Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-03-26
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TO r. VI. T. HUNTER.
SiR-The public good is my object and not your own
elevation | shall therefore make no idle unmcan-
ng professions There are those who Will use soft
words, when they are dealing hard blows When !
took up my pen, had other matters TO attend TO than
schemng politicians my letter, therefore, must be e8
cuscd for any want of finish 1t is cnrrcRc catamo as
certainly the pure stream from its natural source
perceive, Sir from the Enquirer, disposition is ie IN
certain quarter TO git you out Of the trdy, and 50
strong is the wish and difficult the task IN the usual
mode of political action, that there has been necess
" for striking out course and hence you have
been appealed to earnestly by Earnest Democrat, to
get om IF the ray
Your own circular imposes lyon told) moral
obligation on you to ret out Of the acny and let The PR
ties hare fair racc Sir my earnest friend mistakes the
whole scope and design of your circular Now the truth
"a Won baye always obtained votes from both par
lies On The last OCCASION the Democrats from malice
atorehought, very respectable gentleman against
YOU and they disappointed and their party would
not vote against you-and the Wings were compelled
TO take your election at the hands OF Democrats lat
last1-The two parties stood before you in high
state of evaporation. Your position was not agree
able to either as party. The excitement of the Pre-
sidentia election great-Alen were put asun-
der by its disturbing power. Under these crcum
stances you declined being candidate. Both parties
were dissatisfied with your position it regarded the
Presidential election ; and you were ready to with
draw and let them have far race. The case IS now
entirely ultcred-the circumstances are changed, IN all
its True, the tnin9 IS perpc&ihs 10 soWe
earnest Democrats and earnest Uhigs. majority OF
The Whps have cut the Gordian knot OF their connec-
ton with YOU ucn Deus ruh perdcrr, &c. And
now the question for truly earnest and honest Demo-
erais is not it when you wrote your circular
v;z A fair race between the parties. Let rs have
fair race on principles and a magnanimous forgivIng
action of the Wing party demonstrates the truth oil
vour present political position The waters Of bitter
ness on the Wing party have separated from the pure
and sweet, and rolled together in one volume And
now shall we, the Democrats, shew 10 the world,
that we, too, have bitter waters, well as sweet
| saw to all earnest Democrats, preserve your temp
ers in all sweetness Let not the Doris .7nara
pollute the pure Of political principle and
| public virtue. Let act the principle of hcm
sentirc de repub'ica.-It is the only true and the
only moral basis of party combinaton.-Sir the peo-
pie have already absoyed You from the charge of in
consisency-which an earnest Democrat SO earnestly
makes against you, the authority of your circular
magnanimous portion of the two parties hail you as
beacon light Stand firm, then, and come out IN
bold and emphatic speeches to the unsophiscasd Nhgs
and Democrats Define your position with penc'i OF
| light Look into the Inaugural Behold the great
doctrines of the States Right School, overturned IKE
the Statue Of Brutus after the battle of Phlipp Yes,
Sir The old Generals classic Brutus is overturned by
his own hand-he hand of the first of the TriumyIrs
of The one term Presidency. They will not hight the
hattie of Actum they will not quarrel about the spos
But the great Octavius mot the young Octavus) Will
come in second triumvr to the Presidential diadem !;
and the woman-loving Anthony will be ready 10 be the
third when his passions have been cooled by age but
not bv reason or virtue. Excuse me, Sir, for CLASH
cal quotations and historical illusions. have little
penchant that way, well as General Harrison and
especially where the occasion furnishes me with the
authority in point shew that those who pretend to
draw their enthusiasm for liberty from those sons of
FIRE, apt TO quench the true fire the altar of