Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-09-17
Richmond, Tuesday, sept. ~.
THE PXLORY

THE PHLORY
We are compelled, by our duty to ourselves ms
Wen as the cause of truth, to expose two of the N.
York Editors, who have been guilty of the most des.
Ptcaoie meanness. We have often seen the " Arts
Oh able Editors !" but these are tile little tricks of
little minds. "
One OF these Editors is the redoubtable Col. Webb.
VINO so,u ms principles, IL he ever had any, To the
BANK OF the United States. He has pros,ituted the
press Tor n valuable consideration and. now tina, be
mas lost the sense OF shame, (which is sometimes the
only support OF unprincipled politicians. he does mo,
hes'tate TO resort To any tricks for the promotion of
ms purposes. We exposed his gross misrepre,en,n-
lions about ourselves, last year, concerning MIR. JET.
lerson's letter. We have again to lash the ~xnlumnin.
tor' ior'he same offence Of garhling a paper, i'm or
uer 10 suppress the truth. The following arc extracts
from the N. Y. Courier of the 9th:
"Mr. Ritchie, ever since his sweeping approv., Of a..
doctrines OF the Proclamation, has been making a desper.
n zee. s" orr o rerace his steps; but in doing so. he has found
IN m Of desperation he has lately declared Thai ar
IN van Burr Goes no., to his knowledge, aspire to the
Presidency, and that he, Thomas Richie il NO, o,I, ,bs
friend oil State Rights, bu, the open and avowed ,Jvo,
OF q states seeding from, the Union when il consider.
use" aggrieved by a law oil the General Government"
SIN a late number OF the Enquirer, ga Republican n,
20 mas brought Mr.. Richie fairly in tho field, by en-.
, tn ,s ""I,"er; ~ Congress were to pass an unconsii-
".nyy ~. To this the Enquirer thus responds:
,oh Il nor n, ,o q : we respectfully believe. would "Tbe Re.
P"o"cah OF SS." He would no longer cling 10 an A,so.
citation, whose essential principles would have hem az
grossly violated. Unless the WRONG wsr No.. =
redressed. and tho most sole mn assurances giv.n 1899
'ePe"'o"o 'he outrage, WE WOULD wITHpRA LAW rpo,,
THE UNION. This is the Conservative Remedy uh,oh
our poi''icians lin Virginia, at lessD con,empIs,ed on
this condition annexed. Our CoSyention sro.. "
u ~ ,heir Debates. They engraI,ed il i'm her ,c,
o, h"uhea'ion; They declared expressly, in this In.
sIument which puts forth the condition on which ,bev
subscribed to its provisions, 'ihat the powers sran,ed -.
me Constitution being derived from the People of the U.
81 may 6e resumed by them, whensoayer Tic same Ill,
~ ~ ID 'nrtf tNtutU ID n DDDrrssion, H. =.
%hdf ought to De, a resu~p,ion OF power-Separoton
not NuIifcation." ""'-ou' certainly
mere 'hen we have Mr.. Thomas Ritclie's confession
u 'A'n-here 10 The Richmond Enquirer arraved in dr.,
nrp nc;nI 10 General jackson, To lis Proclamation, to the
pmue.p'es OF ms Government, to The Globe and Argus and
heir echoes!-and yet with one and all of these. tis same
WI. i.'chic and his Enquirer, profess 10 be acting in con.
w now call upon the Argus and Globe to a wh.,,or
me5 co,nc,ue win, or differ from Mr.. Richie in hi. doc.
"ms o STATE k'gh's, aud whether they intend to act in
= WIN, o y IL hostility TO the Enquirer i'm the sun.
port " candidate Tor the Presidency on such princi,I.srn
&c. &c. ''"VP'es'
we pass over the personal reflections of the
.o,Tmt We expected nothing better, we desire
no'"'hs more, from such a quarter. We pass on In
the very brief comments, TO which Ho.e Ro.n,:cJ
Extracts IRE entitled: 9"
Isl. The Courier knows, or ought to hive known
the d %c G"se m never We, gwen a "s'oeeping approval of
'Ne oocoines oil the reclamation" We have nro-
tested against certain parts of il, ON n hundred oo-
Gasions-in the very first paper which published the
Frociamation, and from that moment down ,o The
present hour. "S
~d'y. The Courier knows, or ought TO have know,
mat we have never laid down the doctrine of so.."
$40" III the broad and unqualified terms. which +, 81,
u.ou'es u US. we have never been " the omen and
11o"eu advocate OF a States seeding from He
Chton, WHEN 1t considers itself apgrieycd Inv , Inv ~
The General Government" law of H.! "M"o'
ihemt means any law.-Now, the Courier knoyvs - .
Wen as we do, that we never held the doctrine All AL
on.I we never applied II. If sucl, had been our prin-
clDIeS- In hn yn taa ~, 1'''
draw from the Union, in the case of rio pa Wv T"H u
.nc case OF Internal Improvement, in the case of tho
Cohens; IN all those cases, i'm which for e;uh, al
twenty years, she has considered her own rights, ne
e ~ hn a -, .n1se o tne other States, 10 have been affect
But IN the 81 place, the Courier Editor L,or,s
'h"' ne misrepresents the question which ,vos
proposed 10 us by "a Republican of ,9S.n He
h - nave known 1t, because The paper was before
ms eyes. The strongest case supposed bv "a Re-.
puohcan OF 9S," was this: "Suppose The Conrros.
were 10 pass an act to emancipaie our siares.ngAnJ
o th's we ~suLJoined the question, put NOT 10 ,s f1nr
" VI me niinutest matters this unfortunate man
VIII not tell the TRUTH but we take the oues,;on ,m"n
ourselves for the sake of giving the answer: "Xvnl"hi
you not nulIify 1t (the act Of Emancipation ~ No
nor as we respectfully believe, would tbe Rer,bIi.
can Oh %" And then we go on, as is nuo,ed
anJ e. res; ana we give the same answer to-day.
"'u We VIII give IL to the end of time. If the mo-
meht should ever arrive, when Compress co g..
io'ge's us duties as, by the voice of n fann,;c.l
maJority, TO sweep down all the barriers of The
Cohsu.u"on, TO break into our heurtbs and fire
s'oes' 10 confscate the very property which Tho,
instrument respects in the Cd section M ;s Al,
article; to interfere with the most delicate d.
PartHent OF our Internal Police: and In exnoso :.
women and children 10 the horrors of assoss;na,;on
we are prepared to say, that after due representa-
"ons' ana an immediate denial of Justice, we would
oe ihe nrst to Withdraw from this Union. The soGI,,
y me feoPte would then become the .SuDyeme J.n,s9
DeePiy, dearly welded as we are to this oIor;o".
UNION, yet when IL shall become so grossly aI,noaJ
us 10 epdanger our lives and our fortunes. ,o Coz;
nee every thing at the feet of a maddened fo,a,;
cIs'h; ana 10 prove a fnalediction instead of n bIess
ing; me fatal father Of despotism, instead of the
I'eho OF liberty, we should be one of the first IN vy;,L,
draw rom its ~bhgbting influence. But LEI ne en- cr
90 justice to the great body of our brethren oc a.,
Eas', as 10 say, that we cannot believe they con h. 9
Iostt TO all sense of right and all love of ,j,e;r cn,.
'ry, as 10 make the attempt: We do mn, cm,
not lear or believe it. Yet, should their minds, -"
fortunately be ever so far stepped in the bnlluc;na-
IONS OF fanaticism, the catastrophe to which " re-
Ter is rs certain, as that the sun shines i, az
Heavens. ""oS i'll inc
but rs this the proposition which tbe Courier NJ
tributes 10 us! is this the case which he mis- ?
WY ana he suppress the two sentences iu,u,ed;oieL,
P,Teced'"g, which give all the color, and all tbe iust;,
nc",'on 10 our opinion and merely put forth our
sen'inent IN Tins broad aud unqualified form Wbv
oIu ne 90 u Because its Editor wished 10 nisre.
present us, and Therefore he garbled the passage-