Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-12-19
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LOUISE OF MISUNDERSTANDING, Dec. 10.
ELECTION or PUBLIC PRINTER. .
Ar WATKINS said he had hoped that tins SUBJECT
would pass over without protracted discussion" ihere
was not single idea which had Deen advanced IN zoe
resent debate all relevant to the question before the
tIopse which was debated over and over last year
WHY was it found necessary to drag into this dscussfn
the General Administration OF the conntry-ano "h1t'
b should like know, had s measures or It's policy TO
Jo with the election Of Public Printer for the House
OF Delegates?
tract from some remarks of Mr.. WIS last year-alr w
did not deny them and believed The gentleman had quot
ed him correctly. He seemed to imply also, that Nir
w did not always meet his pledges Perhaps he DID
always come quite up to Inc marx: e,,hougn ne en-
dcayorcd to do So But he thou he fulfilled his pledges
as we'll as the gentleman from Northampton had full
filled his pledge given last year. that if the Spring Eec
lions Showed tlt the people opposed to the cleo
ton Of Mr.. Leigh he would resign his seat.
Mr. PARKER rose to explain. He said he had never
given anv such pledge His pledge had been that II the
Sp,ins Elections should return Legislature opposed to
Mr. Leirh aud that Legislature should give MIR. l.. in
s,ructioas which ne could obey, he would resign
Mr P knew that il had been stated in the newspaper
edited bv s1e gentleman from Goochands nominee,
thai De- Mr. p had given such pledge as that gentle
man ai-tei :o And Mr. P. took this opportunity to
i: :t ~ ~
Mr. WATKINS said lie did not stand here 10 violate
his p,inc!pss He stood here claiming at the hands OF
this Legislature, reribuiire justice. The principle
which he had avowed las, year the principle on
which he acted in all ordinary but this not
such case. That principle violated last year by
the party then in power. and faithful officer was remoy-
cd to make way for the iavore of the dominant party
In voting now fur Thomas Richie, MIR. w. doing
no more than he would do for any other man. who, i'll
exactly similar circumstances, should be presented
to the House. And much as Mr. w. was opposed
to the Editor Of the Wing had he been turned out of Of
flee Richie was Mr. W. would have voted to replace
him. Had mental in the Office Of the Editor OF the
Wing allowed himself to be made the tool OF party ia
turn him out Mr. W. should feel bound to redress thai
act so far as his vote would do it. And who, would
ask (said Mr. " reared Samuel Shepherd, but Thomas
R,chie-wi,h him he had long been in business. shar-
ing the profits ofhe firm and ne ought TO have been the
last here and oppose one from whom he had
never suffered injury, but from whom he had received
many benefits Mr.. w heard question from gen.
tlenan as to the politics Of Mr. Shepherd will tell you,
said Mr. w He is Whig--and somehow, whenever
stumble upon in Office Of ate he turns out TO be
Wing
Mr. w ccollectcd that many years ago, the Office of
Public Printer held by Samuel Peasants, who was
the editor ola newspaper and who was long the lncum
bent, and that Thomas Richie succeeded him. Some
years since, there committee of this House raised
enquire into the prices charged by the public printer
He believed tina, the gentleman from Ptsylvania, was
member Of thai committee, and would ask him what re-
port made
MIR. WlTCHER said, he was member Of the commit
Tee referred tot raised to inquire into the prices
charged for the extra printing And 1t was then tina
about printing, ard that Shepherd the acting man
Mr.. s. was sent for by Mr.. r. and satisfactory csmo
ny offered Of his character and capacity
Mr.. WATKINS. This is just what | wished to know
1t appears, then, that the gentleman from Pittsyvana
ascerlaned many years ago that Mr. Shepherd was the
practical printer and that Mr. r. was not yet the gen
teman did vote for Mr., Rtchic the next year. and TO
several years after What had become Of his rcturnlnG
sense Justice has been Called that he and many
Others after having asccrtaned the startling facts tina
Thomas Richie was not practical printer, and tina
Samuel Shepherd one they should have repeatedly
supported Richie candidate Tor The ohcc, and sui
fered him to fill it wthou: murmur'
The truth is that all this parade about Shepherds do
ing the work is fallacious The Wing party know tina
Samuel Shepherd no more does the work, than Thoma
Richie did it. He has it done by whom he hires
and that is all that be said about it. This talk abou
practical printer is all perfect moonshine Mr. Shep
herd reads the sheets and superntends the business bu
he does none OF the work The Wings: said Mr. W.
at which they wish to strike, through Thomas Richie
While they so Jealous in the depreciation of the
election of Editor 10 fill this Office. Mr.. w wondered
they had not alluded TO the pancnaking Senate of tht
United States, which has repeatedy-nay. uniformly
elected party newspaper Editors their public printers
But great virtue is assumed by the Wings, because they
did not last year elect their party Editor instead of Mr.
Shepherd And why did they not elect parllEan Edi
tor can tell you, said Mr. w. 1t was because, thai
the first year of their Offering Shepherd, they had not
majority, and could not expect to succeed on political
grounds alone So they got up this argument OF
the practical printer which seemed quite plausible
SO far it referred to Samuel Shepherd, but would
not have been applicable to another candidate When
last year they again opposed the election of Mr.
Richie, it would not do TO abandon either the argument
or the man; and they make great boast Of their
forbearance for not having elected Iar,izan editor
The gentleman from Northampton, who is somewhat
in the habit of making predictions, says it time thai
Virginia should arouse There is need of calling upou
her 10 arouse at this time She has arisen in the majesty
of her democratic strength and endeavoring tc
bring back her public Offices to the condition i'll which
they stood until the enemies of the Republican part,
achieved temporary triumph. And one step towards
efecting this object, is the election of Thomas R,ch
as Public Printer.
Mr.. DORMAN said he rose 10 state some facts which
had come within his knowledge, in different manner
than that in which they had been stated lie wished to
shew, that Thomas Richie not the public printer
for 20 years. and that according to the alternative sup
posed by the gentleman from Isle of Wight in which he
says he would vote for MIR. Shepherd had he been the
public printers ne was acting nconsisenty 10 vote
for Thomas Richie.
Mr. HOLLEMAN said the gentleman probably mis-.
understood him He said that II Mr. Shepherd had been
the elected public printer for series of wears and MIR
Richie stood in the position of Mr. Shepherd. he
would vote for the latter. ..r.-. :. = -
Mr.. DORMAN said, he did misunderstood The aent,e-
man. He thought his meaning was that he had done
the duty for series of years. under the circumstances
stated he would vote for Mr.. Shepherd. Mr.. Dorman
asserted that Mr. Richie had been the public printer