Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-06-30
RICHMOND, VA.
wednesday Morning, June %, ls4s'
ruE vIRTI1E OF CONSISTENCY.

The New York Journal OF Commerce SHOWS
considerable "disgruntlement" at the remark OF
the Middletown Sentinel, that "the New York
Journal of Commerce has abandoned its neu-
trality, and is strong for General Taylor
The Journal of Commerce says:
"If twenty one years have left the Sentinel
| still under the impression, that the journal Oh
Commerce is neutral in politics, we despair OF
convincing il of il. error. A neutral paper, !.
paper which has no opinions OF its own, or
which dare not express them, for fear OF Of
tending one party or the other, is and ought to
be an object of contempt. But paper that IS
able to think for itself, and dares to speak Tor
itself, without holding itself amenable to either
party, is different thing entirely. 1t may be
hated and abhorred, but it cannot be despised."
We fully agree with the Journal of Com
merce, that the "fear of offending one party or
the other, is and ought to be an object OF con-
Tempt and yet the Journal is advocating the
election of candidate for the Presidency,
whose political opinions are only known TO those
who are privately in his political confidence;
and they all testify that he is Wing, in the
sense that conveys the support of Wing men
and Wing MISUNDERSTANDING Bank, Prolec-
tive Tariff, Distribution, and all the ruinous
measures which the Federalists desire to fasten
upon the country The Journal was an able
supporter of the present admirable Revenue
Tariff, and its operations have fully realized its
expectations; but its great twin measure, the
Constitutional Treasury, was enacted in deh'
ance Of the behest Of the Journal of Commerce;
and although its success has been fully equal to
that of the Tariff of 1916, yet, as that paper
has to be convinced against its will, it is "of the
same opinion STILL" The reasoning Of the Jour-
nal, which appears highly satisfactory TO itself,
TO our minds, involves the most glazing incon-
sistency.
|, amounts 10 ,his-elect Gen. Taylor regard
| less OF the opinions he may hold touching the
great questions which divide parties and, in
clecting members OF Congress, take care TO learn
sures and vote agains! them il they are in favor
Of United States Bank, protective Tariff and
all other obnoxious measures which The Wing
party might desire 10 fasen upon the county
The Journal torgels that in voting Tor the PTesi.
dent the people, for the last half century, have de-
manded 10 know OF the candidates The opinions
they entertained, so that they might vote for or
against them, as their declared views would war
rant; and that, in defence OF their popular rights
the people have ever held it was of more impor-
lance 10 them 20 know the opinions OF The pub
lie servant, whose trust was the greatest, than the
views of those whose trust was most limited; and
hence, while they award all the praise that is due
TO Gen. Taylor for his military services, they are
unwilling 10 support him from his want OF civil
experience, and, more especially, because SO far
as his opinions are pyirately known, they are in
unison with The Federal or Wing party, which
they know have ever been in conflict with their
popular rights, by strengthening the Federal Go.
vernment al The expense of The sovereignty Of the
States, and more especially their own sovereign.
ty under the Constitution.
From The alien and sedilon laws Of the FEEDER
alsls. under The elder Adams, down 10 the Bank,
Tariff and Bankrupt laws OF "the birds of every
feather" administration Of lS4l, the people have
no, failed 10 discover that their just rights have
foot, whenever The Federaist or Wing leaders
have cheated them, BY false promises, SO far as
10 induce them 10 place the reins Of government
in their hands. We do moi know OF an ultra par
tizan Wing who, in 1910, was advocating The
election of "Tip and Ty," on The grounds that
they were both opposed TO a U. S. Bank, and al.
SO mphaically against disturbing the sacred COM
promise Of the tariff, that is not now an out and
out Taylor man. They are the anne cold coons'
with the alteration OF having their tails bobbed
off. We may be told that Mr. Bolts is an e1cep.
ton certainly not-for MIR. Bots had both The
holiness and the honesty 10 declare, in all The
speeches he made in that memorable campaign,
that his party were in favor OF Bank, Tariff,
&C., bu, his opinions did not receive The weight
OF The famous Wing address which declared d.
recly The opposite
There will probably be 40 necessity for the
drugs which are used in cases that require eme-
tics, so far as The Wing leaders are concerned.-
A Wing document OF 1910 or 1874 would in all
probability have the most powerful effect upon
,hem-lhe one of 1910 bringing home 10 Them
the wicked devices which they used to defraud
the people Of their popular rights, or the other,
which proved TO them the ro,lenness OF all human
WIG calculations.
The Constitutional Treasury was 10 luin the
country, ard The Revenue Tariff was 10 kill il,
beyond all doubt. And yet we find that, under
those ';runous" and "killing" measures, The
country has grown in all the elements OF great
ness faster than at any time during the present
century and, SO far as we can see, the ruin and
death has been confined 10 Wing "pTnciples,"
which that once powerful party, but now reck.
lcss faction did not see fit even 10 decently inter
We can conceive nothing more amusing, and al
the me time ridiculous than that OF a Wing
orator OF 1914, with counlcnance so lachrymose
that one would suppose that he could stand by
The Father OF Rivers al low-wa,er mark and run
it 10 full bish-waleI mark, 'and quarter over,'
with The tears he would shed in the cause Of suf-
lcrns humanity, when depicting thai suffering
with piece Of bran bread in his hand, that The
Tariff of 1876, il was charged would bring upon
the people, if they should be so lar blind 10 their
popular rights and true interest as TO overthrow
",he glorious Wing Tariff of 1872"
Some Of The same ponc Of bran bread is yet in
existence, and We have the promise of part of
it; and should Wing "documen," of 1910 or
1874 not be strong enough 10 operate fully upon
the strong slomachs of some Of the Wing leaders,
we would recommend their doctors to give Them
some of the famous. "German bran Bread" which
they said was 10 be the food OF proud American
citizens, il they did no. stand by the Tariff OF 1912.
| We think the insult offered to The intelligence
of oar people was justly rebuked by Them; and
with The industrious habs Thai mark The Germans.
sented as living in such squalid poverty as 10
have 10 subsis upon such stuff as The bambooz.
ling Wing leaders exhibited In the campaign OF
| 1914