Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-04-15
Richlmoapd, Va, Friday, ApriI %.
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10 TIC Polls! 10 thc Polls!
The Wings treating you like poor, guLle fools
They consider you as gnorat, shallow pated and ready
20 swallow any humbngs which they may please to i'm.
pose upon you Any plot 20 your from the polls
aud to turn the election in their favor In "a, they
rot up Bank Panic upon you-See how that msera.
Die plot was blown sky.high Aud now they arc at.
se'nptiag 10 get up an 7toitio PanicAnd what arls
and misrepresentation, however little and however
uesn do they spare. blind your judgments and mis-
head your votes! Freemen of Virginia you really
the poor fools they take you to be' Will you you he
srd by every idle tale which they may forge und cir
colate for the purposes OF decrpton'
webeg you to read the letter in this day paper from
highly respectable Citizen of the county OF Caroline
See the vile arts, by which they attempted to CARY the
election in that county She stood rnl-a nd the Wings
chapallen, because they begin perceive that you
not the fools they took TO bcand that the People
OF Virginia will think and act for themselves.
What slang do not these Wings employ What
tricks do they exert Van Buren, an Abotonist.
when he soenly tells you lac is the iaexbte and IN.
compromising opponent Of all the designs Of the Fana
tics. Van Buren, going TO sci your slaves free Van
iSurcn willing 10 put your free negroes the same le
vel OF voting with yourselves Arc you gudgcons
enough to swallow such lies Vincent Whether carries
about Abolition tracts and pictures his county
men. some OF The Wings pounce upon clildrcns hand
Eerchiefs to alarm you The reckless Richmond Whig
aud his nsdious allies "rave, r.cte andmadden round
the land about Van Buren, and his Free Negro vote
The Free Negro vote is tue cuckoo cry, by which free
people is TO be deceived ard enappcd into the arms Of
of the most violent factions and pcbald coalitions.
that ever dsgraced an enlightened Republic.
This negro vote Again and again say, what is it
= Look at it airlyTcst il by lie trull, of the iacts-
trying To throw around it
The old Constitution Of N York gave the white man
and the free negro precisely the very right to vote
!; was the same in every non-save holding State but
ono. 1T has been the in two of the slave holding
States, North Carolina and Fennesseethe State where
Judge White was born, and the State in which he has
lived. And moro than MiS-when North Carolina was
about TO change her Constitution last year. of her
stanncheSt Wings, Castor Branch, Swain &c stood
y the free negroes, and claimed for them tic right of
voting Yet not syllable was said against these Wings
by their brethren, although they in the heart of
.ril llIalr,t /,
NJ Van buren,. though he lives in non-slavc.hoding
Sale where the free negroes je,c and far Jicern
When the new Constitution of ~ York ca me under
discussion IN o2i, IT was urged that every nonslave
holding State but Connecticut gave them the right of suf
frage; that they had possessed in Y from the founda
uo OF hef gnvernnent-that 1t was not right TO dives
ana disiranch'se tien-nor to tax them without repre-
'sentation, nc, &c. MIR " Is made speech for
the free negro. A compromise was 6uav adouted-
Which enlarged the right of voting for the whites to an
Immense extent, while ii denies The free negro any
vote whatsoever, unless he possessed uninc numbered
Jfethoid OF $500 on which he pays This proviso
was objected to, because would their virtual
exclusion from all right in point of fact it
has almost come TO this; because than 100 out
York.
The following is the Discrimination now made in New
York:
Free Negro. The uhas
Must be ihroe years citizen Must be nhabaan of
% 'e state only one year preceding tho
One yOar resident oribs Dis But six months
Must No freehold neeessarybut he
worth $50 iroe OF all IN vote, in various other ways,
enm'fance on which, too hc ha paying personal
:, working on tue isIway, & .c.,. Sc
= MIR, van Buren voted for this restriction upon the
Tree negTo-and stated that held out TO induce
ments TO industry, &c, &c
in the State of N York-wIere SO few of The coored
race exist-Mr. Van Buren, s be prescribed as un.
worthy OF your confidence, for federal Office although
he tells you, that he shall go into the naexble
and incorporating opponent Of every attempt which
may be made to touch the slaves For this essential re-
Sucuon winch he has contributed to impose upon the
votes OF The Tree negroes in the State of New York he
Is to be held up who voted put them upon the
footing the whites as one who would SET vour
slaves Tree! Are you to be imposed by such mon
strouS misrepresentation Is there man of sense
among you, who does not believe that if Mr. Van Blu
rem had been living in slave State he would have
voted TO give The free negro any right to vote at a
yet tins sort of dust is 10 be thrown into your eyes
bnd you to the real issues which are now before YOU
Read The following and then judge for yourselves be-
tween me real ISSUES OF the contending parties:
Republicans. Hhigs.
kigi VI iustrse,iOn oseiher-some are for tram
melting in manner by
making sn., , The ssgs,o, tho Judge s(,s
,..t,ae,Or, a. 10 l.i,sf il ava, to
They viii go tho viii vote them dows, il ,hoy
sion for asserting this essentials hvr reren
esa G0 '' " Leigh q S y from ''H'0o response
P;il:. ID i' is"a isi S ''''0d"s
= l Lssy go ca as'e against Many Of hem approve
~ "''s"' course aud will sand by him to
g. They Republican, 1Sey 20 for three ig ean5;
for an election BY The People Them agcmoa and
's"SN' intrigue will role the day,
ii ~ the cases OF Burr, John
a. Adams-and where yiigiuia
will be stfps other great weight,
nd have the
mail staos ofDcaw Hhodo
s. They against all siona the Union solf sooner
"ieh ARE culcUated tolhen Martin Van
Nf''N'S "S SHS". ffoSuleni They camor against
bm because he is a nIau
-nicknamo him, therefore,
Ahotionst-ns II tho eaat
would not apply uDy
Nofthetn man-and therefore, in
ai tino TO comc ambitious
southern man may raise tho qnes-
ton; and fthe South will noiv vote
for Northern tho North
I"fl next not vote for Eoufhcra
inan--Thus, the contest will de-
generate constantly into a section.
1T oae--and how long thc
Union last whom those feelings,
which sostroogly bind it together
torn pieces nmid tho strug
4 lsies OF fival aud local parlies2 I
bo1rd With but esad he present IN tic low
iA'' lands-bot tliey will drop him. for
ifarrison, cab hsie tickets
ind then up White or IN
orl.v 81. .,i a., , i'ison upoa you, just as the
i - Ivy y" 'B'''.t the barh o. please.
H. " s,sie.auI agaoa an rho justify ks reeas,ong-
" ~ ag'"ey 40 tis State nd will stand by attempt
he ncxt Session 10 allow Branch.
Agencies 10 this fearful sud
Powerful Institution IN Virginia.
iake your ehoce Then, Citizens of Vfgnia-IaStguc
IONS or 20 nStrlc0hs?-L Leigh no Lcigh?-An Eec
on by tie Peopie by the House Of RsDresefa,cs9
One Republican Candidate who yill carry ont lie
principles Of Jackson's Adninstraton-or three Vyh;gs
lN0f whom hate jackson and his Admnistratio55
Bank the Y. s. BankYSuch are some Of tboao
mPortant questions which depend upon your votes
hnd viii you suffer yourselves TO be bamboozled BY tbe
anic stories Of these Wings Turned ffon the rue IS
sues OF the Election 10y these miserable bniubugs about
Hbohuon, Free Negro votes &c q by this eatraord
ay unison between the Aboltonists of the North and
he Sulhhers OF tie South these cunning Wings who