Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-05-04
MIR. LINN'S AFFIDAVIT.
From the Winchester Yaginian !

was lew days since reading the e" WIN.
chester Republican," edited by certain Samuel
H. Davis, when my attention was attracted by an
editorial paragraph commencing ,hus:-
Tie sky toas o'ercast, the morning io.uer,i
dsd heavily in clouds brought on the day.
" Ihis Was the aPOstrophe If Pvr,lus in the
day which witnessed the destruction of the H.
bertes OF Rome, the triumph Of Cesar, and the
death OF the vir;uous Cato Such day usber.d in
the triumph Of fraud, falsehood and force. and
gave to modern Caesar. the CLAIM OF Victory
From such an IN reduction expected to read
o. some dreadful disaster threatening our beloy ed
country -oi some black treason against our hap
~ government ;Judge then oil my establishment,
when, upon rsadng further, | discovered that i,
was the spienefic illusions OF yankee federaIist
and devoted administration man, who thinks - III.
Ki"S can do 10 wrong ssans, the cons,s-
tent uenocTais OF Shenandoah, for refusing 10 vote
Tor Alfred II. Powell, whom they knew herelo.
iore 10 nave been most oiOient fedsralist, and
now believed 20 be friend to the present admin
istration. If MIR. Davis's paper circulated only
where he Is known, / should not have taken nh.
""uo'e 10 correct his misstatemenis, but as his
chaste and gentlemaEly remarks contained in his
eA"a' ABUSING men, women and children" have
been copied INTO the National IntelIigencer by the
editors, who have become sponsors for bis 5;,.
cTetton, (it is well they went no furiher\ and
VIII probably be copied into other administration
papers think II due 10 the people of Shepan
doan' who have been lndjscriminately a.saiied. I'm
correct these miss atenents:-On the first Jav of
the election 1t rained constantly, and the voters
who attended were we'll drenched by il, some of
.he'n I'D consequence OF this, drank freely Ow-
ing 'ns crcunstance Ito the great interest," felt
ny Tue nienoS OF both the candidates, in the re-
sui, OF he election = to the violent han,,bls cir
cuiated by seine OF MIR. Powells friends. IN il.
having been made in both counties in soms III.
gress county question, and 10 The unusual course
pursued by hlr. Powell, IN challenging the voters
much excitement existed, more than / wished 10
nave seen. In one instance, a voter, upon BEING
Challenged a. 10 his right 10 vote by Mr. Powell
induiSed In some incorporate expressions asaius,
Mr. Powell, which are admitted 10 have been i'm
proper. Bu' MIR Davis tells Us that they belcbed
iorih o<aspAsr'ics against Mr.. Powell. az a ri,
nal ior general concert OF dann'd spiriis."
W nal Pious and beautiful ideal Bla.phenins
Mr.. Powell-We admit that he is man Of ,.'
Tents, but had not suppo.ed that he was ;doJ;-ed
until at the WINCHESTER election we saw n,s,ed
Ia large letters upon he Clerks Office the fal,ow-
Ing sentence -" Why stand ye here all the >d.,
idle press forward 70 the mark, for the prize q.
The high calling, viz. Alfred H. Powell - Uooa
ONE other occasion MIR. Powell was rudely scco..
ed upon the street By drunken man, whose yo,.
bad been challenged, TO know why il had b.en
done; ~ r properly perhaps gave him no re.
ply, or an Unsatisfactory one, he thea cursed Mr.
Z anu toiu hin II he would stop he would whip !
'itn' IheSe were TIE only personal insults offered
10 MIR. T. 50 far as the writer, who was ,reser,
At the election, can ascertain, and these were oc
casioned by his extreme striciness in cb,Ilsno;na
votes. will venture 10 say that no electio, in
he Commonwealth ofVhginia. were the oters ss
strictly scTutinzsd and challenged as at Shenan.
ioah, and they were generally nor chsllepeed nv |
MIR. =. until after he had aseerfained how tb.S
Iad voted. nlr. Allen challenged no, sinoi. |
voter in The county OF Frederick, and could n p
expected that The course pursued by Mr. p ,vouJJ
produce no exci'em Mt! If Mr. DAYS had looked
u nome ne would hay' sscerisIneJ that Mr. Ee,
;beVai Tor challenging . few soles 10 Frederick
vas not only insulted upon the bench but hi ~
'erty was cast up 10 him as a reproacb Pr,
his happened no. in the heoihen count, Of S,,sn
ndoab, IL escaped hr. Davis's aotIce Mir ~;
illedges that men who voted Tor Mr.. Pc 81, ,v.,.
'eaten and others who intended voting for lin,
we're threatened with ruin ii they did. rb.s.
'hsrges are not true; give Us the names of ,6e.o
men, and then we can refute them; all tbs, vys
an now 20 is TO saj they are fukse. " In
les also were brought forward and received sod
heir right TO vote defended by Mr.. Allen bimse,f ;,
MS also IS iaIse There was one man voted
'Do "hen NOT intoxicated Is 81 le,I 80 sensible
VII DAVIS himself, but no, when intoxicated
ecomes defanged: he Is frequently IT, tina .,,u,-
on, ard the court 10y cOnseo have anoo,o,sJ
ommitiee to AXE care OF his esta e When hs
oied he was sober; his right 10 vote has been re-
oghized at oil previous elections in Shenandoah r
> the rol books will prove and would no, now :
ave been called in question, il be had POSSESSED
iMeisnf - discretion" TO vote for Mr. Powell ! 6
lr. Allen properly Insisted that the vote -boniJ 4
entered out directed II 10 De marked M Da 9
IS makes a sweeping declaration that g the s.c IL
on was carried by fraud, f9sehood, and force =, ,
Iat " MIR. Allen looked calmly on at these ,x- '
ssses and permitted his frelds to commit then G
I'd that for these and other reasons the elec,;on
III be contested before Congress" IL is e,.ie,
make assertions aisi co Prove them, and II MI.