Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-01-23

Is this not plain confession that the aid this trIen
was seeking to obtain from Mr.. Green was not to b
I opsniy gire.a, such would bear the ghR The,
set out by cndeavoring to show that seine friend o
theirs without their knowledge, made communication
with view TO obtain Mr. Green's aid for them, ant
gets propositions from him; and then they are inform
ed OF IT. And then, although they would be glad t
get such from any quarter, if openly gtcen, they write
their note to this friend to PIT stop to the business
| This friends communication, then, was not with
view TO have MIR. Green's aid openly gtren for, II so
nc would not have been stopped. No. il was TO be u
ven secretly under There was to be private
understanding; in other words concealed bargain
There to be san eRGaoccnt or responsibty pecu
nioryOr othera.sc, which they bound themselves, in
note, to "make good" After Mr.. Mcheils letter, ant
the former bargain with Allen, together with the note
to which we allude, every body will understand this
well, this communication goes 10 MIR. Green, anc
then came his definite propositions in answer to it;
'then, and not till then, these most innocent and ig
| norant gentlemen are informed of the business Lei
US see how they take it. This brings us to the dplo
matte note. They would have been glad Of aid, il
openly giren: but this they cannot take The commu
ncation and the definite propositions in answer TO it
arc quite shock to their deicacy; and thes aust
forLlriM, write note TO this communicating frene
to put immediate stop 10 the business, and take
care at the same time, to keep copy of it for publ
cation.
There follows the note in the preceding column.
Would this friend understand this requiring that
immediate stop should be put the business; With
out being much OF adept in these mysteries would ne
that the note told him that these genemen could
not have, in any manner or form, direct indirect
ervicw, conference correspondence or understanding
with Duff Green, but that he might; and that these
most high minded and generous had such regard
for and confidence in hun, Notwithstanding his com
munIcation to get this secret and lnadmssb!e
aid for them that they "'coud feel bOund in honor to
make g0od any engagement responsibility pecuniarL
or oerrisc, which has friendShp may hate pdred him
HRdrr for their INTEREST,":
Surely here was a rarie blanche for him. Broader au
horty to make any bargain for any aid, open
he could not have desired.
In printing this note they have italicised the words
m"y hare ptacrd 20" ""drr, and hcrea consciousness
Of guilt peeps out from under the thus put
these words They that their note would lead any
man 20 nt,: that they mean: 10 bind themselves 10
bargain thus made for them by another, and they mark
those words 10 show that they only meant to hold
themselves thus bound in honor in their friend
had then, nj that time, placed himself under any en-
ga.emcnt for them, and not for any future engagement
he might make Bat this friend must have been a
child indeed not to understand that, tihay would full
I'll an engagement then made by him for tIem they
would also fulfil he might afterwards make for
them iegiallv advantageous. Why should they not:
Besides give it this past absurd; for from
their own showing, this friend they knew, had placed
himself then unGcr engagement for them He had
only communicated 10 lr. Green, and had received
his propositions, which were submitted TO them. He
ncw, and they knew, that the matter stood upon these
propositions, that there 10 engagement made for
them The words, therefore, had sense but pros
pectivc
Arain let it be considered to whose agency and
Gagemcnts, whether past or future, they were thus
committing their honor a man who, by their &C.
of what he had done, had sought aid Tor them in
way dsreputabe torthem to take it; and they are
to stop the business in MS hands Immediately, by let
ting him that they feel in honor bound to fulfil any
engagements, pecaniery or othcr'cise, he may haze
ploccd himself under for them.
And wasi stopped by this note? They say: awe have
since learned indeed, that Mr.. Green TO tie city,
and renewed the matter TO the gentleman week
or ten days afterwards. Yes this was jus. what might
have been expected just what they expected. After
this note MIR Green comes to the city, and the matter,
so Immediately and decidedly to be stopped is renew
ed between him and tbs friend, who had received the
which was ''intcndcd t. put stop to the affair.
And now, if the affair is stopped, certainly has not
been stopped for the want of full powers in the friend
and representative Of the Editors Of the Inelligence
nor in their want of diplomatic skill willingness to
obtain aid from any quarter, even if not openly given
All who have heard read Mr.. Fishers statement, IN
derstand how and why the negotiations this subject
ended without bargain.-H