Richmond Palladium

For the Richmond Palladium.

Mr. Holloway. The mania for scribbling, so common at this age, appears to have seized some redoubtable personage, who displays himself at large in your last number over the imposing signature of "Spirit of Wayne." The strong and pathetic appeals which he makes to the citizens of Wayne county, and to the people of the district generally, led me to the belief that he feels more than an ordinary interest in the result of the approaching congressional election; and I am half inclined to suspect that he is one of the fortunate few who have been permitted to share in the "spoils of victory," and that the terms of his enjoyment depended upon the re-election of Gen. McCarty; but after more maturely reflecting upon the matter, and after having been informed who the "spirit of Wayne" was, and finding him to be an individual, who, not a hundred years since run for the office of ; and out of 3000 votes got but 68. Now I would ask the citizens of Wayne, and of the district, whether this spirit is a correct representation of their spirit. Had the spirit of the citizens of Wayne county at the time he was before them as a candidate, "borne witness with his spirit" and promoted him; then we could place some confidence in his remarks. Mr. Spirit appears to be duly impressed with the importance of due attention to the measures contended for by the candidates; and yet, without saying a single word in relation to the measures advocated by either of them, he endeavors to persuade the people that they ought to vote against Mr. Smith, without showing a single reason why his competitor Gen. McCarty should be preferred. This is a mode of electioneering that I am entirely at a loss to understand. If "Spirit of Wayne" considers a regard for measures so important, why did he not inform us of the particular measures supported by Gen. M'Carty, which entitle him to the public confidence? He seems quite barren on this subject, although he complains of the injury certain committee of Union county, and urges this as a reason why Mr. Smith should not be supported. I should like to know how the rights of Mr. Rariden have been trampled upon - his pretensions violated, or the feelings of his friends disregarded.

With the whining cant of a demagogue, this fulsome slang is thrown before the people in order to induce them to pursue that course which this would be leader, "Spirit of Wayne," has marked out for them. The assertion that Mr. Rariden's rights have been violated, or his pretensions trampled, or that the voters of this district have been dictated to by a caucus is false and gratuitous. Mr. Smith and Mr. Rariden, in a spirit of conciliation, thinking that they ought not both be in the field while the whole administration party were arrayed in support of their competitor, agreed to submit the matter to their friends in Union county, who should determine which of them should decline, and pledged themselves to act in accordance with their decision. Those to whom the matter was submitted requested Mr. Rariden to decline, which he has done. How then have his pretensions been trampled upon, or where is the dictation complained of? And yet notwithstanding that this arrangement was made with Mr. Rariden's consent, we are told (by Mr. Spirit, one of the most decided Jackson men, and a man too, whose very soul longs for the prostration of Mr. Rariden) that "his friends are roused and excited at being driven from the support of the man they preferred."

Who are those individuals that are complaining of the injustice done to Mr. Rariden; and are endeavoring to excite on the part of his friends a hostility to Mr. Smith? Are they men who would have supported Mr. Rariden, had he continued a candidate! Or do they belong to that class who would have held up Mr. R. as a candidate, not for the purpose of electing him - not from any regard for him or the people of Wayne county, but for the purpose of electing General M'Carty by effecting an equilibrium of the Smith and Rariden support, and again, by their Jackson stratagem, shove McCarty into Congress? They certainly belong to the latter class: and when they find that they have not been able to succeed in their design, and that Mr. Rariden would not suffer himself to be used as a candidate to promote the designs of Gen. McCarty, they can express a great deal of sympathy for him, and complain of bad treatment towards him, with no other view than to induce his friends to go in with them. It is not remarkable that the small fry should take this course, when their leader Gen. McCarty has set them the example. He too feels a great deal of sympathy for Mr. R and tells the people in his speeches that Mr. Rariden has been badly treated. He also states, (and correctly too,) that he is a high-minded honorable man, and that he ought not thus to have been treated, nor ought he decline.

What produces this feeling on the part of Gen. McCarty in favor of Mr. Rariden? Did he wish Mr. Rariden to be elected? Before Mr. Rariden declined he declared he could beat him 2000 votes, and Smith 600. and since Mr. Rariden's decline he charges him with every kind of bargain and corruption. This charge in his tune is not without its object. He hopes by this course to induce Mr. Rariden's friends to support him.

When was it that Gen. McCarty and his friends learned to cry out so lustily against the party question? It was not until they found themselves in the minority in the district. When they have had the majority on their side, every man of the opposition was prescribed. No National Republican has been considered good enough to hold an office. But now when they are in the minority, the cry is "no question! no question!!" During the last congressional canvass, when M'Carty was running against two National Republicans, he openly exhorted the Jackson men to DRAW THE LINE, and adhere to him, for says he, "it is necessary that a Jackson man should be elected, in order to sustain the Administration." But now when he is running against but one National Republican, in a Clay district, he says, "the question ought to be put down," and that the National Republicans should take him, with his opposition to the bank, the tariff, and his disposition to prescribe them to the contrary notwithstanding. But while this course is taken publicly, what is the course pursued by the supporters of Gen. Jackson? Is not the line closely drawn by them? Do they not support McCarty? If you look over the district you will find them all to a man supporting McCarty, while they cry "no question" in order to get the Clay men to go for him also.

I am not in favor of continuing the party question, I wish to see it abandoned; but after the National Republicans have been prescribed for six years past, I do not like to see their opponents finding themselves in the minority, endeavoring to induce the supporters of Mr. Clay to abandon the question, while they adhere to it as warmly as ever. I go in distinctly for putting down the question, by both parties uniting on OLIVER H. SMITH.

Not on him who signs petitions for the removal of Post masters for opinion sake - not on him who never recommended a Clay man to office in his life - not on him who has declared (on a former occasion) that the Quakers should be disfranchised for not voting for generals and military characters, and for not defending their country.

Now Mr. "Spirit of Wayne" you with all your Jacksonism, and demagogical duplicity, and pretended friendship to Mr. Rariden, will not lure from the track, in which the votaries of PRINCIPLE walk, one single NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.