Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-01-04

lills( llCy possess, SltSr Inns, 70 assert, G0O
eXpectto be believed
Why they usher in a second Certificate
from Mr.. Shore, am at a loss 10 see
sur-iy, not to bols err up their veracity---for
ihev had said, that fer three days before
the 29th November, there had been no
northern mail, whereas, Mr.. s. touches
quite different period Of TIM. viz.
SIRE the 1st day of December. MY
>. indeed, says, that since that time the
m il had failed nine times-and that twice
liz those dtvs . three rails mad arrived
at once" Surely, this was owing to the
r. NJ. at Richmond that fruitful source
of every calamity Oh no but, q the
stage (had) broken down." as Mr.. SIS GER
tificate proves.
Another sample OF liberality These
Editors had received from the Post Office
three numbers of the Bost, n Adver.-
Users, 8 of the Newly Gazette" &c
Ofcourse, they were delayed at Rich
mond-but why not at Washington, where
the papers get often piled up from the bad
ness Of the Southern road ? Or at Peters
burg. where the p. NJ. may have omitted
to deliver them in sus cession? Or from
the arrival of double mail at Richmond,
as was the case on Monday night--Mr. SIS
certificate shows in what way this circum-
stance, would cause Petersburg to receive
Three mails. -
Aaother specimen Sc have done with
these liberal Editors. "Ihe cause is about
to be removed"-in. frank and honest terms,
the Doctor is to be turned out. Well, sirs,
and how 90 you know /, Oh there is an
agent come on from the General Post Of
fee, whe is to " discharge any miaithful
or disreput.blc carriers Of the mail" <not
Pos dfaafeys, Gentlemen !)--and to as
certain tie causes that have produced the
delays and irregularities, bat too Justly
complained off, Mr.. Mcigs is right. /
commend him for his vigilance. hrceu-
fdJities have occurred, and an agent ought
to have come on to ascertain the causes
Bnt are those DELAYS in this Office? DIR.
Foushee has froUed that they are not
that the Northern mail does not always
come in regularly 1-2 past oclock)-
and that the Southern Stage has to start
before the Northern mail arrives. Is this
his flult1
One word in your ear, Gentlemen, for
your comforf-Take my word for it ; the
Doctor is not to go ou'-Mr. Meigs is
maa OF rather too much good sense to lis
ten implicitly 10 the assertions CT brace
of brawlers. Such c. les are easily raised,
and as easily condemned.
The Editor of % The Republic an" en-
tiers with squib-and Mr.. Shores Cd
certificate. The explosion of the squb
hurts no one-and the certificate is rather
injurious to the cause of the allies as Mr..
5. did not firetend to say, that the de-
rongenent of the mails Fvas produced by
the Richmond Post Office. Now this was
the zvfole matter ar issue-thc certificate
is therefore perfectly irreleUant TESTING
ny.
We now come to the man with ske
kund'ed eyes'-who, in truth, does not APP
pear to " see with half-a-one :" the man
who hunts after evidence with the pertina-
city OF the swine, in the darkese or dir
test places--from discontinued clerk
down to little printer boy. I cannot pur-
sue him through all his ramih atoms. A
few touches win be sufficient to paint the
character of the attack.
l skip over his preliminary remarks
and pass like him, Z" to subj, ct Of vifaL
Importance" He asserts that Post Mas
ter ought to be selected among the Clerks
OF that department" and intinates in pref
ty strong terms, that generally speaking.
Offices ought not to be the reward of
meritorious patriots andinfrm vet rams"
1T MIR. Burke thinks SO. all that | can say
is, that 50 thought not Washington, j fer
son & Mad son. MIR. BIS rule would sweep
oFmany one who has lonorably served
his country. Col. Darlington ought not to
have been Commissioner, for he was no
Clcrk--Mcjor Scott was no Clerk-Major
Gibbon, none--Gcn. Moore, none. If the
Postmaster General had selected p. NJ.
for Richmond, out OF the Clerks in that of
fee, Instead Of DR.. Fousbee, in what an ele-
giant predicament would Mr.. Granger have
stoOd!
Mr.. B. has the politencssto ask" whence
are the boa sted claims Of " DR.. F.! In what
battle has lie fought and bIed? What Lee
gisiative or Executive services of impor-
lance has he rendered to his count1yf''-
ignorance" alone could excuse hrs want
ct decorum, or iinpudence Of assertion.
1t was not my intention to weave public
panegyiic for DR.. Foushec--I love and
respect the man, because l know him.
Friendship may mislead me; yet nothing
but an indignant desire to repel a studied
Insult upon the feelings of man whom ]
love, could eXtort one expression of praise
from my lips. What services! 1t is true
he was in no refuse epartmcnt---no SUIT
tier or Wagon msster-but. ask the gal
liant Chopper, who now sits i the Senate
Of Virgina--qsk him, with what alacrity
D.. +. marched in the perilous times Of
'76. with tie 9th Regiment If ne did not
bkeed in the cause Of our Independence, il
was because his vocation was to attend the
hospitals, and TO relieve the wounded. no
man loved that cause better, or was more
arjent in the support of il. Duri-g the
Revolution. be was in the Hospital Depart
meut, ans at its close, swhile other ply
clans, who had done much less thsn
himself, were obtaining the If recompeuse,
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