Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-03-08
10 7nE EDIroRs OF TIE ENQUIRER.

My attention has been arrested by a charge i'm the
Enquirer oil the 22d February, which you saw is founded
OH information you have received from The couotv
"Ihat the Delegates from the county have mi
ed their constituents, aud that sat the Polls in April the
people Will try conclusions with their agen,s"-i ,houJ
rot have noticed this attack for the eff
feet which lis intended least calculated to have ON
Their election by oresiallDg the opinion Of their cons
tuens while they absent in Richmond A. n fr;eni
oil those gentlemen, claim the privilege through your
paper oil saying, that your informant is to
make any such assertion; that their have Civ.
en- no evidence to Justify it, and that the
alone oil an enemy OF theirs you must be Indebted for
facts on which TO found such charge.
IL, sir your information derive from Country De.
mocra Gas from certain marks am induced to believe
~as) who has figured so extensively IN the Enquirer
or several weeks, as seems. TO the great satisfaction
oil its editors, and who takes upon himself with such in
finite oesty 10 speak for, and in the of fhe peo.
Pe OIL ms par o, 'hs country, who have "not single
charges, that "hey have formed party come xons i'm
Richmond which are stronger than the ties which bind
them 10 their people at shome - Il |, Of a peee with
the base coin, which issues FROM the Kitchen Cabinet
whose scullon lie is believed to be. and which, ne doubt
viii IN good time, reward him for his labours with snug
appointment, in the way OF post Office or some such
crumb from the table OF he serves suitable to his
high deserts. My word for il, Messrs Eiors when the
mask shall be stripped from this sesycd "Country De-
mocra his claims to the name OF Democrat will be found
10 consist in econg The slang from the polluted columns of
the "Globe and surrendering himself body and soul 10
he Tender mercle' oil that honest gang ycIept the Kch
en- Ca6inet and his authority for speaking the name Of
the People will be such shoaing about among them
like the Ioul carbon BRIDE. preyng the moral pc.
tical roltenness OF mankind administering his political
nostruins may entite him to.
The "tegislatiue and representative usurpa ion of
winch he speaks II source of mischief, as lac complains
Is at The door oil him and his party whom he has made
his idol for, undoubtedly for the last several years nine
tens OF the legislation Of this country has been i'm the
hands of this party Bad as is the TASTE of such exnre.
nohs depravne as Is the tendency OF such attempts thus
to exa the Executive by bringing into con,e npt the re
Presen'aiveso The people, it is still more to be depored
as an evidence OF the rapid decline among our people of
attachment TO our republican institutions. IT'S not won.
deruI Messrs Editors, that such persons should deal in
nueno n.nuation, aud damn by faint praise for Ills their
vocation But It's wonderful Ills lamentable that gen.
tlemen OF high and honorable bearing the moment thew
become infected with Van BurenisD, Immediately per
haps insensby give into system Of indrecfion emf
heh'y distinguishing and SO extensively practised by that
gentleman himself
In conclusion permit me TO say that far as my in.
formation extends the opposition the course of our Dele
gates consists mainly of few post office politicians who
will doubtless poison the minds of some of their no.
mes, against their Delegates but the great
denim them before they return and give am account of
their stewardship and too enlightened DISMISS without
cause delegates, In whose manly and patriotic princi.
pies ey can confde and in whose talents attention
TO heir representative duties they have assurance that
they are men of great usefulness JUSTICE
HALIFAX Court House, I'd March, 1884.
We freely throw open our columns to the precedino
Communication though its language is harsh and we will
add, oera in severalrespects We should Willingly have
published it without note comment if the writer had
been pleased 10 let ai0ne-what we said upon the
subject, that draw forth the poisoned arrow wa,
THIS that We daily receive intelligence from her coun
do not accord with the tone of their natives we
have accounts on the South Side-irom Halifax from
Brunswick rom The lower counties, &C., &c which sa.
Gsy u.s. mat The People against the the
Deposltes as well as against the recharcr of Bank
Such was our honest conviction the lime we wro,e
Them and such is still our belief-We shall see, when
tie cause is tried before the People.
The writer refers TO the complimentary remark we
made on The " Country Democrat."-We cannot reiract
H. 10 please tile preJudices OF the author of Justice
Whoever he may be. his style is masculine, and his
thoughts are clear We know Of essays that have APP
Peared during the winter, which have be- gene.
rally approved and admired. We wish we could nav the
same compliment to the composition Of Justice - But
the public will have the opportunity OF judging for them
selves as they will have the poduc ions OF both pens in
this days paper.The motives which Justice, is pleas.
ed 10 ascrbe to the Country Democrat like the slang
which he puts forth against the X c., the Globe, Van
Burenism &c. We suspect that the charge of seeking
an office from the Administration is just as true as
similar charge which has been frequently and unjust.
ly made against ourselves Such is the re adv
weapon OF all envenoed pariizans But integrity dees
attack, and truth will silence all nsinu