Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-12


traces. vas of Quaker stock (hickory it you Willy and
was in measure prepared by TINT circumstances TO
act with associates Mcdowell, Randolph, Sum-
mcrs, Berry, Preston, &c but what wish yon
particularly note IS that my object is not now, and
has not brcn to assai Mr.. Mcdowell for the sent
mens he expressed on Abolitionsm in 1882. should
hold myself worthy of the severs censue, (snch CEN
sure as has been passed by the public on Judge ST.
Geo. Tucker, who, in your Convention, ratified de-
nuncations of Mr. Clay for opinions which the judge
himself had held and yotedD it, having appauded Mr.
Mcdowell in 1882, ! should now, even if | had
changed my sentiments assal him for what then
approved and concurred in. No, sir, | repudate the
idea
| The foregoing extracts taken from the letter of
Mr. John n. Peasants, senior editor of the Richmond
| Wing, in the Enquirer Of the 18th February, 1870
Now reader, look at the following editorat paragraph
in the said Richmond Wing Of the 25th Of the
month-ony eight days after the letter of Mr. Peasants
above quoted In gvingan account of late meeting
in Southampton, the Wing says, 1.-The meeting also
nominated James B. Urquhnn as candidate to repre-
sent the county in the next Legislature We will guar
anee that Mr.. Urquhar if elected, will never vote Tor
an individual to be Governor of Virginia, who denies
that the has any property in his slave, which
bare majority cannot dvest ut any time, and who has
strenuously urged emanci patton without compensa-
ton
The honest reader will here, what the profess
sons of this chief mouth piece of Federalism IN Nir
gina are worth 1t is astonishing, notifying, humili
ating that intelligent yea, those who belong
/
the sense and all the dccrncy, read this paper
from year year. observe its recklessness, its summer
sets, its varying sentiments and professions, and
still make IL their mouth-pieca, parrotlikc, recchoIng
It's slang, and, the authority of It's reckless ASSET
tons branding the best in the country with p"lltl
cal infamv The Wing leaders and sub leaders
throughout Virginia, take their from In" chmond
Whig Dice when it rcjoces, abuse when and whom It
abuses, and reta its assertions to blind deceive ana
inislead the people. II sckcs at nothing. It's most
/ Lniu must rar stp
bravrd off with the bodest face IL SINS with lmpunt
ty because It's sins have become too notorious Ia excite
wonder too nnmbcress 10 be traced and exposed And
L is the org through whose nStrnmenalIty the Fc
dcral Wing leaders, and deputy leaders, seek 10 Irmt
down every Democrat, aga nst whom the slightest in.
consistency can be made 10 appear II - the very or
gan. at whose bidding, and upon whose testimony,
they would prescribe and cruelty every prominent
Democrat in the land-te very organ, upon which they
RELY TO revolution zr the political character of the Old
Dominion-to array her against her old friends, who
have sord by her and her principles, when tins very
Wing openly rdIcued her principles, and was the Lead
ing paper the South in support OF the doctrines ana
measures of the ultra Fedrralists OF the North IL IS
still engaged in the service of the party, and
iaSdi0uSy al work. under the gnise OF false professions
of devotion Southern rights and Southern principles,
in striving to place III powers party VIGOROUSLY hostile
TO Southern rights and Southern principles Gene
raj William Henry Harrison has VIGOROUSLY been
thrust upon the Wing party, as a candidate Tor the
presidency, hy those who hostile to Mr. Van Buren,,
oil his adherence to those strict construction
doctrines, which have ever characterized the politics
Of Virginia and which afford the only guarantee 10:
the rights and peculiar interests of the Sou,li-the
only guarantee for the pcrpetu,y of the Union upon
the principles which it founded II is for this,
and for nothing else, that he is opposed by the Wing,
alias Federalpar of the Norththat party, repeat
who have thrust General Harrison upon the Wings OF
the South the modification and disgust of many of
those very lruders and deputy leaders, who are now
striving cheat and brng The people of the South into
his support. That Mr. Van Buren, may have slnned in
one two instances against the Republican creed,
will not deny But in those instances, he snned with
his constituents, and in common with the whole North
But it is knnwn his Southern traducers, that
since he came into public life he has been conspicuous
ly identified with the only party North Of the Poto
mac, that has ever stood by and sustained us, IN
opposition to the Hamilton'nn and Adams FEDERAL
lists Hence it is, and for nothing else that the u
ira Federalsts every where, dcspise and oppose him
There nothing else in the character OF the man,
ther private public, to account for their hate For,
although he has been slandcrouly charged with being
turn.coat, intrgucr, and God only knows how many
other foul charges, have been heaped upon hint IS
for no such that the Fedcrasts oppose hmcr
turncoss, intrguers and renegades from the Repubi
fold the very men whom they delight to honor
Witness their fiery zeal in support of Mr. Rres, (whonl
they abused with bitterness almost unparalleled until
he turned traitor to the party, that had given hln al
the distinction which he had ever attained. Butenough
of ts for the present-morc Of II, hereatter,f God
spare me life and leisure.
! To return to the assault of the Wing upon Mr..
Mcdowell, and through him, upon his Democratic
friends of the South Side will not attempt 10 Justify
MIR. Mcdowell for his in 1882, any more than
those other Democrats and Wings who thought and
acted with him. But are the Editors OF the Richmond
Wing and those who follow the lead of that paper, tho
men 10 prescribe James Mcdowell and his friends, on
account of his course in lc32s Are James Mcdowell
a nd those who support him, in any manner identified
with the "fanatics Of the North, who have forced Gen
Harrison upon the Wings Of the South, 4 cand date
for the Presidency Let the honest reader the
answer the questions the letter above quoted from
| the senior Editor of the Richmond Wing. Mr.. Plea
SAINTS has drawn the line between he fanatics Of III"
North, who support Gen Harrison nodr, and the S1vh-
crn tanatics, the Senior Editor of the Wing included,
who thought and acted with james Mcdowell, in 1872
"What my opinions are, (says Mr. Plrasants,)
npon that, and the whole subject of slavery, is mma-
t-ral 10 the issue Perhaps have seen fit to change
them, like many others. Certainly tic fanatics ~ me
North have taken the most effective means NJ" 10 leave
single friend of emancipation IN the Southern States
and TO imculcate a class of doctrines, which am
not sure are not the doctrines, that the slaves
far better off, physically morally and rcgrousiy
than If their progenitors had remained IN Africa, &c
Mr. Peasants here indicates change which The IA
nacs Of the North have wrought IN hun, by their IN
cendary doctrines and dcsigns-he has seen from ,lr.
Mcpowells own lips and pen, that he too, has seen
hotter into the wicked designs and tendencies of Ab0-
tionsm The Richmond Wing, then, is illiLerally and
dccetfully assauing Mr. Mcdowell, and striving to
excite prejudice against HIM and hs friends which IT'S
Editors know and acknowledge 20 be unf3nndcd and
uniust-at the time, that they the Editors Of the
Whg) are aiiliang and cooperating with these "iama
tics the North, striving TO elect their candidate 10
the Presidency candidate who owes s nomination 20
them, and who has been and preferred by hem be-
cause his sentiments and principles eongcnal witt!
heirs lie had declared, that it had "ong h object
near his heart 10 the surplus Of the nation
appropriated 10 the emancipation of the slaves OF the
South, and that ''by JEALOUS prosecution of plan
formed upon this basis, might look forward TO
day not far distant when North American sun should
not shine upon slave. He had run for the Prcs-
dency in the last election, upon the same ticket with
Francis Granger as candidate fort Vice rres'-
dcncv-who had voted and acted with The most Y:o-
lent Of the Abolition agitnors upon. the floor Of
Congress-voting in a minority of "inf, tAot Con-
gress had the ri ht to interfere .eiM stes~y ~ THE
STATES. Upon this vital point, Harrison and Granger
are d recly opposed by the recorded vote, opinions