Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-06-22
MELANCuOLY CAsTrAITv

, .gDoEs pEhg OF MEMBER or VIRGINIA.
h[9w INTO the deepest gloom by the sudden and unmey
aCt OF The most rtTending character
past to take the city is supposed he missed
the wharf, and fell in the dock Nothing Of him. until an
House was in session. and Immediately adjourned During the thun
ms nat on ms heal and Just as he had flen which
most and stuck the severe clap thunder
o oSo 5Gii d so a. %yo and sudden DEATH has spread
Mr.. johnson of the late judge Peter Of ,t
don lie was man of fine talents high generous PRINCIPLES
nn = the mrs. session he has served any legislative body
dS has been extremely oredabc him. he returned
from tho Washington District and his contested by the
former nem1o Nc D"perbu the H. of permitted him to retain
scat Ms death is great loss to his county his friends
Ss Washington papers The death Augustine
PIotoT Of Mount yo9onnd child Of Con Washingpoo,
washngtOnMr w. las widow two sons and SngyS ger"
Two Of the Washington Opposifion MINERS are
PLEASED to republlsh an article from the Maine Eve
nng Journal Which quotes paragraph from our pa
per written ahouta year ago." against running Mr.
van Bufen as wee President. This is fair dcnliup
with a vengeance! What are the facts AGcr Mr.
V: b. had gone to London, the enemies of the adj
minstraton gotup story, that Notwithstanding this
TACT the mission was all pretencethat he was to be
run ny the Baltimore Convention, which had been
SET on 1907 Tor llat very purpose-and if elected
r., that General Jackson would resign the Clair
ana thus snugge him into the Presidency We de
hied the existence of any such plot We asserted,
that the Convention set on foot with no such
design-that MIR. v b. himself did moi wish IN be
rIn-that nc had gone to England partly with view
OF avoiding all applications OH the subject We pro-
duced his own letter to show, that so far from de-
sirng to he n candidate for the Vice Presidency he
wished to remain minister i'm England for four years
and we added, strongly were we satisfied that
there was no such design MS was attributed 10 him or
ms ms friends that we should certainly not support him
Inns pledge was made under particular set of cir
cumstances. But these have been completely chang
ed by the acts of his own enemies They have de-
teatcd all his wishes They have recalled him from
the post, at which he wished to remain Tfey have
trled to disgrace him in the most outrageous man
ner' They have provoked the great mass of the
trends OF the administration to take him I'd as V. p
-apd the Baltimore Convention have NOMINATED
MN as their candidate. And now because all these
circumstances being altered, and the whole case nj.
teIeu, we support nomination which, but for the
acts OF Messrs Clay and Calhoun and their friends
would never have been made we are charged with
pp.rfghk'ng our pledge and changing our ground
what IS worse, the very men, TOO, who bring for
ward such ridiculous charge are unable 10 cloak
tnor injustice under the plea ofignorancc.
Inc NJ lntelligencer corrects mistake into which
truly says we have "nmtUcrtcndy no doubtD fallen
on the subject Of the Bank Bill We take the cor
recpon upon the authority of that poper-not hav-