Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-11-02

precincts AT StanarJsvine, Captain Davis's strode
hold the rule prevailed that the payment the present
year was right aud many paid their the hust-
ings immediately before voting; and AT the (ourbouse
Governor Barbous strong hold eiserent ruls preva
cd; the High Sheriff. Chan whom a more honorable
high-mnded and correct does not exis,) decided
at no one should VOTE who had not paid his tax
her part Of the revenue OF twen,ynine; hence many
OF Gov. BIS friends were excluded. Conse uuentIy on
Tuesday IL found that bad votes had be an re
corded and mostly against Gov. b. His friends. there
lore, most strenuously urged that the Election had been
conducted improperly, and that he must contest IT, de-
ciaring that, he did not they would never support him
again.
"In accordsucs & compliance with mi. wi
ed by al r nense crowd that collect to how IN,
mater would Terminate he proposed 10 Cant lin Davis
and his friends, that the ,bod ,aL ,h
several polls and srike OF all h- spurious and i,spro.
perly taken votes either side and that Oh. csndd,t,
having the majority after his should be r.turpe h.
roposed to wsver all legal ,cruyles AMI form.. but
these propositions soere rejected posvelv and t
wa insisted on the other eide that neither the Hrh
Sh .r'h me Commissioners OF Elec,Ios nor any person
n"n rsnt TO strike any name from the psIl. under
any circumstance, unless where man voted twice
and that the Lato relating 10 Elections should he
uost Tig'dy complied ,cih From the importance NJ
The matter, aud the pretension Of the parties, the Hyh
Sheriff took unih Thursday TO deliberate. on the mat =
b"ors he gave opinion. He came To the Conr,-
House on that day for the purpose ting with ali
the gentlemen Comms .icn-rs, and giving sdsc;.;o,
which candidate should be III. returned h. fo,. 49,
'ivsrng his opinion, however found ba, not one
oi the commissioners, who supsrntepded the precinct
sar-
eompanied the return poil., even the name Of
the Deputy sheriff subscribed:- Hence Gov b. bv
the Ldws OF the land is the returned candidate And
alter the os' Of he polls Of the in
oil the inornality. G,v b bs, majority Of Of vo,,s
executive Of eleven, that enroll ID on the back Of
the polls. VIZ '"s- ~
"ln Justice TO Capt. B,russ (he high sheriff. we ,er
leave to say that hi conduct on bi, irving .xissn.
has been truly magnanimous--bor could he ON nj, So
Tenn oI'h have made any ether return than the one
which he has msie.--We understand tina, Cant D,yi.
intends TO contest the right OF Gov. r. 10 his seat
"lt in'i.ted by The friends of Gov Barbour that,
me po''s mad been Purged b. would have a mpj,r'-
We are authorized 10 say that neither Cs,v X NOR III
friends wish any other than that the will OF the peo
pie shoud be expressed and complied WITH and would
wi'Ing'y have gone into scrutiny Of the poIls
Gas much was said about the voc OF Mr. Madison
and Judge Barbour, we deem II proper to notice that
thfy Do h voted Tor Gov B.-Mr. Madison gave the
4,h vote aud Judge Barbour ha 3srd in his tsvor
From this statement. appears, that the votes of 56
persons are @cp-dosh struck from the pos-and hat
2S3 only reman-exactly onetrd of the apparent vo.
tiers OF Orangeand that Governor Barbour is returned
upon this fragment
We pass no opinion at present upon tie conduct of
the High Sheriff or the Candi la'es-B we cannot
conceive possible, that Mr.. shosld claim seat in
the Legislature, under such return. We und. raks
to say, without hesitation, that if apy man no marar
who he may be, should under the co our of such a
iorn lake or claim any righf-aye, an inch of right
In the face of such circumstance the people of WRIT;
MA VIII never arquiesc- in such an OIL r,ge ag,ins
the right OF suffrage Let the will of th- people be
expressed and complied with" but not by a third of
the votes giving law TO the whole-no, by a Sheriff.
reuFn oil this descriponbut, the woe of IN. pre
eincls are vsied by any ihiormaty let the election
90 back 10 the psopie.-We have not yet understood
whether The return OF Gen DAde has been superseded
in Ike manner
euuder''a d. that the Election 10 CuIpeper Is near
lyin tn same predicamenbe Commissions rs at the
f'ecncts, being sworn at the Spring Election 1t was
no' "onsht necessary to swear them ia thu Fall. We
understand that the High Sheriff Of Culpeper is now
in tii' Ciiy-ha' he is taking time and advice upoo
tne sup et-and that he has not yet d. ernped wha'
ii any,reurn he will make.