Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-08-11
tFrOn Nf .W0'nt TrgHS, jug 2.
MORE FEDERAL DECEPTION.
.Jnofher Lcier MT for tie PuLiic Eye.

The subioinrd communication was received yesterday
from a d s,,ngnrshcd politician in Georgia, tog"tI"r
with the Rngslrs' letter I" winch II refers. We pun
Ish them, not 50 much in order to place Inc ".1P0Sfnt
Senator IN his ",rnr position before the people MS L,
disclose another proof Of the rrcklessnrsS and ialscho"d
with which the Opposition are conducting the present
campaIrn. As 10 Mr.. Ruggles himself, IT would be-
useless to attempt to degrade his political character t"
any Iorcr decp than that which IT now occupies 10
Name. Already bankrupt IN pol't cal reputation among
his constituents, his utter want of all influence where
ever he IS known, %deprlvcs Inn etieciunliy OF that
.un,r,r TO harm his former friends, winch he has the
GSDo,itiOn without doubt, unsparIngly 10 exercise, ana
points him out a fit object rather OF rontc"Pt than de'
tcsf0tion. From any other man, the inonstr"us nssrr-
,ion contained in the letter To DR.. Avrcs, that the .16o
Et;orjs,s here riH 20 nencratIy FIR I'm B"rcn against
Harrison, would be absolutely amaZlng; but coming
from John Rugglcs, j, ought not, perhaps to excite
surprise.
The assertion itself, We need hardly say, is ridicu.
lousy faisc-false in spirit and false III leler-ialse IN
general and false in dctail-known to be false, we
hnncstlv believe, when written; aud written evidently
to convey a false impression. Inc .ahnlItI"nls's IN
Maine are generally, II Is notorious, members OF the re-
drr,l partv. and vote the Federal Ticket. lhele IS not
n man in The State who, upon Abolition grounds, sup
,nr,s Tho Democratic party; and the few Abol,tronists
here who vote for Van Buren,, do so, not on account OF
their Anti-Siavery views, but IN spite Of them, and
from n belief that the slavery question should not be
broucht into the political arena. We read the above
iUU u .lls tbGebN h's ''''' - - 800
litionisi, who is also a member of the Federal Party of
this State, and asked him his opinion of it. "lr IS THE
GREATEST rHTRrru,' SAID he, 81 EVER KNEW
But Mr.. Rugglcs's letter is mainly importanta as tend.
inp 10 show the system Of porBLE-pEALING now Prac-
tised by the Federal party on the subject of Addition.
While Messrs. Calhoun of Mass. and Evans Of Maine
are striving to get the votes Of Northern AbolltIonIsts,
by representing HARRISON to be in their favor, Mr.. Rug
giles is uniting with Lyons Of Virginia TO satisfy the
South that Van Buren, is supported here BY The party
of Abnlition! While the Opposition in Maine are
laundering loud TRADES Of abuse against the President
for what they call his .Sonthern principles, their own
Senator in Congress is playing an opposite gane in the
State of Georgia, and trying 70 deceive the people there
mt, The false belief that the Administration is wholly
welded 10 Anti.slavery views. Meanwhile, Harrison
himself is aiding this system of deception by every
nrans in his p"wcr, and plays "tnst n"d LAS" on Ahn-
lrtton and every other subject, with the ease and rcck-
lessness Of an old %irickstrr.
Such is the Federal course Of e!pct'onoering in the
present campaign; and We ask the intelligent people Of
Name to consider well before they submit |" 1t. We
have greatly mistaken their character, II they do not
rise up, as one man, 10 rrbukr i party which can thus
boldly make war upon their Understandings and IN
suit their integrity, and which can so openly be guilty
of a deception whnrh exhibits al Ike its own want "f h"-
nrstv, and It's rooted d s,rust of the honesty OF others,
|, cannot be possible that this Federal trickery IN rrla-
,I"n I. Ambition. will be successful either with The
North or S"urh Both these porii' MS ntthr CnI"n have
Too much good sense, we trust, 10 be deceived by It,