The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-19

MI william Z, KNes, OF Virginia, who died po-
lucay several years ago, (havng found few personal
friends willing to gavanze him into momentay life be-
fore the public by rendering him nomination to Congress
which they well knew he would have the prudence 10 de-
cne) has written long and ncoherent letter of abuse
against the administration the repeal of the tariff of 1872
and the with Mexico. Mr. Rives writes this letter
for the purpose of showing, among other things how
fond he is of retirement, and how he hates haunt be-
fore the public eye He managed, little while ago. to
get up some high Tariff correspondence with Mr. Abbott
Lawrence apparently for the purpose of avoiding
publicity He may, to be sure have other motive for
| his present communication. Reversing the maxim of
Sacred Writ, he may consider, that if one rise from the
dead and speak, the people will certainly hear him !!
And, enough, the unlooked-for voice. COM
ing out so suddenly from the dusky depths of forget
fulness has startled the National InelIgencer which,
always on the watch for some testimony against the
cause of its country, parades Mr. Rves's ucubraons
its columns evidence of orsooth) pblic opinion
This is much if should decypher the heroglph-
les written on the fet of an Egyptian Mummy, and
bring the scroll forward as specimen OF the talk
current on Change.
Here is the lnlegencer's view of that ''puJiic opn-
ion' which is embodied in the sudden uterance OF the
great Political Defunct
"Need say tina, we rejoice in this testimony in favor
ofn just and peaceful policy and of rooted
cessay especially of for conquest, for aggrandze
men Jor agerenfe 81 religion Of language, E"opsa"
| The Mexican war war for difference OF religion
OF language, and of onginn This is the revelation
according to the lnteligencer-for which Mr.. Rives's
friends have resuscated him. To tell this it is that
this unlookedor ghost has reappeared for moment on
the old and wellk known of former defeat and dis
comfiture To tell this-o inform kindly that
we fighting TO put down the Spanish language
and the Catholic faith for this, has Mr.. w. c. Riyes
come up from the shades OF truth TO US, the errand
hardly worth the journey; and in view OF the
pernatura machinery here invoked, cannot but
member the good OF the Latin poet
Sc Nc Deus intsrsH nisiHignus rindce Nodns'
GA for religion and language" II is the last
and feeblest fabrication of desperate clique, mad
dened by the shame of assailng its country, and
by the well-deserved odium of its reasonable
Among all the wretched aspersons which Federal
belched forth against Mr.. Madison and the war of
1919, there was not more supremely contemplate
But let us see little more of Mr. Rvess .public opn-
on," in which the federal organ much reoices" He
says:
We have seen blind spiri, of party rage urged on by
ling to the ground long established and welred systems
Of national policy, coevn with the constitution, and den-
fed with the vital interests of the national prosperity The
tariff of 1912, though proved by the best OF all tests,
its actual operations to have been higy santnry and be
spirit Of party vengeance because it was of the
measures OF Wing Congress- and on the other hand the
odious snbreasury, which had been most signay
demned and rejected by the deliberate of the nato
because wing Congress happened be the instrument Of
executing the national Judgment upon it,.
I This is admirable. Mr.. Rives, speaking the 'public
opinion of Virginia, bewais the unimely fate of the
Tariff of 1912 The very Tariff against which he strenu-
ously protested its passage as more abominabe in
many respects than that "bil OF nominations the Tariff
OF 1928. connoisseur in antiquities would be glad TO
know the date--the era-of this same "public opn-
ion." Mr. Rves is the Rip Van Wrinkle of politics
He sares round at the world about him, calls the
old names, looks for the old signs quite bewldered by
the new notices and the new voices, and, poor states
man thinks the Bank esiinn is just ruhare If wac
when he rated from his party, and went to sleep his long
political sleep among the mountains OF Virginia
One extract from his letter. and have done.
See the naiue Inconsistencies with which he brings for
ward in relation to the Oregon controversy and to the
Mexican war, the topics, which, having played their
brief part of factous opposition have been fairly
abandoned even by the remotest country portion of
the Federal press To Mr.. Rves, however these
worn out vuperations seem TO be quite fresh
and new He tells about ''the headlong and short
sighted councils Of the President, hurrying into
with England !; just if such wretched slang had not
now become obsolete He deals with The advance of
army to the Rio Grande, if he taking part with
the federal OPPOSITE before il had become ashamed OF
that stale pretence, and then in ludcrous ignorance,
orgetuness of the act OF the 18th of Ma " and of the
events which have followed it, and of the Overwhelming
unanimy of popular opinion upon that subject he praes
about the power being vested in Congress, and not
in the Executive? But we will spend words
about this gentemans extraordinary political resusca
ton Having no personal i-will towards him, hope
hereafter that he will take for granted that the public
quite willing to LET him enjoy his retirement, and not
write absurd letters let the people know how unwilling
he is that they should bring him forward into political
life again. Bn if he must write, we hope that his re-
remen will inspire him to some better purpose than
vlhlcaon of his countrys cause and factous abuse
of an administration aboring to uphold that in
Just and righteous
The following paragraph is a specimen OF his whole
letter.
The perversc spirit, in its heedlessness its blind
has been redy sport with the external peace
with the domestic interests and prosperity OF the nation
We saved by the fmness and wisdom oithe Senate
from destructive with England, into which the head
long and sort-sghted counsels of the President fast
hurrying u.s. only be plunged by his unscrupulols
sumption power, against the panest mandates OF the
constitution, into bloody, expensive, unscenly and en-
barassng with the republic of Mexico That the
with Mexico brought by the single the Presi
dent in ordering the hostile advance of the army into
rtoy claimed by Mexico, and of which she held and had
continually held the actual jurisdiction, is proposition
clearly established by ncontrovcrble facts admit OF
discussion. He himself implicitly confesses by the studi
and elaborate dplay Of alleged of against
Mexico set forth in his late which partakes far
OF the character OF manifesto TO justify what he had
done, than of annual communication the Of the
nation To the Houses of Congress Suppose all this long
list of grievances and complaints to be welounded, al
though Congress had slept them (and Mr. Polk round
ly takes them to task for having done so) whom did
of nations their rcdessto the President
gross The constitution Itself answcrs-Congress shall
have power to declare From what source, then,
ADORE the constitutions did Mr. Polk derive his authority
make upon Mcxicol There is but one answer-his
| own will"
Report Of the Secretary of the Treasury of the returns
of the State Banks from lsi1 TO s6svo 26l pages.