Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-31

in the faith of Democracy than ever, and in hope.
that the Democrats of The U. STATES will not give way
to The Federaliss and Abo!ItIonsts.
| The last W;n"!c Ser F:rgnan sircs letter from
| "Brdgcport, Which allows majority in Harrison
county, OF from > 10 6nG-claims the whole district by
from 500 10 ,00Q-and ''abou the same in the Wheel
ing District
/ The "Ycoman Of;cc has struck show handful
extra, setting forth iarr;sons and prospects
IN The most exravagant style lays It's "broad paws
on Virginia, Maine and Pennsylvania. 1t then seizes
upon Nississipp Tennessee, New York. &c, &C. and
cuts down Mr.. Van Buren, to Alabama Missouri, Hi
nos, Arkansas, South Carolina and New Hampshire
but we beg neighbur not To count his chickens
before they Matched The ballot-boxes will make
terrible havoc with It's ridiculous statstIcsThis whole
large typed handbl dixie some Circus, Harlequin dis.
play handb is intended for effect-and the truth oi
The whole thing may be Judged of by the concluding
paragraph: "Bcwae of reports to Wing frauds. The
base conspiracy in New York, to mplIcate honorable
men, has recoed upon its auturs The plot is "blown
sky high Indeed! Then it is nothing but plot-a
conspiracy to npllcate honorable men, which has
cooled upon its authors. II all the other frauds which
have been attributed TO the Wings in other States
well authenticated as those in n. York the party would
be- spotted as with the plague Let any of sense
read the developments making in ~ York, and then say
upon his conscience that it is nothing but plot Afda-
VT after afdav-the documents that produced and
even the receipts for the money actually paid at PHI
adrphia for the purchase OF the votes and ready to
stupendous frauds which have been practised Iftherc
were nothing in it, why the startling efforts that have
been made by Gentworth and his allies to suppress
the vouchers; Why has The sanctity of Il Court Of
Justice been desecraled by the hand Of violence? The
evidences Of their guilt forthcoming and let the
wiseacres they may about conspiracies and
plots TO implIcate ''hunorable men,.
The People of Virginia not 'yet soft enough for
that They will read, compare the evidence, and
Judge for themselves. 1t is shame that the Wing
praS IF t,,nn
dignation upon the men who attempting to poison
liberty at its very source should employ all its auda
cious sophisry in sotening the outrages and
ing the perpetrators Far better would it have been,
if the Virginia press had but caught some oil the manly
FIRE of some of the Wing presses in the Nortii-Far
better would it have been, if the "feoman and It's
compeer had come out like the N. Y. Sunday News,
and exclaimed:
"The Wings, when they find the fact proved upon
them that they did take from Philadelphia to New
York for the election in lcS, admit the fact, but de-
clare, upon their words of honor that they took them
there merely to keep the Locofocos Of Philadelphia
from voting in New York. That's very like whale.
But We should be glad to know what was the use OF
marking certain Of them in the bill of iading with a
~ and calling some of them syarn and others pipe?
ain the attempt, however, to shun Scylla, they run
upon Charybds; and with such rash and unskIlfnl pr
lotage, the Wing party appear to have had, they VIII
inevitably be run upon The rocks, or be sunk IN the
qucksauds of public opinion Wing as our preferences
titles with which would hedge round the ballotbox
as exposor Of public opinion still stronger and
il is with shame and regret say wish We could
give credit to the Wing protsstations Of thorough m
nocence Int tic eeigM Of testimony is against them.
Far better if the Wing press of Virginia had said,
with the New York Sun:
.sTo throw aside then all the testimony which be
in any manner disputed, what is the damnng proof
still remaining: 1t is that James B. Glentworth,
individual holding important and lucrative office IN
New York, and James Young, high constable of PhIla-
delpha, have been engaged in perpetratng, or endea
vorng to perpctrate crimes which, in opinion, are
little better than high treason that have been
bought and paid for in Philade phia 10 come to New
York and vote; that these "Hessians," Gentworth
called them, actually brought on here, were paid
about thirty dollars head, and if they did not vote,
they did not perform the work for which Gcntworh,
at any intended them This is the point to
which attention should be rivettcd. What mat
,ers it whether MIR. Batchford and his associates
directed Glentworth, only 10 get men 10 preserve
the purity of the baot-box; does that excupate Client
worth: Certainly not: he, at any rate, is guilty:
ereeh acao carry TO his grace the brand Of IN
fanny burned upon his traitor brOn, iegiby as that
mren By The finger Of The .7i'nighty upon the forehead
Of Cain. For any thing that we know, Or that has
vet been concusively proved Messrs Batchford Grin
hell, Wetmore, Bowen aud Draper, may be all nno-
cent and honorable men. We Will not accuse of
them Of any thing wrong, until we the facts fully
proved. But ask again does that exculpnie Client
worth and Young, or does 1t nvadate, III the least,
the positive proof that plan was deliberately formed,
and carried into execution, to import Illegal voters from
Philadelphia: No; it is placed beyond the reach OF
controversy that such the fact and however pain
full the conviction which is thus raised in our minds,
we are forced 10 admit H..
Far better, if the Virginia Wing press had said with
the Philadelphia Ledger
awe perceive that several Of the partisan papers IN
this city, on the side, affect 10 doubt the truth Of
the disclosures lately made and now in progress in New
York They pronounce the whole story a conspiracy,
devised and got up by the party opposed 10 thcm TO be
used "last card in the game of political swlndns
in which The active politicians of the country are now
completely involved: and they base their denial upon
the assumed responsibility of the persons implicated
But the course Of the SAID newspapers in this city tends
10 impcae their party whole. They deny the
truth of the whole story, pronounce il conspiracy OF
the other party vet admit that transported 10
New York in 1885, TO eatch illegal rioters imported by
said other parfy, and insist that the high character Of
the persons pcaed shields them from all suspicion,
No party can gain good repuat'onswith honest men
by attempting to sustain lis unworthy members; for
principles are more valuable than votes, and honest
dealing is more useful than temporary success, and
will insure final and permanent success, while the
verse, however successful for moment will ultimately
fail"