Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-01-23

W.II miubt Mr. Riyes exclaim, if ne had any prnci.
ME or even sense of shame, that such restoration
would be worse than revolution
or Mr. Rives ocn resoration there does not appear
10 be any very serious prospect Eve n if "restoaton
were the most dangerous OF all revolutions, this is a
rendition of hitch we are in no rery great danger.
Blu. Mr.. Rives has another Of his plausible obec-
tions 10 urge against Mr.. Van Buren's electIon-ds
another fruit of the deprecated restoration.
Instability Of the People.
ara, r., ,.u,n Ia The remark already Can any
thing uac deeper the Of Republican insn
tons such spectacle of ievy ana Instability on The part
If Mr Van Buren, Overwhelming condemnation OF his
Administrations pronounced by the a", unanimous voice Q" ,s
government byeword and annt among the nations: In
; IF hoth sides of The political con,rovcrsy-of the friends
veil rs of the opponents Mr. Van their
AGAINST him by such majority before signalz-
,he retreat Of any minister from power and till utterly
UNPARALLELED aud even unapPIoaneu ~ e history :" our
ceyed the vote and ali of these except the small
Conederaey-of The si votes OF The Electoral Colleges
obtained hut Goand of the popular suh'ases majority q"
out of enlightened CITIZENS Of America who
voted the election gave ~ men neeuaeo vs!ae' against
him. yet the face Of this solemn hndns u" 'e great IN
urs of the ody of naonwhie the echo OF the general
,,mn, made IN induce the people
lied and we'll Judgment and in eevang again the
highest office of The Republic the Individual whom tney mao so
deliberately deposed pronounce agnn sentence
of qualification and incompetence upon themselves know not
m what light minds view sch proceeding, but 10 me-
II seems contempois sporting with the sovereign contu
cncy of the counya sheer inockey ahu Insult 10 Tue pupc IN
TINS whole argument is founded on .faise premises
The facts are decidedly against him. Mr.. Van Buren,
was not condemned by the solemn finding of the great
inquest of the naon"-"upon the fullest and most de-
HJerote hearing Of both Ides-"upon their settled
and ,eeu-considcred judgment." Every one who has
studied the history OF the last campaign, knows, that
The whole reality is exactly the OF this picture
The Wings were determined 10 remove Mr.. Van Blu
rem. They were ind ferent about the FOR the
attainment OF their wishes. They selected General
Of the last war TO catch the weak admirers ct m'l
lary fame-and politician of the South to enlist the
friends of States Rights They seized upon period
of general embarrassments to ring with Mr. Webster
the changes upon "Change! Chnnge - They pro
missed relief TO all classes of the community-"bee and
two dollars day to the Misunderstanding accom-
modatons to the nerchintshgher prices to the far
mer. And one Of their orators declared, that the
moment of General Harrisons election, would be the
signal of adding two hundred millions OF dollars to the
value Of their property II is notorou', that the cam
paign was not conducted in the most "debrrate man
ner The issue not fairly made up between the two
parties Most of the Wings refused to spread their prn
cipes before s'the public eye" General Hnrrlsons
Committee even refused interrogalories.-
Other Wings put forth batch of principles, which
they did not really ebtettiin and which were vo-
lated the moment they got into power They de,
clared that their candidate opposed 10 National
Bank. They contendcd, that the question OF high
Tariff was settled by The compromise. They pro-
scribed all prescription. They made no pledges, which
were not ialsied by the acts of the administration,
or by their measures at the Extra Session. which they
had called sin no, haste Unwilling to meet The IS
sues openly fully and fairly before the people, they
substituted low address the for "wellcon-
sdered' appeal to the understanding. They resored
to the vlest mummery enlist the voter, and to siu
tfy the People. We shall not again portray to the pub
lie eye the debnsing spectacle of their log cabins But
Mr. Rives OF the last men IN the nation 10 lax
of deliberate judgments, s'solemn findings, and swell
considered" issues He not only mingled in all their
ries-but he sophisticated Gen. Harrisons OPT
Mons he perverted Mr.. Poinsets militia bill INTO an
Oliver Cromwell Standing Army OF one hundred
thousand men, lie traversed the State, and did
mt blush to expatlate upon such trash, as Mr. van
Buren's gold spoons, which he knew had not been
purchased by him, but by Colonel Monroe-which
he knew not be gold. but merely gilded at iirst
and almost worn away-Amld all these mnmme-
ries and perversons-amd all this cant and ella
NOR with large contributions Of money and the gross
est abuses of the ranking privilege 10 scatter iase
publications through the country, and mIslead the
public mind-and whilst the Republican party in their
oyerweenng confidence did not put forth all their
strengths; and whilst The Wings in Cincinnati, New
York, Philadephis, and other parts, did not hest
tate 10 pipeay and inundate the polls with To-
reign voters, how can any man pretend to say that
we were fairly beaten, and that Mr.. Van Buren, was
properly and deliberately removed We all know,
that, strong the Indignation Of the Republican
party, they determined not 10 "stay beaten but to
man through whom they had been wronged-to restore
Mr. Van Buren,, and 10 redeem the people from the
suspicion OF their being incapable OF governing them
selves AS an able friend OF General Cass has said,
g. agree to what our friends have often said, that il
would be solid triumph to US 10 put HIM (alr v Bu-
ren) back again and beautiful illustration oil the
principles of our Government, IT We could do tt
sU nee coald' We will do Il, or hy-n spite OF all de-
serters
The position of Mr. Rives is, therefore, at with
the common sense of the public. Instead of a re cleo
ton of Mr. Van Buren, presenting spectacle OF iev'ty
and instability on the part of The eonst tuent body,
it would exhibit the effort OF great people arousng IN
their 'sober second thought and throwing on the IN
sdous tricks by which they had been abused Instead
OF its being s'mockery and insult it would be redeem
ing The people from the "mockery and insult to
which they had been exposed III lS40
And in how many ways has not this very spectacle
been already exhibited since le4 MI Rves tells us oil
the number of Statss, and the majority of votes by
which the Wing candidate was elected Why does he
pass over The "speciacle Of instability which they have
since display ed? State after State has abandoned them,
which they carried four years ago against MT van Du-
rem. Maine, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New fo'k,
Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Connecticut, LOUISIANA; &C.
have all been redeemed from the thraldom OF wing
qerv And we have carried more than two to one IN
the House ofRe representatives., where in ISL The Wings
were ping with tremendous maJorities TO tne
ACCOMPLISHMENT Of oil their obnoxious measures. we
have turned the tide of popular sentiment from the
Ia5 oo majority of IS4O into at least 90 900 during the
last wear In Virginia there has been such an I'm
anti TO the public Intelligence, that Mr. Senator Rves
himself would now be sent into exile, from the seat TO
which he was reluctantly promoted by the suifoges OF
the Wings.
But if Mr.. Van Buren, is TO be set aside account
of the votes which he lost in 1910, what shall we
say TO his competitor If the success of the one
would demonstrate the 'instabilIty" of the people,
what should we say of the other MIR. Clay has been
twice defeated. AS the excellent preamble Of the Re-
publ cans of Ptsy states "le and his principles,
have BEEN several occasions, most sgnay rebuked
by the SURFACES of free people He IS the same man
Who, in the Presidential election of 1924, out of "A
States and 26l Electoral votes received 35-in the
election Of 1889, ont of % Stat and 2So Electoral
votes 49, and in The contest of ls40 he set aside
by his own party os unavailable. We confidently
believe that his course, at the Extra Session, has rem
dered him far less available now, than he then was
Again, we would ask, how far this argument OF "in-
stability is TO go Were the people told, in 1900, not
TO vote for Mr. Jefferson, because would be "a con-
temp,uous sporting with the sovereign intelligence OF
the country ?" They might have been assailrd with
a similar slang, because there were sophlss IN those
days, as they are in the present. But who could
have regarded such absurd Positions Let MS pass on
however, another and the last of Mr.. Riyess pre-
liminary objections
Mode of Mr. Fan Buren's Nomination.
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