Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-02-24

"a mi 10 be relied or when lie undcrakes 10
-,vn tTom memory alone, The syllabus OF long afSu
nent six months more remote IN date .
AS to the harangue OIL The BANKS OF 'diieS III
s 10, ridiculous for commentary. The young gen'le-
men educated at William and Mary College WIZ re-
snond 10 this charge in all parts OF Virginia. o@e 'ne
statements Of aless.s. CrunP, Jones, W. reachy anu
Speed ,,...,o ,,;,,,s
There vet remains the conversation SIN some private
conv,va, =" between York and Williamsburg. las
~ Grr;son FORGOTTEN that this "some private convey
ance" was a carriage sent by Col NlcCandsh To osK
for nv USE and that, understanding That MI harrison
was there without conveyance, aud ANXIOUS 10 90 "
WILLIAMSBURG sought him out and invited MN 10 take
seat with me? This IS the tact as ne wen hhoMs'
III rms f,uphaiicaiiy my guest No such conrersatton
Nc h, mentions ,cas held during tia ride; but what
eyer the conversation was, what are we 10 thnk OF
tho use which, unasked and without any fair pre-
tenre he volunteered to make it, Mr. Bolts, IN his rsl
card in the nelligencer, says that g." II can be esla-
blished by even plausible evidence tha' 'ian -
retailer Of private conversations, he is ready to lad
mi, tha il is lust cause for his accommodation from
Tho society of gentlemen. MIR. Harrison IS the witness
anainst himself, and upon his own evidence hand
him over to Mr. Bolts for Judgment
The next witness is Mr.. Carter M. Braxton. lie
onss into this business, unlimited, ard he could not
ro,sonaby complain if he should receive intruder
treatment. However, | prefer TO submit any question
If this Sort in which he and | are concerned, to the
gentlemen of Lower Virginia, where we are both very
we'll known Ills testimony is quite too indefinite, as
n time Mace and circumstances to rls 10 the dignity
&c evdence and indeed it seems to have been thrown
IN only as make weight As he charges me with hav-
mn nrocIained in the streets OF popuous town,
doctrne and opinions startling to all who heard them
am surprised that other witnesses besides himself have
no, been found to say what they were Let his state
ment 90 for what il is worth
rber.naininp witness is Mr.. Edward w. Johnston.
cannot repress my astonishmen, at the statement he
has pyen No man living has less right than himself
TO speak of my political opinions Wlthhtm, al ieasl'
have had no intercourse nor correspondence from
which he could derive the least Information upon ,he
subject As to his statement that was not selected as
writer for the Southern Review, because 1t was "ru-
mored among my close friends in South Carolina that
went beyond Notification, and had determined to de-
vote my future lite 10 the cause Of dlsunlon, he seems
10 have been the only person WHO ever heard such
rumor 1t could not, imagine, have been generally
credited, since was actually selected not merely as
writer but as tie sole Editor o. that very Review
Those who feel any curiosity upol the subject may see
the prospectus, with my name to Il by applying 10 any
one connected with the late firm OF WIN. w. Moore
and COMPANY of this city. In regard 10 my "ciose
friends" and my connection with the Nufers OF
South Carolina and all that he ha. built upon that sup
position, it is without the shadow oil iouniatIon-
Some Of those Nullfers leaders and prominent actors
in the scene, here, in The wo Houses OF Con-
press and they all concur in affirming that Mr. John
s,on has been quite too asty, ITO sly nothing worse oil
III in all that he has stated touching my supposed con-
exion with them. had no ''ccse friends among
them and never had the least communication with any
of them, As it is this part of Mr. Bolts puolica-
ton which gives it all its real importance, shall leave
Mr. Johnston TO be disposed Of by the honorable men
whom he has assaed in order to reach me- partl-
cularly invite attention TO the correspondence Appcn-
dix r. \ between myself and Messrs. Calhoun, Pres
ton w. Thompson, now Minister to Mexico, khett,
Caldwell w. Butler, S. Fl. Butler, Pickens, Holmes,
and Sumter and to the letter Of the Hon. X. NJ Sann-
4 |
Johnston has found il necessary 10 explain his own tes-
timony. In the independent Of Tue lo'h ui''''' ne
e never said iha, he always knew Mr. upshnr to be open
and .boyeboard advocacy Of dissolution OF the Union
lie believed him favor o dissnuton but that belief was
stated in The addressed 10 Mr. Bolts TO he matter Of OPT
Mon and inference facts which are there detailed"
Indeed Then my political principles are TO be deter
mined by the "opinions and inferences Of Mr. Ed w.
Johnston And the beauty Of the thing is, that the
acs upon which these "oplnlons and differences are
founded turn out to be no facts at all
| am next assaed upon what are supposed TO be the
corrupt and disorganzng doctrines of certain essays,
under the title of "Revoluon in Disguise. As Mr..
Edmund RufTn, of Petersburg, has publicly claimed
the authorship of those essays leave TO him The task
Of defending them This sis proof, among many OF
the rashness Of Mr. Bolts in making grave charges
TOO slight inquiry into The truth OF The supposed
facts on winch he resis them.
Such are the proofs in this case. was called OH W
answer The charge Of having avowed disuhon seht'-
me ns in conversation with Mr.. Bolts al particular
time and the only witness who pretends to prove u 10
NV nersonal enemy with embtteed prejudces against
me and nv opinions and who acknowledges lhat he
did not hear onehalf that passed This ground no.
adhered to- and other witnesses assail me upon all 'e
passages Of my past life. Every unweighed express
son every hasly and unguarded word caught up az
DOM and without the context WHICH would explain IL
has been hunted up and how much has 1t shown !
have been condemned upon the writings OF another man,
while my own, acknowledged and known to be NINE,
and in which my opinions have been Pnoilshed over
and over again have been left unnoticed cannot out
rerard il us wonderful, that considering the peculiar
nature of nv principles which exposes them TO ms
construction considering the freedom with when tiey
have been always expressed-nay, the hot zeal WIN
which charged with having obtruded them, out oil
sea- On upon unwilling hearers, they have yet been SO
distinctly laid down all occasions that, among the
thousands who have heard them fully explained, Mr.
Harrison alone has been able TO misunderstood them
In a life of fifty-two years, half of which has been
connected with politics. il is at this day considered ne
cessary to 90 back to halfrememhered conversations
of ak years ago. in order to ascertain what my pl,ne'
ples are | invite scrutiny into them but let thei
he .aken from what have deliberately written and pup
sbed and not from mere shreds and patches OF casua
Conversations extended through my whole iiie acata
iby the preludiced or misunderstood by the ignorant
and remembered without any OF the circumstances
which attended, or the qualifications which eaPiaheo
them.
mons, TO those who do. ! annex the statements o.
gentlemen Of high character not connected win me
OF all political parties, and living in different paris
Of the entire country in which my opinions nave osei
most strongly and habitualy expressed for The las
twenty years u
| They all concur in giving the most "unqnal'iieo
and unconditional rebuke to the charge winch ma
been made against me, and they show concus Nv
what my opinions really are and ever have been. lhel
are from whose standing cannot be dspueo' ant
who speak what they know From Accomac are re the
Hon. ii. A. WISE the lion Judge T. H. Bayy Iully
R. Wise, Esq, magistrate and most respected c'zer
of that county. From Norfolk, WIN. w. Sharp, Esq
an emnen lawyer, anu President ofhe Exchange Bank
and f. c. Robinson, Esq From Hampton, the e, Hon
F. Mallory, and George Booker, ESQ., From Williams
burg, Judge B. Tucker, DR.. T. G. Peachy, VIM
Peachy, John Jones, and J. NJ. Speed, Esqs From
Richmond, Joseph Mayo, fl. l.. Brooke, R. G. Scot,
w. ID. Wren, w. B. Archer, VIM. W. Crump. and J
NJ. Gregory, Esq, now Acting Governor of Virginia
And to these nigh, add, it necessary. every man o
intelligence who has had fair opportunity TO form ~
opinion, in any and all parts OF The world (ApPendi'
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