Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-02-25

more notifying and humiliating. They are cs,oppeo
from uttering a word of complaints against the Governor
elect; for, stimulated by their blind and vlndictiVe rage
against MIR. Rives, many of them signliied their reaa'-
ness to make Mr.. Gilmer SENATOR or Governor, o. any
thing else he might desire, if he would only aid them
in defeating the election of Mr.. Rives.' Who-wneh,
or where did any of the Democratic members OF the
Legislature %"signify their readiness to make MI. dilnef
Governor or any thing else, if he would aid them IN de-
feating the election of Mr.. Rives?" Point your hnger'
gentlemen of the Wing, to "many of them, : or to a stn.
gle one who signiied his readiness 10 do so, and then II
that one acknowledges the truth Of your broad and I'M
qualified assertion, 1t may be believed that the .7ato1a.
has hit the nail on the head, but not otherwise. ii I mao
been said, that the Governor elect bad been assured OF
the ultimate support of the Conservatives, then there
would have been a ~opalpable hit'-and If such assur-
ance was not openly given, it came as near to II, !
guess, as the Conservatives were to the wings wien
the latter held their caucus in the Senate Chamber, ana
the former in the Committee room with the door open.
But our friends of the Wing are always "hltting the
nail on the head, y and always missing it, striking their
finger and %clapping it 10 their mouth. remember, mr.
Editor, a time when this same Richmond wing Unit
the nail on the head when after sustaining the cleo
ton of John G. Adams for the Presidency, IT became
the great champion Of Notification, and held up as
the paragons of Democracy the then talented Senator
from Wythe, and the worthy Delegate from Smyth,
both of whom fell and expired beneath the blow that
shit the nail on the head" This same Wing chit the
nail on the head, " when the worthy Editor saw the III.
tuTe TreSlQenL OF the u. p. III lit peIScu VI civ
Harrison; but here again the blow was SO we'll directed
and effectual as to knock up the trotters of Old TP,
and his friend Judge White, and the "L'ttle Magician
distanced the field. More recently the blows of tins
same Wing organ are falling heavy and thick upon the
amiable and worthy Republican Delegate from Smyth
county, and urges their friend, Major Joseph w. Da-
Wis, to become a candidate in opposition to him :
and here again, Mr.. Editor, in hitting at the nail they
will efectqally kill the Major, by identifying him with
the Anti-Masonic, Abolition, Harrisonian Federal par
ty. "Ceases sipcr, you bite n file" Col. Greever is deep.
ly seated in the affections of the Republican citizens OF
Smyth, who will say to him on his return home, "well
done, good and faithful servant" | have known the
people of Smyth long and intimately, and beg leave to
assure the worthy Editors of the Wing, that they had as
we'll close their battery-all the shot they fred at the
unhinching and unyielding Democracy of smyth will
be lost.
The people of smyth county have too much good
sense to be gulled by Wing letters manufactured in the
city of Richmond, and will never suffer the slightest
infusion of Federal poison into their principles.
AN OBSERVER.