Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-08-26

article of tho 10th, on Friday last. Will our readers
excuse US for laying this precious ~effasiou directly be-
fore them9 We confess, indeed, that we owe them
some apology for doing so. Never, in the course of3
years, have the columns of the Enquirer been stain-
cd by so indecent aud scurrilous a production. In
ruth, no such shameless libener has "touched our
horizon" since the days Of Calender. Why, then,
do we publish il? Because we are DESTROYS that our
Readers shall Judge for themselves. No descrip-
ton that we could make of il, would do ADEQUATE
justice to It's beauties I'VE fiatter ourselves, with
Out any OF that exuherant "yanity'' which he is
pleased to ascribe TO us, that the portrait he has
drawn OF us is far from being a correct representa-
tion-We would rather suppose, that il is more
applicable to the Pamter-and that the original is
nearer hoinc-and that he has drawn principally
from himself.
Our renders will con the whole piece overland
then wonder, if they can, at the contempt with
which we have treated the Wing. Let his Party
ilnsh Tor the indecency of the Press which is con-
siiercd as their OrgaD.-Andl etthc People iudge of
the libernIiiy, and taste, and decency, and truth,
which they are to expect from such mn Oracle. :
We can scarcely condescend TO answer in detail
the assertions that are here put forlh.-Wilh what
consistency can he pretend TO say, that we have
sought tor years to destroy his reputation, when he
himself has been assailing us in every variety of
form Tor more than ten years?-What misrepresen-
tiuon has he not usliered forth against us in his pa-
per? What abuse las he not employed? What chi
thets has he not exhausted? Our revenge Inns con
sisted in our not reading and noticing whole kennels
OF the coarsest abtse.-lt Inns been seldom, indeed,
''"t !" y tofO tl'lbCu tut iuSn-tuu tDen OILY n
touch or two. 1t is true also, that some correspond-
ents have criticised him in our paper-but we hive
suppressed a hundred attacks-We hive feo,ent-
~ softened expressions in those which we have
published. lie knows himself, that we declined one
Communication, which might have CALLED him TO
the quick-And he ought 10 know, That the very
Communication, which all the waters of LctLe cannot
wash from his memory, was held up by us for seve-
raj days; that we wished to decline its publication
ultogether; and that nothing but the Unfortunate call
upon the liberty of the press finally induced us to
publish it.
He may have come here with kind feelings for us
but certainly he did not show il, when he conducted
paper at Lynchburg, and treated us i'm so coarse n
style as compelled us 10 suspend all exchange with
him.-Iie has certainly sIlewn very liule of thar
feeling since he settled here-as the whole course
OF bs paper must have slieYn 10 the satisfaction of
those, who have been conversant with its praces
Butthe times have III some degree changed. Cir
cutnstances which reflect no credit on him. ms n
politician, have lately made him, ms / were, the select
ed organ OF a strong Coalition Party in Virginia.
We are thus compelled, from no respect we feel for
The Editor, to notice now and then his paper. We
shall no longer extend TO him the iinpunity, which
seems only to have encouraged its misrepresentn-
tons. we shall lash II, as we see fit, although il
may continue 10 sling him into such elegant offusions
as the following:
"THE R~IcHMoND ENeUIRER.-we owe this vor-
thy a long arrear, which, as ne cannot discharge at once.
we shall ~liquidate by insialments. 1t is a revolving task
Tor l. is ever revolving to have to do with a vile sisnderer
ana an hdbitnal violator OF truth-a sianderer, whose best
trends are always his first victims 10 the Moloch of the
party he serves for the time being, and a contemner OF
ruth, who has not even the msgnauimity to fiji with spir.
it-whose disregard Of truth is irvelera e, but whose NOR.
al pre- cepton places the igneminy not In the u,tersnce, but
The detection of ~ialsehooj!
1t has been our destiny aud except that Of the can.
lives oil Mezeniius who were chainei TO the slain. and rom.
PEELED TO inhale In heIplessness, The polluted atmosphere of
foiipg humanity, we cannot imagine one of more re fioed
nnhappiness--fo be thrown in conflict with the Ricbmo,I
Euqnirei--,he most industrious OF all slanderefi--,he most
vipdictive OF all liillc souls, who will reyenee bv ,bs
.onsns Mua' y WIN moi ayenge by lair and open means
the most uugenerous and unins unanimous of all foes WIN
was never known yet TO combat fairly in The arena of a,gu-
ineni, but has ever Stunned the contest, by assuming the
ridiculous airs, and pretensions of an imaginary superio,itx.
Or u dragged INTO 1t, has never failed 10 have recourse 10
The pole-cars weapon OF defence, willing himself 10 be an
Accumulation IN the nesirils OF cleanliness, provided he could
render an adversary equally offensive
such has been otr antagonist, aud such are his char.
ae'er'siesi we nave reason 10 know him. a1d we do
know him, next TO his Creator, the best. We know tic
ittleness Of his professional jealousy W know be VIVA,
low and ungenerous and unworthy arts, he has sought for
years 70 destroy our reputation, and r., nder us odious 10 our
fellow cihzens-W know that for wears. iudging orr
PRIDE by the standard OF his own egregions vanity, he
thought 10 mortiiy us by considering us as even BE-
low the dignity OF being named in his doughty En-
9rrer -we know, too, that during this Gerry fine, when
he affected TO regard ns as altogether below his digui6ed
no"ce' no personal enemy Knocked in vsin Tor an adj
mission into The columns OF The Euqpirer, when an assault
upon our reputation was the object &c the applicariou-ve
Know moreover, that be has thought il e~xpedient TO change
his policy; that lie could no longer affect 10 ree.rd,s
beneath ms considerations, a journal whose circulation in
the Commonwealth was eqn,l to his own, or nearly % :
ana that he aud another, perhaps several Others now pro
- 'cith ~ y ulch EOmDlneu atfdCk. Alaf
Mr.. Ritchie's contempt (HeaveD save Tie marx y and his
delracuons had been unable TO iujure. Not that the
Etbors OF ihis paper were the obieri-they are humble
NM ins'gnihcant-highcr game was aimed at, and the
E'gie was 10 be struck, while the arrow seemed. directed
at the sparrow.
"We will say in self Justification, that we came here
win kind, and even warm leelinps Tor the Editor of Inc
Enquirer. One OF his friends knows il well, and in their
siirit dd we desire TO conduct the warfare OF party. But
hs little and malicious sonl, saw an enemy in a rival. and
could not believe that sentiments animated US, which were
strangers 10 his own narrow aud base spiril. we feel that
TO be true which we have heard; that whose puts himself
IN rivalry with the Richmond Enquirer, mus, be prepared
lot Tue enuh''y which fows from vanity the most concel.
ed and orerweening, from an ambition to rule the most
pu,ous tongue.
We have more TO say"
The .arf Of Sinking
The speech Of MIR. L. Everett At lie Whia f. .tivaI of
Salem, has been cried up TO The skies. HI followed the
"godIike man, but if we may believe the puff. of his
eulosists, he surpassed even MIR. Webster himself He
neiegds the Constitution, abuses The President, cepsures
TIE House OF Representatives. 10 which he belongs: saws
mat ITS spirit IL gone, Ills members want courage and
Vftuey-iha "they sus'ain measures which they di.ap-
prove, all "seli-fespeet is pros rated" &c. sc. And
Wtnus up with an elaborate panegyfic on the Senate, who
never would have merited his praises il some of them had
not detied the instruction. Of their own constituents. In
the course OF Isis fpeech, we find the following ridiculous
baihOa:
"Iiskoit tis limo will norcf come. when the general frame .o,t
ard yGciaf nomenclature Of our Constitution viii \, ah,rIa..t
Even Napoleon, after no had in facf, though not In mama. made him
an tho Dictator. OF Fiance. thought IL expedfenf 10 have II put 10
,s vote. wheihef u should be for life; and carried II by q m,ioii,
OF more iban Three millions and a hall egsinsL a handful, of whom
our own Lafayette wus the only man of note. / banpen 10 have in
~ pochet sonething Ike 90 ocular illustration Of these principles =
cry tIs very day. fort qrsftof off dollar, q Ffench ffaoc uf.ce. not
Sc,tA,ay ~o'th" 'o.. than nineteen cents ri beet, and u good deal the