Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-12

mel for the us Of Asyas, you woad really have felt something
like eomp..oa for him Since then he occasionally soss
ssa: A. the former has for long time spperianed sxcu
Asses Rewas. though Of good deal intellect, he
holds the mos: anaehicai and dsorGanzng doctrines and
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So also Of Grcndy. who never man of much ability,
and noe iases ia points during the iai:
war, when Ne made some figure In the other House. His
fon, the Tennessee MEMBER came over from the her
House groom him (as jscksou expressed ]. to me -
Compare thsss facts viii .hs statements Of Dun
n.s % sssan 70 n1, Clay,on-bene member his
The scs. BY s unexpected ability In this respect reminded
me q Mr. Foy,hs maiden speech during the when
playing any evidence of talents he with the greatest
s, s. o. al nS and in bic hes, The
eSl.ssd Of political ngoss and political movements would
AL an s.s ofsps. great dee. reported which true
would = dss'sd.s 3 vi :s s.d una
gray. po.l are IL sss, measure Controlled ed
and Ia SON. case, ,.o,sly favor Of
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Yea such the such j. generally believed % be
the fact 10 truth my dear sir true history Of affairs private
community would De supposed to be intended for hi.o,%
Of the Court Of Louis the 18TH melancholy TO think of H.
W The fslowngis rather too kind to us, but we
publish it, from the desire expressed that we should
and as containing better views than we have seen in
regard to Temperance Societies.
FoR THE VINO.
Mr.. Peasants; There is a noble frankness in
generous mnd which renders It as prompt confess
Its errors as 1t is liable to err. man POSSESSING
such mind, shows by the readiness with which he
retracts wrong position, when its error is discover
CO. that 1t is not favorte opinion, but truth which
n o1T ondf toNA -
any tho less offensive, because he may have fallen into
It. How strikingly and how odiously contrasted to
this Is he who, either from haste or from want of
correct information, or from prejudice having assu-
med an erroneous position, wifuy, and perhaps ma
hgnantly refuses to abandon it, even when the srou.
gest possible evidences Of its are pressed upon
him.
have been led to these reflections, Mr. Pleasun,s
from your remorks this morning, relative to Temne
rance Societies, and with your permission, will 90
farther. will notI cannot stoop to any species of
hauery-i am man of warm feelings and may ex-
press myself strongly, but be assured, that nv ex
pressons are the honest representatives of my sent
ments.
From tho commencement of your editorial career.
sass vatcned you with deep nterest-not the inter-
est OF an enemy, who wishes to detect YOUR faults
for the purpose Of nuring you-but with the interest
OF friend, who sincerely desires your success ami Is
PANIED ut even the appearance of error which NAV
cause. ~
Your political sentiments are in the main, nv own.
love the maniincss, the liberaty, and the ingenu
BUSINESS Of your political course so far as il 10 nnre
politica-but in some of the moral deductions which
You Lave made from your political doctrines think
you have erred. You are, I believe, of an ardent
temperament and rather precipitate IN your move
fnents ftherefore you depart at all from the RIGHT
line, you are in danger of leapng great distance
Did see you deliberately descending into error with
all the cold calculating heartlessncss of some Editors
shoaid say 10 the nature of the animal; let him
alone! But when consider that if you have zone
into error, you have gone there with the SINGER.
tty OF your Impressions and feelings, and that iP
you were aware Of the Of the position
You would regard 1t with as strong disapprobation Of
soul as any other man, must confess that feel
most anxious and often painful desire that YOU should
discover the alsty Of the position you have assumed
Severai things have fallen under my observation
uurlng ne past winter concerning you, which have
given me pain: and have been more than once on
the point OF sending you my animadversjons:-for I
knew that could have access to YOU and that your
righteousness would afford me your columns even
for the means of chastsing yourself but nv MANY
and pressing concerns have hitherto prevented me.
am now constrained to come out, by your frank
and generous apology TO your female correspondent
concerning Temperance Societies. By that apoloey
perceive that you have entertained totally erro-
neous notion Of the character and object of those
Societies Time will not now permit me to enter
into a detailed exposition of the system. have
honestly and thoroughly investigated the whole mat
ter myself IN al its BEARINGS and although am not
myself member of Temperance Society, vet
assure you that such Societies deserve the most cor
dial support of every philanthropst and patriot
and the time Is not far ahead when every man that
has moral scnsibiy enough to be capable of blush,
will feel glow upon his cheek the remembrance
Of having opposed them.
II was with deep regret, that observed your up.
probation of Mr.. Chlton's remarks in Congress on
this subject. Had you, with your usual acumen of
investigation, pursued the science Of these things till
you had arrived at the truth concerning the physolo
gy and pathology of manthe connexion of those with
his intellectual and moral nature and tho relations
which exist between the animal, intellectual moral,
social and political man, instead Of approving Mr..
Chiltons sentiments, you would, with me, have re-
garded them as utterly fallacious and unspeakably
Accommodates either evncing depravity of SOUL
which with more than the sensualty OF beast tram
pies the most SOLITARY, moral and civil restraints UNI
der foot, in order to get at beastly indulgence or
ms cvncing an ignorance of the true science of man,