Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-10
Do not fear our person.
There's such divinity doth hedge a Ki,r
=, nat treason can but peep to what IL would.
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ado 70 no' 10 regard any attempt which may be
maze 10 pour abuse either coarse or "unproyoked
nor can Deeve that any individual, not morbidv sensi
i've upon that point torture any thing which has bccn
su IN reply TO Appomattox, into an attempt TO assaiI
de- @ OF s author certainly entertained no such
ueslgh but believing that "Appomaox' i'm commentnr
upon certain proceedings in the Legislature in which
iG deePnteres had rendered himself obnoxious To the
charge oil extreme arrogance attempted TO expose IT, and
however unsuccessful may have been in thai oucnr
cannot thnk so poorly OF the intelligence and
my iehov cltIzes as TO believe there is one man in
gna' VINO VIII assert that such imputation cannot
pe Justly made against him. after reading his reply TO ef
lcisoi' mat you may judge whether Appomaox is
IS o.' In some degree liable TO the mputation of AFRO
sdce' permit me to direct your attention to TO one or two
passages ~ ms letter to you In that letter YOU must have
oeen struck with the following sentences:
AS TO thesnatons of Europe | have LONG aoo oivcn
- uem up 10 ther iae--or rather their own cover
nance being conscious of my own utter ncompetencv
make or mend to preserve, abolish, reform, or recon-
Suuc 'nelr political lnsutions.I not indeed ndiC
" ierent to their welfare cannot be-but / have No
anxiety on Their account, that affected my appetite
:" or my sleep" - "rF
Whata pity tits! that the poor unfortunate nations Of
should be thus abandoned their fate by ono so
ape 10 assist them, at such time the present when
those zcalous professors OF democracy who n he
such marked objects OF detestation TO Apnomattox orc
Spreading among the people of that devoted continent
no'e houons olhberty and equality, which appear TO he
III iar way 10 PROSTATE every thing that is venerable
and ancient crested rights and alD in the DUST Would
IL not Messs Editors be of charity i'm YOU not 70
PERM. tne number OF your paper in which the awful and
appalling annuneiaon made that the nations of Europc
nave been abandoned TO their iae cross the Atlantic
iest all Europe be thrown into despair
. in ano'her place. Appomattox in replying 10 CHARGE
OF inconsistency made against him. says "I eptcrtan
another opinion, which Jefferson will thnk vel more
marvellous, that Me speeches had not been read bv the
GtScns oil our society, before theraenon was so loud
~ called TO ihem Surely man after readne, tbis
sentence, and the one have quoted little above VIII f.,
moment think of iinputing to Appomaitox the least
degree OF arrogance on the contrary he must be regarded
az the very pink Of molesy. And the gentlemen who
made speeches upon the slave question: instead of bcnS
offended with APpomattoX, for recommending to the
I'M Dir ecl,c Al
MS rst letter. must now perceive that "the citizens of our
oley woudnot have made their speeches at all had IL
NOT hech mat "thcr attention loudly called fo ter
by NPpomattoS; and that they owe him heavy debt
oil gratitude Tor snaching their speeches from oblivion
IN the nst paragraph OF his letter 10 YOU Appomattox
gves another specimen of his wonderful sagaciy by de-
caring 'hat Jefferson and "a Subscriber both belong
10 me Assembly But perhaps The validity of his claim
70 extraordinary acueness may be somewhat impaired by
OF he iact That precisely the same discovery
ad been made by every body else who read those pieces
conscious Of having advanced no sentiment which ought
10 ne ashamed or afraid TO avow felt no soicde to con
ceal who or what was. At the same time ,,as no,
disposed 70 subject myself to tho imputaon Of affected