The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-02-02
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, FEBRUARY >, 1905.
TO THE PEOPLE or g1RGINY.4.

HE conduct IF these who call themselves
the friends of Mr. Munrae, is so extra1,fi-
nary, that we are at a loss whetherto regard
mem as new party compounded Of the most
heterogeneous materi l., or rs men who Ia.
6our unttera strange infatuasion. They pl,,-
Iess, however, TO adhere to Repub can p,in->
ciples: they wish to see Republican Fre-
sident IN the chair; and they slpp ,rt Col.
i,;iii'e not because they doubt the itite!t-.-
", talents and patriotism of Mr.. Madison. ts1t
because they hold ne other IN higher estiira-
ton: tefore the caucus was held in this -,ece,
we heard In every quarter, the triumphant
declarations of those gentlemen, tn4t Mr..
'Nnr"e would meet the support If he Lee
glsiature OF this state. After that meeting
had retated their sanguine calculations. they
were eq1a!iy confident that Congress would
decide the point in favor of their candidate
and letters were received, or said to be rccei
yea, asserting that Massachusetts and Ma
iyland would instruct their REPRESENTATIVES
20 vote for Ar. Muproc. This prediction.
II ke the former, prove flllacious-and ont
OF 81 republican members, only three voted
FOR that gentleman. It was now to be ex.
pected, that all those who call themselves
r'fn6AcHns, would have united IN favor of
the man who seemed to be the choice Of the
majority OF TIE representatives of the people.
u.
are men OF sanguine tempers. They rally
after every defeat. and extract hope from des-
par: Their mode of attack only is changed
- hey now rail ut caucuseS in general, tell
the people that the elective franchise is res
Yea .. IRON them, ard appeal at once, from these
Illicit nocturnal assemblies, to the people at
large Yes: these retuEEcans are resolved
to produce schsm in their own party, mere
because theY feel personal preference
for man, who, IN point ot talents, is not su-
pei1or to his opponent, and in point # integ-
i7ty, patriotism and services, stands as they
acknowledge, NEARLY on the same footing.
For these few shades of difference, at a time
when the republican cause is assailed in eve
r. quaiter by open hostility ard artfuT in
tlGue, when we stand cnthe brink of ruD-
ture with the most formidable power of the
earth, when all our hopes sre staked upon
an lnviolable union; at this -fi0ne, are these
gentlemen prepared to scatter the seeds OF
discord among the American PEOPLE AL
ready do onrpolitical antagonists eXa't their
heads already thev catch a distant gimnse
OF those E'vsian seats, where ther once riot
cd in the fnllrcss # ENJOYMENT: ag IN do we
see them i'll their own proper element, mo-
wing III the midnight caucus giving and re-
ceiving the fraternal hug from men, who, in
the year lSC4, were snXicus to drive them
rrecipItately, from evcrv paltry Clerkship in
the state and who thought It apostacv in
any republican TO allow federaist, to have
any participation in the management If his
own money. in the Rank. Happy times A
politicai millennium has at length arrived,
when the tyger fondles the kid, and the vul-
ture sports with the dove. And what has
produced this glorious revolution What
has proclaimed peace IN Israeli What is
the ground on which these lrreconcflea bic en-
emles have at length met in so much harrno-
ny Toelect Col Munroe, President of the
United states The man, who, above all o.
theirs, has been the object Of federal malice,
oblequy and invectiye; the man who YVES
once recalled from France, as diseracsd
minister, and who would have been consien-
ed to eternal infamy, if the native integri-
ty Of his heart had not triumphta over their
malignant efforts this man is now the theme
of their panegj rio, and the President Of
their choice. The understanding Of Col.
Munroe is too correct, to be deceived bv
such shallow articles and he must be well
aware, that whether he is the subject of
federal eulogy or abuse, ne is equally the OBJ
Ject Of their hostility.
A writer, under the signature of Hortensi-
us, has entered the lists in support Of Col
Munroe's election. He commences. bv tel
ling us, that he took the liberty of addressing
the public on the 10Th instant, but that his
piece came TOO late Tor the aucuswhch was
held on the 21st instant His complaint
seems 20 be quite unfounded for by his own
account, his medicine had two DAYS TO ope-
rate, and it must have been ola very gentle
quality, If il could not have had its effect, in
that time. The piece alluded to, was signed
A. i. But Hortensius is egregiously mista-
Ken, II he anticipated any very salutarv eff
tects from such production The truth is.
that although the friends o. Mr. Muuroe
should remove every suspicion that NAV be
thrown on his character, it could not change
the determination Of the friends Of Mr.. Ma