Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-05-17
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eve have Mr. Van gurens explicit declaration, that lie would
carr, into the wishes of may of the people Of The e1-
tine states consi,uonay and soemny expressed through
their in Congress Contrast tins with Mr. Clay
declaration hostility annexalon long ~ respectable and
portion people oppose and what man in his
Will hazad the assertion that the friends Of Texas can
tain nothing supporting Van Buren, IN preference To Clay
Who that any regard his reputation Will hazard the
assertion, these gentlemen take equally strong ground
against admission OF Texas into our mon:
ain this beg leave 10 notice some movements at
Washington and Richmond relative 10 The Presidential question:
Ia the proceedings the meeting oil the Richmond
Democratic Association, Wednesday the lst instant, publish,
ed another column w be seen that Mr. hlcne inoducea
no that body the proprety of relieving the
Baltimore Convention from the instructions winch
now ten leaving them To the exercise of sound dscre-
on To instruct te ftey deem expedient !" DO So
of Virginia IN favor of men known and pledged
Dromrooe which This day publish, and of which we have
spoken above. The Globe also condemns The Resolutions Of the
Richmond equvoca terms protesting against
relieving delegates the Convention from The instructions by
which they may bound and dep-eatng the agitation of the
Texas question as a sectional or party one. $50, - r., :,
As a free and independent Journal, we feel
our duty to state :" M ehe and FL %er on s subject
favor of relieving the delegates from instructions 81
them the exercise ola sound discretion in the elec
From wha, we see and the
unanimous wish OF those who have give the INSTRUCTIONS
The Republicans of Virginia. believe desiic the nomination
They wish their delegates TO the Convention to confer with Tie
delegations other States 10 the strength and rnpa
Iy the candidates. and then 10 throw the vote at lie oh DO"
mnion in the scale Of the avaabIe" candidate II Van
buren, man. they 81 uuld for him hut it, from The
date equally orthodox, and who will likely obtain votes
why abandon as worthy Of suages as he isl and
solemn protest against the proposition to
all other questions IN that Of annexation ~ sincerely
heless opposed 10 making the rayng point oil the Demo
cratic Party in this Presidential Election.
III abandon into the shade those principles and
for which we have been conrndng Tor years ana
MAKE the re of Texas the issue in this contest
shall in all probability every thing, and he broken
party is because wish TO gain Texas and save The Demo-
Party, that protest agnins the move IN the Richnond
Association. We have room for further comment to-day
We have very great respect for the opinions
of the Lynchburg Republican-and entirely agree
with it in the positions ii has taken, IN The above
article-except only that we differ with il in It's
views of the Shockoe Resolutions 1t was not
their design at all TO overslaGgh all ether ques-
tons-to make Texas the only ralying point, and
cast into the shade The other great questions, which
we have long dcussed, and TO which we attach as
much Importance friend Of the Lynchburg Re-
publican Those resolutions indeed presented the ques-
ton of Texas one Of the new issues which had
come up for discusscn-but IL was never intended 10
present it as the only and absorbing question. The
history Of these resolutions will prove the views
of the mover. All these resolutions had been drawn
up by our own pen, except the last They
were prepared for the consideration Of come - or 81
Republicans, who met to confer together on the very
evening which they were submitted 10 the Shockoe
Association. Instead of The last resolution as now
adopted, which proposed to send this series Of
resolutions, (along with the other series which had
been adopted by the Stale Conventions the general
platform OF fath,) to the Baltimore Convention, Tor
Mtu "Strious consideration.
This resolution not considered by some OF our
friends in the meeting going far enough-and various
resolutions of more decided character, were present
ed in lieu of the last resolution which We had proposed
The whole finally resulted in the adoption of the last
resolution, now published-whch was prepared by a
distinguished Republican, and proposed as compr0-
mise resolution
Far he il from u.s. to throw the great and distinctive
ties of party out of 1t little the wish of any
of our Republican friends The late Address Of the
Genital Committee dsclams any such desireand spe-
CITES the fundamental articles Of the Repub can faith,
OUT that ought to be lost sight Of Tex
u.s. ndee d. EIore prominent part in that Ad-
Dress than the others because The others had been dis
cussed al great length in their previous Addresses
and Texas was new and most important question,
which, because it comparatively new and import
ant in its bearings, entitled to the distinction OF
expanded and particular investigation.