Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-10-09
Ny dukedom to beggarly denief.
] do mistake my person all this while
Upon my life, she fiads. aifho' cant,
Mxseifto be a marvellous proper man.

MY sell To be q marvellous proper man.
scorn to notice particularly the scurri-
lities to which you descend. Here you are
At home. This is field in VIII Oh you arc
conf"ssedly without rival. No man has
studied with more success all the mean Y
biilingsgate parts Ut our larguagr. nei-
Their envy nor initiate your accom- ..ish-
men,s.
have ,,isproved every aspsrs;oH which
you have hitherto inventcd-You charged
me with spcohhancV--I have rcfuted it
by facts-i have cited, chapter and verse,
tn prov" the various cases in which have
dissentcd from the "pow-rs that be -
from the Yazuo iii 1904. down 10 thess u.
States Batk in 1916. too have chung To
the principles Of 70 and '98--but I aas no
-fhosfafe. l have declared my opposition
freely, tn measures which i thought erro-
nrous, without becoming "Hessian to the
Federal Party" What thought. ex-
press d. am, ,hereinre, friend to the
Republican Party ; but no, its to1l OF its
siaUe-b"causc, where they have erred, ]
have av0wed my opposition---not in q Cor
ner. but from the house tops. The man,
who, after these facts are drawn out before
him. would style another " self-convicted
sycophant and too! of party" deserves an
epi.het which / sCorn to use.--But, l dare
assert, in the face of the world, that
II th"re be republican press in this coun-
try. more iadehendcuf. than mine, know
it not--l stoop to no comparisons with the
Aurora
You charged me with sacr hcing my Opt
Mons in the question of the Bank dspru-
we'd it by facts I maintained my ground
even during the storm of war-while you
at no time stood upon the high ground of
the constitution. and admitted that war
might "jusify that or any institution OF
similar Construction"
These, and other insinuations, have re-
fut' d by facts--but,
Destroy his fib, his sophis,ry-in vain
The Creatures at his dirty 1o0rls ap ain.
Yan say, that I" explicitly declare thnt ].
G. Jackson. the brother in-law Of Mr.. Ma
Olson. sc. &c. adnonshed (me) several
years ago, MOTTO notice the Publications in
the d,trora"- -unpa rrallelled prs resumption
You k,ioTv have neper said so--nor is IL a
tact.
scorn to notice other insinuations of the
same import shall dismiss the DECLARE
lion that lavished batteries and eulogies
Cn General Wilkinson at Richmond, at
the period of Burr's trial. and of which the
writer of this was the witness, by saying
that none but one of that writer's verf city
could have made such declaration. The
conduct of Gen. w. on that occ sion, so
far fran commanding my good opinion. or
civilities, was only calculated to make him
appear, in my eye, as a courter and in,ri-
guer
Thus far, accounts being balanced be
tween us. On the score of personalities, :
will frankly rcfcof, that these scurrilitiesI
would never have provoked an answer on
my part. mean not to defend mysclf-but
to vindicate the cause to which am attach
ed, by showing to the world the character of
the 4" States Evidence" which tire Federal
party have condescendcd to use-how in
consistent, how equivocating, how false,
how utterly unworthy of confidence is the
witness whom they have led to the bar -
For all the falsehoods which you hare told
of me-, have but one revenge--fo tell tie
truth of yoH.
In doing this, sir. shall not attempt to
trace you through all your windings-But,
we will go leisurely OF, without particular
regard to order-taking up a topic here
and there, as suits the temper of the mo-
nent-Thsse DesrGtory Sketches, shall be
pursued. unti. tie con, erns of the Legis-
lature invite me to hg.er game.