Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-01-28
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The Richmond Wing, the Georgia Journal SC. &c.
are hu,ng their Puny contemplate shafts Judge Bar.
rs too pure to escape their malignty. What man ion
high TO defy their venomous shaits.-The WHO esnec;
aly seems to be maddened by
rate-GOandonne IL abuses both these DISTINGUISHED
ctzens, in terms that equally destitute of taste and
OF Tutn-We might have expected better things from
the mlledgcve Journal for Nullifer as IL is II b,.
some character 10 losoBut how we nstonshcd when
u now traduces man, whom his States Rights
airy nave ont NE other day selected their candidate
LOT inc wee Presidency! pass other Tdcuons
calunnes against man. whose long services in The a..
public whose signal devotion TO the Rights of the States
whose spot integrity and high reputation might have
secured nm some reverence and orbcarance from the
tongue of caiunny itsefand confne ourselves to the
borrowing sentences from the Georgia Journal-Thcy
seek 10 Xii two birds with stoneand VIC meet the
charges at once:
The declension Of Judge Barbour and his nomination
10 the bench together with the cIurre hrouobt noant
Mr. Mason, that he brbed 10 give way in order ,h,
Mr. Polk might be elected Speaker, exhibit a venatv
OF intrigue at the Seat of Government that is calculated
of every patriot"
seems u.s. that it would have been but decorou,
IN Tue Judge to have addressed his letter declining
'"e nomination 10 some paper in the State, by whose
Partiaty he had been nonaated He writes in n uri.
ya'e letter. we oPPrehend, the Editor of Enquirer his
reason Tor declining, and the ENQUIRER forthwith soess
by authority With all due Difference 20 the Judoe's
notions OF poiiIcness, aPprehend il would have been
more dgniied to address himself once to those who
nau gwen him so distinguished mark Of their conf
oence. We dislike go6etreens under every circun.
stance Bat for panders 10 power, have an especial
But, what are the facts about JUDGE Barbour, r, i
mere inslnuaied that his nomination 10 HE bench was tie
price paid for his deeension Is this the fac Cerlsinv
not lie was nominated TO the be nc several DAYS before
Guy one 10 virginia hc0rd suspected of his rood
JstenaS IN Georgia nominating him for the Vice Pfcsi-
oehcy we Know this to be fact. Then here is tho
gc"G'ty or The Dtrigne2 None under the sun As 10
MS having written 10 friend in Richmond instead Of
20 MS trends in Georgia, his declining the nomina.
tioD is that wonderful a circumstance Is there
went P1lhcnoss in it His letter was only reply to
one rom Richmond But did his friends i'm Georgia adj
u'csS themselves TO him not? and IL they did have
tncy not received rcply by The by we are curious
:" hnow, whether the Wing Caucus Of Virginia has com.
n"hlcsted TO Judge White his northumberland in what
Tins me Judge acknowledges his blushing honors?
A'Ihe thtg does not spare Judge Barbour Ills rab;d
fury indeed respects nothing Bot when he can produce
from all his political cohort in Virginia single politician
who can compare with r T. Barbour in pnblic acrvic.
and 10 devotion to the great principles Of Vrginia then
VIII be TINE enough TO notice his idle sarcaSns od HE
gfatuitous insinuations.
And now as TO the charges brought against Mr. Ma,
SON. uat nc TOO was bribed Ito give way Mr. Polk
Report it who may-whct Their It be The San at Yasli, a.
the Wing at Richmond, the Journal at Milledgcvdle
the inslnuaion is "lslse He'll" We sneak adv;scd
", when We declare that Mr. Mason held no commup
caion WIN Col Polk, directly ipdecIy and had no
hndersnndng or agreement, exprcss implied, with
my ono whatsoever for any nducemen to decline his
Preicnsons In truth, John Y Mason never was ean
didate-never communicated with n single member NJ
ongrrss the subject and could never have DEGRADED
himself BY soliciting support for station which though
one % high honor, - certainly Of the greatest
ease Let any take IL az he nav AZ such limo "a
MS and we very much doubt whether tho roscs will
compensate for the thorns w
Bot thus Il isthat abandoned presses like the Wbio
VIII Tor ever suspect the integrity which knows not how