Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-08-16
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MONDAY MORNING.. AIC:IST m -s,o

Os' We particularly ask the attention of tho Poo
pie OF Virginia, to the following article.
The Editor Of The Eaquirer-yuore Consis,encp
4hc Political Arena deals our contemporary a neat
thrust about the jefferson letter 1t SAYS
Mr.. Southworth has declared his intention To
send the letter to Rchmond-there tho hand vr;
ting of Mr. Jefferson IS well known and irit is tn
tEere are hundreds who able to prove il such
When weighed liz this balance and found WANTING ua
so yieid 10 no ore IN the sincerity and vehemence of
our remuneration. We shall hold its author in Tho
same scorn and detestation which We extend IN tho
writer OF the East Room letter. We shall holdtben,
Go-equai IN miamy, and take pleasure in EXPOSING
mem 70 the scorchlng contempt of an nsutcd com
| The Enquirer, somew hat unfortunately we think
observes when we were unfortunate as once To
publish the east Room Letter" we called upnn tho
Autpf puhhcly In the papers, well as in private
letters, to make a'onemont TO the pubhc-und If he
mad not done should have lett ourselves nj Eb
cry TO 90 with his ame, seemed best to ourselves
We would ask for how many weeks did the Enouir.r
preserve guarded silence in relation to this letter
alter Tho talsIty OF its statements had been establish
lea oy evidence not to be questioned. How many
weeks elapsed between the publication of that noos,
menaacious epstlc, and the making by the writer of
ma -' nonsment 10 the public which thus satisfied
the Editor? Was not the Editor persuaded thu, hi.
correspondent had Wfnlly lied, long before he pub
ished the very lame attempt an explanation of the
aus" AND IN tins interval the letter repup-
nsheu' win editorial comment and typographical en-
olo2onry by every Jackson print in the country and
by many who have never to this day undeceved the
Puohc IN regard 10 It's character? We wish 10 b.
unuerstooa,-we do not intimate that Mr.. Ritchie
inc time publishing the letter had the least idea
OF the iaisehoods 1t contained In the honorable eta
lion held by his correspondent he INF Rl had n
guaranty Tor the Veraci,y OF any statement which
might proceed from him. The Editor was culpsbIe
ne deay which took place in contradiciing the let
ter alter he must have known that it was not truo"
IIn0nIrnr hns 81,
amenae made by the author of the Eas, Room Letter
Us complete ntonement for his ofence-net only to
the Edter whom he had made instrumental in i'm
posing upon the Public, but the Public itself This
50 lar from being true, that the Public very gene-
taIy 'hought the dmende moro insulting to its under
S'anons' more profgate. than the Bast Room letter
i>'eii' Hhat was H. why this in effcct-that
whereas in the East Room letter, the 1I.--..,-
author uiiedged that no had visited the East Room
in person. and had his old fashioned Republican no.
tons greatly scandallzed at the regal magnfcence
of the furniture-the amende that is to saw tho opo
iogy for the unmitigoted and unqualified fasehood of
the whole statement, was neither more nor less than
confession that he had not been in the East Room
Ut ai put had proceeded upon rumor, mistaking one
room Tor another! That is to say-the amende s
made for one mos, gross and ingenious untruh by a
cool and evon justficatory acknowledgment that it
Gas an unruthi an acknowledgment that he had not
been, where he said he had been, or seen yha, he
said he had seen This is the amenae honorable to
an abused Public, with vengeance! helped out by
what every body conceived to be another fasebood-
namely, that the author had mist, ken one room for
another We never blamed the Editors Of the En-
quirer for the publication of that letter They were
imposed upon by the standing of the Hon. author and
'no most cautious and sagacous might have been i'm
posed upon in the same way But thoy were dilatory
IN correcting the crrorthey suffered considero Bile
time to eiapse, after they had the evidence Of Mem
oers OF Congress, of its total olsy before they made
The correction--and when they did So il was acaom
panied by an apology for the unprincpled mendacity
oil the author-(the Senior was then we think in
Massachusetts)
Now VIC think that the gentlemen who have been
SO hngrantly imposed upon, ought to make some al
lowance for others who incur a similar misfortune
ought to be oble to find in corner of their hearts
grain Of charity for others who have been duped
by knavery and love of mischief Let us see if our
contemporary has been able to find this little grain
Of loVe--f ne has found the nngnanlmiry to extend
that mercy to another, which generous Public has
extended to hin--fthc beautiful Prayer has not es-
Capou MS memory
"Feach me TO feel snother's woe,
TO hide the fault sec
Ihot mercy to others show
That mercy show to me-"
In his paper OF Aug. 10, he has the following re-
Elections:
"Bui the beauty Of matter ia that tie Editor Of tho
Commercial denounccs Mr. Souhwonh in the most unnua
eh ieTns Tor paimngh spurious Letter Of upon the Public,
very kaoT who has just published outrageous libel I'M
on Mr. Rapdophand from "a most honorable source, too
IRON man. who, in the brighter age the Republic when
WORM MADE the man. stood high in the confidence comn.
CHS OF his country Indeed! and is this honorable mani
And what now says Col Stone''
The Editor the Commercial Advertiser had been
imposed upon too--so at least say Mr.. Randoph's
iTends--but he acted in the most honorable manner
protesting his continued confidence in his cores
pondent, but declaring bis readiness to repair the
mistake 1t convinced Of it, and repubshing tho con-
trodlctlon of the Norfolk Herald. What more could
he dor could any man do' When Mr.. Richie pub
llshed the East Room Letter, did he do as much as
Col. StUne2 Did ho nyotnn,I,, ,o,,. H.