Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-26

would il be believed said Mr. T. that at this very mo.
mcnt, with all the afccaton Of dignity which he had
assumed, with all the proesations agains the proscrp.
ton of the Republican party which lie was making,
Mr. Rves stood pledged IN writing 10 the support o!
Gen Harrison. Yes, actually pledged; and he would
appeal 10 the Senator from Ahenarc, then in his seat
to sustain him in the declaration That Senator il he
was correctly informed, had received letter from Mr.
Rves through The Hon. JAS Garland, in which he had
unequyocaly made the pledge, and he had actually ex-
hbted that letter TO several impacticablc Wings for
the purpose of satisfying them that Mr. X was no long
er a friend Of the Administration, but was heart and
soul with them But that the Senator from Albemar!e
might not be msreprescnted, Mr. Tod had in his pos
session the Senator's own statement OF the matter pub
shcd in the Enquirer, extract from which he would
submit:
al did receive letter from Mr.. Garland addressed
TO him by Mr.. Rves, in which the latter avowed his
determination to sustain the election OF Gen. Harrison
10 the Presidency This letter procured from Mr.
Garland under the following circumstances:
"When it was ascerianed as before stated, that there
was no prospect Of elec,ng Wing 10 The Senate il
was earnestly desired by many, both Of the practicable
and impracticabe portion of the Wing party that Mr.
Rves would, by unequivoca. avowal Of his purpose
to support Gen. Harrison, relieve them from the
barrassment in which they were placed, and enable
them TO justify themselves voting for him L. S.
Senator. With view Of Obtaining such avowal, let
ters addressed to him by several members Of the
Legislature, desiring him to say, explicitly, whether be
would sustain the election of the Harrisburg nominee
In reply TO these applications he stated that he dd not
feel himself warranted in abandoning the ground taken
by him during the tendency of the Senatorial election
at the preceding session of The General Assembly, and
referred to his previous and speeches furnish
ing the of ascertanng what would be his future
course.
"Now, while agreed with those who believed that
the position he had taken utterly ndefensibe and
the reasons he assigned for declining TO give cate
gorical answer TO enquiry, which those who made
it had right TO proponnd TO him, yet was satisfied,
from his letter. published in the Spring of 1899, from
his speech at Nelson Court house, which heard, and
above ALL from the relation in which he stood towards
the Administration party, that he must cooperate with
efforts to transfer the government TO the hands
of new set of agents Having denounced, in I'M
measured TERMS every leading measure of the Admins
raton, openly declared that he would not vote for the
election Of Mr.. Van Buren-and moreover been bit
tery denounced and abused by the mouth-pieces of
the party conceived it impossible that he could fall
back into their ranks without degradation and debase-
ment.
81, therefore, prepared TO vote for Mr.. Rivcs the
moment found there no chance Of electng Wing
Not so, the Imprpctcables. They had declared, that
they would not upon Mr.. r. advocacy of General
Harrison n matter of inference, from general eS-
preston OIL opinions against his competitor or from
the circumstances in which he was placed They toos
the ground that nothing short OF positive declaration
under the hand of Mr. r., that he would support the