Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-09-04
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auVIce-but really he might have spared himself tho
pans OF giving IT. Why (says he) does not the En-
qnirer either publish the proceedings of all the mee,i
winch have been held in this State; or if il have no,
room for that at least mention that such mect;nos -
taken place is it afraid of giving offence 10 ;,s Mi,
eIn brethren Mot at all my worthy sir ..Bc,y..n
i rou aha we arc publishing them fast we can
we nave already laid before readers me procee
you have specified fairfax Prince Edward New Kcpf
and neutrality-suspicious. many others-and we shall
throw the rest into columns rapidly as we
we Shai not even avail ourselves of your excuse We
shall not say We less regret inability TO crowd The
proceedings OF these meetings into columns as they
gehefaily express similar views and determinations
We shall lay the whole of proceedings before fla,
Nort-and mark US, also all the Proceedings of the
North towards the South. We wish them dsuc,I,, 80
understand what each other is abont-hat they mn No.
ceve the relations they respectively bear-the DANCER in
winch they stand and the duties expected of each other
1t or not, shall never be able to know because Won
might be guilty OF thousand omissions which we sIaII
never lke upon ourselves the trouble Of ousing over
your columns to ascertain. You may undertake This In,
tie species of suryeiIlancc-JYc tcM not
Thanks also to our worthy contemporary for his hint
aboutour visit to the Warrenton Sprin9s We arc
in good health and spirits; but when we find our nervn
out OF order, as he did years ago we shall hcn
go TO the Springs or perhaps to Liverpool via south
America, without putting the Administration to the trou
Die OF paying our expencesor accepting the honorabe
post Of Messenger, and bearer of Estafettes.
The Wing docs only justice in crediting us with
suifclcncy OF good feeling rejoicing that Mir Ot;srs
capped the hand of violence at Lexingon-athough il
had previously charged us with vindctvcness towards
HIM We do alphabetically rejoice-and most deco
~ mortified should have BEEN if the article we hsd
extracted from the Maine Argus had induced the attack
we rejoice, however that the Enquirer did not reach
lexington until two or three days after Mr. Otss de-
Parture 1t was his own ndiscreet declarations in the
Stage, which provoked the attempt upon him-We had
no idea OF calling down any resentment or attack un,n
Mr.. Otis We published the extrac. from the Ar1us
along with others from the North show that the Van
buren papers were opposed 10 the abolonists and that
ne was not their candidate had been falsely asserted
ny Noah and others We had not the distant inten
tion OF calling down any violence upon Mr.. Ols-and
10 the article We ourselves published about him we
took occasion 60 say that Mr. o had changed his views
upon the subject and that did not believe his visit 10
the Old Dominion had the slightest connection with the
slave qcestion The truth is, and are free to saw
to our Northern Brethren had no conception our
selves, OF the very exoabe state of public Gecling
IN Virginia on this very ngitating subject We
should most deeply have regretted any attack upon Mr.
UtS, II IL mad arisen in any degee from agency
we see the danger however, and will attempt 10 avoid
It hcreatter--la The following caution, we cordially
agree with the Wing:
" This case and many Others show the Indispensable
necessity for strangers passing through the South at this
time, TO conduct themselves with circumspecton If
they revolt at the deprivation offormer liberty they must
remember tiat their counirymen produced the neces-