Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-05-23

The Enquirer complains, that TAFT and
Crawford are both To- be arraigned upon the
testimony of the bitter ,st personal enemy
whom Crawford has upon the earth--a man
whose boldness Of assertion is equal TO the ma
Lightly of his antipatby-and who has written
the very pamphlet on which Wythe so liber-
ally draws for his proofs, for the aroioed pur-
pose Of defeating Nm. II. Cs. election 10 the
EreSidencyp'
We have seen the inaccuracy of the first part
of this extract. | shall now show the equal
want of minute correctness in the remaining
part The extract below is General Clark's
own account of his motives
" The following publication is made for the
purpose of placing before my children, in as
concise Il manner as the nature of the circum-
stances will admit, some particulars relative
Ia myself of which they might hereafter have
some incorrect representations, and of the
real truth of which deem it important that
they be should fully possessed-and for the
purpose also of furnishing my friends with AN
unvarnlshed statement of transacticns of which
they have received some partial details, and
with the particulars of which many of them
have expressed wish To be accurately in
formed-and for the still further and not less
important purpose of exhibiting, in proper
point of view, the real character Of WILLIAM
III. CRAwFoRD, Esq. the present Secretary of
the Treasury ofthe United States, from which,
as conceive, proper estimate may in some
degree be made of his just claims to public
confidence and of his moral fitness for further
promotion"
That General Clark intended To make pub
LEGATION ofthis sort, long before Mr.. Crawford
had been thought of for the Presidency, will
fully appear from another extract that | Shalt
give, taken from the deposition fled by Gen.
FL nj, "a
TAFT; and d,teJ the 18th May, 1909. Sc A
full and particular detail of the circumstances
connected with this transaction, and of the
| unparalleled injuries done tn this deponent
he intended and still intends to lay before the
public"
| The pamphlet was printed in 1919, about
the time that General G.. was first elected
Governor and was again emphatcally tried
on It's merits, as has been stated, in 1921 when
Gen. T.. was IA second time electeI 10 that
office. On the latter OCCASION, the question
| distinctly put TO every voter at the count Y
polls, by the partisans of the guhernatorial
candidates, was thls:- are you for Clark
as GoN ernor, or Crawford AS President ?''-
with the suggestion that Georgia would per-
| haps never give President tn the Union
unless Crawford we're the man. Whether state
prtGe WILL in 1921, overcome the powerful
impression made against Mr.. Crawford, by
the pamphlet in question, and give him a
majority of suffrages in Georgia, remains
To he seen. The Enquirer however al
ready assumes the atfirmative-possibly On
the principle often found successful in cleo
tons by The assertion Of strength, strength is
gained.
have now, as | humbly conceive, made
| good the positions | WAS reluctantly drawn
| out To advance in my second communication
| TO the Enquirer ; and without being a public
| ton, no man shall be permitted TO dispute my
right to take an active interest in the honour
and welfare of my country. If in the exercise
ofthat privilege, have given pain TO those
whose conduct have examined, | must reply
| IN the language ofthe Roman poet
Leater nlsrita quieqnid patiare tercndsm est.