Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-07-06
RTCHMO.N;D, TUESDAY, JULY o.

"?ae Mountain going to .Mahomef'-IJnder this
y'Puon, the W. r. Commercial .9dreriiser puts forth
''e following fabulous account about Messrs Raniolpb
and Van Buren,: 'r"
Orr intelligent readers will have observed that since
'he glorious fourth of March, 1922 whether i'm prophe-
Cyl runour or history, we have been more infinitely
correct as 10 sundry movements among the chiefs that
uahcc III the circle nearest the great council fire. than
any OF brethren. We will now 10, bcn tr,,. and
pretty story OF Executive and Ministerial dignifv-
when the Magician went 10 Virginia before the session
OF Congress, he offered TO the sarcastic r. tired politician
o MoanoSe the embassy to Russia That dcspiser cf
all ms species said neither yea nay and would not
condescehl TO answer the deputy So the prjncpaI
oeing the President himself was Obliged to write A pro-
p'haiory and inrcating letter. TO this surv
vouchsated. Now, the ordinary eoucttc in such chscs
Is Tor minister to go to he quarters and get his es
patches and instructions, - make polite bow and pro-
ceeu 10 his place of destination But the NIisanhronc
lau taNen vow that he never would the Poto
mac bridge, till the entire cabinet was more 10 his ,os,c
80 VITA his bundle under his arm, the Secretary Of
Sc was lain 10 trudge TO the den OF the Kangaroo and
making low bow 10 him to hand the rardc tied round
grum Ugh !" " 49, "
doph made no secret, when he last i'm this CITY Of
the correspondence and circumstances which attended
we nrst oer oil the mission TO him, his acceptance SC.
huo we KNOW matt the first proposition made TO him
ina letter from the President himself That letter was
h'gh'y honorable both TO the writer and TO his cores
poSden,. 1t was manly and beautiful composition =
mr. kandoiphs reply equally frank, courteous and
respectful. We kno,c these things TO be so-The cir
eums'ances OF the po'v and the motive which is said
pOtn neon expressly COntradiccC
bya writerin the NJ Inteilgencer who ba, set that mar
oil the matter right. NE kto,c, that Mr. r. Offered t
repair 10 the City of Washington If il were the Presi
dents pleasure-but that the Secretary of State ecln
edt Tor the reasons we have already assigned.
One word as 10 the remarks which tho ~ Inelliren
Ger makes on Friday last:
"Such apolosss Enquirer would max, their ricnls =,
ways riieu f which tho,
oh Inc Tact ~, that MIR. Mc1nc spent in This c
cevns s instructions, and tho subsequent visit of
Nun was merely m tho ordinary intercourse ficnisn
Indeed. And whom do such assalants rs the IntelIi
gcncer make ridiculous by such direct contradictions
'hey exhibit Themselves Last year. this Inelligcn
Ger would have believe that there was s,v plot
agitation, and that Mr.. V. B. had gone on TO WHINING
ton not "merely in the ordinary intercourse of attach
cd friends" hut TO Caucus with Messrs. Cambrelen
and McLane, and shape his instructions so rs TO sacri
nee the Tariff TO the W. India Trade: But now all ide
OF plot "Congress, unfinished instructions, is give
up and Mr. " BIS. visit takes entirely new characte
to suit the new occasion The Inelligcncer is in an CT
ror again we said thon, and we repeat it, tina
Mr. - ala take with him TO Wilmington the write
Instructions of Mr.. McIane exactly the same thin
that was done in the case of Mr.. Randolph