of the Wing himself, who
first brealhed into this question, so entirely Southern,
the fatal breath Of party9 We repeat, for the nfor
ntal
Saturday, that firm and true Democrat OF the House
of Deeqnes had resolutions before him. strong denun
catory of the Massachusetts resolves OF last winter
that he consulted two leading Wings Of the House as
to the propety Of acting on them but that they dis
suaded him from it, as 1t might bring on discussion,
leurthen the session, &c Should this fact be doubted,
we pledge ourselves to furnish the of these
tlemen, upon the proper application being made. SUI
flee II that the charge OF making party capital out
of this question back with force TO the Whg and
to Judge from the Liberal spirit of that pnper on this
question: it would not be violent presumption on our
part to suppose that its editor would have been glad 10
see the Legislature adjourn without having acted on
either set Of resolutions, because then il might have
raised the cry with vengeance.
AS the Whig so boldly charges Democratic Co
vernon and Legislature with "crlmnal neglect OF
duty" and with sleeping their resolutions why
does it not turn It's battery of abuse upon the heads OF
s own friends, the Wings of our Legislature, who GER
ainly mustered very nearly as strong as the Loco
Focos:" It the Democrats culPable, the Wings are
much So should have been denounced in as strong
terms; but in that case the Wing would have made
no s'party capital out of it. The game would have
been too losing one, even for his patriotism. We
have never seen a more miserable and fmsy humbug,
and that on question: when the voice OF party should
have sumbered forever.
To show the current of thought with which the
Editor of the Wing penned his most censurabe and
s;noenuous article we shall REFER in word, TO his
ATTEMPT TO prove that the Northern Democracy are no.
Thing "more than the resurrection of the old Blue
Lipht Federalists ," Can single man be duped by
such slang Is il not plain, tina, the niracons OF the
Constitution, which now the darling schemes OF
the present Wings, are nothing more than The mea-
sures of the old Federal party ?ihe same IS substance,
though, from policy, changed in name. The mere
statement Of the proposition of The Wing, is ITS own
refuta,ion, in the eyes of any one who is at all &C.
quanted with the history Of parties in this county
The Federaliststs went for the widest construction Of
the Constitution. Cannot any prove that the pre-
sen, Wings are following closely in their footsteps
But we shall expose lis manGuvres in few days,
with disngcnuous wire drawn on the Bank
of the United States, and all.
Why are the Richmond Wing and the Norfolk He
raid now mute oysters upon the force OF Mr. Cal
houns letter the correctness of cpes, and their