Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-08-15
THE RICHMOND ZINC.

the war IN spirit worthy of civilization md of n
convicuon oil The goodness of respective causes
But, marvellous consistency in his very next SELL
ience he ascribes TO us "deep rooted naliynity
wards him., unsurpassed by any that ever corroded
human bosom, or animated devils" Now, who but
SIR Oracle would have appealed TO the malignant
Decaf, 10 conduct the war In "a spirit worthy OF sci
rilizdtion 2"
"Matlgnity'" Who hos shown the most of il?
lie or we' For ten years, we have been the con-
slant objects OF his scurrlous abuse. Scarcely n
paper issued which did not MS we ndersin,d con-
tam some attack upon ms. Whit epihet has he not
exhausted? What nickname has he not applied?
" hat charge las he not made against us He
has reviled AMI ridicucd us in every variety Of
form, which n coarse Imagination could dictate to
a lieeniIous pen. No silence our part could Sc
cure the slightest iinpmny in fact it seems only TO
have encouraged his attacks His whole course to-
wards ,ls, seems tingcd with the deepest nalignity.
others he has conten,e,l himself with abusing only
now and then and when they appear TO get ON his
sac, or ne on theirs, he has "cllungcd his hand and
checked his rage. He has vented his bile upon the
heads of Messrs Calhoun Randolph TszewelI
Leigh, Floyd, Tyler, Sc. &C. without regar, to tho
bounds OF common drcency. Yet then he has made
them The objrcis OF his most usome panegyrc. Bur,
upon our own heads the stream of abuse has been
poured, we understand, without any ntern,ission.
On the other hand, how has our inaliguiiy been
shown towards him? We have never read his IA
per. We have missed many of the beauties of his hill
iinssgae We have treated the assailani, generally,
with silent contempt" Scarcely has single article
been wrung from us, 10y way of commentary OH his
grossest misrepresentation of fact, ever-yaryny
winds of doctrine.
:.Nest him III buaooa ape. a. atheists use,
MlDck'd all 'ccts aud had his own 10 choosen
And to this moment he does not appear TO have
chosen any faith, for the purpose of returning IT,
More amusing still! The Wing nor only churges
us with mugniiy, but with Observation-Disclosures
ing me rst stone" and compelling him to ''repe uil-
provoked attack" And yet this man has been at-
lacking us IN thousand ways for ten years past
pouring upon our head all the peltings of pitiless
siorm--stones, mud, almost every sort of missile
which he could lay his hands on-nnd vet he now
complains of our throwing the first stone.-it was but
tue other day, he charged with being uciuated by
direct, palpabe, pecunary interest in the course
we were taking about MIR. Leigli--No sooner do we
rcia'iae, than he complains of our throwing the first
stone. lie tws us about personal grace; we
only return The compliment--und yet lie murinurs
about our "throwing the first stone.'
Let Tins pass, however, aud let us come to the
merits of his reply. lie has, for reasons best known
TO himself, with more discretion Than galiantrv
avoided touching most ofile points which we urg-
cd against him. The South American mission il
tie only one which he ventures to defend. Now if
TO ask for job under such circumstances; and when
obtained, fail to perform il; and when failing to per-
form it, afterwards ask and pocket near $4,000 for IT,
he consistent with his political ethics why he il so
1T he took the money because, like the apohecarv
1t was not his "will, but poverty consents" we
compassionate his situation. But if he received il
because me thought it fairly earned we must
admire the facility with which he accommodates his
principles TO circumstances The llel he has
drawn between case and his own is utterly in
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correct. The facts he are not trtlc--but If
they were, what then? The public work is done.
and never better done-and for this, we receive, as
well as our partner, an admirable printer who is as
sociated with for this very purpose halfthe epoo
lument ofthe work. But what does our contemporn
ry! Trust his dispatches TO the hands of a stranger
whom he happens TO meet at sea. The dispatches do
not arrive in due and i'm default ibereof os
we learn from quarter on which we rely The Re-
preventative of the u. States does not receive them
in the proper time, and The interests of The country
suffer by the delay.
We now come TO his replications we sball frst
give the text, and then suIoin the coinment:
have often heard Of that same letter the Legislature
{ Enaa which SCENE to be great with the Editor tho
He has only heard of it, but he sao il las, win
ter, when we published il verbdni, for the benefit of
those gentlemen of slender consciencesn who Ind
voted against us, for fear of infringing the liberty
Of The Press!
those delegates 10 vote sgan., M Leigh,
wase not be an sseo" 10 'I h s om0 Ws
would sseTiaco S 'i .s
0O ao en,a asna;. an oppon:n, Of
has 1diIec' pecuniar interest in uhcne against
truth. the greater ssuder % '0'' that tho
We answer, that Instructions are got IN, without
our participation. We had no knowledge of anv
such thing being on foot, in any of the counties, un-
I'll eight days before Chesterfield Court On
that day, MIR. Leigh visited her people, for the pur-
pose OF addressing them. These instructions were
going on, while were confined TO the bouse lu
the accident which had happened to us. We scarce,
ly medded with politics then, and we knew very
little OF what was tie tapis Bot the moment we
heard of Mr.. LIS having crossed tie Rubicon. orr
minds made up--We saw how great was tl,e
zeal of the Opposition and we determined 10 cone
with them as FAR as we could. We pushed the In
structions; but from "direct pecuuary iDterestn
which we felt IN fur,lerng them. Is il not "van as
well as uncandd," to assert it? is elected in the
SprIng-itis known that he is against r. r., as well
ns for is. W. h. What do The people do (? They
instruct hun to vote against l.. but their Power Of
Attorney does not embrace the other case MS il
ought not SO small n matter. Will any Delegate feel
himself bound TO alter his course in both respects.
when he is only instructed TO do il i'm the one p?
fins he not right 10 say 10 the People You
only instructed me TO The Senator and left me MT
liberty TO do what pleased about tie Public Priu
ter The argument is Irresistible; and would stand
good before the word.-We take the wager of The
Whig II II be seriously offered There will be ma
ny exceptions TO The remark, we are convinced
What! does the Editor of tie Wing think that such
men as Booker OF Amelia, Epes of Norioway are
10 he turned away from The discharge oftber duty bv
scruples or fears like these lie phys indeed bur
poor compliment 10 his own friends 10 s,ppose
them TO be so wanting in discernmeni or in firniness
Booker would soon have abandoned the Aoo of
the Petersburg Volunteers as shrink from doing
what he thinks his duty OH such I'm OCCASION
Wehsve, too the old story little worth of The PUN
NC PrIntng TOLL whenever there is criss about H. and
we ave tAiy charged with uDufh for saving IL is oft
S5OoO per snnUm The sAlsry is think $26O0-he ex
tfss some ihousani 1900 or less one wear i'm,
another What Mr Richie sares we know nothing and
care les But We reiieraie that he $1,000 per
when re sneak of JudVe,s s.f,yv do No