Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-10-08
For THE WHrG.
20 The Editor of The Eg1ljre


You call Gen. Mccoy an ''old and II5cx. bic" Re-
publican, and rec imnend ms advice as sound to the
Republicans of Va. o. all men whose course have
ever attempted to understand, yurs SIT, the most
contradictory and unnj eligible: no, unin;e pI
ble--I did not mean tha--fof there is an exponent
which will explain It pas present, and future You
referring eternally to '98, as The HegIra of the
Republic. 1t eclIpses in your estimation. TO, and
all other Eras. The men, the principles. the
Report and Resolutions OF 98 are the hobbies which
you have been riding for 20 years. What them ought
to be your estimate OF the man, VINO at that really
great crisis, was supporter of the Alien and Sedi-
tlon LaWs-voted throughout with The FcdcralIsts-
against MadIson's Resolutlons-who denied that the
Federal Government had encrOached upon the Con-
situation aud State Rights This man, you have the
assurance to euo= iZe old aud nhcxible Re.
publcan This mans advice you have the cffronte-
ry to recomm nd all Republicans to follow. and are
ready to denounCe them If they do not! THIS apos.
tate from his early and honest opinUns-thIs r pub
lcan Of convenience who never became one, until his
party were vanqulshed and It's principles repudiatcd
ibis 'negado who like all the tribe, by ms pre-
sent mtolerant orthodoxy, tries to atone his own
conscience for the aband nment OF the principles Of
his youth-thls Ilhterate drmagoguc, whose d!acc-
ties are disgrace TO your cuumns--yOu are not a.
shamed to- hold up cxcmplar to the nrcal and
enlightened commonwealth Of Virginia! For shame
for shame
You owe rcparaion to your readers, to the Rcuub
liCans, to the State As of your subscribers |
call upon you publish Gen Mccoy 3 votes in The
Legislature of 90 II due to truth that Won should
You have made an impression IN his favor which ne
does not deserve. You have violated truth-undr-
sgnedly, hope, Tor 1t IL Just possible you had forgot
ten that Mccoy tedcrHst until at or he great
victory You call him an .'old" and IN.
flexible" R publican. pronounce nun an .'old" Fed
crallst-n Republican OF convenience. and therefore
FLEXIBLE not al ''mnaxlblr" Republican, I appcal
TO the TeCurd'o your fnvUrrte Report Of 90 conpl-
led | think, by yourself DO you dispute The cyr.
dencc' SIR, were not you disguised with his slang
and demagogsm' Could you read ms lcjtCrto Quotes
without nausew Where your literary taste.
when you consented ansfer his bdrbaruus iarron
TO Cootcs, to the columns Of the Enquirer WI re
the contempt which every Independent man ought ~
feel, when you roConclIcd It TO your con crcncc 10
puff his dcsplcablc clnl' Where the shame which
every honest nan ought to feel tho deg udation of
MS species, when you this alien aud syduiOn law
icdcraIlsi stgrnatI-ng his party as Austocrats
and pialstofIng the republican party to whose over
throw the cXorOns OF the honest part of his political
life were directed, On * with hs undcsrcd praIsr2
call upon you to repair The injury ,ou have done
10 truth, aud TO political morUis-by your Oh Il of Nc
Coy anJ ms scmi-bh barDus cpstlc.
A SUBSCRIBER.
i've regret that tn" following communication IS
so high seasoned; bat having no alternative but TO
publish It stands, or exclude H. We feel bound
TO publish It as II IL.
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pnh's,ed letter from Havana, when we extract TIN,
grandhoqucut passage
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