Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-10-27

and respect TIL rTERSON
II. LEE, ESQ.
CANVASSING.
II is probably unnecessary 10 inform even our
distant readers, that the contest betm cen Messrs
Giles y Archer for seat in the Goth Congress has
given rise TO great deal OF public speaking. and
10 much excitement among the freehoders of the
District 1t has, indeed, communicated consid-
eraoie degree OF interest TO the contiguous dis
uicts The two candidates have addressed the Cit
liens OF each county, and of the town of Peters
burg, at considerable length and those of Pow
ma an county twice. Tie author OF the first COM
muncation refers TO the first meeting in Powhatan:
That OF the second presents sketch of the second
meeting, which took place in that county ON Thurs
day the 18th Inst We have felt no disposition
ourselves to mingle in this contest. The people
CT the Disr.ct sufficiently able 10 decide for
themselves, (whout the interposiiion of other
persons,) who is the best able 10 serve them
and, being contest between two gentlemen, whom
We consider as brethren oil the same family, we are
unwilling, by any thing that might say, to add
10 the scope ct controversy, the asperity of
which, already, we most sincerely regret. But,
while we have taken our own course upon these
grounds, we have no RE ht to lay them down as
law 10 others We claim no authority of an I'm
pT'nldtu on such occasion. Nor would we
lake upon oursel, es the task of excluding the la
Tours OF others, because the eaIb in which thew
please to address the public might not exactly be
to our own taste. Under these Impressions we ,av
tie two following Communications from friends
oi both the candidates before our Readers
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
TO THE EDITORS OF THE WING:
IL de olePeis 70 ka'phqs TO ophano tou adelpho
sou, ten de EN- TO opthaino dokon gu katanoei, y
Anu why bebodes thon the mGe that in thv brother.
eyeand eon.iderest not the beam that thine own
S"S : have read with no small degree of sur
Prise, the editorial remarks in your paper of the
10th OF Oct. inst, respecting the political ba
ransues delivered at Petersburg by Messrs Archer
and Giles.
am at present constrained by feelings of res
pect towards you, as fellow-ctizens, TO transmit
10 yol piece OF advice, which is, before YOU
condemn the course pursued by others, look well
TO your own conduct; and whilst YOU are CONTRACT
ing the teuds OF prejudice and preparing the torch
OF device, to Consume, by one coDhagraten, the
reputation oil your adversary, beware, lest some
part OF the garb OF your reputation be ENDANGERED
by the flame; and take heed, whilst you are pour
ing forth your inconsistent sarcasms upon the
characters OF those who advocates for equity
and not Tor corruption, lest they be retorted upon
yourselves, and found more applicable TO the
composers, than the person for whom they were
intended.
You stated. soon after you established your paper
IN Richmond, that you intended IN your publica
far short oft
You mentioned, in the malignant yituperations
which you ushered forth in torrent against the
reputation OF Mr. Archer, that 90 his challenge -
as you termed If, to his antagonist to meet him
at the several courthouses ofthe district, was i'm
polite in p pose and ungracious in language -
What an hyperbolica expression unexamnled in
the annals of diplomatic folly | am confident
you could not have known any thing of the
" challenge" as you called it; but have been led
oil by the idle tales of the vulgar, otherwise vou|
never could have advanced such uniustjfiable SEN
timents against Mr. Archer. That YOU NAV be
more prudent " in reliquum tenpus,'' will give
you detail of the commandments Mr. Archer
was attacked In most violent manner by a coun-
y-couft lawyer OF holloway, who, Just before
that, had been to MIR. Giles (as 1 suppose) re-
ceived his instructions of the hero of the IVigwam
and like the winged son of jupiter, set out with
speed to perform his orders. These clandestine
movements constrained Mr.. Archer to grid on his
armour and enter the field of battle, to defend that
which was dearer than life itself-his reputation.
But, like valiant soldier, be could not stoop so
low as TO attempt to storm the fort of his antago-
MIST by surprise, by resorting TO apy insidious
means. Therefore, he wrote note to Mr.. Giles.
the purport of which this. g that he intended
addressing the ireeholdeTs Of this district, and
should commence the Thursday following at Pow
hatan Courthouse, and he wished him 10 be there
as be intended making free illusions to him."
Permit me now to enquire of you, where is the
ungracious language from which you took such
eccentric fight! Would not every man Of honor
have pursued the same open course! If so, why
blame him?
will, in the conclusion Of my friendly remarks,
advise you benceiorward, never to use, on any
occasion, the word " inconsistency" which YOU
nave reiterated so often, and urged with such man
" energy Of argument, as great objection to Mr..
Archer politician.
Permit me, for moment, to ask, if those very
81 de charges, which have been alleged BY Mr..
4heher, as objection TO Mr.. Giles, as a represen
taiiye in Congress, were not urged, in mos, vebe
nent terms, against Mr.. Giles by yourselves whilst
he was writing his Golden Cas1ets and lashing the
usurper Of civil Office for the unauthorized liberties
which he had assumed.
Why should your opinion, in regard 10 Mr..
GILES, be so completely revoIuionized in so shor,
a period Of timer Is not Mr.. Giles an advocate
Tor the same principles now, for which he was
them Does be not still deny the right the Viz
ginis Legislature had to instruct Is he no, the