Richmond Enquirer

Thanks to a 'Virginian,' who has addressed the following card to the 'Boston Gazette.' The article from the Boston Courier of the 28th, to which he replies, is as follows:

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.—The time is not far distant when the State of Virginia will be as importunate for the aid of the United States government to carry on a system of internal improvements, as she has formerly been clamorous against it. The indications of such a change in her tone, are signs that cannot be mistaken. In the state of North Carolina, as is already known to our readers, there have recently been several meetings of the people, held expressly for the purpose of devising measures to promote internal improvements in that State. One of their conventions has published a report, which is republished, at full length, in the Richmond Enquirer, with a laudatory comment, from which the following is an extract.'

We tell the Courier, he is mistaken. Virginia will not bend the knee to Congress for aid. She asks nothing at the expense of our Constitution. No one is more opposed to such aid, than the Editor whose article the Courier has done him the honor to copy—yet no one is more sincerely devoted to the cause of Internal Improvement. We have always been against the asking or the receiving of a dollar from the United States—and the more we see, the more we are satisfied, that we are right. The United States ought to confine themselves to their legitimate, constitutional province. Roads and canals were not intended—and ought never to be assigned, to pass under their jurisdiction. The States can do it better for themselves. Some of them have done it—and we hope, all will do it. The usurpation of Congress is staggering under the Maysville Veto; and the self-rising energies of all the States will give it the death-blow. So little does the Courier know us and our wishes:

[From the Boston Gazette.]

'Messrs. Editors—I notice in an article in the Courier of yesterday the following sentence:—'The time is not far distant when the State of Virginia will be as importunate for the aid of the United States government to carry on a system of Internal Improvements, as she has formerly been clamorous against it.'

Will you permit me to say in your columns, that the Editor of the Courier knows little of the people of Virginia, if he supposes that they will ever ask or receive assistance from the general government to 'carry on a system of internal improvements' within their own territory. It is true that Virginia is awake to the subject of internal improvements, as is and ought to be the whole South, but she would scorn to receive assistance from the general government, in prosecuting the important works in contemplation at this moment in that quarter. Virginia will always refuse such assistance, on constitutional grounds. As she cannot, and will not be bribed in this way, it will ever be her ambition, and her duty, to keep others straight—erect—free from pollution. I attribute the remark of the Editor of the Courier to ignorance, rather than wilfulness, or a desire to mislead his readers. But he may depend upon it, he has been egregiously deceived by false lights, and my brief remarks cannot fail to make him a wiser, if they do not make him a better man.

A VIRGINIAN.

Tremont House. Wednesday.