The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-10-13
TILE PLOT

A short time since the Richmond Wing
published a letter from j. H. Peasants,
in answer 10 an anonymous inquiry wheth.
CT /, was no, contemplated BY Mr.. Pleas.
ants and others 10 abduct Mr.. Van Buren,
had nc been elected in place of Gen. Har.
rson in 1910. This caused good deal o
speculation among the corps Editorial. anc
a. was TO be expected tie poor Wings re.
ccyci more than their portion Of Loco
Foco ire FOR tbis horrid affair. But the
following letter from Mr.. Peasants now
sets the whole affair right--it appears 10
be scheme between himself and some
friends to play an innocent trick upon the
public. How the poor Locos have been
gulled.
Totks Edit@ Of the Richmond Wig
DgAR Sm.-Thnking the play has been play.
Cd out, re enter TO drop the curtain and speak
the Epogue.
Relieve Mr. RHchie's horror by the assurance
that there was no steamboat, no conspirators, and
no plot.
Tho whole story was a fiction, concerted here
boiween your friend, Major B''-'s', ard myself,
and the object simply 10 aInuse ourselves tor
day or so with the spcculations of the press
Tho letter Of A. b, 10 which mine was IN reply,
is IN his hand writing, and was sent TO Richmond
to be mailed 10 me, and where 1t was mailed ac-
eordingly
signed the story, merely TO give it greater
air OF probability, FOR which suppose II is excuse
enough that there was no injury intended against
any human being, nor could it produce any
By Hurace's rule, fiction Is ever allowable, wien
!, stops short OF this point,
Il was intended o discover the truth in day
or two al first but tho uproar became so great,
and The farce, 70 those in the secret full Of On
ioymeut, that il was determined To LET it proceed
for some time In particular, Mr., Rtchles
mounting his stced twice week, TO give battle te
the phantom, with vizor closed and lance in rest
was SO like Don Quixote's encounter with the
wind mills, that could not refuse myself the a
rnuscmeni of the spectacle His llborlous efforts
to nuke party capital ont Of the AuocIoni
plot and above all TO screen himself by IL
means from the ridiculc Of the Mesmerian lmpos
ture, az ell II upon your authority, knowing
nothing Of ii myself wcro entertaining IN
4 high degree.
/ And | canno, but add Mr., Editor, tina.
thought you displayed a good deal of nlacriiy II
4 getting out Of what Won thou ght the bad Scrap'
OF the plot by your repeated and valiant chatge
upon the mcsmrrian humbug. You thought
a God,send TO divide attention with the plot
while Mr.. Richie rolled the plot as sweet NOR
sci under his tongue, rare piece OF luck soT help
ing him out o. the mesmerlan mfe.
As TO injury to the Wing cause, besides mat
have bctlur opinion OF that cause than to helleV
il liable to injury from any one mans opinion
or cxtravagancc, had the means OF rcpairtn
any it might sustain at any moment by diselos
ing tho truth. was sorry that you had lost CIV
en- ono subscriber but knew that loss would b
temporary,
! hone YOU will pardon me for mistifyng yo
and yonr readers, as do YOU and them, for thIhk
inc L ,ruo that | could have been in earnest i
devisng plan to kiduap the Chief Magistrate
an expedient so inoifGctull for redreSsing tn
grievance imagined and SO certain to plunge u
country into civil war.
Ono view mad besides that Of days ainnse
mont twas 20 call the attention OF tho legs
lative power to the exromc effectiveness OF IN
election laws; a purpose winch the agitauo
caused by tho Plot" defeated do not IN ID
least doubt, iha, some day or Other, serious cor
sequences w,l onsue from that cause | do nc
believe that it tho Chief Magistrate should 30 II
trudcd into tho Presidency by fraud, commotion
would follow Lot me ask tho Editor OF the In
quirer if two years hence, Mr. Clay wanted ha
is electoral votes to elect him, and hentucN
should give him hers, the people having vo'e
against him, what is the remedy Would no
) Congress be compelled TO csunt the votes ia
it any discretion TO refuse Understand no
Nor has the State Executive, or Judiciary
Legislature, any power to SET aside INC return
~ tbo commissioners Of elections. Is this so G
not -,
, This Mr.. Editor, is the truth about tho plo
tho whole truth. and nothing bat the TRUTH