Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-05-25
OPPOSITION TACTICS.

/ 1NTCNpCFaTc, pOIiclI advnn-
aSe shews the desperate condition TO which they are re-
duce party The instruments of this party go into
the House and abuse private individuals They publish
cards IN the newspapers assaing them. They arm them
selves with pistols and swords and when some individual
is rendered furious enough to make an attack the next Of
! the Administration - ~
First we had tho affair of Webb and Green, and Bar.
rel Green abused Webb in the most violent manner in
INC lelegraph-Webb sends him by friend pre-.
ininary to an adjustment of the matter in an honorable
way The bearer of the who entered Green's house
uhuer me mmunics, as he supposed, of flag OF truce
attacked by Green with pistol in hand and whip
IN the other, in the presence OF his Grecn's friends If
webb mad resented nthe Streets this treatment his
armed irienc and the encounter had cvcnuaed unlayo
raby Tor Green, then it would have been charged as
van Buren plot and AN assassination instigatcd by New
J ork politicians.
Aftcr this we had the cards. Oh, noc. an,
oil PoindeXter and his coadutors and the aempl then
was TO brow-bca New York and scandaize the
ton oil the whole State well degrade Mr. Van R
rcn by rejecting him in the Senate The New yorLo
treated ali this bravado with the contempt deserved-and
left the conduct of their antagonists the ccnsre of
tic opinion Nothing 1t has been SEEM could be made out
OF this violence 10 the disadvantage of Mr. Van Buren, or
his friends
The next step taken by the most malignant of the oppo
sion to carry this species of warfare directly upon the
public officers NiaSr Lewis and Major Eaton as L,inc
of the Presidents Tennessee friends have bc.n ,L
butts OF hundreds of shafts during the present session
thrown in debate and in publications, Mr. Kendall has
been assailed Mr. Smith of the Treasury Mr. Hayward
the Land Commissioncr-and lastly Mr.. Barry and his
assistants and clerks i'll the Post Office, have all had
the most violent anahemas hurled at them bv Messrs
l1olnes, OlhytOn and others, the Senate.
tent with this, private individuals have been dragged
into the arena OF the House Even the Editor of This
print was thought be OF sufficient importance be
the subject OF false accusation. All however in the
slightest degree connected with this Administrations could
not but be that il the object OF those concerned
III prompting 'hs violent course, TO provoke them
rash and imprudent act which might be ascrbed to the
martial temperament of the President. With the same
view, Mr. lngham charged conspiracy TO murder him
upon the heads oil the bureaus of the Departments
who arc generally the most pcaceabe and noensve men
living ALL therefore, who have the interests of the adj
minstraion at heart seeing the motives of the abuse
heaped upon then very wisely resolved dsappont the
design oil lis enemies by treating with silent contempt the
insults offered TO them.
When Gov. Houston assaed by Mr.. Stanbery
both in debate and in the Inteigencer, being high sp
tied and independent citizen, holding office and asking
none, he resolved, imprudenty think TO resent his
wrongs, without reference 10 individuals parties.
Hence bis note calling for explanation being contemptu.
ously received, followed in accidental meeting
and under sudden excitement, by the chastisemen inct
cd on Mr.. Stanbery. Mr.. Heard being a personal friend
TO Governor Houston resolved insult offered
TO him, while under duress by Mr. Arnold fbis inten
ton he admonished Mr. Arnold, casual meeting in
the street The latter resented this through the
lnelligencer, ntinang that Heard restrained from
attacking him only by cowardice Heard replied through
this print We understand that member of the House
and several others friends of the administrations united
with General Houston i'm extortng a promise from
Heard TO content himself with his paper defiance
They urged upon him the mischief il would do Houston
himsell-he political purposes which would be ap-
piled by the Opposition and every other prudential cons
deraion that could be suggested He at last pledged him
self to give up h intention attack Anod-but unluck
y, becoming inebatcd before he went to the CAPITOL
he resolved it seems, punish Arnold for the aronts
which he supposed that individual intended TO offer him.
in his speech that day, by cxcaming against assasns
whom he described hanging about the Hobbies of the
House. Heard aborng under previous excitement and
driven quite beside himself by the aonts with which nc
was goaded brought the encounter in which he was so
severely wounded Fortunately Mr. Arnold escaped I'M
hurt, the arm being only slightly bruised.
The frantic and shocking OF this infatuated man. s
seized upon with the greatest alacriy by the desperate
coalitions as most fortunate event for their Gov
Houston and all who the which had been made of
bis TO force false Impressions the public mind for
political effect most anxious, have said to pre-
such volenceand those who have been the authors
OF all the aggraYaos and proyocaons 10 assaults from the
beginning Of the session. actively engaged in endeavor
ing TO reap advantage from the harvest of troubles which
they have sown.
The Telegraph even attempts to bring the President
into this business 1t says the pariz1ns of the President
"To-DAY, Che 18th, nst) 're)sed 10 hermit an iupes
gdton Of the charge that he used Ian guage tending 10
stimulate assaults upon members for COyds spoke in
debate In the same article, the Telegraph speaks of
the assault on Arnold as happening "YEsTERDAY" 0be
1ah inst) II is thus falsely made TO appear that Sian
berys motion, for investigation, the EXPRESSIONS he
imputed to the President in relation his own fracas with
General Houston, had been submitted to the House The
day after The affair Of Heard and .A,uold and had
reference TO it-when the truth is, that Sanberys
proposition for the investigation was made before the
assault Arnold, and not the day after az stated in the
Telegraph The House, we have no doubt, rejected Mr.
Sanberys motion for enquiry, from sense of ID, own
dignity Every member of the body must he conscious that
the mprc sson he has soup to make is enfire ,roun
No can believe that the Chief Magistrate would do
sccnd to encourage ie petty broils which il is obviously
the policy OF his enemies TO engcnder operate TO hi.
and the public detrimen If, however, the House of Re.
personalities should deem the nsinuaions Duff Green
Of importance than those Of M Stanbcry and we're
to institute an enquiry it would result in showing that
Mr. Heard had never been at the Presidents and had ne
yer been counseled by any friend of the Administration
! bot TO abstain from violence.
The public will sec ALSO that this most subtle F,lifor
| by circumstance quite as remarkable as that we have
noticed tries TO identify New York, and of couro Mr.
Van Buren,, with this transaction. lie says that Heard
tried TO shoot Arnold with pistol "yyITH THE woRpa
NEW EoRK ENGRAVED THE BARREt,l" How
much do the coalition rely the supposed Ignorance or
the peoPe' they dceei1e themselves, not The peoplc-
Globe.
To add to the errors Of the late arav il pretended
by the Opposition print that the life Of MIR. Tazeve W
endangered We understand that Mr.. Tazewcl himself
has conIradiccd this story-U
! The clay Press in the Hest.-Sone of the CLAW ma.
per IN Kentucky are proving, ly deeds that desperate
state Of Their a(rs Which the Opposition prcss in Ohio
Acknowledges ia words. The Focus and the Jgvr,,oJ I,,e
/ " published daily in Bouisve-the C'ommenfofoy and
hsntUchidn, oi'Fankiortthe RepOrfer and O5sergey
OF Lexington, or Of the leading Clay Journ,s have
united their iorlon hopes, and dwindcd down 10 three
similar signals Of distress were, some time since hung
out Of the North. The BOSTON Ddg ddreriisrr saved
another Clay daiythe Patriot and Cr6fiele- from ut
ter extinction by Joining together their ccnne fortunes
The Coalition iH Congress seem To- have Afforded timely
! bDt 10 their iollOwen.-R