Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-26

o,o, bos tao much OF the good sense which belongs
10 the wise statesman, to fall into MIR Cays blunders
He was never indscreet enough irs to make any can
ddnte President and then 10 accept a. his iancs The
hohes, office in his gilt and then to acknowledge that
il would place himself in the line of safe preceden,s to
tho succession MIR Van Buren, has never been so m
discreet as in the very year OF the Presidential cleo
| ,inn whist he himself candidate, to roam over
the country and eectoneer for the votes OF the PEG.
ple- and to enter great and proud State, ike Vn
a;n;s at the very moment when her important Spring
election was depending. MIR. Van Buren, travelled
,brough some OF The Western States, his visit TO the
Hermitage in 1912, when the Presidential election was
not on the tlps, when he was not candidate al all
wben he made no party speech all, during the whole
or h,s tour and when, therefore, he coureously
,eceyed by all parties.-Mr. Clay further complains
of our past course, aud we have Intentions to de-
fend ourselves If we did not repubsl his manly re-
ply to the Quakers OF Indiana we regret 1t Ger
iaoIv Il was our intention II do it and it, upon in
.,sc,;no our files should not find the article,
will even now do HIM the justice of repub!ishlng Il
from INV copy which any of his friends will be kind
enough 10 send to u.s. True, "'rom Richie" 1--WE take
no offence the term much greater than either Of
NJ was sometimes called Tom Jefferson and even sold
| Toni was San old juvenile acquaintance" of Mr.
Clay, some two three years his junior. We were
then both States Rights men of the Virginia School,
when he to Kentucky, and remnined IN the Old
Dominion. Phcre we are now, the world must Judge,
when he declared in $780, that he glad the Wings
did no, get the vote of Virginia, for they would
longer be "embarrassed by her peculiar opinions -
| and when we declared then, declare non, that
we take her opinions as the articles of Creed
and the flag of the lagbearer the orldamme under
which we have batIed for 40 years.
Mr. Clay has given Us the sonbfiquet of General
Richie and We have given him the title OF "lhe
Great Eectoneerer, which is as likely to stick by
him az long as the with which be has honored us
fIe has dismissed with solemn invocation 10 the
Deity 10 deliver the Democrats from But who is
it that says gra,uiious curses will fall back upon The
head OF him that utters them Certain il s that the
Democrats do not yet thank him for the prayer he
put up for them II he could only have heard the
of the Shockoe Association of his City Tues
day night; or If he could only have witnessed the
othe Democratic Association Of Pecrs5nrg on the
night, when Messrs T. Rives, Wallace, Branch,
French, &c, &c scahcd his visit to Petersburg, and
his speech, and unanimously adopted an indignant re-
solution against his attack the liberty OF the Press,
and against one of lis humble conductors, he might,
have spared himself the gratuilous Office of Adviser
General to the Democratic Party We conclude these
hasty remarks, with the following paragraph, that we
clip out of the Portsmouth Chronicle
WHAT HE DID THEN HE DOES NOW.
The following Of George f. Badger
North Carolnaune of the reeatiHg Secretaries" o ei II
that Mr Clay the subject OF his discoirsr
sYuu have the Secretary Of Stale challenging To mortal
member of Congress- for daring, IN his place. on III.
examine with freedom and with
You have the
officer fofscul of belongs his high station TIC
rGrHg sph dSSr, and haransue the public
heng Kentucky Pennsyva and Virginia. hoastng of his
ntrepdty and virtue, and dischargng his ma2ny toward
Jacks0n sometimes IN gross abuse ana sometimes IN pOAS Gp
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