Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-07-30
MOST MAGNIFICENT rAILrEE

The Howard Grove Wing District Convention,
which was expected ~ the sancuine Wings 10
have been the most briilian, popular asscmbla@c
OF tho present campaign has met and gone and
the Democrats are not vel "lii!cl OIL The ho-
nest Wings concc;lc lite have been 4 failure -
The finest Orators of he whole Union (>wec2ing
tom Delaware TO the Mississippi were }roaliScd
IL IT, in attendance in ou!cr la ;.tfaci mighty
ihlong; iul, ike the Wing promises OF 1910, Ms
TOO ended in disappointment. livery appliance
Was set in operation 10 collect Grove, Il mater
ed not of what materials il was composed: hu'
the evil geLins of Whi@9c'y disturbed al Their
enthusiastic arrangements. The X. WI is ii>ell
does aot claim more than 1900 persons III attend
ance, and that loo in Si.tt Il the vey Gibraltar oi
Nhigeery, and in 4 "Whig" District of ~ or So
900 souls. From wha, "" have learned from i'm
partia! men, Wings ana Democrats however we
are fully justified in putting Tie numlcr al 900
rs the Largest in attendance al any ore time: and
oil these. large proportion were boys, Demo
crat>, &c.
On Thursday the Convention VIZ addrcs-ei by
Mes>r> Leigh, (PrcSicni,) V. w. SoGIhail o.!
Alhcmaie, e. J. Fau,nncr 81 Berkeley. and
Bots These speahers require $50 comment
from us--thcir "pccgliar opinions" and style Of
orator. are sufficiently known 10 the people of
Virginia Mir Bots We learn threw himself into
DELEGATE the Ion0y ui carving oat the iaclious
movement OF the Clay Club Clique in resja,n.
n Convention of lie PccIIc whose privilege il
has hitioto been understood 20 he. 10 assemble
peaccablv nicA aud tr.crc M,B choose, TO set forth
heir grievance We duuhi whether the Civ
Delegate will allow Nh bons 10 divide The
credit with him. t'r is the true originator of
the grand cony Tc'ot, and his Al!as>houIders
are. in his own opinion, bread and strong
enough 10 bear the mountain weight oil The re-
SponSibillv he has ASSUMED. There Is ore
subject however. which tie City Delegate IS.
doubtless willing 10 divide with othe'S-Nc
simply audc 10 the invitation 10 J. e. Adams To
n public festival in Virginia. At the close of The
proceedings. NJ Leigh announced that Mr. w.
g. HiveS would address the iEmc9Se mRhlf"@e on
Friday aml he kn"w that the orator would !c re-
teiyed with delight. This sounded strangely iroln
the lips oi Mr. Leigh. who, Il few weeks since.
had riGiculed Mir Rivcs' speech rs being three
fourihs for the Texas Treaty. aud oncAonrth
against il. But Mca Mr.. RivcS had not taken
tie pledge 10 Clay and his Federal PRINCIPLES.
On Friday, HE Orator Of Castle Hi! mace his
best Partisan bow To Richmond audience. He
icl, that he WAS speaking not So much for Mr..
Claws election. as for kS owa 10 the Senate next
winter Il was amusing To witness the graceful
twi>,incs and elegant manduvrcS, ~ which he
gradually and dclcatcly Sided from his good old
Republican principles 10 the present odous doc
lrincs oil lie modern Wing and old Federal par
~. He thought 10 cover up by his dcX,eroGS
movements the disCraceinl step from ono sci Of
principles 10 their very opposite. Bui it would
not iol All his sophi>lry, all his fine words conld
not keep down the contempt which the leaders
felt for the traitor. however mGch they rejoiced
in the treason. (TboSc memorable words were
ringing through the CoorS, and around the very
rosrlm from which like another Beial, he was
distling his prccions cloqnencc J In vain he
hatiercd them with the Inons.Tuus discovery.
that tie present Democrats, with whom he
has always acted, are the old Fodcrali>s,
and that he modern Wings ere the true Re-
publicans. TIE Wings, IN listening TO his
iropes AMI figures too plainly saw tht Mf
was Il, the bottom Of all his patriotic phrases,
and. 10 ms sorrow and modification, MIR. Rivcs
will find ont that his game is desperate one
Tie high Office oi Senator is destined by the
Wings or somc thorough-going Fcdcralist, not
for a reccn, traitor TO his principles. Ilthey sue
coed iii making a Senator (Which we have no
idea they will be able 10 do,) the claims Of w {.
Rivcs Will he laughed TO scorn and he will have 10
retire to ca site Hill 10 brood over his voateG prin-
ciples ami his desperate but richly ncri'ed fate
His rccaIiation of Democracy has come too late
He has too often taniazed and deceived ihcN higs
They vii now use him fer their own purposes
bu when the day of reckoning comes round, he
will be thrust aside for some more lucky rival
and he vii repent in sach-clcih and ashes, ior hav-
inr aimed blow at the principles which ne de-
I rived from he lips Of Mr. Jefferson himself We
Shall not follow him through al his sophiSry end
ridiculous special pleading But we shall briefly
allude to hi, crouching atulation of Henry Clay,
whom he oace openly denounced rs dictator
| This portion oi lis long address was alone SUN
cient 10 rob Lin cfai his once tairialne. No slave
was ever more iawninr npon his tyrant master
than was W. Rives upon the modern ''Dic,a
tor" He almost licked the dust from the soles o
his feet. He had tie bad taste &c play the actor anC
Ia exhibit his peculiar fitness for Wing associa
ZION by indugng III their iavore aumbu"s II
presented 10 the audience large portrait OF Cha,
and snail ore OF James X. Polk, and for
lone while dwell upon their respective piMsic0
advantages. lie made Ont James X Polk a
physically more hiceous than the crooked bacl
ryrant' OF Shakespeare He described him
coming into the world mol halt made up" rob
bed Of his fair proportions" and such stuff. Thi
comes with IN excellent grace from such para
ran Of beauty IS the Little Expunger'-hi
Apolc figure gracefully set oil with cork-sole
boots. ouizzng glass. &c Mr. Riyes was guilt
of fatal four pas IN thus touching upon delicat
ground. In his f!atern" picture Of Mr.. Clay
snd his burlesque a Mr. Polk, lie forgot that III
spectators had hire Mcm figure and fact
with which Mr.. Pak's could ut isaa compare
Seriously, is il mol small trick Tor Unite
States Senator thus b stake our national destiDie