Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-12-02
.SE,W CIfI.u,ER.7S of the Whius.

yc are given TO understand in the yncburg snian al
ready the party the Legislature oil Virginia divided
INTO two facIionsic ruon interest Rvs iueestun
tina, these two interests are antagonist Inc Benton interest ana
other DIVISION think of T. j. andoph Of bcmnrlc, or James
NJ Aason of Frederick or VIM h. Ruanc OF Hunovc lnseiec
ing the party candidate SENATOR The place OF MI Leigh who
Will resign divisions will also meet with difficulty
however, making in various quarters TO heal
these differences opnOn un bring the again to nm unit
in the bcstowa OF offices and we presume these exero
and forget forgive the use n'rsues which resulted ely
ng him the baltimore Conve"ton un! Rnekerns Col
johnson into u nomination. ,
We extract the above singular article from the last
Alexandria Gazette, for the amusement, if not inorna
ton of cur readers The Benton faction land the tives
faction! What extraordinary gibberish have we here
We can honestly the Alexandria Editor, that
these strange distinctions all news to us. We know
Of no such interestS-of such tacti0nsof no such
claims to office Our political friends know Of none
suchand il seems reserved for the ingenuity of our oP
poneuts to discoOcr or TO "Ghe such dishctoIs-oure
IT, if there any such factions in existence, we
should deprecatc the inatuaton, and would be the
frs, to lend hand towards "henhg these differ
cnces of opinion we find no such necessity TO e1'
island for one beg leave 10 assure the worthy Co
pyst Of the LyncLburg Frgnian in the utmost sinceri-
w. that we have felt solic,ude upon the subject
The Wings may indeed attempt to throw such hre'
brand into our caInp-but really thought, that Inc
recent Election had read sufficient lesson 10 tem no"
utterly unuvsiling are all their efforts to conquer US By
diriSon .
AS to the nomination Of the Baltimore Convention,
we can also him. that while we deeply regretted
it, have never suffered ourselves 10 quarrei VIII" our
friends about it, We have not forgotten III but we
know how to forgive it. MIR. Rives and his friends
go for Judge Smith, in preference to Col Johnson-bus
neither he nor they attach SO much Importance to the
noJy as 10 make il the subject OF discord and DIVISION
P.S Among the Sybilline leaves which we find up
on our table, since writing the above, we meet with the
following paragraph from the Lynehburg Drm %n,;
which touches the subject 1t shows tho Ccnu'
mel watchful of the enemy:
"The Lynchburg virginian talks very learnedy about
Rives purity, Benton faction, Kendall iact'1n; nc
We have no doubt that the Virgin would be delight
Cd 70 see n division in The Democratic party; but we
strongly suspect that its ideas about The isc,ons which
il has conured up must have been derived from the
Ct lis recorded history. The Democratic parry are
not 50 hard run for suitable candidates. as either to take
them from the ranks of their opponents or TO be unae
the necessity of searching for them eight years Oeio1e
victory which we have achieved, in ha5HOnyTleaving
all the squabbng that done to "Whi,e HARRISON
game of "dvide and conquer" and We had supposed
that the late election would have convinced them OF It's