Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-09-29
COMMUNICATED.
COJNIN . " C1I a Il 1|s
The Hon. John TaLofeTyo-

members 10 the Congress oil The United States oil
more than usual importance, connected, as 1t may
be, with the decision OF question OF the most vi
tai import to the American people-,o witt the
choice of the next President of this Nation; beg
leave to require oil you, as the representative at
present of the district composed OF the counties OF
Stafford, King George, Sc aud for which station,
/ presume, you are again candidate, whether you
are in favour OF Adams jackson next
Chief Observation-Disclosures you for or against
the Mission to the Congress of Panama in fine,
whether or not you advocate of the admins
tration.
Doubt being entertained, so FAR as I am inform
ed, upon these points throughout the district, and
the above being admissible and fair enquiries to be
made of repre- entatve by his constituents, and il
being moreover the duty of member of Congress,
above all things, not TO conceal his views, upon
subjects invol, ing the national welfare, from the
people upon whom the honor and comforts of his
political life depend, especially when he Is called
on by them for the jev eiopement, shall expec,
Won not to occupy any neutral ground to which, II
pressed, you may retreat for shelter, but to
the enquiries above propounded in bold and man.
ly manner, and with little ambiguity they have
been submitted.
These enquiries, under the present signs of
the times, doubtless OF great national importance,
deemed at least sufficiently in this particular
spot of the nation, TO excite interest bat natural
in people tenacious of their privileges; and as
salutation, shall expect be fairly frankly
dealt with.
The present state Of things will not admit Of
indscisive, qualifying measures Neither will
scheming without principle, and turning this way
that way, from individual interest or erpectan-
cy, do for us now-such system OF management
never fails TO end in bunder and disgrace-To
avert the political ruin which awaits US, our ma
tional sentinels must march up to their duty with
the /" firm step of a soldier" or with perceptions
unofuscaied by the hope Of office the erpecta.
ton of emOltttnent
This is no season for conceslment, craft and in
decision, for it is said the cunning OF the Fox is
as murderous the violence of the wolf; but is
that calls aloud for independent enei getic and
intelligent representatives. iu the absence of which
indispensable qualifications we may prepare our
selves sooner or later, if not see totally demol-
ished, essentially defaced, The noblest monument that
human policy has erected.
The style in which these enquiries have been
made and these sentiments conveyed, sir, perhaps
may be oppressive to you, but they should rather
be considered friendly than otherwise, as they al
ford you opportunity of dispelling the doubI as
regards you, in which this subject is enveloped.
Versed, as you undoubtedly are, in all the varie-
ty OF feeling OF the human heart, and intimately
quainted, as thirty four FIVE years must have
made you, with the particular character OF the PEG
pie OF your district, 1t cannot escape you how
I v,
not to be reserved, at all ambiguous, If you
wish to retain their confidence, and through that
the situation of member of Congress, which, /
/ presume, no one will doubt-not to whisper your
sentiments in a committee-reom, but 10 speak them
forth, if in the ball assigned you for your de-
liberation, at least in the of that grea, temple
of freedom Rely upon it you must have free com
munion, not below, but upon the deck of the ma
tional ship, and that too, in language not to be
misunderstood by the crew, mutiny will follow,
in which, peIchance, the ship may be saved, but
you will be thrown overheard.
Thus, sir, admonished by the complexion of pre-
sent appearances, have thought proper to address
you in the language of candor and devotion to the
welfare of my country Leaving it then to you to
profit or not, as you may please, by the warning,
l subscribe myself
n Freebooter Of the District.
Sept. 81, 1926
The National Intelligencer has disappointed US
Instead Of having the manly spirit to confess
the error of the suggestions which il threw out
about the Enquirer, it resorts to the most unwor-
thy subterfuges and the most " low born iests''
10 evade the force of their refuiation. We show
ed to the satisfaction of every ingenious mind that
we have resisted the encroacbmen's of the General
Government, whether they redounded to the seeming
advantage of Virginia, fanny other stale for il
was this ungenerous allegation of self-interes,,
which touched US the most nearly. We showed that
we had resisted the appropriation TO the Dismal
Swamp Canal at the very moment when word
would have been in season. We took the liberty
oi shelving the had also pursued as to the
Cumberland and the New Orleans National Roads
II was painful for us TO see such an allegation al
all it was painful for us TO meet tit is painful
for US to continue the discussion IF the Editors OF
the Nat. Intelligencer had not forgotten the
frank and friendly spirit, in which they profess
to treat us, they would not have put US to the
necessity of writing the present article
WHIST benefit do they expect to reap from their
ridiculous bsdinage upon the State itself? They
talk OF our F" acquescence in the actual encroacb-
ment' on the disk of the chGste orb of Virginia
by the csreering sun of The general government -
They say that ifthe expenditure of the $3.50 900
upon the Dismal Swamp, drawn some days since
from the Treasury and deposited in a Virginia
Bank =" does not rouse the spirit of Old Virginia
'hen there be, among Der sons, no true knights
though che has been evened, classically, and not
unwonbiy, TO /" the mother Of the Gracchi"
DO they expect TO accomplish by an i'll timed lest
what all the arguments OF Adams and Clay
have failed 20 effect Virginia will hold TO her
principles in spite Of sopbisls or Of sneerers.
The Intelligence consirues own silence since
March last into acquiescence in the Dismal S
Z. Appropriation. We resisted the Bill when II
was on its passage; and what more could we do
Why should we have repeated our mpohunate pro-
test! Would Mr. Rush have refused the paymen,
OF the $50, 900? Would our Banks have turned
It from their vsultsY Or would the Canal Com
pany have declined 10 use it' We were unac
qusinted with the fact of The payment; but Of what
avail would have been our knowledge of the cir
cumstances, or any protest which we might have
urged the occasion The In