Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-10-30

HE CttAKLOIIESNIIlE "JUNTAW
We lay before our readers the following Address
from the self-constuted Jnta of fou-yvh very lit
tile note comment. The letter of Judge Bar
bour blows their project out of water-and besides
the author OF Common Sense has undertaken to cr-
ficise their extraordinary production. We venture
10 say, that he i0U glue good account of them
Messrs Gilmer 81 Co. so courteous as not to
: stop to enquire whence they (the Central Commit
tee at RIchmond) derive their authority to super
ATTEND your affairs" If they had stoned to ask the
question, tie answer would have been at hand
2he Central Committee derived their "altthoritun to
address the people, from commission entrusted to
Them by Convention of the Representatives. of the
people OF Virginia Then gave this commission
according to the long-established usage of the Re-
publican party-and according to the same usage,
the Committee deemed it their duty to address the
Peeple: The Central Committee have always done
at-and they saw in the present case TO
depart from the custom Not even the terrors of
Sbe Charlottesville Conventon of 81 or the Central
committee OF that Convention, any fragment of
that Committee, eotfd deter them from the dis
charge al their Duty. fthey are asked why only
the names ofSeUen Of their body a bare majority are
attached to their Address, the answer is TO be found
IN the prevalence of the Cholera in this City, and
other circumstances which scattered the Commit
tee and delayed their Address
SO much for the Legislative Convention-for the
- screen wise men of Richmond'-or as tl,ey are
otherwise called the Richmond Junta" We will
not stop to enquire, from how many of the People
zhat buresque upon all Conventions, the Charoes-
vile Assembly of 81, derived their commissioners
whence this Charlottesville Junta of the four wise
men derived their authority to address "TAe People
Of ViyginiG.''
Nor will we stop at this time to anaivse their Al
dress. We have no room to-day TO EXPOSE their So
phistIes-or ttleir errors-their % false doctrines
heresies and schisms"-The author of Common
sense will do full justice their false reading of the
Shocco reply--tieir remembering 10 foroetD Mr.
" Burens subsequent confession of his regret upon
the Cumberland Road Vote-iust as he exposes i'm
ms days paper their desperate and ridiculous mis-
calculations of the votes for Vice Presdent-Ue
VIII duly expose their errors and their "artifcesn
BE 1t Our part to touch only two passages Of their
Address The long article which we publish to-
day, concerning the late war, brings one of these
passages TO our notice-and tile alusion ourselves
makes It proper that we should notice the other:
lst DO, or do not these -Four "lneinbers (the dis
Jeca DembraloftlIe Charlottesville Convention" mean
10 say that this Convention did not charge Van Blu
rem with opposition to the War? First they tell us
that "the Charlottesville Convention CHARGED Mr.
Van Buren, with having opposed he administration of
Mr. Iddison and with voting against his reelection
an 1872" Then, that the Republican party of ~
York "opposed the recollection Of Mr. Madison, lust
al me commencement Of The Uar-and why did Mr..
van burcn vote with them? And iasHu they taper
oil with tile declaration, that "the Charlottesville
Convention did not charge Mr.. Van Buren, with Der-
stst'ng IN ms opposition 10 The administration of Mr.
.idd1so1' &C Do, or do they not mean to say, that
van Buren, was opposed to the war--or do they
trust to inuendO TO make such am IMPRESSION Now
let us see what the Charlottesville Convention did
say:
during tho last whom all energies Of our government ,s
seacy equto tho shock force and Inc nt,ns of Az
nosc factions seH eCey patriot posted tho tented field
M wosy celebrating for HE county's safety r. Bvreu
- ~ ne rsat' q an insiioqs opposition 10 Ne ifa'ons
faVe ~ mich That
YoE sn N eFeesy 9mo oftbe Prominea, politicians OF New
Hartford Convention, would endure forever as an abiding stigma on
our nao' character wcre it oaccd by glorious Victories
W nnd nave achieved, despite
oiiono o our politicians In November 1872 ticket of Pfesden
MI Vac Bucn then mcrnefJ with The aroS Sys Of 49,
tHg ~ Mad,sons reelection and ne rgr f0F' 49,
Here the iuuendO is much stronger and the i'm,
preston It would make upon every mind IS almost
irresistible, that they charge him with Oh.
position TO the War, and to involve him In the inst
odIum OF the Hartford Convention But, whether