Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-08-11

Sj ~ '6a .Aoht su'S wills tuS Cdsc, l0e pIlDcI[
G recommendations of Harrison and Tyler we
that they were opposed TO Inc Bank and Tar
g and consequently the absurdiy OF The ASSERT
" that IN elees,ng them The psople elected Hair me
Of snres Indeed, we may, taking the Wing A
.. dress OF Virginia as our authority, say, that
ID Tar from doing this they we're Soted ior because
people '0ere assured that they pere more sure Of g,
l'ns T'd Of the too obnoxious measures vhiet zoe la
e. namea' by supporting Harrison and Tyler, III;
= oy Vo!lns Tor Van Buren, and Johnson. IT
y people did not even vote in ignorance of what Il
d HARRISON party would do, but as far as The prom
= ss Of that party vsse concerned they voted, kno,
" ing that by doing SO they would effec.ually r
: themselves OF the Bank and Tariff. Ali IN
n proves, that in 1910 The people wer miserab
;, cheated-and if The fact is denied we can do nj
S thing else than call Ina, staunch Wing, Wilougl
by Newton, 10 The stand, who, speaking of Ii
lrickery of his party, says:
ION reviewing the events OF the last four YEAR
: 90 impartial observer can tail 10 perceive III;
The disasters which have befallen The Wing pa
ty and cast blight over the prosperity oil III
country have resulted in great measure fror
'hS Wabt VI SduuOl duu ldIlUeSS III dVUWlDO all
J maintaining our principles, especially in Yirsi
MIA. We commenced the canvass OF 1910 undc
most discouragins circumstances. The Wing
proper were in small minority throughout tn
Union. A party had been formed out OF The dis
coroant elements then in opposition to The admi
nistratlon OF Mr.. Van Buren,. Our eagerness fo
success INDUCED Us TO SPREAD OUR NETS so As T,
EMBRACE BIRDIE OF EVERY FEATHER. We not only
asked no questions of those who offered for The
war; but our own Convention al Richmond ACrB
ALLY REfUDATED THE LEADING PRINCIPLES isr
measures OF The Wing party"
! The dealh.bed confessions of criminal would
not be better evidence than this against the Har.
rison party, 10 show that the Bank and Tariff
were not issues a, The time OF Harrison's election.
The course of the Wing party, in violating
every promise which had been made 10 The pco-
pie before the election OF 1910, during the extra
session, is known 10 all Of Us. We need not
dwell upon the dictatorship Of Henry Clay, in
bringing forward every old Whie issue, and, by
his "onc man pO,ocr," his own stern, individual
inauence, compelling his party TO pass Bank
Tariff and Distribution bills through the two
houses Of Congress, in hot haste. The people
were aroused from their delusive sleep Of securi.
~, 10 see the ship OF Stale cast upon The very
breakers which they had desired TO avoid They
found alIeacAerous party thruslins upon them the
measures which they had heard declared obsolete
from every stump and 10 every Wing new,pap per
They beheld their representatives in Congress
proving false 10 their pledges, and forgetting their
constituents, in The mad devotion which they ex.
hibiIed to Henry Clay. They head The Com
promise Tariff Of 1882 declared as no longer
binding, and high protective Tariff urged upon
the people. They heard that thousands Of
honesl creditors were TO he defraudcd b. The
Bankrup, law, and the States made dependent
upon The charity Of Congress in Inc distribution
o. the proceeds OF the public lands. They
saw the Treasury cmp,e OF its ,letder sup.
plies 10 justify an increase Of tariff duties for
the benefit OF Northern monoposis They
saw the prolessed promises OF reirenchment
and reform broken and disregarded. And,
amidst al ihass .":i~. 'h-5 i--Ls,i svuu. ri.
was no hope-tor, flushed by success-haring
lasted The bLood-the members Of both houses
rushed on in The footsteps Of their leader,
blind to all but party feeling and rage. For.
,una,ely for our country, the Presdea, Of the
United States was not wanting in tirmness or
honesty. He, Of all his parry, remembered that
his election had been achieved, along with that OF
his lamented predecessor, BY the very promises
which Henry Clay and his party were now
so recklessly violating The duty Of check
ing his party was most hazardous one. One
honest man demonstrating alone and unaidcd,
with band OF enthusiasts and robbers, 10 not
in more danger, in one way, than IS the po-
li,cian who strives to check dishonestparty in
another. We all know the furious oulinrsts Of
party rage against John Tyler when he vetoed
the Bank Bill, or, what was equivaleit to ii,
the Fiscal Agency. We all remember thtabuse
which was heaped upon him from the bird or
gans Of party, in every portion oil the country
The vEro POWER was employed againt the
Wing party again and again by Tyler, an each
check served 10 enrage more and mde the
leaders Of it.
Finding that John Tyler stood firm, tnat'll
| efforts to shake his determination were useles,
thew tried their strength against the Const'''
ton itself, and they, with sort OF brute VIC
lence. denounced it without argument, without
reason, without any thing but disappointment
and rage 10 urge them on. And from this PERIOD
commences the deep seated and un,iring hostill
" of the Wing party to this conservative lea
ture of our Constitution. We were correc
then when VIC asserted, some time since, thai
the reasons inducing the Wing party TO oppose
the exercise of the Veto, were dishonest and sci
6sh-a hostility engendered, not during TINT
for calm and dispassonate reflection, but durn
period of unprecedented party feeling ant
violence, when the Wings were suffering iron
the unexpected honesty of John Tyler. 1t re
mains for the people 10 say whether or no
they will hearken TO the voice Of such party
when they are invoked to mar our Constitution
and take from the Executive all power, and civ
him up, bound hand and foot, TO the control
Congress, and destroy the beauty and independ
ence of one Of The great departments Of o1
Government simply TO crafty the maligna,
hos,ili,es of an Inscriptions party, to &C
.erya,ive feature Of The Constitution. Ing
who have fel, most heavily the weight of the Ea
cutiye Velo-lhose who had been checked in lal
.. lawlsss course by Mr. Tyler, with virtuous me
patriotic objects in view, assembled IN Com led
lion in Washington in September in l14t,
, with due form and solemn rights, read JohnsnS
Ter out OF the Wing Church for The high en- "
, and misdemeanors Of being hoaesi, and ID; 10
exercised the Veto power So enraged wehn
that their discretion vanished, and they d..
e THEIR PRINCIPLES, and Commenced the adj ''u'e
,brouphou, The county. of the issue. whif peri
before The people in 1914. Among olhecies OF
> they declared 'Thal REDUCTION or Tusshould
: TIVE POWER, by farther Limitation OF min =
~ =. shalI h. vIrars.rp ny the ,mMs other eli
PERSONALITIES CT THE PEOPLE and The pr
; with no other control than that whican able
. pepsaole 70 arrest nasty u ""'oD'"ip cy, pro-
g" Es;o declaration was made by Och par
. :Io,.d oy.,y niedos ,yh;d I'd labor