Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-03-24
TIE QUERIES.

The Wing had article on Monday, addressed to
Tor Voc shall be The trouble of hunting him out
The snaeriol charges in his queries about .ur Pun
BaTen and the Tariff are, have Doubt faIsr-but
we shall not put ourselves to the trouble OF hunting
hcm up
AS to the queries which he has specially to
ourselves, both on Monday aud yesterday we answer
lst That suspended the abcfition Debate because
the public was really gorged with il, aud they wanted
some OF the ExPunging Debate-2d. That we did nat
pass out OF the order of the Expungng Debate in the
House, to not in the Senate, because zoe had not com
menced the Debate in the House-that whatever ex-
punging speeches have published from the Senate
not sought for, but handed to u.s. after the
wing had hunted up many speeches il could OBJ
tam from the Wings in the House. and in the Senate;
and that If we published Andersons the Whg publish.
ed McComass cSc.3d. We have not "orde red our Re-
porter TO refuse Co furnish his notes of Mr. Stanards
speeches or OF any other gentleman ne have pub
ilshcd the Wing speeches in the House, as far as we
have gone, with the others in the regular order Our
Inst instructions TO our Reporter, were furnish neither
s,ue friend or Too with speeches out OF order We
hatthc Whgi had in this caught up Mr. Gmer's
speech it dictated by Reporter from his notes
and we foresaw that it would play the same game with
the other speeches We have requested our Reporter 10
make out no speech for the Enquirer the regular
series Subsequently TO our first Instructions de-
sired him to offer The Wing speeches which had been
then prepared to the speakers for their own useto offer
also the Notes TO such gentlemen botsdes as could
ana would draft their own speeches As TO Mr. Sta.
nard speech mo doubt the cock of the walk and ON
which the Wing principally hinges we know that
.ne Keporr was applied to in regard TO it, aud
was iacRed to make extraordinary effort to write
out but finding il could be without
with the regular report of he did not a;tempt il
The prohibition oftbe Editor would have been unneces-
sary TO prevent Mr. Stanars speech from being furnish
eu TOR Che duties of the Reporter prevented tive are
told by the Reporter that he was not ask cd r., fr,;h
notes TO Mr. Stanard but write the speech for the
press to undergo MIR. SIS revision only-and that the
speech thus written out would occupy upwards of
one hundred pages of manuscript II is easy 10 de-
snand such speech Of reporter; but il is also
evident that he must be allowed time for writing il ont
Had we requested Reporter give the preference
TO that Speech he would have been compelled to Law Sc
Vera others aside for but il will be furnished as soon
us the reporter can find me-and il would ha We been
uohe before, out Tor his numerous engagements One
ahng we can assure the Whig that we have offended
some OF our friends almost as much as we have
done The Wings by the delay which has in fur
nsiing their spceches-and to this hour very few of
Their speeches have been made out by him. As
great desire was expressed on the side for Mr.
watkins last speech as for Mr. Sanards on the other
Inc wishes Of both parties disappointed. We know
another thing, that let us take what we NAV; lei
us show as much berality our oppo-
nents, we shall get no thanks, common Justice
from the Wing, or its c0tcric.
As to any complaint of the Wings against the En-
quirer it is made with rather bad grace; for their
speeches have been always reported faithfully on subjects
oil Importance; and il may be said with truth that twice
many of MIR Stanards speeches appeared in the
Enquirer during this session, in the Wing. The two
crack speeches of Mr. s. Gilners Resolution and on
Abolition, appeared in the Enquirer the due order of
oeoale as wen as ms numerous shorter speeches. Com
plant OF uniarness in printing the debates made
against the wing while ITS reporter his post and
NJ Is believed they well foundedThe Wing ought
at all events TO be the last complain of our unirness
III comes with bad grace indeed fiom that quarter
Witness the course pursued the Abolition Debate
But enough of this