Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-08-12

character are cJ,intehanctd, there is an end 10 all
shci'i intercourse and private CONFERENCE.-The
her party ought TO wish TO be tried by such rule
have heard many expressions from my political
opponen;s, which they would bs very unwilling 10
have caught up and Transferred 20 the types of a
printer, by some sly intormer their elbow. haze
frequently heard respectable gentlemen assert,
HAT Mr. Jefferson was the greatest scoundrc in the
world, That Mr. Madison ought to have been shot
by his own troops at Badensburg, AMI that Gen.
Jackson deserved to be hanged gallows a. high
as the one erected for Mordecai the Jew. Bat
what then! sIhese were rash expressions, used
IN the heat 81 debate, and evidence OF deli
bcrae opinion. We have not been in the habit in
Virginia, when we entcr private company, o!
looking cautiously around, 10 see ii there was any
reptile present, who might report TO sune editor
and possibly pervert, what he hears, thinks he
hears. We therefore often speak unguardelly
without much attention TO strict propriety, Theto-
rical or otherwise. and never dream that for this
we shall be arragned at The bar of the public up
on change of entertaining ''extraoriinary" opin-
ions.
Yet claim not on the presen occasion the bene-
INT OF this rule. mean to say emplaically, that
never on any occasion seriously used the express
sion in your correspondents letter nor any other in
consistent with my charac err conversion OF the
spect than my neighbours Nc friends with whom
am in the habit Of conversing most freely and
con'identiaiy, OF both political parties, will am
persuaded, confirm the probable truth OF this state
ment.
Until Mr.. Lamb or some other respectable s. re-
sponsibie person shall forward and state what
he believes did say, and the time, place, and cir
cnmstanceS connected with the conversation,
shall rest satisfied with requesting You 10 publish
this communication, and rely upon it as sufficient
notice OF the charge contained i'm your paper of the
I'D. in its present aSpect. ! am dragged very re-
urfantly before the public, having enough 10 do
20 attend TO my official du,ies hut have not know N
how could avoid il, without submitting 10 the i'm
20 sfn boil =
are foreign to my feelings, and condemned by my
judgment
Your o,dt servt,
RiCH'D Z; PARKER.
NO Comments are necessary upon these several
productions They nail the bad money at once
70 the counter. They show the improperly Of
violating the confidence Of private conversations
they show how futile is the testimony relied up
on by the N. intelligencer for the support of their
ridiculous plot for the Dissolution OF the Union
The reader will in what positive and emphatic
terms MIR. Stevenson contradcts the Intellgencer;
and that he has no knowledge Gas was insinuated
by IFS Eiitors) ofany such plot being entertained
at the last session of Congress by the lie aers of
the Jackson party.-Mr. Walsh thus speaks OF
the habit OF getting up such statements for the
newspapers.
~ Mr. certiiies in the newspapers that MIR.
Speaker Stevenson observed in his hearing tina,
II Gen Jackson not elected President, or il
John q. Adams was reelected, the Union would
be dissolved The man who is capable of certi-
wing in this way, is scarcely TO be trusted Mr.
Stevenson may have uttered the phrase loosely.
or IN conneXion with remarks which, ii stated
would give II different complexion or import;
and he may have been misheard by the relator
Every gentleman ought TO discounenance such re-
ports OF conversaiions;-they tend TO destroy the
safety and confidence of social intercourse; iocu-
lar or loose observations, which might be satislac
orifv explained are charged upon the ut,erers as
serious or deliberate propositions. We can ina
CINE but few cases, indeed, in which person of
de!icacy and hberaiity, due sense OF Justice.
could be induced TO testify in this way as to casual
conversations, held withoat even the apprehension
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