The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-09-08
E1lrnct Of letter from NorLoM.

'Li"'t ~ ~ fNtB Ii'W 4fbfJUih'
I'VE are tull Of zeal in tins quarter, and shall
beat The enemy. For Heaven sake rouse up
yourself aud our friends. Let as do our duty.
IL ~ time tor the people of Virginia to shake of
their dictators NJ hIchmond. really think
they hIc aS competent - The Editors OF the En-
Tnlfer 10 ehoose a President
i5TiCt ~ n hiG from Monroe.
The eausr stands well IN tins county, Green
bIirt, kcna~h0. BATH, pocahonlis, aud the coun.
ties from lii, 10 Brooke aud the Pennsylvania
line. In the Southwest ut US, | understand there
are a good muy change
EXrRAor OF ATFTTFH.
NOy'blHnL Crtdud coupiY. Ia. lug. 20. 1928.
Al one time | supposed that the Jack ON patty
Rad a majority inlht> county. bur business laIcly
beading nr throueh the county. | AIN Inclined
IA dcl,"yr that TIM administration side Is the
strongest
Al . renting II land at Ilardlng's Store in
Norltumherlaud county, NWcinia, on the 23d
MT. tIe volt OF the company present wis taken
on the Presidential rIecilon. when il appea,ed
thai thcre MS Il IL favor ui the administration
and : for the opposition In Justice to the
! Jnrlso faction, II inu.l be observed there was
about three mon OF them present, Who were 81
dsprlted dat Tiny icclilel voting. \ few Of
the company had also gut. but the numbers
~erc probably IA about thc same proportion.
: J1ctsop aad Boar.-Wc have becu lookinr
with some anxiety for the promised defence ~
Gen. Jaekson's connection ~ iih Burr, from the
Nashville embarrassing committee. Why the
delay : If were true That Jackson is innocent
either ola connection with Burr. o., admitting
that, tits designed to be oontendcd thai he was
not cognlzanf of Bur, designs, Why noi say so
III once, aud prove j., Nothing could be easier
than such a cUu,se, and II would he entirely sa-
tisflctors. Instead ut tins, however. a profound
silence i, preserved, OF only broken by qulb-
blers, whose ludirrous %hair-spl,ttings afford
food tor mjrlh rather than themes tor ars1.
ment. hen Gen. jackson wrote 10 Ju,igs
Williams. requiring m explanation ot The
%latler's letter 10 NJ Kerr, whnl Was his eyi
dent intention # Williams had cunlradicted
or explained awny the imputafion he had cir
enlaled Would not the lhct have been
trumpeted forth 10 tie world, with all the
lormnlily which such = satisfactory evidences
OF Innocence would have demanded Tn.
dnnbtedly. Yet, nrefernton Of The i1G, es.
press aud unrqnivocal 81, made directly - him
self, in answer 10 his own demand, Is passed
oyer ia silence by the Hero OF the Hcrmi.
tngo In his letter 10 Judge Williams. Gen
jackson remarked, 3" Duty 10 myself a. wrH
rs justice to yoI, require that I should, viii
out delay, advise yoa OF this Iibel npon N,
character, SO that you may AT once declare
whether YOU are, or are not, the author ri III,
calumny, Lcfore ierpoae il as such .o--Jndg.
Williams, nothing daunlrd by this lI,rea, oil
exposure, and relying on his knowledge of ia,
events as they lrnnspired, nyeIrrd himself IL
be the anthpr-nnd, 10 The General IS ,ilen,
as the grave his threat forgotten or di.rcgar
ded
Occasionally, however some Of his writer,
make their appearance in the Nashville lie.
publican, skirmishing aboli the subject, bnI
never touching ITS merits they seem 10 th,rt
ii quite sufficient To say what they will do
when they get ready. That will be, we pre-
sumo, When, AS Col BENTON would say,a snf
dcient nanher of Tia, cerlih 3ale men ahou
Nashville, who are always .obrdient TO the
mandates from the hermitage. can be lndl
red 10 put their names 10 such lalselroods a
may be dictated 10 them. TIE last Rrpubli
can which reached Us attempts 10 explain a
way the letter recently published hy Dr.. Nc
Marry, and which IS affirmed To be in the ban,
voting Of JACKSON, in the following word.