Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-12-09

Rtchic Tor 'Why, my old friend, surely
don't mean to blame Cor that, do you? Did
not vote for practical printer | voted for the
man who performed the service Would you have
me vote for who enjoys the profits OF an Office,
without performing the duties Besides, thought
time et rid OF the influence OF political editors which
entirely too great over our Legislative deberat'cnS
prove so far 1 able, the arguments which had
been put in my mouth here. But would not all do
the old farmers could not be deceived Oh yes, said
they if all that you have told me were true the
half oft, should not blame you nuchWe believe
that the who does the work. ought in justice To
ceve the rewardand fully agree with you about the
undue and dangerous influence o political editors and
would be glad at the proper time TO see that thing
dicd--bu. could you perceive that those who induced
YOU 10 vote with them had very different object in
view? Did you not know II was mere prctcnce-
covering TO hide their true design Did you not
epcrccve. that il secret stroke aimed at your
political principles and that by thus lending your
self to their purposes, you active agent in
their hands in destroying ycur causef did
they about the snecurc aiice OF Pubilc Printer:
Rchie might have had forty snecures for acght sicy
cared Their object WAS to kill the Richmond enquirer
because their polite doctrines could not terminate
in the soil. Now, let me give you little advice
You young and inexperienced, and for that reason
disposed to give credit to all you see and hear.
older than you are, and know little about the
world and the motives which influence the conduct of
men. tell you now, that very little which you
and hear is truc--aH that gtiicrs IS not g0d. When
yon gave vote, you doubt thought 1t for the
best il appeared To lie founded solid reason; and
it would have BEEN had the opposite party really and
canddly acted on the principles which they proesscd
But did you know that the whole plan Of operation
the plausible arguments which whispered in your
car-the whole cunning Schemes verify like New York
tactics was dcvised-put forth and by another
{. political Editor in the city of Richmond? And instead
OF banishing editorial influence, you only putting
down Editor to build up another
This sir, the plain language used by the people of
Mecklcnburg. They could not be deceived They
the truth, and spoke it plainly. And gentlemen
about practice the fraud agans Do they hope to
disguise the truth?
child, when its eyes closed, magincs itself
cealed and protected from the gaze of others But
y gentlemen cannot be childish TO imagine that, by
dcceving themselves, by closing their eyes and
yielding the plausbily of their arguments they
thereby deceive others The veil is thin; it has
become thrcadbare This is aspecies ojugglng which
cannot be pracsed but once; it will not bear repetition
Neither your constituents, sir, mine be deceived
in this matter. And really did not expect this covert
SLY attack after the mighty hourslng OF trumpets and
the open declaration OF war ut the beginning of this
campaign When saw one cheltnin OF division
FORTH and with loud voice proclaim, that war; TO
cxtermination had been decrced in solemn council
when heard another mighty of vGlor call on his
lege followers to rally around the standard when
heard the deep mutterngs OF awful wrath which fell
from the lips of another veteran warrior my heart sunk
within me. thought should have more BUSH
fighting; no more Indian warfare : shelterng
OF ourselves behind some kind hedge shadowy rock;
but that should be dragged forth into the open light
Of day, and slaughtered without mercy. looked, sir,
for nothing less than the terrible sock Of Waterloo
charge, and total overthrow of all roops-horse
foot, and Dragons. expected that poor wight of
scattered forces would be in the condition of Jobs
servant, when he tod his master, c plough
ing and the feeding beside them and the Sabeans
fell upon Them and took them away; yea they have
slain the servant with edge of the sword and only
escaped alone to tell thee"
When captain of the host up out of
the South unfurl his banner before my eyes and
II proudly over u.s. poor, eroucing, palace sta5eSWhen
heard another from the region OF Yesperus, where the
goes down, discharge the solemn, signal gun, loud
long and reverbcrating Der the hills and through the
hollow wales, methought the last hour had my
hair stood end like forked stakes terrified knees
smote each other and had not been pnioned TO seat
they would have bowed upon the bosom of their mother
earth and prayed for help. But when felt Olympus
nm ID n Inv he 1f1l
behring's and the terrible nod of Jupiter Tonans was
ready to cry out with poor fallen Lucifer, when he
hurled over the battemens of Heaven-"Mc miserable
7ohich acdy SidH Fy Infinite crath and infinite despair
But what sir, is the end of all ts mighty preparation
this shaking of the name of the terrible king OF beasts
Uhy SIR, 10 haoc practical printer! oncs par
tayii,st, nascitar ridicuius mus!
Why will gentlemen longer deceive themselves? They
cannot deceive or the people. Why then do they
persist in practising this fraud upon themselves? Why
do they not come out boldly at once and nominate John
Hampden Peasants Esquire, Editor of the Constitutional
Wing in opposition to Thomas Richie Esquire, Editor
of the Richmond Enquirer 1t what they wish do
1t is what they have been caucussing about in their
lodgings and at the ofthe streets for the last
days. Why then have they not brought him forward
He surely deserves the reward at their hands, and ought
not thus to be slghtingy overlooked in the distribution
of the spolls. No has abored more zealousy more
devotedly, and more elecuay in the of the Wing
party--Cod the mark than John III. Peasants
He has pered all upon their success-has sacrificed
than any man livng-heah, fortune, every thing
70 secure triumph to their And, now that
has been the principal agent-and gentlemen are about
TO share the spoils of vctorynow that they about
TO practise for the first time the mysteries Of the sere
prtnctpfeStat ~, to eat up IN solemn FORM the five
loaves and the two little ishcs--he, poor Tray is not al
lowed the crumbs that fall from the banquet table. Well
may that gentleman exclam, s'Save from my friends
and will take Of my cncmies'-or with Cardinal
Wosey, in his last pious moment' Had sergod mn
God ,oh hafMe aedt Ihaee scrccd my KING he oould
not thus t0rsdkc any hOuT Of Reed" hope some
member will still have the courage and the magnimmy
To forward and place that gentleman in nomination.
lcannot vote for him myself; but could be more
rcioiced at the of the individual, however
much might deprecatc the asccndency of the Politician
Do you know. sir the relation in which / stand
toward that gentleman He is knsman for whom
have INDUCED those feelings of clanship so pccu
liar TO the highland blood which flows in the veins of both
of u.s. And shall ever extend toward him the right
hand Of friendship long hc will advance to receive
t. But, however deeply may be interested in the
welfare of the man. admired the Politician. |
have always known him to be ardent generous noble in
his feeiingsirrobc TO falkland influenced by
the impulse Of passion rather than the dictates of rea
When grew up 10 manhood, found him engag-
ed in cause which repugnant to every principle of
my nature. could not follow him in his adherence TO
Henry Clay, John O. Adams, the American system
and all the latitudnous doctrines Of the Old Federal
School, TO which he at that time ardenty deyot
cd Much less can follow him now since he has been
re-baptized in the mingled pool of modern Whggism
that boiling troubled cauldron of every HETEROGENEOUS
compound. But the politics Of this gentleman the prn-
cipes and doctrines he has maintained, in all their wild
and revolutionary tendency, the chief of faith
to those who have put forward this practical printer i'm
nomination against Thomas Richie But the PRINCIPLES
of this latter gentleman and the old fashioned Republic
doctrines which have been sustained in the columns
of his paper odious in their sightunsayory TO their
taste and therefore it Is they wish spew the one out