Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-08-10
FOR TIE ENQUIRER.


A friend to Fl. st. G. Tucker, has seen, with
much indignation, short attack upon that gentle
mans character, in the Washington " National
Register" Of the 27t.l July. Noclarge be
ceived, more utterly false than this is--Nir. i. rs
Charged with playing double game - with " adj
vocating the Compensation Bill, when it first Of
fered in speech of considerable length, aud voting
against every proposition which tended to defeat II
but that, as snOn as he ascertained the yeas and
nays would be taken, he opposed the bill the
following day, with equal violence"
1t is not Mr.. rs. mess well remember that
he uniformly opposed 1T in conversation upon he
same principles which he assigned IL the House,
and one Of them remembers that he voted against
Vt IN Committee as well in the Horse. What
he did say was in the House. and 30 far from being
IN favor OF the bill, was Uery short statement OF
bis reasons for voting agaiJs; it. S. far from sbun-
ningany responsibility, which he might easily
have done, Mr.. L. for the express purpose Of
declaring his opinion 10 be favorable TO increase
OF compensation on propr e'iewr0s.
AS 20 the other insinustion OF the Register, that
the extra compensation is entered the treasury
oks to his credit, and that he man hereafter draw
II " Il he be not re-ele 1"-it is scarcely worth
a notice. Mr. L. has crested barriers to his
demand, which he will not, and cannot pass He
has never made crit OF his own conduct; be-
cause he took great pains TO have it coneeaed-t
speak on this point from circumstances, which
came in singular way 10 my knowIcs,ge As 90
bsng " re-electe that mot i've couid scarcely ave
u
clned a reelection.
To TIVE EDIToH-" Dunfiies, August 6, 1916
" Dear Sir,
" observe in your paper Of the ST.
INST that some writer from Prince William, for
the purpose, as he says, OF preventing false impress
sions abroa has given you the result of the cleo
ton OF Deputies in this county, to NEE, in the Con-
venton at Stanton. As it is possible this letter,
as IT stands in your columns, unaccompanied BY ex-
piana'Ion and remark. might lave a tendency 10
produce those very false impressions which the
writer seems anxious to avoid, hope You will pas
don the freedom use, and which should not have
taken, but at the request of several gentlemen of
responsibility, to state a few facts intended to re-
present the sentiments of the people of this
ty, in clearer point of view than what NAV be in
ferred from the short communication OF the gentle
man referred to.
I" In the first place, the writer does not state
where the meeting held, being at Hay Market
little village at the North Western extremity of
the county, and where the freeholders are very
thiny scattered.-1heY did not meet on the 18th of
July, because Of its being busy harvest time and
am inclined to believe, that the meeting OF the
10Th, was 50 little attended in consequence Of the
limited diffusion OF nOtice.-But the truth is Messrs
Love and Brooke did not consider the act of the
rev who attended on the Goth, an election, and
those gentlemen, DESTROYS of collecting public sent.
ment, attended August court, in expectation that
there might be toerablv full assemblage of the
people. The court was, however, thinly att ntled ,
yet, not outstanding, nearly all the Grand Jury and
upwards ct fifty or sixty Freeholders (vithn We
ry few Of the whole number duwn) subscribed a
paper, expressive Of their appreciation of the elcc
on nj MIR. Love and MIR. Brooke, ard Of the CD
Iects Tor which they were chosen. These sigma
teres we're among the most respectable in the eoun-
ty, and am satisfied that two-thiris Of the land
holders Of Prince William, would have united to
them their own, had favorable opportunity occur
red"