Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-04-10
COMMUNICATIONS.
TO TIE EDITOR or TIE EN-9 rtREK.

Lrrsnrnc, Va March y, $50.
send You the following Card, winch you are re-
qucstcd 10 hand over 10 the r. Wing for publication
But, lest the Wing should refuse 70 publish i. beg
that YOU VIII give it insertion il your paper before
you send II.
WANTED
y smart, young, active Wing Stump-OraioF, and
r"tica! ccui; rider, for that portion of the -
district usually called sold Loudorn" We wish our
Wing friends, Wise 4 Co, to attend to this matter-
1t IS shame that "Old Loudoun, the boast Of The
Wing partyin Wa party celebrated Tor talents,
learning and oratory, should be left TO the mercy of
the ignorant Lnco-Focos. We have four candidates
and the Lnco-Fucns three, all of whom attended
sale in the neGhborhood icw days since, when and
where of their candidates (Aason) mounted
stump and addressed the people, and was loudly ap-
Paudcd. was not present; but my informant Tells
me that the shouts of the people "madc the welkn
ring The orator said it not his purpose 10 enter
on general political discussion; would he 90 50,
unless his opponents would take up the gauntlet, which
he unqualilcdIy threw down. When he had concIu-
dcd there general call for the Wing candidates:
but 10 the great modification of their friends, th"T al
began 10 and hide, md dodge behind the crowd,
and in other secret places. They caught Ramcy, how
ever ana dragged HIM up to the stump, but lie Slipped
by it They rallied and turned him around and
brought him up again, ami he sfraddcd II The pub
lie Indignation general Man? OF our friends de-
claTcd that they would not support any such candidates
Our party in talk of making selection from the
Sr0trh Lessons, to be committed b. our candidates for
til" next occasion They say il Isa shame 10 hear w"
Of candidates (whi!c there such field rs tins
before thcn) disputng ANA qnaTreng over, HboHt ice
timcS relating a road, which it IS sud- one Of Them
Beard had prepared lay before the Legislature: bu
another (Ramcv) stole it and FUSED mp as his own
There j. another question mootcd here, winch ""
should Ike to have settled There are some icw NGi-
rTS and some few Abntioni~S IL our ranas but these
may be SAID to be sparse. We not troubled WITH
any Of those anomalous beings called 0icRights
Uhi"S But there are a considerable number ot w.lo
once belonged to the old "DemoCra,c, Republican
Party, nut have changed our politics, and ar" not VII
Ing adait the fact. A!any ot tbs branch Of our
parry re- in the habit of abusing and rdIculng the
terms :DcmccrNt and ..DrmOcracy; and ye. they are
not willing 20 be called FcdtraiistS. On The other
hand the FfdfraiS$, who constitute b. far, the most
numerous, hgli.mnded and honorable portion of our
party are willing to clnlush their ancient name,
which they say they "glory IN, for the mere purpose
81 screening ;hcr allies and converts from Ecng DIS
yrac,d w,b that name. Indeed, The I"dcrait.s scen
be l.: the right Of it. for, II they TO give UP their
Did Tor such purpose, it would he an admission
hat tie Is dSgJHrc Until this matter is set
cd, ii VIII be most prudent IN me 10 subscribe myself
a WING, fhm is to SayJ |
i sort az Il DCmorEat Gad sort ~ Z Fsdcr0iiSt. |