Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-12-17

ton OF iathuluess aud capacity in Office no question
Tor nun on the present occasion.
speech
'Ile cautioned gentlemen how they stopped from
their high estates Virg,nians 20 indulge in party feel
essential
~ poiitcs LEA The election of Public Printer aud
we are toid that this is great polea question und that
The wrongs of the Republican party be redresscd by
the restoration of Thomas Richie.
Nr Parker said he should shew by from
Enquirer, that MIR Richie spoke of this Office as of no
Importance He had Obtained that extract which he
would presently read, to shew the imposition that had
been played Off upon the peopeto shew that while
was declaring that he way influenced by person
al considerations, his motives were personal aud that
they were OF the most nary kind. In The
oil 1854, he was accused of pushing the instructions
against Mr. Leigh from motives of personal interest
and on that subject he follows Mr. Parker
read the subjoned:
Ertract from the Enquirer, August 10, 1874
We pushed the Instructions; but from no direct,
Pecunory interest which we felt in arihering them
Is 1t not vain as well as uncandid 10 assert il? A is
elected an the Sprngit is known that he is against T.
r. as well as for b. W. L. What do the people do p
oil Attorney does not embrace the Other it ought
not SO small matter Will any Delegate feel himself
bound to alter his in both respects, when he is
only instructed to do IL in the one Has he right
TO say 10 the People, You only instructed me as TO the
Senator and left at liberty do what pleased about
the Public Printer. The argument is irresistible and
would stand good before the world-We take the wager
OF the Wing, if it be seriously offered There will be
many exceptions he remark we are convinced What
docs the editor ofthe Wing think men as Booker
of Amelia, or Epes of Notoway are to be turned AWAY
from the discharge of their duty by scrupes or fears k
these! He pays, indeed, but poor compliment his
friends to suppose them to be wanting in DISARMAMENT
OF in frmness Booker would as soon have abandoned
e nag OF the Petersburg Volunteers shrink from
ing what he thinks his duty such occasion
Now, sir intend 10 show and have il recorded, that
IN MS attempt to get up Instructions he had private
view; that while he told that the public printing
too small matter TO be considered of the peoplethat
such was not his opinion subsequent declaration of
ms will prove in which ne that those who
instructed to vote against Mr.. Leigh also instruct
ed to vote for him as Public Printer.
Last year, when Mr. r. was turned out of that Office
under the feelings of disappointment the loss he gave
loose to his sentiments in the following language
Extract from The Enquirer, Dec. 9, 1884.
F." If the Delegates who voted against Il. r. should
think they consulted the wishes of their ents
we must beg leave to differ from them We cannot be-
eve that the people of Surry, Southampton Nottoway
Petersburg CHESTERFIELD Nelson Frederick and several
other countless would ask for such sacrifice upon
such principle
The people of these counties then he argues looked
upon their members as bound to vote for him public
priner--and yet he said few months before that the
people of Notoway and Amelia had not instructed
Booker ana Epes on this subject-lhat it small
~ i"t .leiI consideration, ana that IN relation 10 1t
the instructed members, the for Mr. Leigh were
iefl to act as they pleased.
IL will be asked, what the design of these remarks
30 with the real feelings and opinions the
Editor of the Enquirer? They intended to mis-
lead and bewilder the public He placed ia situa-
ton where he could not safely his real sentiments
lie knew that he could out and say that the
people ought TO instruct their representatives, not only to
against Mr. Leigh as Senator but 20 vote for Mr.
Richie as public printers lie knew that the motive
would be too plain the very face of the declaration
mat II would be too gross and open appeal to the
people In favor OF his own personal wishes 1t would
nave been damning avowal, and he knew it,
What respect would the people have entertained for
man who should have thus ndeicatey pushed his own
private INTEREST," And it, the other hand he had moi
come out and made this disavowal of his wish that the
embrace the ofthe Public Printer
when 1T was charged against linn, that he Interested
IN the lssueon the principle that silence gives consent
would have been known that selfish profit and per-
sona lay the bottom all his zeal in
10 have little weight, if contradcted by his subse.
quent declaraons-but with that the duDcity, of his
course IL fully developed
1t was true that the people of Virginia should awake
TO knowledge of this man He had cheated them with
l9r words aud pretended Neutrality-suspicious., Yben his
pretence that he free from private motives when
fee. w "a
The prostitution Of the press TO mere partizan and sci.
hs Objects properly considered of the greatest
evils that could beial country That evil was fast gain
ing ground in this country and the Editor of the En-
qirer was doing his full share to produce it, Mr. +
SAID he would read on this subject from the
WORK OF foreigner He spoke of the press in his
countryand aRuatis nlutdndi his remarks would apply
I, ad S follows
whch the undue influence of the Crown has reduced the
other branch of the Legislature, our ministers and ma
gistraes have in reality little punishment to fear and
Few dcuities to contend with beyond the censufes of
inc press, and the spirit of which il excites
among the people. While this censoral power is main
tained both minister and magistrate is compeed in al
most every instance to choose between his duty and his
reputation dilemma of this kind perpetuaily before
ms eyes, viii not indeed, work miracle in his heart
put u w assuredy operate in degree his con
duct AZ all events these times admit of any
relaxation IN the little discipline we have left
LOOK at this extract. How appropriate the state of
the press IN this country Mr. r. would go back to
illustrate this statement bat would merely refer to one
or Two recent events. Among the arbitrary acts of the
Shef magistrate OF this country have seen him inn.
Pudentiy and wanonjy attempting direct attention to
ms successor, and openly using his influence in behalf
OF one his fayortes. Mr. Richie has seen him drrcn
letter TO an individual, in which lie The
Baltimore COMMUNICATING that Convention fresh
iron the people the best mode of nominating can.
ddate Tor the Presidencyand that refuse
TO that nomination after it had been made would be
denial Of Republican principles And has Mr. Riichic
animadverIed on this unseemy interference Chief
magistrate IN The appointment of his successor Have the
columns of the Enquirer exhibited his indignation al this
revolving display OF Executive influence Has he breath
ed one word Of censure against it? No-not one And
does MT utchie approve Of this letter of the President
may, ask If there member here who will say ne
approves OF AZ I'll so, let any rise in his place
declare II, IT he has the heart make declaration so
directly in violation Of the most sacred Of virginia rn
cipes. No, sr--there is not here who will do il
who dare do it, fIe would allude to one other fact of
similar The President Of the United States saw
6L the Of the election of United States Sc.
naor, ia the Legislature cf Tennessee TO send IN
der his frank, copy Of the Globe, newspaper to |
each of the members Of that body evidently with the
design OF operating upon the the election of Sc
nator as the contents Of the ranked newspapers sufi-
GENTLY showed. The fact has been rreaeabv proved
and beyond doubt, for time; but recently as Mr.
y was informed furtaer proved in the Globe a news
paper which he read in which the was defend
ed Has Mr.. Richie exposed this act of Executive
audacity in the Enquirer No--yOu may search its CO.
umns IN vain for his Of this shameless ask