Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-01-21

'Snsn as you are pleased to term t the minds of the
puu. -, nis vote Tor Whpples resolution to give
away te money OF the people IN pensions to the Wild
ows and orphans ofthe six militiomcn-h;s distribn
ZION OF the rerdcous pamphlet relating to the same
siid CONN hondbills under his frank (which YOU YOUR
self admit TO have been frnud mon III. .,r,,a
meet your approbation shall not att.mn, 70 ar,e
you Out Oh IT. 'SDe gustibus non est dsputandum"
Is trite and settled mpxim. If YOU think tina, his
course mas been consistent aud true to the principles
OF 98, will offer 1t to you as Good subect for rour
ddictical skill to reconcile the declar,,inns which bc
made at Richmond Court House with ybnt be has
since published. Ii you succeed in establishing his
consistency VIII class you point ofinrcnuity with
the learned Doctors of the Sorbonnc
Sensible that the shoe pinches you wish to make
out a case OF surprise for your friend at Richmond
Court Housc. This wont do. Whatever he NAV
say YOU he will no: deny to me that the intcrrog-
atorics To which he replied were shown him before he
went uron the Bench. The election having COM
nenccd and no disposition TO answer them HAVING
neen manifested, they second time paccd i'm his
handS and IN the face of the people. Then he arose
ana after expressing SUNRISE and modification
thnt h's political tenets should be suspected made
Snch responses as have been already published.
soon had reason to believe that the honorable
gentleman was extremely restless under the pubca-
non OF MS replies-Not long afterwards II virulen
attack was made upon the writer. Whether it was
dictated by frown from Mars or a shake of Nep-
tune trident, cannot pretend TO say.
Sn2u close this notice ofyour friend, by rcmar-
KING that was openly and avowedlv opposed TO his
reelection long before his competitor was ever
Thought OF RS n cundiatc--I was then. as am now
opposed to him, because ne is man to whose ouaG
tes othnd, and to whose tirnness, and consistency
am unwilling tn confide the little stake which pos
sess n the welfare of my country. shall not abute
one Jo my opposition because of the ascrpton of
low and unworthy motives. which YOU or others may
ocstrW on my activity and zeal Between him and
myself, there has been any thing more than N
distant exchange of cviiities. Thourb never bnv,
ana never VIII do hun injustice shall always pursue
thc policy which Roderick Random practscd towards
lle niue mar ana keep"to the windy side of bim
have no disposition. however, to interfere with the
march of your sympathics, or TO attempt in any wav
to dissolve the ties which bind you to m and his in,
tcress-lf had known ofyour love- might even
heretofore Oh your account, have been more guar
dcd 1t is certainly prudent to have Patron-Pun'
HIM little moro, and perhaps he will take YOU by
tho hand-initatc you in all the mysteries of conre-
e3cfns, and take yoa with him into Chaucerv that
Gsinyulshed theatre Of his glory-As to kjs talents
shall be silent. Nam de non apparentihus ct de non
inestentibus ndom est ratio.
With regard to the course which have pursued
towards the Dragon of your party who now lies pros
ratc before the ark Of the covenant is unnecessa
~ to defend tiny course has been that of thousands
OF the wissst Inen and sterncs patriots in the conn
try. His fate is decided. The voice of the peopIe
which by bold metaphor, is ,rmed the voice of God
mas proclaimed hun unworthy of their confidence:
and condemned him to Punishment from office II
the blaze ftlth which has been shed upon the yio
latlon OF popular rights in his election and the abuse
Of The constitution in his construction the powers of
the government, mas failed to make any impression
apon your mind, fear you are in worse plight than
your friend AiaX-He only wanted light But vc,,|
must pray for the faculty TO appreciate tiff have
thought as certainly have, more avorably of Gen
Jackson than ii period was disposed to do. il
has been because, when fang 10y the raee Of his enc
mics into the furnace, him walk unhurt amidst
It's flames. The spirit Of truth and Justice prot ected
him. and presented him before his country in his trIe
character. no man ever more indebted TO his
friends, than he has been TO the disgracef and I'M
relenting persecution of his foes--a persecution
which spared nothing however sacred in its course
which after cXhausting every thing on earth TO feed
It's magnity, burst 'the ccremenis ofthc tomb" and
preycd with the same remorselcss grccdiness upon
the moudoring relics of the mother which il had he
fore exercised upon the living reputation of the wife
of the ITero.
But to return for n moment to Yourself I am I'M
willing to believe that your production is entirely
spontan col,g-Narity may have had some slarein it,
But cannot torbear 10 rctort your charge of bcno
spirited by others. You have taken the chacc +
is true with all the ferceness ola young and dashino
blood hound and with rather too keen n relish for
garbage, bu; methnks hcur the hearki of the willy
hunter in the distance.
Here sir, nlust end Our correspondence Youbavc
been the ag%rcssor, and have had nv rcvenoe
The public appetite is completely stated with tits and
tourmonts-I shall not BIO tempted even bv a
Knight ofyour unprecedented gsllanty" to enter
the ring again. CURTIUS.