Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-04-21
no D.2jID ". F.7T7'ESON, ESQ.


IO D.2pID ". P37TESON, Esq.
SiR-When We adverted TO your change Of po-
liical position as regards the two great parties
which now divide the country, in connection with !
your being candidate to represent the county of
Augusta in the Legislature of Virginia. we had
no thought Of doing any thing which might
Justly offend you. In your address to the people,
published in the same paper which contained our
remarks, you distinctly announced your purpose,
in coming before them, to be ''io oindcaie Iyour1
pohticai orincipIes." In doing so, too, you said
you were aware that you were constructing for
yourself "no bed IF roses" These, your "princi-
Pies, you avowed TO be, not Wing, as they were
formerly known, but "Dcmocraiic Republican,"
the name Of the party with which you have re-
Gently united yourself-and, moreover, you ex-
pressed The belief that so large majority of lie
people IF this county ,oere aad are Democratic Re.
pubHcans.'
Having thus mounted your war-horse, and rode
into the arena, the boosted champion of your prin-
ciPes, proclaiming victory in advance, could you
have expected, sir, that zoe would do less than
stand by our tug? Judge, then, of our surprise,
to lind You taking exception to our respectful an
hedi feidtions, and that you could not fairly rem
resent the great Wing county of Augusta! True.
sir you claimed majority of the people to be
with you-but this, unless we should forego the
evidence of our senses, we were compelIed IN re-
gard as uttered rather in the vauntng spirit of the
crusader who was measuring the fields he inten-
ae' 10 "ih' 'han OF one who was reposing in the
ihgiorious ease of presen; possession And anv
other idea, indeed, would be derogatory to ,b,.
lofty and chivalrous bearing assumed bv Won in
your address. 1t was evident, sir, YOU were con-
templatlng no holiday tournament-no harmless
OF ingiorlous conflict-and your whole mind
seemed strung to deeds of high emprisc and no.
Bile darlne;-and certainly TO one l,oln.wsa any
thing OF the long-chershed Wing prirciples of
August" could anticipate for you an easy cictoyv
whence then, this change? How is it, sir.
that You Seem TO be 50 sadly gravelled at the first
snow oil opposition! And why isii, after having
ooidiy thrown down the gauntlet on zrineipL.
you shit the issue to grounds peysonoi 10 yonrseF
ana ask Tor sympathy where before you had de- |
hed the sword! Could you have expected rs TO
De SO false TO orr principles not TO oppose YOU
or 50 distrustful off our sincerity as not to ipe
- 'N''"' pr UcSofoHS' IL HeltneT-
'hen surely you can have no just cause of com.
P'aint against US. We profess to be Uhip-and
On" profess 10 be "Democratic Republican ;''-aud
therefore there can beno political affinity between
us-ior, as DR.. Sangrado asked, "what are prin.
c'ples worth, if we don't stick to them l''
GU VIII remember, sir, that in supper; Of what
we said IN regard to your remuneration Of Wbia-
gerry &C. we referred TO your acts and resolutions
at Tie Democratic meeting in December. at which
you formally gave in your adherence TO tina, marty
on are pleased TO say nothing Ct Them. bnwey.
e'' I" your reply but boldly change Us with mis-
representing you, and will, having become .,be
voluntary endorser and prosecutor of the CHARGE
which mainly induced you 10 become candidate
NOW what is that charge! In our own Ian
5uage 1t is that Mr.. Patteson .has reropnced bic
" higgery' and recently professed the so-calIed
iaIIh." This, sir, you deny, and
challenge us to the proof! The former. (nam.lv
w h'ggfry0 you say you NEVER pRorrssrp."
w nat' 'hfn, we would ask you, are we TO make
u your CONDUCT Tor years. Did you not con-
tantly act with the Whigs-parlicpate in their
ippecanoe Clubs, and meetings pcnerallv-ofi. c
late as Marshal Of their professions, I'VE will c
ot say carry the cider buckct)-and do divers i
'nef acts aud things which caused every body to
eHeoe you were a Wig? Nay more sir, the
Fhoie country knows you to have been such 50 n
ar as yo"r 0cfs and prqiessions could make YOU Y
nc.-I'hcn wherefore deny it1--But aoain.-as d
your having recently professcd the so-called
faith" Do you pretend to intimate
lat you did not formally uniie yourself ,oiM Me :,
e0l0craf'e party Of this county, at public meet =
e held at the Courthouse in December last7--l
SO, then indeed we imagine your new friends I,
III be as much at loss to comprehend you, as
c your former party associates when Won saw
~ "nevcr professed' to be Whip. The she. ;,
a. pleading Dir, TO which you resort, snd YOUR o