Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-09-12

| " That having our attention thus called 10 the
Subject, we wrote and published article, disa-
vowing in the most explicit terms, any intention
on the part OF the republicans OF the then elect
and present legislature, 20 far as their sentiments
were known to ia, 10 make any change ia the ex-
isting electoral law; and declaring uncquivocaily
determination 10 oppose any such change, should il
he attempted; avowals that confirms ed, in the
fullest sense, and IN every respect. by the suisse
quent measures OF the legislatures: And finally
tat not logger Chan two days preceding the arrival
OF the inteligencer with this last weak invention
of the enemy, Mr.. V. b. placed in hands the
| Pennsylva Reporter, "a jackson republican pa
PERI containing some speculaons (Which had cs-
capped or notice. upon the proprlcty OF Il change
by our legislature of our present district system
for general ticket; and ne rca, ked, at the same
time, that without descending TO notice the allega-
tons from administration presses, evidently made
without the slightest regard TO truth, this coming
from friendly source, furnished favorable OPP
portunity TO repeat our views upon the subject;
adding, that III his opii.ion knew enough oil the
sentiments oil the republican members OF the le-
sisianre, and OF the party throughout the State to
which they belong, 10 authorize to deny, in
the bioadest terms, the design, or even the exist
ence OF wish on their part, TO make any change.
In relation 10 the re-as>uinption of the choice by
the legislature, MIR. V. b. also remarked that he
could not think unworlhy OF the party with
which it was his pride to have been always asso-
| ciated as TO believe that man could be found
in the legislature who could be induced, under
! existing circumstances, TO propose such mea-
!
the republican candidate depended upon its aop-
! ton. And he solicited us, If we entertained SINH
lar views, TO express them at an early day, 10 the
end that the citizens OF other states, whether friends
or foes, who naturally look 10 the proceedings OF
New York with great interest, might be assured
that the electoral vote of this state would be Civ
en- i'll the manner the people had sanctioned through
| the medium OF the ballot boxes, and in no other
,.way whatever. We snouhl certainly have pre-
scented, in due time, our perfect conviction of the
determination of the republicans OF this state TO
make no change i'll the present electoral law, had
not the remarks Of the lntelligencer called out
these speculations in different shape
This goes the WHOLE the evidence was con-
elusive. II ought TO have been so considered by
those who had so heedlessy and boldly propagated
| the charge-and who should have been the firs
to offer the dn1endc honorable to an innocent and
injured man AT first, indeed these Editors were
| startled by the frankness and prompincss OF the
| contradiction. They seemed willing to he bound
! by Mr.. Van BIS declaration. scarcely had
this reluctant acknow Judgement been eXtorted from
them when they strung together a series Of 1uib-
bling parag rapts from the n. Y. papers, intend
! ed to weaken the force of Mr.. Van Buren's asser-
tion-and taking courage from their despair they
have ventured in their papers of the Sth and 9th
! to give a new aspect to the b,lsiness-and partly
lucky story, and partly by insidious Instructions
to do away the effect of Mr.. Van BIS direct contra.
ldicton-And what is this new version?
"Mr. Van Buren, denies the Letter said to have
I,
the repeal OF the electoral law Of n. York. He
knows very well that we should never have mad /,
the statement we did, and that we never make a.
ny statement, without sufficient evidence 10 induce
us TO confide implicitly i'll the truth OF il. Our in
formation Is from that is not willing to be
disclosed but the Public may rest assured that be
fore many days they shall hear upon this sub
ject. The truth must come out That a Letter was
written, and received by leading Western gentle
man, mot by Mr.. Van Buren,, since he denies it
and we do not question his personal honor-buD
from him by some other person, promising the
UhOIe hiTiy-sir UOtes Of ". Y, ifnecessayU we
have no more doubt, than that we underscore the A.
bove emphatic words as they, or words OF the same
import, were UNDERSIGNED in the Letter in question
At what exact date that Letter written, we
are not able to say the dste of not having been
communicated to US. The design which it d;scloses
IS not the less odious because it Is now discfamed
and may he hearaster abandoned nor do we believe
that it will be abandoned if required by the occa-
sion, that is, if necessary TO the election of Gen
Jackson"
These desperadoes have also the egregious SOL
ly to commit themselves upon other questions OF
fact; To threaten, Tor example, TO e" make the good
people OF Albany vince more than they have done,
at the exposure OF their project, which it has
bern our duty 10 make, and will be our duty 70
! continue, as the light datcns more and more uDyn
the,;i'-They have the :" childish faulty to saw
that, "The Enquirer * Com ay husband their spi
rits; they UW need them oil, before the nvestiga.
ton which we have begun is brought to G. closer
They have the temerity to nsnuate that 1.-The par
ty within the State of New York; did mediate
to usurp the right of the people, and that Mr.. Van
Buren, was startled by the premature commttal
OF the New York Enquirer Of Nov. 81 and then
wrote his letter to the Albany Argus-and lima |.
ly they silly enough ins nuate that Mr. Cros-
well OF the Argus did alter the phraseology of Mr.
Van Buren's letter, Of Nov 9th, of which he ha
r favored the world with an extract.
| IndIscretion could go no farther. Had these edi
tors been the merest novices in their trade they
could not have more rashiy hazarded coDsniitiais
which they never will be able to support, or throw
out insnYations which will be so readily reiutcd
Are these men really at their wifs cnd2 has their
desperation hurried them into such i,,d:seretion
and tcdnt Of tdct,' will put every thing to
jeopardy! During the last quarter of the race
when 90 nows the day and nows the hour" they
have in the most annoying manner thrown them
selves out of the track--They have still further
alienated instead Of attempting 10 concate. tho
honest and honorable politicians of New York, by
falsely charging " the republican party with a
plot TO 'usurp the rights OF the people. We shall
leave 1t to Time 10 develope the injuries, which
they arc doing to themselves, and the disgrace the
are bringing on their paper, by this wiliu perse
) veran ce in an abominable msrepresentaton.-FoT
Is it not the grossest Misrepresentation!
Mr.. Van Buren,, it seems, did not write the
letter in question!-but procured some other
person TO write il, promising the ,choIe Hirf sir
Dofcs ~ ". y, necessary, by the Legislature
usurping in its own hands the choice Of electors
What are these men really daft? At one moment
they disclaim all question of Mr. V. BIS "pcrsonal
honor and therefore, as he denies he did write
me letter, why they are gracious enough TO be-
lieve him-And yet in the very next breath they
insnuate The letter was written s.lou him on
some Other person, although he has equally De.
ciaTed that he never "eHicTfdiled or elDTesscd a
desire 10 have any such change take place or that
ne has knowledge of any such design on the part OF