Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-05-05
Election Correspondence.
(from .7ibemaric, .aprH goth, 1910


RAJ paragraph IN the Country Wing of yesterday,
ing that most Ubiquitous imposition had been palmed
on upon "a lady of Amelia and that thereby petticoat
influence had been exered voter to such degree
that he was thoroughly unwhgged, &c, &c. The evil
dent design of this precious specimen of Wing nge.
nulty is to delude ito readers with the belief that unfair
means were employed BY Democrats in effecting the
complete revolution of Amelia. Doubtless, too, the
editors wished thereby to throw opprobrum upon the
whole party and awaken unfounded suspicious Of its
uprghtness, IN the bosoms of the people. But, sir the
thing IS too easily through Its absurdity too
gross to permit 1t any claim to credencc 1t papa.
bic tabrication-a gratuous coinage Of fancy that
deals but scanty in facts
"But, Mr.. Editor, the guilt, heinous il is, which
the Wing here seeks to fix upon some Democrat, can
be proven against numbers of the Federal Wing party
Two cases in point known to the writcr-one of
them perpetrated by a Wing of intelligence and res
pectablity-a man, who abused his superior influence
IN deceving more honest, though less intelligent CT.
tlzen of this county He told him, that Mr. V. B.
meant to have "Standing Army" &C., &c-and
when this voter conversing with my informant,
soon after the election here, he expressed great regret
that he could not vote for Randolph and Gordon: The
gentleman asked him his reasons. His reply was that
his friends had always supported the Administration and
he wanted 10 roe for R. IL G. But said he, they want
to have "SrASDISG ARMY"-and Id have 10 30 away
FROM my wife and fight for eight gears. He
sured that his fears were groundless No! said he
Mr. w read all about il to whole parcel of us 'toher
day,
"More recently, gentleman well known as an in
telligent and upright Whg, informed me of second
instance of gross deception, entirely similar to the for
merthe supplemented citizen lied into the belief that
he would Of he voted for R. s. g. shave to leave his
crops and 90 away for eight years to fight off yonder
in Delaware or somewhere.
'These can be proven: they given on the au
thorty of two gentlemen whom see almost daily and
whose characters men Of intelligence are more than
respeca while their veracy is above all suspicion
he hal hn 0i, w
order thereto, warm supporter of the Harrison
must his conduct seemingly fair ripped up to-
the and contempt of every honest of all par
ties To this task Gan easy one) pledge myself if rem
dered necessary.
zone word in conclusion The facts lust stated, give
US an example Of the means by which Federalism has
gained many recent triumphs, and of the in
which those means have been eSerted. Deception by
By falSehood- Can party
forced, for lack of honorable TO support it.
SELF resort TO articles pitul and low long maintain
its ascendancy in the confidence of free people, VIII
Virginians-the and the of men, who have
ever despised the vulgar Of despcabe demagogues
and who have always in the end punished those that
them with mcred contempt--can the freemen of
the Old Dominion support and sanction party sunk
low in vice and corruption: No Give the people light
make them sensible Of their wrongs--let them
see the meanness of the Federal leaders who rely upon
brides and alsehood for with the people, and
the Wing rinmphs Of this Spring, will be succeeded by
their thorough defeat in the Fall
THE SOUTHWEST FIRM!
"GRAisoy County, April Goth, lS40.
81 have Just time to give you the result Of the cleo
tons in Wythe, Smyth and Grayson counties. In
Grayson, the vote was:
| For William Wilkinson, V B., $50
For Sam Cox, Y. B., 242
Majority for Wilkinson, 800
! In Wythc, the vote stood:
For Andrew 5. Fulton, 2'9
| For Dr. John Stangcr, PSI
Majority for Mr. Fulton, IS
"Nlr Fulton is a Harrison man, but pledged 10 vote
for the Republican candidates for the U. S. Senate
next winter. This pledge Of Mr. Fulton, given at
February Court, and the understanding at the time
that Dr. Stanger would not, under any circumstances
be candidate, induced many of the leading and most
influential Republicans Of the county to vote for him;
indeed, many of them committed to him after his
promise to support the Administration candidates for
L. s. Senate. Set Mr.. Fulton down dead shot for
the Republican Senators-therc is mistake in that
assure you.
ain Snyth county, Col Grever withdrew in favor
of DR.. Tate, who had single.handed race with the
Wing candidate Col Thompson, and notwithstanding
the boasting and clustering of the Wings, and the
tensve circulation of Rives letter, ranked by the
Hon. James Garland, their candidate has been defeat
ed by majority Of 20 votes The following is the
result
For DR.. Tate, 2s3
For Col Thompson, 251
Majority for Tate, SO
"The Democracy ofthe South in fine spirits
and as firm as the rocks of their mountains. All we
ask to carry the State for Mr. Van Buren, the fall
is little help from our Eastern friends. you will
have it only in the East but in the West the South
west, and the Nalley)
"Thcre was no opposition 10 Mr.. Piper, for the Sc
nate in this dstrict-his vote in this county 76s"
cABEIL COUNTY
tnril
Il hasten to inform you of the result of cleo
ton Peter G. Burlington (Dcm) has beaten F. G.
L. Beuhring (Whg) by majority of 129 votes. So
great excrons TO elect their man have not been made
BY the Wings for the last years They brought into
the field their favorite-a gentleman, whose friends
claim for him the distinction of being the most inteli
gent man belonging that very decent and intelligent
party; and one with whom the Wings have threatened
US for Several years past The influence Of the greater
part Of the mercantile interest was brought TO bear
with all its force upon The glare of Gen Harri
sons military character was arrayed in glowing coors
before our eyes Our Wing eector (Mr. Summers)
made flaming speech at our March Court for the pc
culiar benefit, presume, of Mr.. Behring's election
Even portion Of the clergy of the county dropped
their ministerial gowns, laid aside their Bibles and
their HYMN books, and mounted the stump at the
muster fields and election grounds and deafened
the ears ofthe people with continued shout Of bur
rah for Gen Harrison; but it would not all do The
people of Cabell are firmly fixed in the principles
of Democracy TO be shaken by every wind ofdocrine
"But Mr.. Editor, there is one thing connected with
the canvassing of the Wings this spring, that is little
mysterious The Wing elector for our district ad-
dressed the people al March court and advocated
the claims Of Gen. Harrison TO the Presidency, upon
the ground that he believed it to be unconstitutional for
Congress to charter an United States Bank. We were
not surprised to see Mr. Rves take this course in his
late letter for we knew, that Mr.. Rives needed
such bubble TO Justify his support Of Gen, Harrison,
consistently with his former expressed opinion
with regard to that institution. But 1t was little as.
tonshng to us plain folks TO see real bank mana
rank red hot Henry Clay and Daniel Webster politi-
can, q mean follower of these great men, Dor
rowing his political views from that little clubbing
Conservative But astonishing as it 49, Mr. Editor,
is none the less true, that these very gentlemen VINO
have been preaching TO us Of the necessity of Ma
,ional Bank, and that nothing but an institution OF that
kind could relieve from present commercial DIS
tresses and restore the currency to health ana SOUND
ness, are attempting TO gull the people win the