Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-08-03
THE VIRGINTAN.
LYNCHBURG, AUG. 3, 1929.
-" / AN SIR ORACLE"-fShnL

itorIal article IN the Richmond Enauirer of the
24lh oil July. Some dozen or more Editors
having noticed the recent enlargement and
improvement In the appearance OF the Enoui.
rer, furnished mwith fair opportunity of in
dnlsns that vanity which has always been its
most conspicuous charac,erstic-not barely
10" acknowledging its gratitude aud return.
ing its s." thanks for the cordial good wishes"
expressed ior ITS success, but ia assuming a
superiority of rank over its cotemhorares
which has long rendered it an object af laugh.
ter and ridicue 10 those who know with how
much greater regard to decency several of them
are conducted, and at how sghtless A distance
the Enquirer is left behind many OF them in
point Of ability The Editor of the Enquirer
should not have been SO much elevated, by the
eulogy OF his professional brethren, when he
might have re collected that even such a skunk
rs Duff Green is bepiaised by some Of them.
With semblance of great humillly, the Enoui.
rer disclaims all Editorial arrogance" aud
yet. in the very snme breath, intimates that il
cannot eOndesceud 10 notice the Baltimore PAT.
riot, "a paper, b, the way decendy and ably
conducted ) sneers at the Petersburg lntelli
gencer; abuses the Editor of the Wing, as usu.
al, by inuendo endedrors to create un impress.
sion that the National Inlelligencer has lost III.
high character which it has always possessed
and deserved and winds up with insinusnons
gains, the intelligence of the Boston Palla.
dunn and the candor of the u. s. Gazette
Nov, it so happens that there is not one paper
menl toned above which does not sustain
more enviable reputation than The Enquirer
itsef-not one which has prosliutei its col
umns TO the advocacy OF the pretensous of a
man to the highest office in the gift Of the peo.
pie whom it had not very long before denoun.
ced as a despot, and whose election 10 the
same office il had deprecated as a " curse
not ore of them, we hope, aud believe, which
hoods which are daily coined, and circulated
by the immaculate Duff, and the ISLANDERS aud
more Republican. And yet, the Editor OF the
Enquirer, " ltb inese and other evidences of
hls delinquency fresh in his recollection, talks
| ofthe " lofty and liberal spirits with whom
alone he can consent to enter the lists Had
he forgotten, too, that tao Of the Editor. whose
" lofty and liberal spirits" rendered them
1corihy OF entering the list with any antaeo.
nisis, are in the habit OF treating the InteIli.
gencer and its Editors, in all their controver-
sizes, with marked ciyility and respect, while
they denounce the U. S. Telegraph and its Edi-
tor, whom the Enquirer seems To have selected
as its model of what gentlemen" should be,
| in no measured and certainly not unmeriied
strains of viupera,ion ? The Enquirer mus,
have received the Georgia Recorder at the
time il penned its remarks, containing a severe
philippics against duff Green-regretting thai
toe cause Of Gen. jackson, (of whom the
Recorder is a supporter. andfor whom one of
ia Editors, as an Electol in Georgia at the late
contest, voird,) should be disgraced by its as.
sociation with Snch an Bdvocaie--at once a
sample of the most unblushing impudence
and the most consummate prshigacy. The
Enquirer must have very perverted no.
tons of truth and decency, when IT discard
the lnteliigencer. and other parers of a similar
cast, for their want of these qualities, and takes
for its associates the United States Telegraph
and Baltimore Republican After ALL we
shrewdly suspect that the Enqulrers opinions
on this as on most other subjects, are the OIL
spring Of prejudice, arising from pol ItIcal OPP
posilion or association. as the case may be
and no, upon any defined standard OF merit or
demerii
The Enquirer seems 10 think, too, that 1t has
lost none of its influence. because ii has 'osl
none Of its circulation. This is an erroneous -
pinon as many individuals take ii, in order TO
procure the reports of legislative proceedings
&C. &c. flor no one will deny to the Enquirer
great Industry who instead OF beng lniineh'
ced by the Editorial remarks of that paper, al
ways make II poiht to pass fhem over ""P-
rused. They can place no dependence on inc
opinions Of a man which, in the short space oil
two years underwent so serious revolution
without The existence Of a single fact or the
occurrence of a single circumstance 10 Jwhiy
the change. We think, however, that 1t IS !"
wretched bad taste TO advertise how many sun
scribers paper has, how many IT loses ana
how many it gains per diem. We should as
soon expect Doctor. Lawyer or Merchant to
make as public parade Of the oumber OF 'he'f
patients, clients and customers, aud their grad
ual increase or decrease.
TOBIAS WATKINS.
There is no longer any doubt of the gu'" oil
DR.. Watkins-and. being guilty, we nave "0