Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-08-18
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which were shorty 10 take pia1e'
,hose Conventions was made by Inc Delhoeid''e
Cal. Central Committee, and met The promp'
and hearty approval of The Democratic party
In accordance with those precedenls, and beiieV,
-, ,h., he measure would meet your eo'''"'
ins 'uo' Wv $500, . ..so,"',v" which has
already been published respectfully recommend
al similar Convention in Lynchburg on Inc
o,,h of Sep,cmber next. We believe mat tne
,;mc and place selected will suit the convenience
of large majority OF those who may be aeie 10
attend. and we earnestly invite you TO lose no
lime in appointing delegates TO The proposed oou'
yenlion.
When we last had The honor TO address you ,
neither The Wing nor the Republican parry mao
collected their candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency Since that time, both parties
have made their nominations. The Democratic
Convention have presented TO the people the
names of Lewis Cass and William 0. Butler,
and the Wing Convention have nominated Ia
chary Taylor and Willard Fillmore :-ana
party at the North, formed exclusively upon geo.
graphical lines, and upon The principle OF free
soil and hostility 10 slavery, have nominated
Martin Van Buren, and Charles F. Adams. VI
the las, named candidates we shall say nothing,
because we feel assured there can be no in'eh-
ton 10 form an electoral ticket for Them IN ms
Stale.
Lewis Cass and William o. Butler stand upon
The same high ground which Republican canoi'
dates for the Presidency and Vice PfeSiueneS'
have ever occupied. Their principles, inc same
which have ever been inscribed upon The ne
n,hlican banners, have been frankly, fully, ana
fearlessly proclaimed 10 the American people.
In wha, attitude do Gen. Taylor and Mr. FIJI
more stand before the voters OF this couniTyf Gan
any man define the position OF the one can any
Southern man doub, the dangerous doctrines o.
the other2
Both of these gentlemen are endorsed by The
Wing party. Whatever may be our ignorance
of General Taylor's political opinions, we have
full knowledge of the opinions Of those oy whom
he is Supported The Wing party, under its va
rious names and phases and The Republican par
,y, have been we'll known TO each other Tor hall
century. We must, therefore, keep in view the
principles heretofore avowed, BY the advocates CT
Gen. Taylor, and the policy they will again pur-
sue. il invested with the administrative power OF
The Government.
In the canvass preceding the Presidential cleo
ton in 1874, the political views OF the two parties
were fully, ably and jealousy discussed, and The
people pronounced their verdict in favor OF The
Republican candidates. E1cep, in the election
of the elder Adams they have never failed 10 DO
so in a Presidential election, when the views and
policy Of the Two parties have been fairly present.
ed John @. Adams was moi The choice OF The
people. He was elected by The House o. Repre-
sentalives, against plurality OF electoral votes;
and even he had declared himself convert 10 the
Republican faith. The circumstances under
which he was elected, his aposiacy from mis-
ayowed opinions after his election, his recuf-
renee 10 his orisina creed, and his election from
Office. are matters OF history, and will long be re-
membered as Salutary warning TO INSCRIPTIONS
ambition In 1910, The Wings had triumphed by
representing in Virginia and elsewhere that HaT-
rison and TYLER were imbued with the doctrines
fthe Democratic party, and they received The e-
silimate fruits Of their triumph in the Presiden
fial yetoes Of John Tyler. These bitter fruits in.
duced them, at the last Presidential election, Gas
honestly advised by prominent member OF iheiI
own party,) to pursue a new course. In 1874
thew wore no masks, attempted no concealments
but ayowed their measures and presented tbelT
candidate as an exponent OF their principles. ln
that contest, Henry Clay, the very "embodimen
of Wing principles" was signally defeated, tho
he possessed traits OF character winch were pscu
liarly calculated 10 excite enthusiasm IN his De-
half. He was defeated, 100, by James ~. Folk
the present President OF The United States-a can
didae, OF whose very existence, before he receiv-
ed the Democratic nomination, The Wing leaders
,auntipsly affected 10 be utterly ignorant. Never
was The triumph OF Republican principles NOR,
complete or more glorious. II seems at last lo
have satisfied The Wing politicians that upon OLD
issues which have heretofore divided parties
they can never succeed before the American PEG
pie. Even their candidate for the Vice Preslden
CIV. in his letter addressed 10 "the Young Mems
Taylor Convention" of philadelphia, prociaims
that ''old issues are gradually passing away, ano
new issues engross The public attention" In 'heil
present eager desire for success they have return
ed 10 the Wing tactics OF 1910. They have puT
sued course which another prominent WING
has told them will annihiate their party. They
do not now, as they did in 1914, ask Ike people
10 sanction National Bank, Protective Tariff
the Distribution OF the proceeds OF he Pnhlie
Lands, and Internal Improvements hyih" Gene.
,al Government &c. But, they have seduloasly
sought Tor new issues, and made viuieut an.
,ncessan; assaults upon MIR. Pul,'s Admins
lfa,ion They endeavored to create panic by
predictions OF ruin and cries OF distress. But IL
vain Our country has been prosperous and hap
py The Revenue Tariff and the Independent
Treasury have fulfilled the expectations oil lheiI
jfis nds IN spite OF The embarrassments oil To-
reign war. The Oregon question has been no.
norabiy adjusted. The great State OF Texas
has been indissoluby annexed 10 our glorious
Union.
yUhor ,ho WIKI corvan,;o, .cce,,l,Icd IN ;cb
moud last winter, but one plank remained in the
general shipwreck which had overwhelmed them
The President OF the convention announced that
the Mexican war presented the grca, and the on.
w issue between the TWO parties. That war; de.
clared by nearly unanimous vote OF both Hou
ses OF Congress, 10 have been commenced bv "ihe
act of Mexico" has been denounced By the Wing
leaders as unconstitutional unholy, and unjust
Prominent Wings upon the floor OF Congress
and elsewhere, have used language, whether de-
signedly or not, more stimulating TO Mexican ob.
stinacy, and more auimating in its influence up
on Mexican troops, than The masniloquent pro-
CARNATIONS of their own gasconading chieliaIns.
Its expenses were recklessly estimated BY Mr..
Webster al half million day; the defeat OF
our arms was predicted the President was
charged with The most ridiculous blunders, and
the most hagrant incapaciy; nothing but dlsho.
nor aud disaster was ioreseen in the future, and
adisingulshed Wing aspIant for the Presidency,
Thomas Corwin, who is still in the confidence Of
his party, and is still sounding the locsin al their
mass meetings, called upon the Mexicans 10 vel.
come our troops acitt bloody hands and hosp,toble
grapes.
The glorious events, and honorable termna.
ton of that war, have deprived the Wing lead.
ers Of the only issue, which, by the ackuowledg
ment of the President Of their State Convention,
remained to them last Winter, while their course
in opposing and denouncing the cause of their
country, has met with indications of popular in
dignation, which cannot be mistaken.
Reduced to condition thus desperate, the
Wing politicians have resorted to desperate
remedy, and have placed their parry in most
embarrassing position. Mr.. Clay was again
willing to be their candidate. He was their
fayorite and their oracle. But the Wing Con-
yention declined 70 select him they thought