Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-03-20

Tor snbveruns the rights OF the people and to The strctes
concentration Tor ITS Consequences Tie aScer is m The
iEoUb ~ csery 6odyhrsSrs Jokisoa e Chesterfield and
Bro'e IF Petersburg. These gentlemen for their serv
ces IHsn's personal popularity, and supposed devoted
friendship Tor The Administration, had gained TO them
selves ancicvaton in the public mind which enabled
them 10 presume much upon tho crcdulty of others and
Tie iorbearance Of their constituents To these consde
rations may also be- added the facts that for some time
before they had been az haggy suite IF Geeenify IN
Po'rS and had admitted the right OF instruction 10 thcr
constituents. All these things taken together vayc
some assurance to the public that Justice and Inn
partality would dictate their course Whether from
design or accident, they hit upon the most plausible
scheme iYr the reelection of Mr. Leigh against the
known wlil ct the people, aud apparently without vio
iatna the Right OF instruction. Sir Johnson according
canecut with his expose and scheme for trunping up
o"rs enough 10 count down list of Instructions that
could b. presented Others followed suit and SO the
game was played Off believe, without their losng a
single uck. Who cannot win when he FIRST ,okes tle
hand OF his adversary throws out all he chooses and
thcn selects ms own hand from the balance of the pack
AND THIS Is true picture of this famous scheme which
Is liable To the greatest abuse and fraud.
The Delegate receives his written instruction sgped
by the electors. lie then takes the clerk deputy clerk
sheriff. deputy sheriff, commissioner of the revenue
or such OF them lac chooses and some other friends
VINO form secret nqustion upon the affairs of the conn
W Cor pubic, IT they prefer IT'D and believe there has
pec no instance IN which the inqusitions signed and
delivered did not condemn and cosign the county over
70 hS absolute will Of the delegate. These officers and
friends OF the delegate go into the examination with.
GU. peing on oatwithout receiving the testimony of
witnesses to establish every iact--and under the inn
ence oi all their passions and parzan zeal they make
up an nqusition counting every voter they can trun
up against the instructions, unless he has si,ncd tl,e
list - ~ ''s'''" 'ie
Thus, an instruction publickly and fairly riven is
counted down The persons composing the n9usition
act aucr no Official character and could not be punished
for suppTessing the truth or PUBLISHING falsrhood =
hey are IN no way responsible to people Tor their
appointments, or continuance in ofce-Thcy, there
iorc act without responsibility to every one Such
Board may be extremely dangerous 10 the countrv-It
mas done much evil already; and ought to meet the de-
cded condemnation ofte public Its To bc the scone
time
But aehdt merit do hear? 1t is represented that Mr.
w W. X Johnson is unwilling even'now TO rely upon the
even yet presumng upon the creduy and forbearance
OF the friends of Gen. Jackson-thai he tells Thorn he
loves the President us well any person. &C. Nc Let
inc people oil Chesterfield look TO Mr. johnson vote LIST
Against Speaker Banksan act of w hia
ms vote Tor bringing the election before the people
had time present their instructions-3d His vp,e q,
turn Mr. ttchie out of tc office of Public Printer he
cause he was friend oftc President and to please The
Whgs-4th. His votes to turn Mr.. Daniel out ofthe
Council OF State, for the I'm this case ne
ter several days OF voting for j. s. Pcndeton who could
not be elected Mr. j. with the rest of the Whg partv
was transferred TO Mr.. Mcfarland in the space of few
Ills vote against Maj Yanceys resolution
to postpone the election Ex-senator and submit the oueson
to the people for their decisions 6th His vote in violation
OF instructions: and 9Th. this vote, which was to sten
upon the whole State for six years, BENJAMIN Watkins
Leigh of the bitterest and most determined enemies
OF Gen. Jackson and his whole administration in ali This
oommonwe9itl-and gentleman who tits said, when he
went up TO the polls the last time for MIR CLAY
declared that he would almost lief vote for n man st
out OF the Penitenary, for A. Jackson! In n word
we call upon Mr. w X. johnson say, in what one re-
spect he voted ,riih the friends of the Administration
during the whole OF the last session; i'm what one re-
spcct did he vote against the Wings. Let him name
single vote if he lie voted cikh The Wbios IN ,,,
0n Tie most decided friends of the Administration ro
Office and lie voted with the Wings in UttinO IN the
most decided enemy of Jackson. From the word ego
at the starting pole, he Wing to the cO1niu -,
pole, when he was still Wing. He voted for Gen So
veTn r. Parker, the first day of the session one of ,c
most violent spirits of the Commonwealth to be Sneaker
OF the House of Delegates and fine Speaker he vould
have made of it, with passions which were always run
nln9 away with him! He carried the same system of
w hggery throughout every the end of the
chaper AS 1t has been said he bone of their BONG
ana flesh OF their flesh. And if WIN. r. Johnson be n
JTte"d OF the Administration, should like in the name
OF wonder! TO see man who was its oneDin
Alter then, doing every thing the Wings desired him
to DO and giving them the weight of his popularity and
the aid OF his COUNSEL during The whole session il mast
DC impossible that MIR. Johnson either ask or exnec
the vote of a single jackson man! After pubsbinr 10
the world that the Wings had the majority and stang
ana attempting totally TO cxuSuis voice of eve
Jacksonman, cannot be possible that he could presume
SO much to traduce the independence and sclirespect
OF an enlightened free people But if he should it could
only add insult to ingrattude and misrepresentation
IL would them indeed, be time to strip off the mask
Let s pray Heaven to protect from such system of
For, of every system vet devised bv The
wit OF man, that is the most unhoy which will currv
favor with the one hand and 'siab under the fifth rib
with the other. No high minded honorable Vrgnian like
Mr. can expect To receive upon the plan of Pro-
teus, Machaye Richard i nor will the people nj
this time of day, be gulled by any such means
YELLOW-JACKET