Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-11-24

The jackson prints proceed Systematically 10 TN cir
misrepresentation of the admin: ration meetings.
When those meetings small land they are in many
instances confessedy mnoritiesl the number is
pretended TO be given-where they large nothing
Is said of the numbers. 1t is taken for granted
that all the citizens of the county in attendance
are also in opposition, when is known that nothing is
more difficult in Virginia, than to draw the people out
on any occasion, and much more at these meetings
which novel and uuexampled in this State Alarm
cd at the numbers, weight and responsibility of these
meetings, aud the effect they producing al home
and abroad the Enquirer especially, has set TO work
10 dePreciate their consequence aud iidicule their
numbers Proceed gentlemen in The genial t.S; nj
the public that the admi-
nistraton party Vis inie is weak and contemplate
and SET apart for yourselves, and your toad EATERS
such another day of mortifcatan and humiliation as
was provided for you by the last senatorial election
The day before that event you informed the world that
Mr. Randolph TO be elected without opposition and
with the fool hardy assurance YOU now affirm the
hopeiessness OF resistance 10 Gen Jackson Upon that
head, all ask is, that the next twelve months NAV
cure as many OF the jackson hydrophoba, as did the
last In that event. central dctation is at an end in
Virginia.
The Enquirer betrays great sensbility at signature
adopted BY correspondent, of this paper and
the public, that the 'NIason of '76" who appeared
IN Wednesdays WING, is not the Mason of '76 who
wrote for the Enquirer in 1887 Pray, who said or
intimaed, that 1t tcaS the same Mason of no. Why
tins gratuitous assurance to the public why stigma
use the selection of particular signature as a
literary rick?" Was it simply TO detract insidi-
ously, from the merit of the essay in The Wing, did the
occasion present too fair opportunity to be neglected.
OF Offering incense to the distinguished literary char
acter" whose "cognomenn correspondent had bor-
rowed?
We fully acqn the distinguished literary charac
tern alluded to- of the pueriIe vanity of volunteering
this information TO the public He ought be attered
insead of ncensed, that humble asprants after
literary fame, sought TO attract portion of public
attention by adopting 'cognomen," which lustrous
IN ITSELF his genius has rendered still Iustrous
He has hardly either, presume, secured COPY
right for the exclusive of that signature Ii is as
free to another, as TO him. Who the second Mason
OF 76 is, we do not even know--that he intended no
"trick" however-that he did wish or expect to
deude the public into the belief of his identity with the
other Mason il is at least charitable to presume
Should these lines meet his eye, he will probably
for himself.
The Enquirer embraces this opportunity 10 reproacl
us again Spr not arresng the intimation that Mr.
Madison was the author of the letters of ga Farmer
and oy the bye, we have to pull with the Ere
dericksburg jackson Committee (from whom we ex,
peced more sense) for similar misusage. Now besides
MIR. Madison, Judges Brooke, Coalter, Cabell Carr
Dade Chapman johnson, John II. Smith, Gen. Tay-
lor Robert Stanard and twenty Others have been
jectured to be The authors of those sfimsyn essays
Was IT incumbent on us to oppose negative TO every
idle conjecture that might be started? And If So shoulc
we not necessarily be forced to betray Indirectly the
secret, we had pledged ourselves TO hold sacred? Be-
sides, if those essays very sfnsy," their as
cripton TO MIR. Madison, could deceive nobody. We
hold ourselves acquitted of the reproach of directly
indirectly promoting the belief of MIR. Madison being
their author. None indeed but the acute and refined
moral perception of sJaoksonsn, would have ever
deemed it reproach.