Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-02-06
RICHMOND, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 6.


IA Clay paPer.l
,he ,in,e is drawing near, when the dividends on The
American stocks becoming due, nsay every paper nrd
i' nnrr or rss v!luperaon 81 Government american
w., sand, very Indeed And who travel abroad feel
, yrry scusty sr hourly lear eounif,nen ield up
20 nu, rorn ;tle better tn >wind'es p krche's ave
II i vain point the proud od honin" ann
,i ,nen, how as taxed her e.el 10 maintain hef iah
sacred aud nyat That base d,s.'nor nccr y'. hi'e"
Iii them has viuaed engagements Il II IN van,
totrl Them the injustice Of holding oil guilty Tor u. suns :"
few They will mol separate or distinguish lhel M e ,
VOWED in disgrace For honor has hcen ost ap
beautifully compared to '. ssy press
on rhl therefore, like t@sar wife, To be above suspciol
AID yor should that legislator who would taie leopard
-, s,c,edness be written on Tie sub
ieci than the example of our own country
And if "the proud Old Dominion" can hold up her
head among the highest; If "ease dishonoi ne or
blurred her name, who has RICH, TO claim the ere
dit of ii; Who, but the Democrat party, with Tho
mas Jefferson Randolph (the Chairman OF the Com
mi,tee on Frnencel who CALAMITY threw them-
selves into the breach during the session OF lSi2 III
vino "axed her citizens TO maniain her inilh hV'o-
la,e," Who dared 10 assume the responsibility =
who dared To impose new taxes, and upon the new
md admirable princnle Of taxation according 10 alb
Lty TO pay? The Republican party And who re-
slated and voted against that important bill Inc
whole Wing party of the House; SAVING only Three
-one of whom, tue young and talented Frazier oil au-
uus,a was prescribed the Spring elections by his own
6ariy-and neither Of whom has since returned TO the
House? Who was it that attacked the kepuOiican
PARTY for The passage of this law q; The next Spring
campaign The Wings Who made II the chief @ea-
non of warfare against the Republican party al the
oolIs md SOUGHT 20 .'shove them from their stools
bv strunce III presentations O.; some OF us Prov.
sons aud By open-mouihed elanoFs; ihahEs 10
viituors ard enlightened people they stood by the
cEamrinns Of the State Honor, and returned us ma
jorily Of IL in The House, ana secured Us majority
of : in the Senate.
No man can look back without the deepest emotion
upon that important campaign, on which, on the one
side we're arrayed the men who had vo'cd Tor 'he ak
bali and on other those who had -opposed
IT. knowing as they have done tina. Tax DILL had
been tried in vain in various FORMS and that 'lis was
the only form in which it was likely to succeed No
man can the struggle between Inc parties, III !he
enactment of that b-can see the responsibility wh'ch
the Republicans assumed in spite OF the Nhgs-or
can calculate the important consequences ot the mea-
sure without feeling what is due 70 the Republican
members, with T. j. Randn PHI at lie head OF them
But it s the felnw citizens oil our State, that have
visited Europe, who best appreciate The value OF
the achievement |, men, Ike the writer OF this let
ter-i, is men, who were Mtn rbroad and looking with
anxious ewes TO the movements OF our Legisature-t
IS men Ike Arthur Bernard OF fredericksburg, who
when addressing the Democratic Convention on FRI
day morning, declared with what wlsttul eyes he had
watched the course of the Legislature OF the Old Do
minon In language which we are unable 10 rival in
beauty, or 10 repea. with precision, he said, he had
turned his xous upon his native State during
he struggle: and he saw Virginia emerging from the
cloud which other Slaes had thrown around her. He
saw her venerable form with hand repeliing with
scorn the dstrhutabie largess which the General Co.
yerpmcn, had offered 10 her nccessous Treasury, and
with the other hand freely imposing those taxes upon
her own people which necessary to preserve her
own homer The spectacle one, Of which one
could have adequate conception, who was not d. that
in the land ct captious and suspicious foreigners
Thank Heaven she came out from the !ery t'iai, not
only unscahed b. It's fury, but with her high repu,a-
ton still more highly frightened by the struggle.
The letter il the Granville Reporter supplies US
with another extract, germane TO the times, aud cal.
culaed to sci oil the Republican Party in contrast with
the Wings This talented and animated Correspond
touches another topic in strong aud eloquent terms
"rhe Governments Europe The past; Emitted
They have passed The zenith Of their
glory hut verging 10 manhood They The
who's. locks becoming grey aud whose fur
with wrinkles. We the giant just becoming
of his enet and though he ovrcap The bounds
prudence and he guilty {" eXcesrS Tine viii correct the
'sTlr Baron Rothch has proclaimed United
cannot 90 without the aid o; European capitalists
fairs of Government with monet institutions of any kind f.
abG Bcnk Of The Easd Sieic, lei the Government b. depend
II will become involved IN the monetary affairs
other countries and upon rs prosperity aud ability 10 afford
expansion II the currency here r0ad then Immediately
gsei eoratr sub all Inc eriis fluctuations
ana CraHsc raca you'd be produced 6g HE hunters
Of MS country. LIT ,- free in hi, rpsct,
nirpcndcnc (Tie,e indeed just aud manly sentiments
Ici reduce Iar 10 tie Unrest possible gGrd
sgtR: iOs,a hi.n iai. hot only acts Eiurosy
consumers 10 whose les, alone, Adam Smith says ess
importing merchants our merchant sends his order to England
To huy Goods: his agent e.r supplies him. ls his orders and
charges per charged in the amount
Of goods; his !uvncc aud lac pays this high
the whole Tho English shipper this
The be, his tariff ouy the orcina,
Of the goas and Is thus enabled 20 undeseIl Importer
Ties Is desircy'Eg r"uroes and Shipping and vsa ah
Jd iHissiy eR TIRE greai Country
(Thrse, too jus, aud excellent scntimer;s.)
sin connection with this suJec would indeed we'll
the great extent Of coast would aCHil nf it, adop the
Warehouse System. let the goods there sold, aud
The purchaser wishes 10 take them !en
paid The present; system ut cash duties throws the importing
of ru;ny The large dealers
The gonds have 10 be paid Tor with cash and Then cash duties
quire amoun or capital which few in country
The small dealers tins driven oii OF The trade.
whole cannot At once he Disposed Of
Yes-lel US have no National Bank-none but Re
venue Tarf-so says this intelligent writer at the focus
of the great market Of the Commercial world Lion
doD)-and say we-but so do not say Henry Clay
and The Wings, land as we understand, the Danville
Reporter itself, though il is journal which seldom
see 1.-The Whigs are for great National Bank. AZ
ter they had dsavowed IN the Address of $40, issued
by their Stale Convention in this very city, the inten
ton of Gen Harrison 10 go for Bank, do
they call the Extra Session Of lS4l than they opened
their shameless budget Of measuIes-a bank law
bankrupt law, distribution of the land fund, and Of
consequence, augmentation of The Protective Ia
rifand they who had prescribed prescription in 1910
came forward to prescribe 600 poslmasers in Il few
weeks, and in few weeks more would ha prescribed
1000 more So sacred the pledges of the leading
Wings, and so well do know, from the expe
professions in 1874, compared with their practices in
1913 Contrary 10 the earnest advice and solemn
slunces ofihe Correspondent of the Danve Reporter
the Wings row bent upon a National Bank, with Il
capital al least 80 millions. And they too are the
adv ocaes oil Protective Tariff. Oct OF the rlcu,
therefore, oil THIS talented Correspondent we condemn
them.
In the name Of wonders why does the Editor of the
DanyIle Reporter, couple IN the paper, his own
crude suggestions in favor of Protective Tariff with
the luminous Recommendations of his Correspondent
Hear now The Editor Guam gno interrat0, indeed
"7Ae Tarig and The Democratic Naoryia Congress.
s'T6c Richmond Enquirer aud other leaders the Southern
Democracy (wo, by the better skilled in the sublime
of Hbnstry than Facon himself in the practice
Of his Segh of hand tricks ole Ruiz in The u the horse
hair denounce the present rate of duties the abominabe
budrnsome and oppressive Tariff Of lsia' These It'll many
other equally significant and pocntous coupled with
that Of Wing Congress- and constantly parad9 before the
pie rghen iAcm from their prepry aud induce them
CRUSHED author trho Ge>errc ne hands otia
IF his country he ceca support eiL
uniformly girea Their lest interests, any all oppo-
together.
"If this Tariff Isi2 indeed in burdensomc
nd oppeSsirc' Thing which these auI Draa".ucs represent
would like informed by Mr.. Rtche
of Indignation should be visited Do.ooie md his De-
ratio allies i'll Congress, who with majority 60 20
side o politics, etSe redacc any dis
tu,b il. Tell US, Sir Oracle, do"