Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-09-11

the accounts they brought from the People were most
cheering to the good Many gentlemen of talent
were in attendance-and look forward with pleasure
to the happy influence that will be exerted by the
ton of these Representatives of the People, the
cess OF the Democratic party in November.
an The Decency and all The Talents Party
The author of the following criticism makes some
very just and severe hits at the "Honorabe' Repre-
sentative from this District member of the Wing Exc
| cutive COMMITTEES; colleague of John G. Clark, and
Truman Smith, &C., &c But not having seen the
facts which are stated in Mr.. PoInsetts Correspon-
dence, (n this paper,( and still more, being
quaned with the fact, that the President had not Mon
sIeur Bolts his Executive Committee in his eye, the
writer has not seized all the strong points of the
action In the LIST place. them Mr. Pninsett explodes
the assertion of Pheps aud the argument founded upon
1t. Mr. Poinsett declares man of honor, that the
President did not see the details, which he submitted
to the Senate in January. He was not aware Of any
such call being made upon the Secretary of War,
of his reply o,t. He asserts in the most unqualified
terms, that Mr. Van Buren, did the details Of
the Plan, until they had been sent TO the House
Of Representatives in March-thus confirming the
statement of the Elizabeth City Letter. Aud thus falls
TO the ground Phr ins'nuaton, Rves attack, and
John NJ Bolts rash, unbluShng, outrageous assertion,
that Mr. Van Buren, was liar-But in the Cd place,
Mr. Bolts is entirely at fault in surprising that Mr. Van
Buren, meant charge his famous Executive Commit
tee with publishing "a garbed extract from that Docu.
ment, This annual message) The Wing Committee
of Fauquer have taken this charge upon themselves
and have doubt, that the Pres dent had them in
his eye more than the Wing Committee The Eau
quer Committee have unhesitatingly assumed the
charge upon themselves and employed world of finn
sy sophstry to defend themselves and to impugn the
| cred!by of the PresIdent-Mr. Van Buren, indeed
has denied positively in his mole of the 10th August, in
reply to Rice Garland and Jno &. Clark that he meant
the COMMITTEES; for, that up to the time when he wrote
the Elizabeth City letter he had the pam
phet of the Committee. But the fact is, both the Eau.
quier Committee and The Executive Committee are de-
cidedly in fault, and deserve severe ccnsnrc. When
this Executive Committee undertook to print Mr. Pom
sets hill with this caption, Pan Of the Standing Ar
my of 2O1OnG men, submitted 10 Congress by the Sc.
crctary of War, and recommended by the President Of
the L. s. they guilty OF gross mIsreprrSca,a-
ton. They undertook to say that he had rccommcn d d
plan Of Mr.. Poinsetts, which he had not then
But did not he recommend TO the earnest consideration
of Congress Mr. P proposition for reorganzing the
militia But what proposition Only the very brief
sketch of il, which contained in MIR. P.'s Annual
Report. And what was there so obnoxious IN MaL'-
Not word said in it about the militia armng them.
srves-abou, their being trained By the L S.--takrn
into service, subjected TO the articles of war; &C. &c
The Secretary in tina; brief sketch proposed only n
classification of the Militia their division into eight dis
tricts-but not word about their being trained by the
u. S.-Congress has right to prescribe how the Mi
tia are discipned but the States to carry it out
themselves. And how upon the face Of MIR. Ps sketch
was the President any other man 10 conclude, tina,
they TO be trained by the u. States instead OF by
as soon as the President saw the details OF his Plan in
March, he objected of the provisions Con-
sttntional grounds. And now ask every decent and
impartial man in the country, whether J. Minor Bolts
stands justified upon such crude and imsy assump
tons as these 10 undertake brand the President of
the Y S. as "a Liar:
From a Correspoadent)
J. ". BOTTS AND TIE PRESIDENT
The worthy member from this district has arraIgned
the President of the u States, for utterng alsehnod
v,hp he q Elizabeth
that he had not only never Mr.. Ponseus plan for
organizing the militia, sentt Congress the 10Th March
lS40 but disappoved IFS PROVISIONS and believed I'M
constitutional We have read with some care this pro-
duction to see If Mr. Bolts could by any possibility
tain such allegation, and bound 10 confess that
the gentleman effort reminds of the "mIrr cat,
which $50 covered with meal, that you could not
tell wha, il was Mr. Bolts undertakes argue that,
Mr. Van Buren, must have meant the plan of the Goth
March, when he said, she could not too strongly
commend the plan of Mr. Ponsctt, holds him
bound to show, that there some other plan which
he did recommend-and undertakes 10 prove tins was
the plan, BY the testimony OF Mr. Phelps, who says
that plan similar the of the 10th of March,
communicated 10 the Senate with the Message of the
President This is a surrender Of the whole question,
by Mr.. Bolts. If he relies the testimony of Mr.
Pheps-and he does 81 by introducing him witness
prove that Mr. Van Buren, had recommended the plan
of the 10Th of March, BY showing that he approved of
one of similar provisions, communicated with his an
nual Message-Mr. b. fails altogether in his proof For
this Mr. Phelps has been detected in alsehood by the
records of the Senate and War Department, and the
testimony Of S. Cooper, Assistant Adjutanl General
of the United States Army.-There never was such
paper Mr. Phelps describes communicated with The
Presidents Message. 1t called for the nth Jan.
by resolution of the Senate's committee, and cnmmu
nicaied on the 2Sth Of the month. So according
to the testimony which Mr.. Bolts here introduces to
prove Mr. Van Buren, "a liar, he convcts his own wit
ness of telling alschood and shows that Mr. Van Blu
rem could have approved rs he had never the
r. al. g Int fltan nif ht
Mr. Poinsett the -,h Jan 1t therefore follows that
Mr. Van Buren, only recommended the plan Of Mr. Pom
set as found in his port to the President of Now S
which contained merely an outline OF the contemplated
militia organization, and which generally approved
by the Wing press, and has invariably been recommend
ed by every President, from Washington down To the
present day. But MIR. Bolts furnishes fine commenta
nv on his claim to public sympathy and orbearance fl"
a charge which he assumes the President has made
against him Of "garbng, &C. when he in the very
same paper than once nsinuatcs, that the Pres
dent has LED answering, frankly the questions put
to him. by his fellow citizens of Elizabeth City. Not
content 10 make the President his accuser, that he
might tell him it ''bascly and unquaiedy false
he takes upon himself the modest task oil interfering
between him and the citizens of Elizabeth City, who
addressed him, and telling him virtually he had 6cd IN
denying any knowledge of Mr.. Ponsetts bill-Ihe
people of his District least those friendly to Mr. Van
Buren, will remember him in all future time for it. j
does seem to us that individual who has by his vio-
ence and indscrction placed himself in attitude
which charity, and nothing hut the most indusent
feelings of nature ever excuse, should be the
last in the world resort to the Liberal and dislngcnu-
ous course pursued by Mr.. Bolts towards Mr.. Van Blu
rem Mr. Bolts alleges pretext for his violent at
tack that Mr.. Van Buren, had charged him with ''gar.
bling" Now, Mr. Van Buren, has made no charge
against Mr. Bolts the Executive Committee, by
name He referred only TO the fac:, that certain re-
spectacle individuals had torn from their context GER
tain words in bis message applied 10 the plan for or
ronzinr the MALTA as found in the annual Report Of
MIR Ponsett to him, and preixed them to another pa
per which he had never SEEM and in fact dIsapprovcd
addressed three mcnths afterwards to Congress This
is the substance of MIR. Van Durens complain-and
this Mr. Bolts does not deny, perceive; but on
the contrary, admits and charges Mr.. Van Buren, with
having approved the report of the 20h Of March stH
though even the most hardened presses IN the pay
of the British stockholders have abandoned that ground
since Phelps has stepped forward and claimed mono
poly in the infamous transaction
The position of the member from THIS district may be
illustrated by an anecdote related of Lorenzo Dow:
A member of Dows Church came to HIM one day,