Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-04-24

To tie Editors IF tie Richmond ENQUIRER.
April 18th, 1927.
GENTLEMEN: II has been three weeks or more
since we addressed TO you communication which
we requested might be published in your paper
81, as we have not yet seen it, we are induced to
oeiieVe Il has, by some accident failed 10 reach
you. We therefore take leave to renew il, as we
CONSIDER II necessary tn our own Justification
and ask The favour of you 10 give it a place in
your columns The substance Of the communica
hon Is contained in he following
CARD
We received through the post Office at Rich
mond, a Jew DAYS before we left that city. a
pamphlet entitled the " Convention ouest,on in
1877, purPortpg TO be written by the Au,hor
OF 3D. and signed &" One Of the People but
nave not until recently taken an opportunity to
peruse it. II is our purpose 10 enter into onv
criticism OF this pamphlet. 1t would be needless
Tor US, or any one else to undertake to expose The
false anaiosies and incorrect principles upon which
IL Is predicaied: they are sufficiently apparent To
strike The attention OF all who may be disposed TO
take the trouble to give il even the most careless
perusai. We would not. il il ~ ere necessary al
temp TO expose 10 special view the paNifU which
seems t. have iniuced an individual 10 assume 10
himself the exclusive Capacity of insructins and
! eniigh,ening he people of Virginia on the subject
OF ther government. Nor shall we anime advert
on the attempt tha ~ made TO excite the pI eutir
's to 'nhame the passions, and 10 array in hostile
attitude, one portion of this Commo cath ag snst
the Other; il is before The whole people and viii
doubtless, meet from them its tne,i,ed estimation.
we have nothing to do with The mad and pa,sion
ale denunciations lavished against the government
anu The majority who voted on the Convention
Bill IN the last Legislature, and shall therefore
'ae no other notice oil this pamphlet than such a..
We consider necessarily iplrosed up II rs, in self
defence, by note appended TO its i3.b page. IN
which tie an hor says. 3" Moreover, common nm
ue"ce would seem 10 suggest, that in the counties
where they already posse-s majority OF voices,
/ lmsaning the friends oil reform they should a.
void be error, heretofore committed in several in
stances, OF sending the enemies OF reform TO The
Leei'ia ure, on mere promise to uote for Con
, Yenhon BIZ. These non-1escripi Legislators
who, as In duty bound, look one way, while the,
roc another, have shewn us how easy it is TO
keep the word OF promise to the ear ana break
1t TO the sense Qai capt. lie tacit.' We as
ture the author and the public, thar we have no,
been induced, at all, 10 take notice of this nofe
because we have felt, In the slightest degree, the
force OF his latin application OF it, Bu, as il was
generally understood, and as far as we know and
oelieve,i was fact, that IRE constituted the oal1
distance, and were the only ftc0 individuals Ii.
me late Legislature, who were opposed TO the
ConVen ION, that had been instructed by our con-
s'huen's TO vote Tor II, II is therefoc that do
feel imperiou-ly called upon IN defence of truth
and ourselves, If the author was aware of Ills
tact, and intended his remarks for as to say. in
Tue hrst place. that it is not true that IRE were
elected on msre promise 10 uOie tor n Conven-
non Bill. And, farther, il il was intended by he
last clause OF the noIe above quoted TO be in sim
ua'ed, hat zoe did, in any manner, be,Ia, The
trust reposed in us by our constituents, we with
out hesitation, declare the insinuaiion to be utterly
false, and without foundation
TWO DELEG ATES.