Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-03-10

District OF Conmbia ;or tie cnun'y Il Washington,
ne b. certify ,1t Nicholas Callan, Jr, before nom
he foregoing a!,iiav'ts were mace ana
IA and at the tine OF snch maain. and acknowledgment,
vas a justice Of the Peace, duly commissioned ana
| sworn, IN and for SAID county.
IN testimony whereof, have hereto subscribed my
name and caused to be affixed the seal OF SAID Court,
''''' '''' Wy " ". BRENT ciTrh. tsrArl
JUDGE ABEL r. UfsIIUR,
Secretary ct The Nary
| Sir. You are greatly mistaken IN suPposng that
,ur hirh official station will enable you, with imPu-
ni,y 10 treat with disrespec those who move IN the
humble walk Of private life. The notice you are plea
odd ~ take of my statement does credit 10 your head
or your heart it was wholly uncalledor BY the occa.
SION it was justified by the friendly relations which
ad subssted between for more than twenty years;
and, worse than all, il IS unwarranted by truth
You stand arraigned before The world on two gricy-
Gus charges |. That you wished and designed to dis
member the Union. =. That yon have been guilty OF
presentation and equvoca;ion as to your political
opinions, and the doctrines you have advocated. 10
those charges YOU have pleaded not guilty the ISSUES
are made up and the American people your tFicrs
With that ''procllvl!y To error "a term most happily
applied to YOU many years since by some at least oi
the most elegant gentemen # to,cer Itrginta hnocn
To us toi which has marked your whole lie, you seek
TO make legncd collateral issue of character with me
This is one OF those awkward straits INTO which con
scious ruil; is often driven but tins miserable suDer
shall not await you IL ~ "
| Use You as Your uumanly conduct mer'ts-not win
! borsayhins md pistols but with the lash oil truth
winch is al all times an intruder On those who Try IL
shut IL out.
In the first place your statement that am voun
teer in the controversy between ar Bouts ana you
wholly unouned for your friend, Mr. JOS Mayo, frs,
requested me IN give statement, III writing, of the
conver saon; and Mr. Bolts made the same request by
letter previous to the publication Of my note IN The
| Wing | had casually spoken OF the remark you
made without intending, III any manner To connect
myself with you Mr. Bolts, and never Tor moment
supposed that my conversation wauld be reported To
either Of you but finding that was used Tor etrct,
| addressed the note TO the Editor of the Wing,
which was afterwards embodied IN Mr. Bots letter.
for the real purpose of preventing any misunder-
s,andinq of what | had said. The world Will see
that | was virtually summoned by both parties
and If las really believed hlr. Joseph May" inform.
ed YOU of his call then your statement that
am n volunteer, an Intentional perverlion You seem,
without doing So deny that you had used the express
SION which imputed 10 you. You might have SAID,
Judge Upshur that had recollection OF any such
remark; recoIccting II, you might nave mace any
exclamation you thought iii; but you shall not deny
that you said TO IN the street OF Norioik, near
Johnson Hotel in or abou; 1856, that you claimed
The credit Of being the fist Nirrnian who had run up
the har of Disunion. That Just at that point OF time
a Captain in the Navy who came up, on being ask
ed be- me- ,yha: he thought OF such sentiment, ad.
dressing himself you, sad, YOU must not expect HIM
To concur with you he sworn TO tight under the
| lap Of the Union. Now, sir, | have At the sugges-
ton of friend OF that Captain, iorborne 10 give ms
name lest your malgn feelings should arrest han from
vour hich place-hu, YOU must beware how you con
iradct this statement for there are gentlemen IN lower
y,raniu who will volunteer 10 sustain truth and cor
rect error though the loss Of commission IN The Navy
or m the Customs where should be the conse-
onence Your procvi,y 10 error, makes you, III nno-
,her place saw that had charged You with proclaim.
inv in the streets of populous town, doctrine and
: all .cno heard them a
try court Lawyer in the worst OF causes, should not
! condescend to plain and papahe abuse OF words
and truth much less Secretary OF the Navy Of The
: or Judge IN Virginia, or man who boasts OF ms
association with gentlemen. have charged yon with
no such thing We all know that you do decIam very
mach m conversation, but man can be said, with
any proprciy 10 declam in conversation; and this, all
must regard as o those false detcnces which never
fails to recotl,
As to the issues made up between Mr.. Bolts and you
| care but l,c how the American people shall hnd
them have no political sympathy with either OF you
But regard the political morality OF our coantry as an
impor,aul stake, winch every cizan IS Interested
If SIR Bolts has ,vantony and falsely charged you with
doctrines and opinions which you never advocated OF
entertained he certainly ought not 10 be a member o
Congress IL, the contrary, his charges are true
YOU ought for entertaining such opinions, to be dls
missed from the Cabinet; and, for denying correct
charges to be dismissed from the association Of gentle
men Of io,csr lirginta.
Il,sama,,er Of entire Indifference with me how tn,
many questions Of veraciy between MIR. Bolts and
you. and between YOU and Mr. HARRISON and you anc
many Others may be settled care not whether yot
did or did not, when you we're on the Essex Circuit
claim to be "thc High Priest Of The Church OF dis
union care no, whether yon dad ur did not say 10
7 gentleman, South Of James River, that you never
had anv confidence IN the soundness Of the doctrines
Of Modification hut that YOU only pressed them for
po,i,lca! effect care not whether you admit or deny
that Won said the election Of Martin Van Buren, would
be the signal Tor dlsunion and care not what mita
ton NAV nav he put the doctrines Of Notification
But would advise YOU guard your on these
points with more than ordinary cunning; for you may
find your hiding place, into which YOU have rerea,ed
hv the last clause your letter. too uncomfortable 10
he endured. Gentlemen who press doctrines that pro
mise To become fashionable, and clam 10 be the pa,en
tees Of political orthodoxy mus. not expect 10 shuttle
out Of them when those doctrines shall be turned
arans, them
have no other ohjec, in addressing you al this time
than TO dsabusc the public mind Of the false impress
sions you seek to make 10y pretending to regard
a volunteer Your controversy with other.-and al
the same time expose the vanity and arrogance wit.
which YOU present 10 The gentlemen of lower
Virginia, Il question OF verachy, which you dare moi
raise and refer 10 that tribunal If you think fl IL
throw Your cnvcnomcd shafts, and then retreat to the
NAVY Oaicc, you may hide your head, and, like the
,ricl,, think your body is safe: bnt, whenever as
sailed by AFRO Iance and official PRIDE which see; Il
entrench themselves behind aud false lnsinu
atoms Will batter down their defences and expose
them to III. world Discretion sometimes the bette
part Of vaor and under It's influence, you may aiec
not 10 notice this letter. BE it so-you know the
sequence of standing mute. {. VI. BRANTON.
Il March !, l-i2
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A committee %, the Mississippi Legislature has made
a report on TIE Union Bond Question, ending with th
following resolution: