Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-09-23

against all the ooasted learning oil The college OF
Physicians. She would respond promptly and
more correctly thnn any of these fifteen sgners,
upon both sensation and the chronological Phenomena
81 will take the (mesmerzee's) word, for thousand
pound Didst perceye3" f;hpy have not, have.
NO NJ. d.
THE ABDUCTION rLoT-agsn!
The cool and rejecting portion OF The Wings CON
denim Indignantly the revolutionary scheme OF John
ii Peasants and others, TO abduc Mr. Van Buren, IN
of his election, snd exhibit no little uneasiness
lest their whole party lie held up partireps erimnis
IN the plot OF this class, appears the Editor OF the
Norfoik Herald who, in his paper OF Monday last says
"The Richmond Enquirer insists that the letter of John H.
Peasants that Mr. Peasants himself has not
Whig in which published directly pronounced il
hoax but merely by neudo led its leaders 10 mfr that 1t was
cerainy did justify the Enquirer in using against
the Wing party We should certainly have taxed the party
which the Enquirer belongs similar circumstances reversed
II be that Mr. Peasants temperament may have
hurried the conception Of widest flights Of
insanity; The proof his plan known
than two three gentlemen of his acquaintance TO whom
he says he impaired the idea abdcon And yet the En-
guer would make the whole Wing party partes erimnis with
Mr. T. in tbs most esrasaeant and Outrageous c1heep"
stated in his letter, did seriously enter the brain OF Mr. Plea
apparent folly publishing this late day; aud it
should not be attempted to make 1t reflect upon Others or ha
therefore, Enquirer Justly if the letter
published hoax and deserves 10 be laughed at besdes IL
| We feel bound to credit the assertion of the Herald
that he "wond not have taxed The party to which the
Enquirer belongs in similar circumstances, reversed
But can one believe that his party, generally, would
have pursued like course, 'in similar circumstances
reversed - Would not The Wing press of Virginia
have seized upon such astounding disclosure from
side Of the house, and made the welkn ring with
anathemas, against not only the authors OF the plot,
but the whole party Of which they were me mbcrs
gans and leaders? Though convinced that this would
have been the fate Of the Democratic party, 'n smi
! lar circumstances, reversed, we have not meed out
the same fate to our opponents. We have not mace
4. Will
in this most exirav.san and outrageous conception
and f the Editor of the Herald had not overlooked
paragraph III paper Tar back as the 18th instant
| he would have spared us repetition OF the charge
made by ustifer OF the plot III tins CITY we repeat
what we then said
s.The Wing also attacks US for having made the
whole Wing party responsible for the 'atrocious plot
Had he read our article with ordinary aten-
ton, he would have plainly discovered that we allu
ded in indignant terms 10 the furious leaders oil
tina, party We have stated expressly, that the cooler
men of the party had avowed their indignation against
it, 1t is next to impossible to get justice from that
kidnapping paper.
The day after the appearance of Mr.. Ps letter in
the Wing we stated that the cooler and better Wing
spirits of this city already denounced the whole con-
| ception as a revolutionary movement; spoke OF
J. G. Adams, J. IL. Peasants, John Minor Bolts,
Alexander Moseley, and such reckless nadcaps but
uniformly borne evidence, that "all the honest
and candid Wings denounce the plot. But, what
are we 10 think of persons, who while they denounce
the plot, choose for their leaders those who sanction
lit: The Richmond Wing has not denounced the
plot-has not attempted to exoneraie his party from
all blame in the mater-hos not, like the Herald,
expressed an unwngness that his party should take
the responsibility of the Plot; for, although he once
made the effort, he afterwards dashed IT, by fully
sancloning and ustifyng the Plot as will appear by
I the following article from the wing oil the lUln INST:
Hear the Il. Uhiy himself!
"lndeed (the Editor of the Enquirer) may make all
he can out of the Plot itself His Tory instincts may
shudder the idea Of refusing submission to Presi'
dent forced on the country by a minority, through
fraud He may preach up on-resistance and passive
obedience, and he may "1hrc,r on a hue more Of The
| Fuid'-but he will never bring the people OF this
country agree with him, that they have no right to
resist usurpaon and overthrow ty.nnts II IS OF the
very of their Incples-the motto OF this go
rions old Commonwealth procaims t-that il is not
merely the privilege but the duty of every freeman TO
resist tyranny:-and when the occasion arises, when
usurper thrust upon US either by force or frand the
Republicans Of the land will not stop at abduction, nor
be very scrnpuous about The they resort TO- TO
yindcate their Liberties. They have the right, OF which
they be Invested, to resist usurpation whether
of fraud force and they will exert it, whenever the
emergency calls for it, in spite of Locofoism, Mes
merism or any other ism, which Torysm may assume,
as cloak to lis undying enmty to freedom
"These doctrines may be new, and startling, and as.
tonishlng TO Old Mesmer-eiiher in his sleeping or
waking Woodland he may make the most OF them
but they the doctrines of all true Republicans, who
love liberty and detest slavery.
Yes, these doctrines, sanctioning the scheme oil j.
H. Peasants, are "new und startling" to us-and we
shall take the Wing at his word, ind make the most OF
them. We have already commented upon them freely,
10 let the people to what outrageous lengths some
of the chosen leaders Of the Wings would carry their
mad sci smes Of dsorga for this purpose,
we shall continue 10 comment upon them not TO tax
The tchote Wing party os the Herald remarks II the
Wings choose such madcaps for their leaders-if they
select such pilots guide their political barque, in full
view of these warnings they must expect TO share the
| blame il they become shipwrecked.
The Richmond Wing shall not escape Us. tie has
already doubled as often as the Fox, and played as
many tricks as the "Artlnl Dodger" He has preva-
rcated and tried to pass off the plot hoax Then,
he tried 10 make il ont second hoax, like the mes.
merc humbug Under the Of the smoke, he at.
tempis to raise out of mesmerism-he attempts 10
cape from the scrutiny of the public--Then he seeks
10 defend the principle Of the pot-and them again. he
hacks from the defence, md tries once more ndi
recty, TO pass it off for hoax. But nothing can avail
him in his desperate condition We despise his mes.
meric trick and will 10 notice it, We brand him
again upon his forehead that he has prevarcated, that
he knows the Correspondence is genune-the plot q
serious pot-and challenge him to deny il. "Throw
on little more Of the fluid II is in vain. He stands
unmasked before The people, shufiler and hum
bugger.
"Throw on more Fluid"-W shall make another
appeal in next the and the consequences
of the doctrine of the kidnapping Plot. The People
ought not, and will not he satisfied without further
investigation.
The Wing is polite enough TO lnsinuae, that we
are daft and is also kind enough to throw out q
report (Which at the time he processes to dis
bel,eve) that interested with Mr.. French
in ohis exhibitions Such Jesuitlcal course Is
worthy Of the Wing, and is unworthy of any answer
As TO the insanity, we have much confidence IN our
con victions, that would stake Emmas uneducnted
head against the head of that Wing Editor No great