Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-07-03
Raleigh, June sth, 1872.
CONVENTION

The Barbour Convention assembled in the CITY of RAJ
leigh, on Monday the 18Th inst and after adopting resou
uoh' addresses, &c adjourned and again resolved itself
into itS original nothngness There was more Gourisb
more effort for effect abroad than at charlottesville but
IKE Inc kindred Convention in sister State we think
we may safely set 1t down an unfortunate affair They
have shown their weakness and now talk about want OF
Tune, TO get full Convention the whole West being for
them and things of like nature This comes too l,te
hey should have taken their time and not trusted TO
these miserable subteriuges. We have looked with Gu
ous eye at this Barbour Convention and
a real Saimagundi concerna umblng together of divers
ingredients There were few well meaning Jacksonians
who have been deluded by designing men, and who mo
DOUBT honestly believe that Mr. Van Buren, is the great
Magician timt his enemies represent him to be- Then
we have in black array goodly number of the faithful
followers OF MIR. Calhoun, who have fixed their eager
eyes on the Presidential chair seated in the 'dm distance
ana determined TO eXalt him il possible that station
Mr. Van Buren, will obstruct his path TO soud
he he elected Vice President. MIR. Sergeant will not
Is say hey, our chlcl Is mar Nnlliher and Ser
Sehn i-dtiiudndrfHiI Of ti,at,
such thing as honesty in politics Did not Mr. Calhoun in
loIo ousP an MS contemporaries in the race of Federal
usurPatIon! Have we not followed him in boxing the po-
ica compass shared with him his good and bad fortune
and now when every thing rather sombre aspect
shall meany desert him and leave him TO die i'm fc
ditch? Mo- HtHra far Jackson I-DowN v1rH the
MAGICIAN AND HIS BLACK ART--Then MIR. Claws
friends have kindly lent helping hand in getting
up this grand Nittenagemote, and il we are not mis-.
taken some oil them have even insinuated themselves
into its counclsat least see no inconsderable num-
Der oil those who supported Mr. Adams against lack
SON We could point out several who supported the
Iar and may do so now for aught know, but for
bcaT yet this is anTar1 Convention. Last and least
we have a few of the tried and trustlv friends of the
'Malgn' Mr. Branch, who, were it necessary would
swear by every saint in the Calendar that no sooner had
Mr. Van Buren, entered the Cabinet, than by the nagn
influence of magic, he prevailed Cen Jackson 10
serve second tcrm-that in the time he intended
to make himself Vice President, send the Old General
to the Hermitage and to assume to himself the reins
OF Staie-that as n means OF eilecling this he had
broken up the late Cabinet, in order that he might
60 TO England, where nothing dauncd by the dis.
lance, he thought he might, free from suspicion and
al
the puppets OF party dance TO his pcasure-fnay that
this wonderful train, led the notable scheme of the Bal
hmore Convonton-nay, believe farther, that were
some wicked wag to assert that this great magician had
tuay arrested in its driven from its eccentric
orbit, the terrible Comet which predicted would APP
pear and which Mr. Clay doubt congratulated himself
would fully establish his claim he called Prophet by
scattering war pestiIence and famine from its ''horri
hair: we says it some Sag would assert This there would
not be wanting those who would be credulous enough TO
swallow the wholeThngs equally incredible have been
said and believed of Mr. Van Buren-vcriIy he is mas
Ter in the black ar-he is indeed great magician But
to be serious:
After all the efforts of all the opponents of Jackson and
Van Buren, not third of the counties of this State sent
Delegates TO this Convention and in many instances where
they have been sent hey have been delegated by mere
handful OF their fellow citizens Only two counties i'm this
Electoral District it is pretended were represented
We mentioned two attempts 10 get up a meeting iR this
place, both OF which failed. We learn since that of
th Sc gentlemen assembled in part OF the county
and appointed Delegates Now, if they were anxious 10
so to Raleigh, why not 90 private citizens; they must
know that this county is almost unanimous for Van Buren,
Onc of the Delegates, credibly informed lives in
Virginia another-we know not where he now lives but
believe he last hailed from Boston-aye, all the way
from BosOn' The other counties around US so far "a we
are able to judge have been fairly represented Even
the great county of Granville ITSELF which the Examiner
sets down firmly enlisted the side of Barbour "a fact
by the bye which have good doubt was com
plraiYcly speaking unreprcsened The magmlying eve
Of The Examiner able TO discover more than $50
III the meeting at Oxford; numberby means large.
when Is recoected that the county has 1900 voters
that full notice given and That the meeting was pur
posely called on the day Of giueroi trdnn in Oxford
We see uiro the designs of two leaders in that
mectng-iet them keep their hobby sleek and wetrain-
ed or It will break down before they have finished their
race. But we have said than we intended of this
Barbour Convention. We merely wished TO draw a pro-
file orr urhes rude sketch Of tive leave il to others
to iiI up the outlines Warenton ~ o. Reporter.
ABINGDON, June %, 1892.
We learn that the citizens of TdzcwelI county held a
meeting the l2h last. and adopted resolutions express
fvc OF ther appreciation Of the Baltimore nomination
We have not yet been furnished with the proceedings of
the meeting, but shall insert them they 10 come
hand.
Wehavo inserted the whole Of the proceedings Of tte
Convention which met at Charlottesville, for the purpose
ol nominating person TO be the ticket with
Andrew Jacksonone who would support the old Repub-
lcan doctrines Of Virginia II will be seen that th, Con-