Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-11-30

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morning Of which was so generously conse-
Grated 10 their service.
JAMES PLEASANTS.
| EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, soth November, 1894.
| FOR THE ENQUIRER.
To HE Electors Of Yuginia..
! Gentlemen-A fellow citizen, who respects
your character and supports your cause, begs
leave to address you. Not a syllable would
be necessarily some improper measures were
not taken To bias your decision.
! You are about to discharge the specific duty
which has been entrusted 10 you by the peo-
pie. But you have been advised TO violate
your trust and bring disgrace upon yourselves.
You have been advised TO withhold your votes
Tor William IL. Crawford. The proposition
betrays little less than an insult. You have
pledged yourselves solemniy TO vote Tor Mr..
Crawford. Your honor is at stake. Add yet
are you not asl.,d to violate your pledge aud
to disgrace your characters?
| You may be ibid that your votes will he
thrown away. How is this ascertained? Your
votes VIII IN all probability place him in the
| Rouse; aud who knows that success may at
tend him there? And who is II that gives YOU
TINS advice? Perhaps, The friends of Mr.. Clay.
bnt with what pr0prety can they urge this al :
gument, when MIR. Crawford is a stronger man
before the people than Mr.. Clay. MIR. Clay has
lost The very votes upon which he counted. IL
has lost Indiana, lllinos, one vote i'm Missouri,
and there is very little doubt the whole vote OF
Louisiana. Ii wegive him the seven contest
ed votes of New York, he will then carry but
so votes into the House of Representatives
whereas MIR. Crawford Will have 40. But e.
ven If Mr.. Clay had more votes than Mr..
Crawford, 1t the cause Of the latter was ALSO
iu'eiy desperate, you have bound yourselves
to vote for him; and it does not comport with
me Character uf Firgluians 10 be splitting hairs
when their honor is concerned.
Shppose the cause of Mr.. Crawford ,vas alb
soiuieiy hopeless; are we, therefore, To des-
pond Has Virginia no other duly TO per-
form? VIII she consign herself to sackcloth
ana ashes No, gentlemen let us say as
FRANCIS the lst did after the battle Of Payia,
We have lost every thing but our houor."-
The time may be rapidly coming, when the
weight OF Virginia may be more felt than ever
Let her adhere to the man whom she con
scientiously prefers the man, who is qualified
Tor the high office, for which we selected him
from all his counirymsn the man, whose
! principles are most congenial ~ our own. and
we shall still consult the honor of our state,
and the interests of our country. We will
prove tn the world that Virginia will do what
she believes to be right that she is always
true 10 her principles that she is not ready
| 10 desert them at The first appearance of
danger and she will lay up for herself cha
| racter for the future, to which her friends NAV
look with confidence, and her ene,nies with
apprehension. Should Mr.. Crawford be de-
| iea.ed and should the next administration
betray Our constitution and our rights, the
firm conduct of Virginia at this time will give
Ii character
her opposition irresistible. She will again be.
as she was IN the days Of yore the pillar OF
cloud ny day, and the pillar of iise by night
our own honor, therefore, aud the honor of
the state are concerned in the ballots which
you are about 10 give.
| Finally, you may be told that Mr.. Craw
ford is iniirm-- disabled, paralytic. | should
lament that the friends Of Ms. Clay should
urge this Objection, because prefer him next
10 MIR. Crawiord-and IL he should reach the
House OF Reprrsentati, rs, | should wish the
friends of Clay and Crawford 10 unite tog.lh-
er. Butsuca attack upon MIR. Crawford
is calculated TO i,ritate his friends, aud 10 ere
axe dangerous breach between them and the
friends of Mr. Clay. Ii is particularly i,opro.
per also, because IT il untrue BECAUSE there
are witnessesYin this city, who have regent,
seen him, who would scorn TO deceive You
and who attest 10 the unbrolten ,igour and ac.
tivify of his mind.
Doe thing more, Gentlemen "A Vice Pre-
sideDt. You are advised 10 vote for Mr.. Cal
houn. Why To conciliatc because he !.
TO be elected elsewhere, therefore YOU had
best vote for him Is il possible that Won ear
TALL into this cant ? When did Virginia ever
sacrifice her principles for the sake Of toncili.
alton? Ii the other states will elect sir. Cal
boun without our assistance, be il so. LIE,
the act be at their doors; not at ours. al
all men breathing. Mr.. Calhoun has the lea.,
right TO call upon the friends of Mr.. GRAVEYARD
for assistance. He has been the most indelatiga-
bile enemy he has met with; the source ,ynenc.
most of The attacks against him have proceed
ed; the handspring of newspaper which
has prosecuted .hr. Crawford with the most
uogenerons aud unTelenilng bate. And vel
yon,the friends OF Mr.. Crawford are gracious
/ W invited 10 support his inveieraie enemy.--
| You too, Virginians, are asked to vote for a
man, whose political principles are directly al
war WIN those oil Va; who goes for the doc.
Tune oi the general welfare; and would rros-
trate the rights OF the states at The feel or the
| federal government.
No, gentlemen, let US take man. more
after our own heart-seIsct s,,cb :, man nc
Nathaniel Nlacon-and support him who SIM
ports the consiitution.-In n word pen,le-
men, lei lis look to our principles. attach our
selves TO their friends nor from the Syren
song of Cancellation, throw Ourselves into the
| hands OF their enemies. 50
MARCELLUS.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
NovEMBga 22d, 1924
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