Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-08-17

has exceeded So Or 4c-In Fredericksburg
the meeting Is supposed not 10 exceed Is o.
o0-'n Norfolk, il was apparently swslled by
artificial causes. In Richmond, IL was COMES
sedIy short OF all expeetstion-Take any meet
ing throughout this Common ealth a. a speci-
rnen Ut the opponents Of Mr.. Crawford and
where do you find one, which is calculated "a
excite the hopes Of his enemies or to strike
The slightest apprehension into the heart, Of
his friends ?-We may be sorely mistaken,
when the day Of trial c0mes-for Us the Alex
andria Gazette ssgely observes, "Time alone
will determne the result - but we shall be
much disappointed, fin single town 6r coun-
~ q this wide commonwealth Mr.. Adams re-
cell 1ore votes than Mr.. Crawford /: In
most ofthe counties Mr.. G. will receive s, or
q votes to Mr.. AS one; aud in some, Mr.. A.
will scarcely get single vote. Time how
ever will determine"
| In the comment we made on the Adams
meeting in this place, we stated that we did
not attend, " but distinctly understood that
II fell ~ every respect greatly below the pub
lie expectations" liz was SO small that the Ora
tor who addressed the meeting, complained
in feeling terms Of the deseriion Of the friends
Of Dir. Adams. Our information was derived
from several spectators Of great respeciabi lity.
On further enquiry there Seems to be diver
sty Of opinion rs 10 the numbers preses,t.-
There might have been $50 persons of ali
i descriptions at the meeting. But how many
were minors how many were SPECTATORS
How many Of the friends OF Mr.: Adams had
rotes that viii tell. on the day Of election, ther
are no means Of rscertaioing.y Nor is il
material. The number Of voters present was
certainly small, amounting not to half, perhaps
not To third 0f the uuanber irl&he .eity whs
favor the election Of Dir. A. We have no in
terrsf, and certainly no wish to give 4 false
colour'ng to this meeting-nOr are we satisfied
that the actual number Of .adams men who
attended, materially varied from the represen
tation originally made 10 US. The meeting,
when stript of spectators and minors, fell much
below the expectations both of the friends and
of the opponents of Mr.. Adams. We have
no idea that Mr.. A. can possibly get the vote
OF Richmond-a Time alone can determine"
NE Plus ULTRA.
Our quondam, friend tNIr. Souihwick Of the
Albany" National Democrat'') to whom we
| were lately indebted to compliment. half
sweet half bitter, has now thrown Somerset
which surpasses any thing we have seen; of
i the silly and ridiculous, in these most rx-
traordinary times 1t was but yesterday that
correspondent in The Franklin Gazette turn
ed ID men into 5000. A few DAYS before TN.
N. Y. American had told the most absurd sto-
ries about MIR. Crawfsrd's ndisposition.-Mr.
Southwick, however, has given lis a touch of
the ridiculous, even beyond these gentlemen.
Seriously, he has written between 2 and 8
columns to insinuSte that four |" British Ennis
sories, with Mr.. Jackson, THE accredited Bri
tish agent Mt Washing OF, )" may have nadia Sc
cret understanding with the friends of Mr.: Craw-
ford at Aibany-that they doed out British
secret service, money fund" to corrupt 8. bribe
the members of the N. Y. Legislature to vote
| against the electoral iaw--that the ouid pro
quo is TO he the repeal of the tariff law az OBJ
noxious to 6. Britain-(and quoth Mr.. South
wick)" we shall notice the recent voyage to
England, Of certain leading Crawfordii. in
the councils Of the Union--and shall state facts.
and draw differences accordingly = and shire wd-
ly shaking his head, hints "John Rando,nh.
we find did not start off in so great hurry for
England, as soon as the TdriF BIZ passed.
Without motire." That is, Mr.. r. sent thes,
four Emssaries. &c. sc. &c.
Pro di-gious What proofs have Won. Mr.
SOuthwick Oh not one-but il il strange
these Enissaries should "so accidentally, hut so
opportunity. attend the erira meeting of our
Legislature 20
And these four enissaries are none hut four
respectable whig members of Parliament
who bappen 40 arrive a; Nsw York-aDd are
n turalIy drawn TO witness the most interesting
/, oSCuc VIZ. ot WHICH, VIE " nleQ ,StatPS
could then exhibit. And tn is represented
az the design, which draws them from Grrat
Britain-a design brought about by Dlr.
Randolph, who did not know before he sailed,
Of this Extra meeting Of the Legislature.
/ This is mad world, my masters ~
Are there commissions of Lunacy-no
madhouses in New York, for your unfortunate
| printers, who are " crazed by care, or crossed
! in hopeless love ?"
| We received last es eniDs and shall publish
in our next, Mr.. j. @. Adams's .Appendir,
touching the solitary charge (as brought for
ward in MIR. Pickering's oamphet) of his hav-
ing declared on the Embargo question in 8O7
The President has.recommended the mea-
sure on his high responsibilities would no,
consider. | would not deiberate--I would
act" This appendix is the most Indifferent
piece OF composition we have ever seen from
Mr. Adams's pen-though, with few ex-
ceptions, ties written with studied TEMPER.
The beauty of the matter is, that the very
sentiment which his JEALOUS partizans have
so heediessly sought to justify and even 10
commend, Mr.. A. himself now contends that
he 6 rsrer oppressed or feu,"-and that "tt
support the charge. he (Mr. P.) quoted sever
al words, which he said had used 70 the de-
bate, and which detached from this context
and from the explanation / have now given,
migkf deserve all the sererity ofhis commeniary''
The Appendix, however, is a curious one
and the reader shall judge Of it for himself on
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