Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-06-19
Very respectfully, &c, &c,
EDWARD DIXON.
TIFFECNN0E CORRESPONDENCE.

RICIMnSn, April nth, lcln.
Dear Sir-Thc circumstances which this letter Will
explain, Will excuse me, ! hope, for intruding myself
upon your attention.
Among The numerous charges which have been put
into circulation against you by the presses and partizans
of Mr.. Van Buren,, the two most relied upon and deem
ed most potent in the South, arc-that you are u Re-
deralist and an AbOlfiOnist. Satisfied, from the cri-
drnce before them and the whole country, that these
charges are equally unsusiaincd by truth, your trends
have met, denied, and as they believe, reiutcd them. As
The prospect OF your election increases, however, and the
heart Of the patriot revircs with the hope OF the success
of one, from whom he expects a wise, economical, and
Republican Administration, the maLgnity OF your enc
mics seems to increase, and the spoilsmen become more
reckless and desperate in their efforts to retain the pow
or by which they make their spoil-Of this, the con-
elusive evidence will be found in the Richmond En-
qn'rer of the 10Th instant, IN 4 production pnrp"rilng
to be an address from the Van Buren, Central Commit
tee here. In that address, it is roundly asserted that
YOU are n Fedcralist and an Abolition's,, and that your
friends in the South support you, knowing that you
are so. THIS statement is made here with a knowledge
of the views entertained by the Wings Of Virginia, as
expressed in the address TO tho People of the State,
published bv their Convention, which was held in this
city in the month Of February last, of which | send you
4 copy by the mail of this day. | regard the charge,
therefore, as an %inpudent falsehood against you, as ii
certainly is against the Wings of Virginia, at whom it
is especially levcllcd; aud if made by an anonymous
scribblcr in a newspaper, might be passed by with con-
tempt. But as the charge ~ now put forth in an i'm
posing form, and the subject of Abolition is one of alb
sorbing interest and paramount importancr-and as ]
could not, and am sure the Wings of Virginia, and
the South generally, would not vote for any Abolition
is, living 10 be President of the United States: (scarcc-
" sooner than they would for a Florida lndian,) and
as ! have been placed before the People of this State
for the Office of Elector upon the Wing Ticket, / have
thought it due TO you, TO the Wing cause, and TO my
self, to ask you to furnish under your own hand, your
denial ofthe charge, in a letter to me, which | may
publish.
] beg leave to say, that the denial which | expect
will, in my opinion, advance your cause with all good
and rejecting meIl through the land but whether it
will advance or injure II, it is equally due to yourself
and to US, that you should furnish it, as ! am satisfied
that you would be as unwilling 10 advance that cause
by any fraud, as we should be to be made the instru-
ments, apparently, or dupcs of it. Be pleased, there
fore, 10 say to me, whether you still entertain the sen.
,iments upon the subject of Abolition expressed in your
speech at Vinccnncs, in 1885; whether you ever were
a member of an Abolition Society in Virginia, and whe-
Their you have designated the Richmond Society as an
Abolition Society; and what was your political conncc.
ton, if any, with the old Federal party.
With great respect,
| am, sir, your friend, &c,
JAMES LYONS.
To Gen. W. II. HARRIsoS, Cincinnati, Ohio.