Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-03-28
Thursday, March SS
IY4R 10 TIE k.NIEEL

Wing ranks. Ii person uCtS HVt WIKI ~ "V~"'''
the Mediator, cannot predict what may oe ,ne ecu
SEQUENCES They nav indeed realize the fate winch Inc
Wauen,on tersonian darky shadows io'h oy 'ts fS
comparison They may do az the Kilkenny cats GU
eat each other I'd 10 the tails We take The liberty
therefore of stating the aud progress OF the war;
Of thus bringing the parties lace 10 lace IN ORDER 10 near
their complaints OF each other; AND o administering I"
them i'm our voluntary character OF Mediator. SUCH nd
vice as NAV be best calculated TO reconcile lhef dHer
ences and produce little reform IN The management
Of the press: ~
Enter the Richmond Ehig and he Harrsnion Times.
The ILjq suegks The Warreminn Times, IN some
late number, alleges among many o'her 'h'ngs soi'e
more less that our leading men a"a our ead'
inr press are too easily Ted oil and drawn INTO hgh on
ground selected by cur enemy, (the aforesaid Hann'0a'
Nspneon Nov with all difference 10 his experience,
which is perhaps old tie gOose cut Of rhoSe n'ng
the quU ,ros psckcd rih rhih he rritsS we must be
permitted 10 say the EDITOR Of The Times, that he
does the Wing leaders Of the Assembly and us TOO, II
he us, very great injustice IL Is PrtcSety sue"
e0nceittd sparks he u.s. who are continually expos
ing the Wing party TO division and the danger OF being
enirapped by Cartheginn strategy. what else can oe
expected, when erery Tyre in politics sets up jor eadtr
and refuses compromise his opinions: when an eW
tor of t,r0 uearS eLDereRce and hHRdTfd meS from
The scene assas his party with charges which are cacu-
lated to weaken popular confidence IN their understand
ing and sacrifices fact to The vanity OF being thought 10
understand the character of Hannibal. and The interest
OF his political trends, TO the ancied importance OF talk
ing strategy, tactics, false positions. and other
terms Of scientific warfare: II the tmPrGGnce q bhgS
which is constantly Gripping the Wing party--ol Wings
who aspire 10 command before they have learned 10
obey, NC.
ave have from report, a very high opinion Of that
member of the Marshall family, whether connected with
it BY Hannah otherwise; but we cannot ex.
aclIv permit him to heap ashes on the stern common
and reyheaded experience OF May, ct "itcher,
OF BroaGus, OF Wilson, and many others We tell the
Editor The Times that he himself has been enraPped
Gy his ranty. and by having read Piuarch tooFe
Gently into doing injustice 10 his party leaders here hut
yet greater I'M ustce TO his own modesty IN assuming 10
put his wisdom before theirs. We pirascd that he
shows enough not Ia be caught by Mr. kItchie
traps but in his self comp acency at having escaped
them he should mol fancy that all others have pot their
foot into them once that he himself the only la
bus detect and ciude the iens and sa!egems OF Han
nbal, &c.
h"Neither will we consent to adopt the wachword
"OUT WITH THE ROGUES,' which our fauquier
fabius proposes exchange tor MIR Richie gull trnps
We Object good lasle 10 lis Justice and h5cTalIty
III are not rogGes whom TO pu! Grt II we can,
nor will we thus do violence The respect IN whch We
hold very many of them
We confess the Wing hits sufficiently hard at the
"TyrO' and "CoDcerd spark OF tanqaer. You may
tel! 'he wounded pigeon by his futterInG
The WdyTcgtOa ItmtS makes long replication. tor
which we have no room; and We are therefore confined
to the following Elegant Extracts:
"Ihe complaint Of our big brother, che Wing. en-
braces only charges, ard ray be condensed in the
following iorn:-'rhe Editor o! the WarTent"n Times,
editor of only two years experience Aandred HrS
from TIE city IF EjckmOnd! having recently read Pn
taIch and ret cranmed With iers Of scientific warfare,
wishes command, before he has been taught 10 obey,
and seeks TO he leader in his party! The second
charge thut this SAID editor, with tins brief experience,
residing mhOis hundred mics from The Cyci H;nmond
stuffed with Pularch Lives and other trash has found
fault with the editors and the leaders vi his party, for
their manag cement Of the Wing cause, and thereby has
weakened popular confidence in their understandings
'Htaksned the poPDtar cOndence IN tr understandings
"On these two charges, the conductors q. The Wing
la UrOcepdpl iuGuuI punishment
Unm,ndu Of that COURTESY which Mr.. Suowden, in his
Justly admired rerUit editorial relations So PoGueny
commended and which The Editors Of the Wing, ndi-
v!duay and collectively pledged themselves ~ main
tain-regardess Of those conront,0n" forms, rhich hc
instinct Ct The gentleman for hS protection, icGrhts
all ,csH dred men to ObSsree thy hasc GsSged Us HM
rude personalities, and course ertheiS
We may wonder, by The By. how the Tunes came 10
forge, these conventional rules himself, in lie attack
which he made upon another Guarrreven so far as 10
employ against bis opponent The poisoned weapons OF
freud and JOrgcrg! Lei all this pass, however, and let
hear further lis courteous replication 20 is H. "hig)
In regard 10 the posing circumstances, with hCh
our brother has thought ut 10 accompany these two
charges say again. II that 'we 1--we hundred
miles from Richmond and also true, Hag" been
engaged but little over two yfnTs IN tbs yGcatGn; but
truth requires that should deny the fg;aIch 1t viii
be fourteen years. September, pcrrsed that
accomplished historian En- TGSsaHt NH say Mat
the study Of Puiarchrhe study Of other stand
ard auhors-In fine, The acquisition Of general kmo"
ledge al any cnlflctcI, "DUE LDl InjN'c 'Hc
ors Of the WhiI, materially impair The usrulness
oil their paper Having answered fully, we might, III
legal phrase, pIny 10 De hence dismissed, with our rea-
sonahe costs. IN this behalf rXprd- tn! "e 10 mol
choose that the affair shall lie thus terminated The
interest Of that great in which we are so ear
nesiy engaged, and which the hg IN our opinion, 50
often mlsmanoges, requires that the defects and errors
of our friends should be dscussCd-reey discussrd-in
order their amendment aIeoraon.. And, as The
Editors Of the Wing have shown i'tlc regard
individual feelings Shall from tine to time, under
take this duty, regardless Of the offence which II may
give them But readers, tina! we shall
never 30 far forget seC; pect, 10 indulge in
coarse une5ntemanly personalities
:. We will conclude this long harangue, with another
opinion and short piece Of advice. Another opinion
We might say, and we do say, with the genera! option
tbroug this region of county and believe that
the whole State. We have heard it from many Wings
well informed, intelligent, and rejecting menmen, II
is true, residing than hundred miles from Rich
mond-men who have never edited a newspaper, even
for two years and perhaps have not read Putach fer
twenty, whose opinions, notwithstanding these disadran-
tapps are worthy 10 be recorded II is in Fact 1--WE be-
lrvr the general opinion Of the Wing parry that the r.
Wing IS burthen-a weig hty drag upon the sturdy limbs
OF the Wing cause. Its ola! wsnt OF system It's nsa-
bny of position, and Inconsistencies Of opinion, lis
defects oi temper its capclous Petaance, It's irahy,
and when rrItaed recklrssness Of the decencies of
society," its eebleness in the discussion of subjects OF
general nature its terOcinus attacks upon individual
opinions the absence of labor appaten, in all its
bers and thousand oller objections have provoked US,
and form common topic Of conversation with It's read
ers The present conductors OF The Wing, if they will
consult the wishes and the interests Of their party,
will throw up They ought TO sell out, Their place
could be much better supplied by younger man, ore
who although he '.resiGes than hundred miles
from Richmoud, reach there by stcanbca; and rail
way in ten hours
AS we do no, expect this advice will be followed our
interest in the Wing induce. US TO offer cur BIZ
BROTHER an alternative. AS theirs ought TO be the
leading press o The State advise them TO form some
enlarged plan of general operations, keep il always in
view-Stick to H. Be not as heretofore so lazy Let
YOUR resources Cor editorial within yourselves Be
independent and do in past time live from hand
to mouth dependent for editorial the daily ongvings
Of Mr. Richie. When the crafty Old gentleman Very
civilindeed and very consistent with The conventional
forms which regulate the intercourse OF gentlemen and
strictly comfortable 10 that rnurteSy which the Edo
ii nded which lcthade Editor