Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-08-08

now the PRIMER or the JeheTsohidH. IL
was published by him, clipped from the
paper by Mr.. Rives, and by him en-
closed to Major James Garland Of
Lynchburg, with the request that he
would procure its appearance In the
Lynchburg Republican, then edited by
Bennett Nj. De Witt, Esq. By him al
so it was accordingly published and ed
itorially endorsed. When Mr.. Rives's
letter to Senator Fontaine appeared, it
was denied i'll some Wing papers that
the editorial of the Jeffersonian and
Lynchburg Republican were author
lied. This threw the respective edit
ors of these papers on the defensive;
and in Justice to their own characters,
they made these disclosures-disclo-
sures which prove as deliberate aban-
donment Of principle as ever politician
perpetrated. Every word tells against
him; and by printing the article in the
Democratic journals through the State,
he can be fully exposed wherever he
shows his face.
Since writing the above, we have
seen in the Richmond Wing an account
ola celebration at Mechanicsville, Lou
isa, in which it is said Mr.. Riyes made
an explicit declaration of adhesion "to
eveyy Wing doctrine and principle, and
Henry Clay as their impersonation."
The Wing, regretting "much that
no Democratic orator was present, "
hopes "they do rot mean to bcchc out
from these discussions altogether"
thereby creating the impression that
| they had backed out in this instance.
The Wing is mistaken or mislnformed.
We were invited to Mechanicsville
| along with another Democrat, and de-
clined to go, because ace acere refused
permission to haze M. Rires aasaoered.
Mr.. Rives threatens to go to Texas
should Mr.. Polk be elected, to escape
the degradation of his administration.
High language from Mr.. Rives! The
country will not mourn his departure:
NIX. III V Els.
owe noticed last week what seemed
to US very preposterous story, de-
rived from the Winchester Republican,
about Mr.. Rives, intending to support
Mr.. Clay for the Presidency, ifhe should
be the candidate of the Wing party, and
intimated our belief that the story was
without foundation. The Lynchburg
Virginian demands of US, achy we be-
lieve 500 We might well retort the
enquiry, and ask how it is possible that
any rejecting person, who reasons from
cause to effect and who will look at
Mr.. Rives's public acts ever since the
Wing party have been in power, can,
for moment, suppose that he can CO.
operate with the Wings in their sup
port of Mr.. Clay, and in the system of
policy his election is designed to carry
out? Has not Mr.. Rives, in the Sen
ate, voted against the whole series of
favorite Wing measures from first to
last-the Bank, the Bankrupt Lar,
the Tariff, unconditional Distribution,
the .Mandomus act respecting the mode
Of election in the States, and all the
rest' Has he not been personally and
prominently pitted against Mr.. Clay,
in the conflict of debate, on almost ev-
cry one Of these questions which now
constitute the avowed policy of the
Whigs' With what consistency, then,
could he CO. operate with the Wings in
their selection and support Of candl-
date for the Presidency to carry out
these measures, or with what color of
reason can any candid man intimate an
expectation that he will do so. Mr..
Rives Las always profeesed to be gov
bred by principle, and by Republican
principle, in his public course: and
though, from opposition to Mr.. Van
Buren's system of policy and admins
tration, he acted in the last Presiden
tial election with the Wings, to effect a
change of administration, which he be-
lieved had become necessary, he did
SO, openly declaring on every occasion
his undated attachment and adhesion
to the principles of the old Republican
party, and his opposition, especially,
to the Federal creed of a National
Bank, high protective Tariff, &c, &c.>
which the Wing Convention of Virgin
Ia, in their address to the people of the
State, at that time equally denounced,
and vouched for General Harrison'S
principles as being in like manner OPP
posed to them. But the doctrines and
measures, which were then condemned
and disowned, are now openly avowed
as the objects of pursuit, and the tests
of orthodoxy, ofthe Wing party. tits
impossible, that Mr.. Rives, without for
feltlng all pretension to that consistency
OF principle of which he has always
claimed the merit, can cooperate with
the Wing party In their selection and
support of a candidate for the Presiden-