Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-12-02


other side, fer which offence, MIR Garland had hs feel
ngs much asssicd I'm reply from Of the Antics
truded himself upon the People of the county MIR q
told the people the trutl-tat was the offence Atcr
all their speeches and the cosc attention of repre-
scntatives, Mr. Watkins and Col. Gholson we shall be
able to carry our Instructions by large majority"
TO 7WE EDITORS OF TIM EvQUiRER.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
On Monday, the Both inst, Now the committee up
pointed for ntrucons to Allen Wilson,
adjournment and alter receiving the papers bearing the
letter with the signatures thereto, from the members of
the committee appointed t. submit them u the qualified
voters, adjourned to the next court (Dcc.) which
day IT rs earnestly requested that they present the
mlttcc at an early hour such further subscriptions as
they obtain, order that they be acted upon
with as little delay possible.
On Tuesday, the 25th the Chairman of the committee
and several ut the members and others, met the
Clerk Office, attended by the Clerk and the She
riffs of the upper and lower halves Of the county, who
examined the Commissioners book, and tax books and
asccrtaincd the number of qualified voters who might
by possibility. in the county The representatives
of those that dead and all others of the cou
W whenever they could be rccollected added to
those in the county There appeared to be six hun
dred and twenty ninc Notwithstanding that last Spring
when the contest was most interesting and animated
and the greatest number of votes pollcd that was
ever known in the county, there but four hum
dred and eighty-two votes given. The Federal Par
ty will not get up counter Instructions but require
OF the Republicans TO obtain majority of all the
qualified voters Consequently, all who at such
distance that they cannot sign, and all who ind
eren about the contest and do choose take part
either way, set down To the Federal side A very
respectable man. who had not intended to take
discovering this, came Tuesday and signed at the
same time assigning his And even this advan-
tage does not satisfy them for many of them openly de-
clared that the delegate ought not to obey any
tons, because he instructed ut the polls; whilst
others declared that they ought be obeycd unless
poll opened on the conrt DAYS under the inspec
ton of men appointed for the purpose. Indeed, bets
offered that the instructions would be obeyed
and they were not taken up II asserted also, that
some persons had declared that they did not know
what they were sgning and wished their names
taken off. This mentioned to by the dele
gate himself; and upon cnquiring who they were, he
named but one That one would have been stricken Off
but that gentleman present, when il proposed to
take 1T off. said he had enqured oihim whether he wish
ed IT or not and he declared he would not it,
believe IA few people of this description be found
IN Cumberland as any county in the State according
its number of voters. Yet think it proper To make il
known TO any who may wish their stricken from
the list. that if they viii communicate information there
OF to the committee, Mt the next court or to the chairman
III the meantime, either in person by letter, their
names shall be forthwith taken off
After the commissioners and shcrl's books got
ten through, the letters subscribed exhibited and
examined. There were two hundred and eighty names,
of which twenty three crossed account of al
legged defect of Notwithstanding hundred and
hitysevcn that were pronounced qualified This
is fifteen more than majority of tho highest number of
votes ever taken in the county list brought in
after the examination, with FIVE subscribers by one of
the committee who supposed December court to have
been the day appointed Tor receiving them. lie said fur
Their, that he believed others aborcd under the
same mistake. The gentleman above named who came
on Tuesday and signed after the examination II
is believed that majority of the number reported
n
members of the committee will make proper cxerton
1t supposed, that after Mr.. Leghs speech at the
Petersburg dinner his friends would longer contend
that lac is opposed 10 the Bank of the United States In
that specch he said: at difficult oonceire how
this nation could hang together, in lis present POI
litca union and commercial relations, without general
uniform currency of kind other. lie believed
the indispensable necessity of such currency uni
versally admitted
All things considered the institution of National Bank
would present itself the easiest method at least of pro-
vdIng general uniform currency for the whole Union;
and 1T would therefore be resorted TO by those who
thought such am institution constitutional as well
pcdient, and adopted, if they had the majority
Yet, strange to tell, many of them asserted at the
meeting aforementioned, that he is opposed it! But
the People at large, who have view but the good OF
their country will in this last dcclaraton well as
many others he has made that he is TO all inents and
purposes, United States Bank man. If, therefore
they do believe that Bank of the United States is an
institution dangerous TO the liberties of themselves to
their cldren and their cildren's children TO their
latest posterty, they will support the main pillar of Re
preventative Goyernment-the Right of Instruction
privilege, essential TO the preservation of the only free
Government in the world, TO be thus FILTERED down.
trampled upon, and Frustrated.
Cumberland, Nov 26tl 1884
arhe Editors Of the Wing requested publish the
HALnAx, rs November.
TO the EditorS-s.We are about to select candidate
Tor Congress- IN this District in opposition TO Col Daven
port, who has deserted the Democratic purity and gonc
over to the 'Panck and Distress party is generally
thought here, that the Col will be beaten by majority
not short of 1000 The eyes of the people OPEN and
state of things will be exhibited at the next spring cleo
tons very different from the panck results of the past
An Opposition man, who stated in the spring. that he
considered the removal of the Deposes affecting
value OF his property 30 per cent. admits now that he
never more wholesome state of things. Negro
boys and men will bring 5000 TO 800, Notwithstanding
the assertions o.. the DeDaOpemen diernare Leigh that
the country was ruined and that tobacco would not hear
carriage to market And still there is a combination of
parties and fragments of disappointed men, who wish
again to palm him upon the people of Virginia their
Senator 1t is to be hoped that Virginia will never sub
NIT to a "Bank Junto." Yours
For THE ENQUIRER.
TO THE PIJRILC