This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. REFORM AND NULLIFICATION. Immediately following the presidential election of 1828 f the partnership which had existed between Ritchie and C. W. Gooch since March, 1820, as joint editors of the Enquirer, was dissolved, and with his tried and trusted friend, John L. Cooke, as a co-laborer, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. REFORM AND NULLIFICATION. Immediately following the presidential election of 1828 f the partnership which had existed between Ritchie and C. W. Gooch since March, 1820, as joint editors of the Enquirer, was dissolved, and with his tried and trusted friend, John L. Cooke, as a co-laborer, Ritchie entered upon a period of greater and more effective usefulness in both local and national affairs. A planter owning several large estates in eastern Virginia, Gooch had, like others of his class, consistently opposed all efforts at reform in the statutes and fundamental laws of the state, and in so doing had developed opinions radically different from those entertained by his colleague. The common courtesy of its editors for each other had thus prevented the Enquirer from taking an active part in the movement about to culminate in a constitutional convention and had confined it almost entirely to a discussion of national affairs. With the enthusiasm and spirit of a Jacksonian Democrat and with a patriotic sympathy for the ideals and movements which had made possible the political revolution of 1828, Ritchie now cast his lot with the reformers to the great chagrin and alarm of the plantation aristocracy.1 The effect of his course in both local and national politics, in keeping western Virginia true to the principles of Jacksonian Democracy, and permeating the whole Union with a feeling j of patriotism, has not been understood or appreciated even to this day. It was a factor to be reckoned with in Democratic councils down to 1860, in producing a Union sentiment in eastern Virginia, and in keeping western Virginia loyal to the federal government during the greatest crisis of our history. 1 Richmond Enquirer, November 7, 1828; Ibid., July...
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