Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-03-11

initiate General Jackson's hand writing equally as
wen as the person who had attempted an Imitation
Oh IT, Tor II certainly intended as an imitation
oil the Gensrars hand. There was no signature
70 Judge OF, and, 1T being on printing paper, on
winch the ink had spread, it was impossible FOR
'iein TO say positively whose handwriting it was
I'm this Statement, the public will be able
duly to appreciate the services of the Tacticians
OF The journal, and their motives Tor such asser-
tions.
7 " Hundreds Of persons in society, have sufTi-
S'eh materials, from which, TO retute such pitt
'ni ana contemplate SANDER: but these discinles
OF the professor of rhetoric, are almost deranged
rom lear that the people are about to furnish
themselves with IA President. who sprung from a
common family, who has not been educated at Fo-
reign courts, who is a sound Republican in princi-
pie and In practices who has 70 recommend hin, M
ieast' a souLd mind, much better education than
most men have received, incorruptible integrity
anu has rendered his country more important SER
wees than any man living"
! The note in question is as follows,
! % the Editor Of the Washington Journal
men the midnight assassins piunges his dag
/ ger to the heart & RIFLES your goods the turni
tude OF this scene hoses all its horrors when
compared with the act OF the secrete assassins
oinard leveled against femal character bv the
hired minions of power''
y correspondent of the Boston Journal from
Washington confirms the statement of the Tele
graph SO lar as 1t relates to the form of the NJ s.
" 1t Is written on blank page of one OF the Re-
ports from the Nashville Whitewashing Commit
tee, which from Nashville, directed :. 70 te
washington Journal and it goes on TO assert
what is not believed TO be the fact, that of the
! many who have examined it. the resul, in ev
cry case, has been thorough conviction tbat no
note came, stated in the Journal. from The He
ros own hand But these difficulties s,rLe ne ~
! me very blush OF the subject: Ist JTThu should
| General Jackson have written such \ noie2 Iyhat
opJect mad he IN View--what was he 10 gain bv
II: Would he have been so imprudent "a IL have
addressed so Incorporate note, to the National
| journal, when there was adequate motive for
| sueh an aci:-And in the 2d place, the note does
not Dear his name-the handwriting of another
man, upon blotted piece of PRINTING paner NAV,
appear like his-and indeed his own hand writinsr
may have been initiated for the purpose of e1ros
ing him to illlberal suspicious and base putations
are all ms enemies above such tricks? Have we
not seen forgery employ the case of Harris,s
ietter:-And why should not the stratauen no nr,
ployed IN another form? We know thai sucb Mo.
chlavelian arts have been practised-apd ne 10 tre
skill OF counterfeiting hand writing it is too cam
mon an accomplishment 10 excite much sunrise
The number of bank-notes which have been
forged and Of the signatures of Presidents and
j Cashiers which have been counterfeited are sniff
clent evidences, trAt when money is 10 be Obtain
eel, the skin is to be found-and Is NOT po,ver &c
strong an incentive IA moneyi-It seems to US a,
least probable, that General jackson should lc
indiscreet enough TO Write such 4 note as the
above, without having any sufficient object 10 OBJ
tam by the composition.
Signs, Set is amusing TO see what slen-
DER circumstances the friends of the Administration
VIII seize upon, to keep up their own spirits and
those oil their friends. Drowning people it is said,
catch at straws,-The public prints are teeminq
Will letters written for the purpose of annlatipS
the SPIRITS OF despairing parzans. For instance,
me iast Salem Register publishes letter from
washington, Feb. 20, which runs in this style ::
I'''urey' the news get all sides animanr
1t IS thus, the friends Of the Administration are
continually deluding Mr.. Adans.--The blow will
! all upon him like thunder-c.ap-He will he
banished from office, when he thinks, good easy
mani tuil surely his greatness is q ripening -
Anlmatng news on all sides!" On what side
are these prospects OF the Administration so bright
! and cheering?
very competent Rochester yesterday ssy,n h,i "a
votes or Adams in New York aud q, neral
Of the Admnisir alton"
y letter from Rochester Tin one corner of the
state, it were) processes to dispose of u votes
III the Staie-but what say the accounts from
Albany, the very fountain head of information
where the representatives Of the whole state are az
this moment assembled? That at least 24 votes may
be counted on confidently for Gen. Jackson. But
this extract shows us TO what desperate means the
Administration is forced TO look They will now
! avail themselves ofthe Morgan fever The ex-
element against Masonry enters into their ca,cu
| lation And Solomon Southwck, who is irving To
kindle the same sort of fanaticisrn against Masons
as once prevailed against Witches i'm Salem
and upon the strength of it snominaed as Govern
OF at Batavia is henceorth 10 be considered as the
worthy Ally Of the Coalition!
jackson paper Pi.bu has lately come .hort round
! You well haow the Importance Gi this Indication
| The elections in Perry, and Cumberland and
! Franklin are all to be thrown into the shade bv
! the g coming round OF a miserable Edorin Pitts
! burg always unsteady at best, and who but the
other day being pressed for Il small sum of money
took the bounty from the Adams people, when he
could not get il from the JacksOnians This is the
/ great conversion, OF which the Salem writer. and
the two Officials at Washington, have made such
great accouut--a most Z" important Indication" in
deed!
Avery intelligent gentleman from Baltimore lately told
ne that he felt not he eas, doubt Of than one Yoe Ia
that State"
Whatever the very intelligent gentleman from
Baltimore" may say,the actual state Of the pools al
the last election and the most authentic estimates
| which can be made, go to show that Jackson viii
! get at least seven votes in Maryland.
la vagnn N. Carolina, the bell Of revolution j., IN
notion"
/ Virginia and ~. Cardinal Why il a man can
count upon them, he may as well 10 the whole
claim Tennessee and Georgia--and not leave
/ Jackson single ectoral vote in the UniOn.-E-
ven Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois are confident
: " claimed for MIR. Adams Aud this Salem Cores
pendent asserts that Gen j. " is ia danger OF los
ing Mississippi But it is idle to expose such cal
culations. The very men, who pretend to make
I them, are like the ancient Priests Of Egypt--Thev
I have two languages; the one for the people, and
/ the other for their Own craft. While they would
persuade the public Of one thing, they arc them
selves satisfied Of another. We know one OF the
very men. who is now attempting 10 dcludc the
people by false assertions Of hIr. Adams's chances
in Virginia, coniesses in private that he has no
hopes oft himself