Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-11-05
oTaE BEGINNING OF THE END"

"THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
This day begins the consu;nma,ory acton oil
the people upon the great issues involved IN me
struggle of parties for the last four years. Inc
election OF 1910 only gave Federalism an oPPor-
,uni,y to show whalit would do, II il could. The
extraordinary session called by Gen. Harrison,
under the influence of Mr. Clay, found the 20
yernment without the head which Federalism had
Struggled into power, and his successor and the
real leader OF the party al war. The event was
precisely what MIR Clay would have made II, II
he had made the destiny for himself. Harrison
and Webster would have taken the control OF their
party OUT Of his hands. Tyler and Webster pro-
, we'd 100 feeble Mr.. Clay dictated all the Fede-
raj measures in Congress, and Tyler and Web
ster were barely able TO foil the principal one
the bank-wh veto; and were compelled 10
Weld the rest TO the dictalion of the man who
akayed their party in Congress. The country,
&erefore, barely had a taste OF Federal policy
Enough, however, TO raise its gorge without being
q ompelled 10 swallow the whole prescription,
(which was intended to put the patient beyond re-
sistancr. The failure 10 accomplish enabled the
country 10 rally, and repel The system OF
measures which Mr.. Clay had devised for
lis ,hraldom The bankrupt act did not sur
yive the abortive Bank year Distribu-
lion followed its fate; and the Internal Improve
men, scheme which began 10 show signs OF lie,
was still born; and the national debt, its concoml-
lant was stitled after It's FIRST years growth
Thus the national policy, which the Adninlstra-
tons OF Presidents Jackson and van BuTen pn'
in train was restored almost entirely, ana Inc
country rospc.cd. No measures OF Federal orr
grin were left 10 EarrasS the Union but the exoroi-
fant Tariff OF lSi2--a measure which taxes the
people forty millions TO supply the Treasury,
when twenty millions are sufficient Tor revenue
and al least forty millions more for manufacturing
bounties when that privileged class OF capitalists
were already ENJOYING under the reduced farm
which preceded that of 1872, higher profits than
any other class Of the community. This day and
Monday will decide whether art, fraud, corrup-
ton and violence can triumph over the pubic
will as evidenced during the last bve years IN OPP
position 10 al. Mr. Clay's measures, and force
that man on the country against whom, during
the last twenty years il has continually express
ed fixed aversion. Ii money, if management,
if every species Of foul eeclioneering and cozen-
age combined can vanqush and control the pub
lie judgment and popular feeling, Mr. Clay may
succeed but otherwise, we conflde IN the ihleiii-
gence, the independence, and the honesty OF the
masses; and, therefore, believe that Mr. clay Is
doomed 10 meet his Waterloo fate on this day.
Friday has, ever since the election OF Harriso n,
been day OF bad omen TO Mr. Clay and his
partv His Bank and other pregnant measures,
had their auspices on this fatal hangman' day;
and on Friday, We think, he is doomed 10 lose
the States ofPenn>ylvania and Ohio-Staes that
Swelled the tide of Gen. Harrison's fortune. IT
these States prove 10 be breakers in the new sea
on which The Federal ship is embarked, IL Is
wreck at once. Mr. Clay goes down, and is Tor
ever lost TO the public eye. No, so with The De-
mocratic candidates Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
even New York may fail them, and Gf the South
and Yves, adhere 10 their principles, with Maine
and New Hampshire they will still triumph
We have strong faith in every Southern State
along the seaboard, including Virginia. round TO
Louisiana, and up the Mississippi, on both shores,
exclusive of Kentucky. These States, with In
diana, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire, and
New Jersey give the President 10 the Democra-
cy, without the grea, States Of Ohio, Pennsyva-
MIA, and New York Two out OF these three large
States we confidently count upon and il this nope
be not DISAPPOINTED, the election will be carried
BY the Democracy by a majority OF two TO one
But fevery prognostic and every flatering eX-
pectation should fail us, the vote of the people so
1ar in the congressional elections makes il evident
ira, the Democracy will have a majority in the
popular branch Of Congress And can Federal
ism look upon the war as ended when such
power exists 10 encounter the already condemned
measures which it preached al the extra session!
Surely not, With the election OF Polk and Dallas
there is an end of our political troubles: the sue
cess Of their adver>aries only rencws The battle.
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