Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-07-17
TO n EDITOR OF TIE ENqrIRER.
tn July, 1910.

Fraud Of the UhigS-Er posed Shame! Shomc!!
THE TRIuMPH OF Truth MD or ELooUENCE.
81 have lust returned from Stafford, where went on
Monday last with the expectation of hearing Mr.. Mon
cure 5 reply to the address ofthe Wing travelling Elec-
tor of The Northern Neck District, delivered at a pre-.
vious Court. Mr.. Moncurc was there, and although
feeble in body from IndispositIon, made one oil the most
mastery aud triumphant speeches that II was ever my
happiness to hear on a similar occasion-indeed 1T was
literally overwhelming-und it is TO Inc matter OF utter
amazement that anv person could have heard it, with.
out being fully convinced Of the crying and cruel in
Justice done to the present able, and virtuoms Chief
Magistrate, and of the desperate and reckless charac-
ter of the leaders of the Opposition.
"He commenced, after y fow pertinentand eloquentin.
troductory remarks, by exposing the schemesand machI-
merry of the Wing party, and laid bare to the indignant
gaze Of the audience, in all lis rottenncss and wretch
edness, their miserable cause. lie next noticed the eX-
traordinary position Of the Wing candidate for the Pre-
sidency; produced the Oswego letter, and brought out,
with tremendous effect, the secret letters TO different
sections and factions, in order 10 conclliate them all;
dwelt somewhat at large upon the right Of the people
to demand and 10 know Of candidates for their sntfra-
ges, the opinions held by them on ali questions OF pub
lie policy, particularly such as might be likely to call
for their official action. lie reviewed the course OF Mr..
Van Buren, upon the subject of Internal improvements,
and the Tariff; contrasted it with that OF Gen. Har-
sison, and showed most clearly, that whilst one was ul-
ira, in every respect, and was, beyond all comparison,
the most obnoxious politician in the whole country upon
both those subjects, the other differed so slightly from
the South, that it had not heretofore weighed n feather
wi,h Virginia, and could not now, with the least sha-
dow of proprety, he urged against hun. In connec-
ton with this %snbicc,, he read a portion of MIR. New
ton circular, when a candidate for Congress, and con-
trastcd the views expressed therein with those OF Gen.
Harrison. But the most astounding effect ever wit
messed, was produced by the introduction of Mr.. Van
Buren's famous Sheep Speech, rs i: has been tamiliarly
called. There is something a little remarkable about
this speech; and il may not be amiss to mention some
facts connected with it. In lo25, think it was, Mr..
Van Buren, delivered an address before a primary as.
sembly at Albany, upon the subject of the Tariff, in
which he made special reference to the woollen's
bill. This speech, was published III pamphlet form,
and as it has heen ahont thirteen years since II
was delivered, it might reasonably have been sup
posed that scarcely more than n single copy was
70 be found in the whole country. The Editor OF
the Wing, it seems, obtained a copy by some means,
which he must have supposed was the only one IN eX-
is,emce-rrom this he published certain extracts, wnich
Mr.. Newton used with, as he supposed, cohsIue[aoie
effect. From the known character oil the wing Tor faisl-
ryinr and %rarbling every thing, MIR. Moncure's friends
were induced TO make diligent search Tor a copy OF the
speech ifthcrc was one to be found, which they at length
obtained. Yon may well judge how utterly coniounded
and dismaycd the Elector was, and how indignant te
whole assembly was, when upon reading from the speech
itself and comparing them with the portion published
in the Wing, it made MIR. v. Is. express views the
very opposite of those he did express-Ihis was done,
not by altering Il word, but by the omission OF import
ant words and sentences; throwing together widely Sc
parated paragraphs, as II theJ followed III continuous
I
connection, after the famous example Of Ex-senator
Rives. In the version glvenb by the Wing It makes VT
Van Buren, say, that, having invested S2O,OOo III sieeP
and sheep farms, il had become his interest TO support
the woolicns bill, and the inference is left, that ne
could therefore be relied OH as 4 real friend to the poll,
CIV. Whereas, he expresses himself to this effect, (and
this is the conclusion of the speechD that, notwith-
standing he had invested SO much money in Sheep &c'
and it would he perfectly proper that he should pro-
mote hs own interest, whenever he could do so CONSIST,
emily with his obligations to his country-yethe would
despise himself, if he could be base enough to favor an
unsoupd policy, whatever IN ight be bis own advantage
BY doing so; aud therefore he opposed, as he did on
that occasion, the policy so urgently called for by the
friends of the woollens bill, When this passage was
read, il produced the mostenthusiasti burst ofappiause
every charge brought against the Administration
such as cx,ravagance, corruption, tho Standing Army,
&c, &c, were fully and fairly net and signalIy rein,
ted. In a word. :he arguments were all 50 admirably
ARRANGED, The views so striking and effective, that 1t can
be hazardine but little 10 say, that whilati it probably did
no, move those who preferred their party ia their
country, it mus, have made q sensible Impression