Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-11-02
FOR TIE ENQUIRER.

As YOU are gentleman Of leisure, nrd have nothing
10 do bu, oGScrrc what is passing had taken ii for
granted that your discretion had overcome your yaour,
and that you had 10 the wise concusnn 10 expose
Yourself end your Inconsistencies more 10 the criii-
cisn and Of The public. | had thought, that,
if nv short communication could not be answered IN
two l0rg weeks, you would not attempt il al all! hot
wisely keep silent and save yourself from farther
tifcaou.-Tha, you have not dune So regret more on
YOUR, than my account; for though this is busy
season with the Ploughman and AIN much slraItensd
for Time regret less the Inconvenience you subject
to- than the necessity yon mP0so upon me to profact
your fortunes
You devote muc', Of your long and empty production
to revcw Of the origin and progress Of our controversy
hope you viii r.duls Inc While take similar, though
brief review.
You began the controversy In your first conmun
cation. without pruvocatInn and mos; Gncharaby, you
assa!c all The Wings OF buckingham, and some Of them
by name. You charged them in the muss with lncOn.
sisency, and asked eundry nPcrnrnt inerrogaories,
which none but man with clean hands and who did
not live glass house, should have asked respond
ed briefly to your attack and rcpcled your uniounded
mpu,alUns upon the Whigs. | showed, that even if
the Wings in favor of yo0r caucus system,
they have been guilty of criminal Inconsistency
They urred against u0Ur New York tactics when first
uloducrd that if adopted by party they must ne
ccssnrlly be adopted by the other in sedeience-iIa
the Wigs would not and could mol permit such undue
advantage TO be taken of thcm-hat they would fight
fire with fire. Just see it in reference 10 ro
lcnce in elections. Your party in the North are now
using folcc TO carry the elections The Wings every
where denounce the practice, destructive 10 the pub
!ic But they must, if they act like patriots, oppose
force 10 force and maintain their lights at the point Of
the bavonet if il be done by no milder means -
You have thought proper in your reply to overlook this
entire relulaon Of your angry ordinations against The
Wings / shall not enlarge upon the subject
In nv article ! followed your example and PROFOUND
ed sundry leading questions, all OF which except one, Of
which more creaftcr) you acy and substantially nd.
nitied To this you replied in the Enquirer OF the 9h
in an article Of two columns, upon few points OF which
| propose to make few comments
In my communication, took the privilege lThich
seems to gravel you much Of drawing picture of Tie
sort of animal supposed observer 10 be. drew
from fancy; but my easel appears endowed win SUI
perna,ura powers, drew TO the life drew, 10 be sure,
a hur.bly Ugly picture, such as | deemed an "Obser-
YER" night be- | held it up 10 the world The world
locked al significantly, wlnked and was silent You,
more aeie than all The world sooner saw 1t than yon
bsbbcd out .sThn,s me" For this you have one TO
blame but yourself. did not write undef my picture
this is fox an ass, O. monkey. LEFT the country 10
make lis own deductions. But as you have surpassed
all others in the accuracy OF yours, cannot torbear to
congratulate you your aSiniHe sagncy, and as az
&C, of sheer Justice bear testimony 10 ii before the
world You exhibit much passion TOO: that should
have held SO steady hand and drawn striking like
ness cannot orbear 10 congratulate you OF the evil
dence which this fact bears ia behalf OF your heart at
The expense however, OF your understanding II shows
that YOU ale Indifferent to shame, and still be
made 10 feel when the lash is we'll laid But for this
IT Election, should he deeply paned that any fellow.
creature should endure such agones al my hands as
learn from your last communication You have dome
And should be induced 10 desist now, but from the
hope that my laJorS may make you know not rcmorsc
only but repentance also. take pleasure in lniict
ing excrucin,ng pangs human being, Unless these
pains may lead Ia his reformation.
understand from yours Of the 10Th, that you are an
old acquaintance o! the pubc-ihal you very PT0
teas in we'll as politics, ard can changeihe one
as often and easily as the cher-lhat "Observsr Is
new name taken up to cloak old sins and TO give you
consideration with the public which your old DISCUSSES
would no,-,hat in fine, you no other and no less
parsonage than one u'ius; and no mistake as The
Cockueys say, who figured 50 largely in the Papets
And We, being such character-one who for years has
habualy resored masks, from behind which 10 assa
those opposed to YOU you have the hardwood 10 npute
i, 10 me as crime, that have replied to your anony
nous Trades under assumed name. The folly oil Inc
in Scrinture who wa1ed fat and kicked, is not er
carJ in degree BY the presumption which you display