Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-06-13
Tuesday Morning, June Is, ls4s.

NThe gentTeman Who Ottn HOIHIHhtIUH
for the Presidency, is favoraby enough known TO Us
by common report, and by private information from
those in whom entirely confde 10 assure us that ne
will not only make safe President to the country,
but WILL In his Administration, bring US nearer 70 .he
platform of Washington than we have been ioi ~.
last twenty years, with the exception OF tue 10" '
months of the Harrison Administration.
We make the above extract from the leading
article of the National Inelligencer of Saturday
last, announcing the result Of the Wing National
Convention. We undertake to say that this is
the first instance in record Of the fitness OF
candidate for The high Office of President OF
the United States being placed upon "common
report" and "private information from those IN
whom we (the Editors of the lntelligencer) en-
tirely con6de."
We have never before known an instance in
which the claims of the candidate were not ad
vocated upon The grounds Of the civil service
which had been rendered to our great country
by The person thus brought forward for the high
Office The great organ of the once "great
Whig party" covers about the same ground
that General Taylor himself did when ne said
that he was not qualified for the duties of the
Office; and when we find the first leading
journal of the once GLORIOUS Wing party, IRE
lying upon common report and "private infor-
nation" to sustain the fitness of its candidate
for the highest Office in the world, and one too,
that requires the highest order of craftsmanship
TO discharge the duties of the Office, we may
we'll exclaim, "What fall is here, my coun-
trymen," and we may add, also, what con.
trast does the glorious Democracy exhibit. We
presen, candidate for the support of the mil
lions of freemen in this ever glorious Democra
tic Government, who IS one Of the ablest and
most experienced statesmen that our country
has produced, and one, too, who has rendered
greet services 10 the camp in driving back proud
England in the war of 1912 We did expect
that the National Intelligencer, in herslding
forth the character of the Taylor Administra
ton, would have said someth ng of the pure
administration Of the younger Adams, which,
in times past, was the theme of admiration of
the National Intelligencer.
We think the IntellIgencer is singularly I'm
fortunate in its allusion to the "few first months
of the Harrison Administration" in connexion
with that of General Washington.
General Harrison went to Washington, we
hope, with the desire to make changes only
where the interest Of the country required; and
yet so beset was he by the large standing army"
Of Wing office-seekers, that, in the one short
month that his life was spared, above thirteen
hundred Democrats, in one department alone,
who had been true to the interest of the coun-
try by the faithful discharge of their duties in
Office, were removed, to make room in part for
the standing army ofsiolen, Wing ofice-seek-
ers, whose appetites for the spols we're as
e SSs dSfS'ssa nat e. s RS sa1
furnished the striking feature in the Harrison
Administrations and if this is the promise which
tho National Int~ligencer makes, the people
will take care TO place it beyond the power Of
that journal to redeem it.
We pass unnoticed the remarks of the Ma
tional lntelligencer about General Cass, in the
proud consciousness that no stronger refutation
Of its structures could be furnished than in the
history of his distinguished and patriotic life,
which rests neither upon common report nor
"private inform ation," but is found embedded
in the affections of the Democracy, and at the
same time commands the esteem aud regard
of the associates of the Intelligencer, whose
judgment may not be the creature of party pre-
JUDGE.
By implication, the lntelligencer would lead
US to believe that the GROWING virtue of Gene
raj Washiugtons Administration consisted in
ruthless prescription for mere opinions sake.
This we do not believe was the intention of the
Intelligencer; but until that paper can show
what were the fruits Of the few first months of
the Harrison Administration" other than the
reckless and heartless prescription which
marked it, we protest against its being likened
to that Of the immortal Washington.