Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-05-11


open three days. T'Siurian Lewis the only candi
Gates. Surnan the Jackson candidate, aud Lewis the
Clay candidate"
CO.hMU.NTC4TED
viter in your paper Of the 4h inst under the sig
nature OF "a Citizen of Amherst" seems TO be most
p-r-o-d-i-g-o-u-sy "tckled," at what he calls the
hhal result oil The Amherst election. am sure feel
no malicious disposition TO tickie the gent; and were it
not that untrue impressions would be waited abroad Inv
suffering his chuckng efusons pass unnotced the self
pleased author might still continue tickle himself until
he bnrsed with very ghtcr However fiat stifio ,0t
celu is OF the Of Jacksonisin in this section
ana reTte sans Pe is the weapon use 10 effect it,
Passing by his punning upon the name of the gentleman
VINO he supposes 10 be the author of the notice of the cleo
uon published in the Enquirer of the 24th Apri which
though miserable and sckcning even to nauseatnp is
certainty harmless, let me at AN insnuaton
which will be deduced from his communication and which
the Citizen OF A. with all his fairness and candour
(uhess DIS reasoning IS more stupid than his punning
must have known TO be utterly Incorrect He aives a
statement of the polls as follows
"Robert Camm, (JdckSOn) 1853
ID. $. Garland Clap 3O3
j. ID. Davis, Clay) 1O2-sos
making clear majority for the Clay candidate (says he,
oil nearly 5O-Ihus leaving the inference that a majority
OF the citizens OF Amherst in favor of H. CLAW Now
Srs, 1t Is fact, well known as the way To mill in
us county mat we are 20 10 against Clay aud his
aboHnaole yrannical, miscaled American system and
at least TO for jackson against the world If the CHI
zen oil A. Ignorant OF this truth it augurs lack of
wit and Information, for which his DretfU little
ming, IcouId communication had not pre5ored
us9nd At he was not is wifu dereliciion from truth
which taies but badly with the sscandor aud Crncs H.
which he says he is guided.
The Citizen OF A" must have known, that Mr. Gar
land on The day OF election and various other
III MS pubic speeches, expressly dsavowed being CLAW
man 1t is true he begged the questonhe was nobodys
man, or every body man. any body's man eracf as
II suited The people But whoever he may be in favor Of
or IchdteueT he may be in favor of-whcher CIav-man
Jackson man, Calhoun-man, or in fact and i'm truh
mere man OF erpedieney this much certain that he
could not be forced TO under the Claw
and this the "Citizen of A must have seen when on
The day oil election hc so ldmetdbiy impored the jackson
support him. The "Ciizen of l." also ,,sf o
HAT Mr. n,v;S
Gen Jackson, is not Clay-man- and he must have
KNOWN that it was only necessary for the most popular
man IN the county to have hOisted the flag of CIavs
nave been routed horse foot and dragoons'-So much
Tor Jacksonism and ClaVisn.
The Citizen OF A." says he was further clicked " be-
cause ne knew, what the gentleman who wrote the notice
OF the Amherst election did not know-what YOU Messs
Editors, did not know-and permit me TO add what no
man then could honestly have known-tc wiz tl,at ob
Cam was returned 30 or6O votes abe I'D Garland vet e
knew that the commissioners appointed to scruize The
polls would by sautary purgaon' strike off C.s ma
Joty and return e. the candidate elect Marvel
WSuom froPhe as wen as punsterD Yes, Sirs, repeat
that no man could honestly have fore known that event
ana me deep excitement prevailing amongst the people,
ana me scoh ana Indignation with which the pur-
sued by majority OF those holy RguiSors is viewed by
both friend and foe, sufficiently evince how was the
CiZen OF A." in possession of this attribute of
Deity iore-knowedge, and could thus so unu,e rcif,ll,
uckle himself, when the unbiased suilrages Of free
people, by large majority, had nailed his Magnus Apollo
TO the counter, and cbaunted the funeral drge TO his last
dying political aspirations He, it seems had drilled the
commissioners and discovered that some of them ima0u
whom as
e member elect, in defiance of the will OF the people
This fact, though since common was then confined 10
chosen iew-to gentlemen OF the bed-chamber-to the
house OF DdUid aud the palace Sayes'-and the "Com-
modore the "CiZen" calls him not being one of the
Royal retnue, could not by possibility be so wise and il is
hdrd-hedrted and ungencrous in the "czen" thus so
cTuey and Oitty to aun him with his premature exu-
tation lie was under the influence of a delusion COM
mon TO most OF us-We believed that the voice Of maio
nty OF the legal voters of county, legally expressed
decided who was to be their representative, and were g
norant that there any law any power this Go
vernmen which would enable or 4 weak ignorant
commissioners aided, aud guided, and directed by
bilious politician 10 trampc upon the dearest privileges
OF lreemencOnsrue away the right of suffrage and force
upon Tree people one who is emphaGcally the man
OF their choice We had heard of such things under the
despolisms OF Europcwe had read of them ia the histo
es OF the yrdnnics of the days OF slavery and of chans
but we had yet TO learn that that fatal longing for pow
er-hat poisonous arsocatic principle which has proved
the downfall Of every Republic that has ever existed and
which, like the famed UPas, corrupts and conamnates
every thing within its influence had thus early reared its
gogon head in this infant land Of liberty and commenced
its onward march of desolaon.
The "CiIizen Of Amherst in conclusion, advises your
Amherst correspondent "not to haoo until ne is out Of
the woods and says cit ought TO make him feel rather
cheap as certainly makes him look quite ridiculous"
in conclusion, would ask the sapent Citizen ihs "y.
periodical relocngs may not also be premature? For
his comfort let me tell him, he final result ho speaks Of
has not yet come Mono, my kind sr clay that fat
teung JUNCTION 10 your SOUL There is another tribunal 10
decide upon This question, whose acts are regulated by
laws clearly laid down and ascertaned and moi v arbitrary
within and caprice and fsvortsm; A tribunal which will
be ruled by the psc dixit Of man-which will adhere
to the saluary rule Of audi 0eTGm porte and not make
up rs decision like Spanish inquson from exparlc and
garbled testimony. Yes, MIR "CitiLen,' though Mr. c.
mas been returned by The Commissioners as elected by a
majority Of l. not votes, (a "aness and candour also
suppose compelled you 10 stae) and will Of courso take
his seat yet have heard right good judges say that the
on KING as be Is called, will scarcely have time to warm
himself in bis seat before he will be told 10 arise shout
der ms knaPack, and udge back again supenend the
manufacture OF bis dearly beloved cog wheels and spin
bng jennics and hemp machines, and cotton factories
wllGn lew years since so bedazzed the vision Of the
gentleman as TO whirl him almost like the phantasy Of
dream With the velociyo spinde from thorough going
uPto-tbe-hub Crawford man, 10 whole. hog uncompro-
missing, Adams, CIsy and Tariff man. The election, it's