Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-06-18
Eltr"et Gja letter to Tic Ediior, d@ird

WHEELING, June Is. I>J'r
81 steal moment, 10 congratulate you on the dcfr!
position Of nnfnrfed Virginia. The evidence Oh present
general SUCCESS, aud The assurance Of future victory
when that victory will bear an essential Influence on
general politics and The future character Of county
Is more Popitnus than overw hemng success 81 TIE
late contest. Sir, am OF The people; born
a wilderness and rocked in sugar.trouGh and eIrfg
hr"b Of the great heart Of the Democracy sweils
pulse and there is prophetic ttns which am conid.t
is ronslng friends to energy OF action, and wAc! :
the sign as it will be the cause of success The Te"Pe
are satisfied where Virginia stands and where tie
viii stand in The contest Of eighteen hundred and o'tr,
when our North western counties shall come 10 the
contest under The broad banner Of popular rights art
each county will no longer stand like ho"se drfat!
against tstL upon local questions and individual pre-.
rrences Our present position is better than that Of
complete victory far the result for lao is at ssr
The situation in which the parties stand in the 1rd
Will make every good soldier feel if the success o NE
cause depended upon his sing arm. and each VIII '
sPond to the impulse which the reflection inspires !
know re people, and see their gathering energy f"' w
coming contest il is not exctemcn;-It is not an eou'
ton of passion. il is the calm and collected deerna
ton oil moral purpose looking to results ana stf'nsn
eDed by confidence of II is that unanln'Y at4
energy which has brought Us victory and overwheIm'a
our opponents with une1 pec;ed confusion and dre''
j he same causes are now al work: individual prefer
ences will not control the people OF Virginia "h''e
principles are involved. Mr.. Rives at time msa'
have stood ogainst the world in Virginia: the time Nn
been when from mountain and hillside. valley and los
land the signal of Roderick Dhu called up he NATIVE
and natural allies for his defence and who con-
mon cause watched "their leaders, beck and will; 0l'
now, when this Roderick Dhu relies upon his s'
gic arm we him, in the falling energy Of be con-
lest in which he confidently engaged, deal bis a'-
and random blows we see him in The Condition OF h'
prototype, when
'sflae and fury i'll supplied
The stream oil iifn's exhausted tide
For while his letter geumed On high
Reeicd soul and sense, rcclcd BRAIN and NyC.'
And each has paid the forfeit Of relying hls s'sE
arm The clan of Roderck Dhu are "iiho15
leader lie has been done TO death in this p'l'sII
strife; and those who seduced him into the unn'ia'n
contest, the clsnsman of Kentucky, may make tie S'
OF his death and defeat.
The battle has been fought and The Wings kefpon
RINK roll tor the benefit OF the allies in when ''!
somewhat resemble the British campaigners Of the 49,
war The number of live men does cruelty CORES
pond with their roll. They claim Mcmillan Of BfooSs'
who was Democrat when ! was handled in my Pe'a.
conts. Mem is as he always has been, firm; he a"''
Of The made of his name and TO contradict IT, SEW
word 10 friend in our city, that he would vote io' w
Van Buren, Senator. Major Good believes in the rgn.
OF instruction, aud it cannot be doubted that he ~" o.
accordingly; he cannot conlravene the spirit Of u.
own resolutions OF last winter; he canno, insist uPu.
his individual preference for Rives when that WIZ '
tendency to throw the actual power into the haho v
Clay against whom he has for years carried on an
promising opposition Major Good, am connden', -"
resign act in obedience to his ancient and souna pr
ciples. am much mistaken in the man il he DOES" .
cheeuy and manfully respond to the wishes o. We
constituents who elected him and gave Steenfoo
majority in The Senatorial District"
FOR THE RICHMOND ErQCiih ssS
KING IL QUEES, June ~ ar,
To the friends of Popular Education IN kiAS I'm
Gentemen- have for several years seen, ano see":
have deplored, the want Of some efficient uniorh
tenn of popular education which might De adoP.ea" re
the counties Of this Commonwealth lhat tnea ocr
worthy and talented teachers of some portions ,sns.
YOUTH and that there are hundreds Of the rlSins sb,