Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-10-13
FOp Tur Wurc

For THE WHIG.
new move has been made the political
chess-board-the Anti Masonic Convention, said to
represent hve-hundred thousand votes nO,D and TO
be rapidly increasing, has brought forward Mr.
Writ, candidate for the Presidency and he has
accepted the nomination. ] have been curious to
mark the effect of this movement on the public,
ane especially on the host of Editors, those inn
| Portant personages i'll Logocracy. The CLAW
papers, so far as have them, treat this HoUus
hoSPeS with manly DEMONSTRATING due praise to
the frank ana ingenious spirit of his letter-do-
tracing nothing from his fair fame, but still pre-
terrlng Mr.. Clay-this is all fair play But how
has your venerable Contemporary acted in this mat
Ter! LOOK, q pray you,l to his paper of October
4tl' ana mark what curious tissue he has woven
ut is well (suieth the great poet) to have giants
strength, but tyrannous to use it like a giant
Now every body knows that the strength of Nh
Rlies in his Cit-he irue atiic saLt-thc terrible
power OF ridicnc-and these weapons he has tur-
ned with annihllating effect upon the poor Anti.
masons, and Mr.. Writ He has smiton them hin
and thigh, as Sampson did the Phstincs-not
that mean TO say he has used the same weapon
lie has considered (he tells u.s. the whole ''spcca-
cc' OF Anti-Masonry farce, and the termination
the most 'anusing" part of II; except lis Ouiyot-
ISM, which IS still moro amusing" He calls it tho
! Tom Thumb Tragedy, and insists that the Wat
Iylers and Jack Cades OF Anti Masonry, are stri-
viDg TO get the offices of Government into their
hands, and that Mr. Writ is aiding them in this
attcmPt:-ihs poor gentleman he mauls without
mcrcy-charging him with hypocritienlly abiurinr
poutIcs at one moment, and at the next. CATCHING
at the nomination and becoming in an instant,
convict TO their doctrines because they held out
lure to his ambition; pretending too, that ne had
then, for the frst time, heard the facts and arru-
mcnts they adduced, though ne had heard them
thousand times before. do not quote tic lrJyde
bat the import of Mr.. Ps rcmarks-and more.
much more, has nc said; for whole column of
the Enquirer is full Of lis biting mot back biting
sarcasuI-aud what is the cause Of all this1 Your
Contemporary is at ape, when ''the hCyday in
the blood is tanc-is humblc-and waits upon the
Judgment" What has stirred him up} Is it
personal hostility to Mr. WI Is IL Il fear that the
'Autics" may succced2 No for bs considers their
attempt Quixotic that he cxclailHs .ticy might
as cnsllY hit the sun with arrow as elect Mr..
W." Docs hc 1pprehcnd that though tHcv cannot
succeed, thoy might icopardizs the success If Ibis
former curse, now Elvorjtc) Gcn.-Jachson7 No.
for he tells us, chat party man, he may gan,
but he can't Use by itthat cit is not for the friends
ference, or 10 dread his influence" What then,
pray you, has caused this outpouring Of lis con.
;cmptuous ridiculol Is it that the character Of
Mr.. W. is vile and infamous? lie will not say so;
though surely nc has iasi1uqtcd something likcit--
for, If Mr. w. las played The nypocrtc, by pretcn-
ding a conviction which no did not fcc--if he has
lent his aid to the Wat Tylcrs and Jack Cadcs, to
seizc upon the government, and has agreed 10 di-
vide the spill with them, he must be bad and dam
gerous man: bat what as his character! Tic lived
in Virginia from 1896, TO 1Sl7-twclvc Of those
years IN Richmond-,Dany know him pere9gaiiy-
some 5Hiimd'ciy--aii by rsPort. Where IS the
that can touch the purity of-his character that
charge him with immoral act2 that can cast the
slightest shade upon his spo,ess famc7 Is there ono
respectable man who would commit his reputation