Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-10-07
TO THE EDITORS OF TIE EMO UyRER.
DIR IlAM u A Tx - ,LlN


u. from the following statement OF lacis, YOU can tell
me what our Senator DR.. Atkinson intends doing shall
be much obliged 20 you to inform me-and shall more
over he disposed 10 admit thai you much "cuer TEL
lows Than any have abou, here in these psrls-nsy
as once heard certain scoolmaster say 'fu ers Ii
1fGgnus ApOO, aud all that fui to the statement of
facts WellI1 the City of Richmond, last winter when
she Doctor thought Bruce and Sims election pretty sure
ne Aredtai at Administrations candidates elect
eh throughout the D-tict, he just fling his commits.
sion as he thought MGt wOnd be pretty broad sort OF an
IRISH hint that the People agsns him. Onbis return
home, and after "icelng the pulse Of the People,
ascersinng that 1t beat high Tor JdCksOnsm, upon being
asked, whether The election OF Administration candidates
throughout tue ID strict would satisfy him, &c,-he
replied, Let them be elected first, and then III tell YOU
When the elections over he told pohficGl friend
oil iiis, That che the People against him-bul
he would hold Il the a at least, and there was
no change in his favor, lie thought he wouI then re
sign Soon Afterwards, he told one. not Of his party.
That u wac not entirely certain that the people we1e
against him; but even surprising they there
tehing What they M ght be by December. About the
middle OF August lac began to declare that che had never
had bot one thought, intention, the subectAnd
that was, resign" This how aver he told 10 but fep
~ hs personal lfiend to the people large, he say.
ihg,'nssuct me. ii you me" And he then
urhef declared that "he woul have resigned before
ne bnt ior certain he thsn gave yet there was
SUI, sufficient t'ine-and lac would resign at the next
Court Not attending that Court he said 'ihe sickness
OF his iaIniiy had preventedbut there was still time
enough-and lie would resign al September Court" Al
Meckenburg September Court he, by letter requested il
70 be announced his constituents Of that county thai
The 'ikness of his faulty prevented hs personal attend.
OppOT-
tuniiyPerhaps at their Cour,o seeing them, Tree
W TO commune with them, &c; and If he should fnd
ai they differed with him in sentiment, e would either
resign, or else bold himself subject 10 their instructions -
whist, al the tme he saying various indvi.
duAs n Halifax. Ilist che would not resign but wait Tor
tneir instruction. aud ie Monday az II silAx Court
Rouse he told the People, Jr0m The blocks. that " he
would walt Tor rr Instruction. without once telling
them That she felt himself already nsiruced-ss e has
30 repeatedly declared he ddand The very nerf day. he
slated to several OF his personal friends that che had al.
ways intended TO sgu sud yet he holds to his com
snissoh
The truth is. Messrs Editors, the Doctor sees he has
gotten inic Z" zht place., snd he is trying hard 20
sqUeeze OUT u way another 90 AZ ''lo clear
hs skirts, and The 'loayes sud ishes OF his Office
'0o--ihe with. avn nclnedio think. he will finI rather
WHcnt business Yet he says, che Is advised by his
friends rom al quarters Of tie District 10 hold or &c
now, should like TO know whether Il s "by faith" that
we Doctor believes these correspondents Of his 10 be "is
trends; or have they fhewn their friendship "by
Heif works. Did they vote Tor him when he elect
ed 10 present posH Or DID they not vote sgans him to
MANI Nay, would they noto vote against him in q
struggle between himself and anos any individual Of the
same politics 10 this disiricand not some Of them the
very men who have abused bin like spaniel-yes and
"ouo"e's non despse, and hold him in utter contempt
eephg nso ia as they make Of him Ca ioo 10 serve
'neh party ourposesl" Poor dupo Of Docioil hat he
SHOULD suier himself thus to be used and consumed in
we uslng BY bis worst enemies, regardless Of the warn
l"ss o. az lbs true fendsi Yes, Messrs Ediofs these