Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-09-06
Beaa.i.s of,le Richmond Hhir.

III TaE ArRocioUs PLOT has thrown the old mes
merzvd drvel!er of the Enquirer into violent patriot,
convusonsthe Sweat House is stirred To Ms lowest
d-plhs-and double guard has been mounted a, the
White House in Washington The most successful
hoax ever pa we'd OF upon human creduli,y-not ex-
c@pnng even The Gunpowder Plot-neyer excited SO
much sensation The Alexandria Gazette says 1t has
created universal laugh. We Will try to make room
tomorrow for some of R,chIes 'start,lng appeals.
Poor old he has had his day For forty years he
has been hnmburring others, and now there Is no
trick, however shallow, which cannot take him in.
Three men kidnapping The Commander in clIet OF the
Army and Navy, running him round TO Albemarle
Sound, III fsst.saiing seaner-thence TO B0ncombe,
and issuinga Proclamation 10 Dick johnson, ofcourse,
then acting Presdent-during the abduction or NanD
ealing for new election! Atrocious Plot Deesa.
BE Treason Why this is Justification of the ancient
saying Cd bids ma, caught with chaft'
Yesterdays Richmond Hhg.
We pass over the choice and ciase language of this
most discreet Journal The facts about capacity
and integrity are before the Public, and that impartial
tribunal will decide upon them, without any regard TO
ourselves to The Redmond Wing Neither o! Us IS
impartial witness in The We love ourselves
loo much, perhaps, and the Wing hates US perhaps too
much, 10 testify in the premises Whether we are d
"d-!yeller, sold dr,veler (who, whatever be his
age, is still able to do his duy and sometimes rather to
,be annoyance of the Whsl-and TO cap the climax,
sold mesmerised drlveller, (who has been neither
mesmerlar nor meZmerizee,) we must leave II 10
The Grand Inquest Of the Nation to decide. We leave
also TO them TO decide whether the charge is altoge
lher consistent with itself, and how drvelle
could for "forty years have been able 10 'humbug
free and enlg hiened people We also leave it to them
10 declde, upon the dtcsncy Of press, which when il
hard for arguments, resorts to gross assertions
ann TO coarse abuse
But whence this new etfusion of bile-"S rendd
''" n cannot certainly be called: The Wing most
considerably published long and curious letter
ron Nt john Il Peasants, detailing one OF the most
extraordinary plots, that conceived by In.url.
a!ea paF''zans Ii was plot to kidaap the Chief Ma
S'sua'e OF the nation upon the ground that he had
peen elected by fraud in Nirginia-and we denounced
!" Jus, as every Republican did and all the honest and
candid Wings did the We pronounced it to be
"a'roc'ous plot and was it nots Is no; any scheme
oc.ous which puts N the power ofthree and twenty
,aeh IN k'chmond-or % in I.ynchburg, in Peters
ou'g-of Three and twenty in any part OF New York,
upon lhe ground Of alleged fraud in her eec,ion-or %
"a OHIO, on the ground Tor % any where else to
aoouct The President from the White House. and drag
MN among the most rebellious People in merca =
fass The standard Of revolt, aud issue "manifesio
10 Set aside the whole election, and demand new
" Is Il not atrocious plot, hch upon these
grounds and by these means, is calculated TO provoke
eva war, and deluge our country IN blood We
STATED our opinions Friday uhe day afer tht
publication of The Correspondence) frankly and freely
but We only echoed the public voice. Every coo