Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-05-18

will not 20 divide the five loeres and two fish
e., as to satisfy The cravings of he hungry nuiii-
tude All caenot get offices, many wi!l b. diss2-
pointed, who like Mo-es of old, may view the
prospect from afar, on which they are destined me-
yer to enter; bot they will not, like the pious Is
raeiiie, submit with resignation; they will turn
with double fury on the very hand from which
bounty wls just solicited. A SPY.
COMMUNICATED.
The Hon John TaHafeyyo and his Experience.
| have been Informed through the medium oil
the Enqursr cf he 20th inst. by a communication
signed IA Observer, dated Richmond county, tia,
the political opinion of the Hon. JOHN Taliaferro.
as regartt the administration, has been at last ex-
torted, and ] believe TOO, under the mighty magic
and cUeicive influence, of an unseen, snunknown
individual that he psrslyzins influence Of tho
governmental hand since he lett Washington, had
lost its power hat though the ipteroeatcries
were submitted 10 bim by IN anonymous enuul-
rer, he youchsased TO depart from h- previously
alleged, inti-xible rule, OF answering no commune
cation 20 which the real name was not given, ans
gave VeUt 20 his political views e., at the
ihreshho!d OF the first elec'ion in the district, IN
der the sovereign Lash, tho0gii administered by
an invisible hand, he hss at last become freed
from his political reservation. thrown off hs cloak
OF concea!meat and anbisuit7, and declared MIN
self decidediy exposed to The sdu,iuis,ra ION.
j cannot TId myself of he belief, boz that about
this time his conscience whispered 10 him the
necessity OF Caution, aud that under her sage oounS
sci, he was little tender OF coming to particulars
However, discovering from the signs of the
day, and the general complexion OF appearances,
that thst crisis In human affairs at which indici-
sion, and being all lhings 10 all men must cease
the people before whom be stood, as wei the
district generally, had arrived, and at least the
appearance of a bold manly conduct was now
necessary to be %s'snmed- finding il would no
longer avail him 10 siteinpt 10 throw The veil of
ianctiul ornsmen; aud sophislical refinement over
the praetica! good een-e of the district, lie has
given In a thing which bears The name OF COMES
zion.
Hing and reluctant confession What
difficulty you involve what Tending and proving
between the High Priee' AMI The members into
winch he has instilled different creeds, you gene.
Iate- what s~leePl-s- nights you viii proiuce -
ttumanl'y should deplors that this experience
was not sooner gwen IN, so az to have saved lis
author from the Suspicion Of insincerity and hypo-
cr'sy, II not The inevitable consequence, certainly
tbs usual attendants Of ioi ced acknov .iements
u ih'Ve been rightly reformed the interroga;o-
RES propounde1 to MIR. Talialerro, az the ooen-
ing of The election in r chmond county, were in
snbstfnce hose submitted TO him through The
medium ot you' paper more than once in The
course OF tie las, fall, and the aui hor as then un-
known 10 MIN.
" w FAbffn Wy MI 4 OF any oil
his friends, The advocates of the proprie,v Of {,
ience on the part o. 2 representative, when called
ON " an anonymous writer, for opinions hat be-
long to the puoi1c, in oppositira 20 the PrecedA.,-
Jong since set bya Topke, n johnson, q Dfaprr &
Nasbingion,) any good reason why il wa no, a.
proreI 10 nns"e r An unknown author, six months
Sgo' rs 20 nave done 80 on the day Of the hrs'
election IN the district. Is il reasonable "a SUPPOSE
that principle would onsiinaiely resist. Al ONE
time, the %propri'tY If answering an author Of this
character, &c readily yield the necessity II anolher /?
VI IS u not murh more rational 10 believe, that
principle was asleep and n It il was he sole work
oil u'ek' contrivance and policy. To keep both
parties IN confssion and az bay, until IL was to
late to org~pize an Opposition, 20 suspend the die
t'ict IN doubt by exercising bis well known ar, in
leaving 2 different impression upon he minds oF
the members Of a. many different os,,ies. a. vvub
whonn he may have coDverse5, 50 as 10 prevent
any energetic movement At eonceu2
Wbat would have been the result, If this ron
iesslon had been! made earlier, ! know not
Nr. 4. is a great General, stands vubo,i = par,l.
lel, from all | know, and can hear in all election.
eerng concerns, and { arm disposed TO believe The
ground mas been occupied, end the battle fought
est.
IL is well for some men, 90 far az their NV, sa.
Grandisement Is concerned, who do not possess en-
eiigy and holiness enough, to avow and prosecute
the schemes their own good sense may suggest,
'hat tney nave art sufficient TO lull 10 ineTtne>s, and
uanquliize mankind, and by this parrying influence
put Oh the day OF correction, until a confession
- prepared which paralJ yes the hand TO enforce
u, as H7does, from the limited tirse to iBfic, the
cnas'lsegsnt' aver. lrom necessity, the greater
part Of the Punishment.
Ihisi however, is not the FIRST time have
known the accused to withhold confession, Until
tne whip wss suspended, or the rope put abou,
ns NECK. Donoi, therefore, I pray you, gentle.
men NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. coun, too cs,,,inlv
upon the thorougA-goiug, sincere devotion Of YOU,
new convert. 49,
naFe HHo"n men, both in religion and politics,
s0ss % IS ne has goue, and sooner sbsn NEE, The
owns" we 'taich, fr ths ragig from which il