Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-07-31
To Tie T%lppecnnot CIuL No. j. f Yirsinin.

Gentlemen: Having avaled myself of an invitation
you rendered TO the Van Buren, party, was present at
your LOG Cabin" on Monday night last, and witnessed
the proceedings you enacted upon an article in the last
Richmond Enquirer. A resolution was offered and
discussed by members of your Club, authorizing the
appointment of a Committee, to wait upon the Editor
of the Enquirer, and demand the evidence upon which
certain charges against n portion of the Wing party,
were based. twas with pain ! listened to the dennnci-
atoms so unjustly INDUCED in by members Of your Club,
towards the Editor OF that paper, yet silence was my only
alternative. An unwelcome strange. in your City, and
with no satisfactory assurance that | would have been
permitted 10 make good the charges pronounced false,
IN odramce, by your orators, concluded it was best to
wait a cooler moment, and one more free from difficult
ty, to avow, as I nor do, that nm the author Of the
article so bitterly denounced; and that, if any further
action be deemed necessary by you, upon the resolu-
ton, which, (much to your credit, allow me 10 say, now
lies upon your table, | am the individual against whom
that action should be directed, and not Mr.. Richie,
who, whatever may have been his crimes heretofore, IN
y0"r opinion, IS altogether blamcless in the particular
under consideration. One member Of your body eren
accnt so far as TO call upon the writer Of the article s'to
stand up | presume his purpose was TO insult Me
y SO, dc,est Tie man, and pity his chiratry. Such a
man is totally ignorant of the hospiaLies which inva-
riably ap pertain TO the log cabin in that portion of the
country where it has been my good fortune heretofore
to dwell, and furnishes another Illustration IN point of
the d. .ssimilarity between Il country and a citY 'cabin.'
Had ! gone, korercr, without an invitation, Hou, gem
tlemen, might have been excused by me-but, haring
zee n 2nrttcd, | cannot hold you guaueSS for having per-
mitted 4 violation of the courtesy which was certainly
dse to me under your - invite a man to
your own ireside !-decoy him under your own roof to
'Plunge a dagger in his breast!' Shocking. Mon
strous!! 1 could not hare beficced a.-Gsntlemen
number among the Hhigs some Of my most valued and
esteemed friends and acquaintances-not only of the
log cabin, but of more costly edlices, and never vet
have | been maltrcated, when across tile rroundsct of
their door.1iA or acithont invitation. Hotcercr much 1
may hare condemned their political sentiments and prae-
tees, have always been met with tae sentiment, ale:
us agree to disagree on political subjects but let US
agree to be social but, gentlemen, | fear a Hhig po"
titieat LOG Cabin-amphibions in its naturc-has
given birth to another Code of moral and political
Ethics.
Whilst | thus avow myself the author of the article,
which has given rise to so much Unjust animal version by
your orators, allow me, gentlemen, to express my sur
prize that party, whose Organ is in the habitual use Of
such terms as 'blnckguards and scoxndreis, rogues and
royatsfs, to %stigmatize the fre nds of Mr.. Van Buren,
a party, now itself engaged IN publishing the vile and
fabulous production of Ogle of Pennsylvania-should
have occupied so much of their time in the sombre
farce Of discussing and lay ny on the table a resolution
authorizing the appointing mt Of a committee 10 DEMAND,
IN proprta PERSONA, the e violence upon which the cdi.
tor OF a newspaper has IT .ade a statement, not affecting
the personal or private character of any one, in any