Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-06-12
POLITICAL.
IFton The VsIpb'.l
III. BELL AND JlJnGE WHITE

Kentucky into their power by siratagcm While a body
oil chosen warriors lay hid under covert, some rcache-
ous hte man. belonging their camp, sent To the
margin OF the sTcan distress, and naked impOiing
sympathy and assistance The unhappy would cry
from the shore that he had been deserted in conflict by
ms companinnshad fallen into the hands of the Indians
had been carried to their be burnt alvc-had
Just escapcd-and ggcd t. be saved from his pursucrs
he moment the Ark If the compassionate Advcntrrcr
Touched land to receive the dccoying stranger, II was
filled with ruthless savages--its inmat, massacred in
cold bood-and the booty borne off by the betrayer and
his savage allies
AS an old canpaigncr in politics we think Judge
White should have brcn too cautious to have been de-
coyed by the most common sratagem OF crafty foe
ne should not have been bcguiled by the pretended
friendship of MIR Bell, moved by sympathy for his
willingly assumed, but atccdy painful and cmbarrass
ing relations with the common enemy TO have given
himself up, hound hand and foot, to lie sacrificed TO
their purposes.
MIR Bell in combating the charge which we never
advanced viz that "he had stipulated thc running Of
Judge Ihuc 'n has eiecton 10 the Speakers Chair says:
:" II had already conceived plan TO Judge
White with view to aid my election it is natural tina,
should have made some ovcrturcs TO the particular
friends Of Judge Uhae ny coeagncs If Eaa itnacssee
These gentlemen Oiy r0tcd 0gaSt me- lat, bctctcn
them and myself noithr, The subject IF my ciection,
.raS erc' mentioned until The ord Of December last
had any correspondence with them, at any time be-
fore, upon either of these subjects"
lie then goes ON 10 naIrutc circumstances
neccd with the several attempts to nominate Judge
White at Nashville by caucus first of members of the
Legislature, and afterwards of those composing the
Convention. as follows:
"As early as DECEMBER, 1898. so great was The dis.
inclination of the People of this State MIR Van Buren,
and so great their respect for the character of Judge
White that Il 'oih difficulty nonninotion Of
the f0uer to The noTt Presidency, by the members Of the Lc
gtsiatre then IN session. co"idte prercnod II was how
ever, not made upon the ground that il feared that
so carly nomination might iniurc Judge Whites pros
poets, and at The time endanger the nscendancy
of the party Of the Administration. ,cas fully ddrised
~ thus feeling at tie time Mcugk had The SightrS
agency in tic ononPt to get up the nomination. have
letters now in possession written that time giving
full details of the state of public feeling indicated
through the members of the Legislature. If the files
of the private cabinets at Washington were searched
there would, have doubt, be found ample
roboratiyc statements upon this point Tie morenonf IN
the late State Contention has already Jccn a0cd; and
must be ka0n at Washington, that gentleman of this
State, of some figure an me country tOok much ctdt TO
himsef FIR hasing suppressed the nomination. Yet the
writer in the Globe of the 18th April has the assurance
to affirm, that the proceedings of the Tennessee dccga
ton last winter in relation Judge White, the
suit of political Justification, and unsupported 10y fhlic
opinion. as bGTefy possible that niS mOrtmtnf ia the
Tennessee Legislature. S ard come To e k,o7g-
ledge If Mr. Fan Buren SfrisndS gsncraL in WashingtOn
0driS1d same IF them IF myself anil bltorc Me late
SpeakcrS election ooh occasion TO injm ieGdjng and
in eroy asay Of h1 respectable riends Of that
gend'maH IF Nso York, of real cftiings IN Ten
neSSce
From tho above paragraphs it appears that Mr.. Bell
during his for the Chair considered "the par
hciGr trfnds Of Judge Hhtc his colleagues fran East
tennessee, opposed to him that he made ovctures
to them. lie says, "Lhfse gcnHemcn not only rotcd
G0iHst me- Int beiWeen them 0nd myS6f nch1r The sub
jeot IF ing o,rn election Mot IF Judge Uhne running
for the Presidency. momiionod Here com
plcc confession of the alienation which subsiscd be-
tween MI Bell and Judge White the time of the can
vass for the Speakers Chair The second paragraph
contains passages which shed light upon the mo-
tvcs of the Opposition Of 'he particular friends fJudge
Hhne' TO MIR Bells success Mr.. Eel says III ,ces
, xv9., some d!c%ty nCApi"ao" Of The iaar Judge
WmtcJ to The mcat PrfSidncy By The memLors Of he Lc
gisioture, hen in session, couid tc Pr.tentcdr
Wen; by whom was II most strenuousy opposed at
Nashville We know that it was opposed by Mr. Hall
the editor of Tie RcDuhIcau the dpvotcd Of
Bcllhc individca! who wa h:r" last winter and
proposed by Mr. Bell, the friend of Judge Whit. 20
be elected by the Opposition printer To- Congress ind
set uP as anedorin this city, to promote the common
object of the Opposition by advocating his precnsons TO
the Presidency. This will be denied by either Nj
HAL or Mr. Bell. But Mr.. Bell continues: q" hod
not The slightest agncy Ia tie entmyt ret up his no
nation Tic may truly say this when It is well known
hat his most active friends we're zcaousy engaged in
putting down. and especially appears that he bqd
f"e's upon tic subject, giving full details, showing that
lie was IN correspondence with those friends who .c
soM me- d!Deahyl "Fcr.e9feda The nomination.
This opposition of air Bell and his friends 10 tho
bringing forward Of Judge White by the Legislature i'm
1888, may account for the opposition Of the particular
friends OF Judge White to Nh Bel, Speaker at the
session Of 1854 But it seems he made an cfio TO
turn II to his advantage. lie says;
IL IS bGrciy possible hat his morement IN the Tonnes
see Lfgts'cts0e IN 1888, acd II Tie knccedgc of
Mr. Yum BHreaS trieHds genorot'y, in HashingfoM /
ADVISED SOME or THEM OF ~ MYSELF! AND urrong rIfr
LATE SPEAKERS ELECTION TOOK occASIos TO INFORM
LEApiNG AND EVERY WAY MOST RESPECTABLE rrrryD
STATE or rHNCS Is TESNEsSEI," DC.
ic SANE, we suppose, to whom hc writes that TE
sAGAcioUs PoLiTicIASs AMONG Is AEE GOING ~ ron
VAN BCnES."
II seems. then, from his own showing. MIR. Bell was
not favorable TO Judge Whites coming forward under
The nnspcies ola nomination by the members of TIE L..
gisature in 1853
AS to the proposed nomination by the members Of The
tennessee Convention he az first (Or the purpos, of
coniFadcting our article disposed deny that
there any such thing in contemplation wills ia
Ty cfH N0Shtde Caucus The says, grareig md eycun,
sfn"toiy t0d as as me pa6c may h0r sra same sur.
PftSc, IS tciCH Mroughout But what SAYS Governor
BiounE This gentleman, who was pressed ~ become
inc Chairman OF the contemplated caucus replies 10 us
that "ulere have been some small crrors (rnintcn
tional, no doult) made in the siarcncntA Of tie
NlObc On pcfusnl Of his letter which we annex
II VIII bc sctn That informant nstOok casual and
preliminary meetings, proposing caucus, as a caucus
he letter ot the VI ncTabc Gov. Boaut in this makes
the matter for Judge " hitc than wc supposed il
was IL appears they could even get up q caUcug-
that his b ~ and earliest friend refused 10 on.c,tr NJ
Chairmamiln lac tcld the friends of judge White and
wrote 10 the Judge himself That r wOufD By tYrott-
TIC ron lENNKsSEt no NARE ANY NOMISATfON OF A cAs.
DiDArE ron rnE FREsfpESCY--rBAT nv Should VIEW
ANf SILT on Division IS TnE coon oLD RErcnticAN
fARTY COMPOSED As Ir EyEn mas BEEN, or rIfRry-
forRrns or Tir PtorLE Cf rnH UsirEb srArrs. asf,
THE OFif PAerY HC EVER WAS ATTACHED ro. BFtSe osg
OF THAT PEOrLE, As TIE GnEArKsf Political rytf
Our ceCNrV cOtLD TXPERiEscE' '-.and for all these
reasons Coy Bicun adds, 3" AM, PArRforfc NO.
TivEs, ~ FAVOR OF scCn cANDfphrr As A Ctxrp.t
CoNVENri"S SHALL or MAY N9NiSATr."
These considerations IL seems put am end TO fine RI
forts Of Judge White friends get up an orrsnzcd
meetinEt but The circumstances attending tirse or
casondi and accidental meetings as they are called bv
Gov bouni, were Of sufficient importance 10 impress
nm with Tie belief that he shORid by ffuer intorm
JEdgc UhHf If tic bToc,,dinas and vet Mr. Bell 10
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