Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-04-28
Candidates for Conoress.

These Congressional elections alone would have been
sufficient TO produce great excitement in the Com.
wealth. for the several candidates have taken the
field, visited every county, and addressed the yoerf
almost every point, and stirred up the Old Domlaion
almost from her very foundations.
But besides these, the People have had TO e!ec;lgt
Delegates, and Senators, VIZ:
Senator's to be elected
Chesterfield Dis.ria-Co1, (Dem.) the candidate IN
reelection.
Bedford Distriet-Campbe, (whig) candidate for re.
election, and Keene (Democrat)
Caroline District-Wm. P. Taylor, (Dem) and Sut.
ton (Whg)
.4ibemarie District Richard Pollard (Dem and john
Thompson (Whig)
Fnuquicr District-Robert w. Wallace {Dem) and
Foster OVhig)
augusta Disricl--John II. Peyton, (Whig) ios re.
election.
Warren Distriet-sevcral Republican candidates, in
place of that staunch Republican, Col. Carson,
who declines q reelection
.Monongatia Disrict-Wm. J. Wiley, (Dem) FOR
election.
Isle Of WRIT District-In place of Mr.. Atkinson,
who has resigned to run for Congress- sles-Es.
Jordan and Ridley, (both Dem.) cand
dates
iotto,oay District-ln place Of Mr.. Bouldin gned
Alessrs. Dennis, (Dem) and Cardwell, ("hg)
are candidates.
The cauldron has thus been kept boiling over The
Stae-and have hitherto made no predic-
uOnS OI any triumphant suCctss-So, "Htu s't "a 10
is over, it would be idle to make any estimate The
result will, in very few days, supersede the pTophe
cy. II has been, at all events, rough and an az.
duous rencontre. The Wings have resortcd 10 every
expedient TO the election. They have avaI!'d
themselves of the disresses Of many Of the people,
to raise clamor against the rejection of Stay Lsw.
They have appealed TO the pocket nerve agai1s' the
Tax Law-and, not content with painting The Ia" ~
is, they have resortedt TO gross Misrepresentation oil
its PROVISIONS for the purpose of increasing the panc
and he Al n IN.
nexion oo they have denouncel the non reception OF
the Disributabe Fund, and tie length CT the SESSION
n sdI e e1s
These humbugs SO adroty gotten up, and pertEna-
cously employed, have been ung through every hame;
by the stump orators and the shameless presses Of tho
Whigs-and it is impossible for 10 calculate the
ELECT OF such denuncatIons upon the election
Whenever there has been time aud opportunity to
explain The subject to the people, the bill has
acted against the Whigs-hul there mnch fea>on
to apprehend, that in majority of counties, The poison
has been administered without the means OF applying
the antidote IL we. should be defeated in the |. s,-
laure, the people will awaken TO "the second SOBER
thought, after the hurricane viii have passed, and
the mischief may be effected. In the time,
fear the public credit will have suiieredour stocks
will have deprecated-and, Intelligent CORR.
pendent in Baltimore has written us, q" feel very
ous about your elections this SPRING that haze
any fear about Virginia in the long rum bu, tie stand
taken by her Legislature, in their lax bill, has pbt
the good Old Dominion on such high ground, that |
should be sorry TO the Clay party get into
temporary majority-whcb, from their on thIs
tax bill, there can be doubt, would again depress
your State stocks"
At all events, have idea Of carrying the
State by the same majority which we obtained N
the last Spring. We had eigh, majority in the Sc
nate-and 30 in the House. We shall not probably
lose any ground in the Senate-bnt we carried some
counties in the last Election for the House Of
Delegates, from a combination Of circumstance,
uhi 1u IA hmm
The probability is, that, though we shall lose
in the House, yet shall not losc much
as TO extinguish our majority of So and still
less deprive us Of the ascendancy-in the int vote
We shall at al events retain decided majority ~
the Senate. The contests in many of the Congr.s.
siona Districts is severe, and in Of them very
uncertain. The Elections may be pretty close IN mere
than half the Districts, viz: in the ls 3D. 4;h, 3h or
sth, 18th and l4th Dis,ric,s-allhough these Wa'g
slangwh hangers affected 10 raise such complaints o
the gerrymanderlng of the State. They now lay
ing claim, indeed, to all these DiSric,s--a singular
proof, orsoo,h, Of the sincerity Of their complaint
But .i0Ds Ierroas,
Should We trumphan,ly succeed in the State
should We retain majority in the House, and carry
decided majority of members of Congress, we anal
hail it as one of most auspcious Signs OF the lin's
The Republican party will have noby deserved tie
victory they may gain. They had great difficulties
to overcome. They had some popular prelGiicss.ll
subdue, and many Outrageous humbugs to encounter.
The Wings have made their onslaught without STINT,
and against principle. Upon their shoulders rested
the responsibility of guarding both the private and
public credit. They had TO meet the misrepEcsena-
lions cf the Wings in every variety OF forms They
had TO encounter the prejudice Of the tax payers, aug
mented as il was likely to be by the perverse ngsnay
of Wing partlzans, against the rejection OF Sliy
Law, against the passage Of a Tax Law, and arlaI
the non-ece ption OF the Disributabe Fund. Yet ey
have breasted all this tempest, and thrown themse''a
upon the judgment Of the people. They we're elected
against the favori'e humbug Of the Wings al The lay
electon-und whilst distribution was made the iS-l al
the polls, they met it, and they elected IN s2t
Of it. When they came here last Winter, and wien"
pressed upon them by their opponents, they "f''
faithful to their pledges, and preferred to REJECT
bride, and TO throw themselves upon the energies q"
their own Suite, for the Of sustaining her aon''
If any body of Legislators, therefore, ever acted
| lofty and manly part, It is the much siandered ".
abused Leg slature, which adjourned IN March ga"
1t is not one Of the least difficulties they haa 10 t
counter, that the election to succeed so 'aP'Y
TO the adjournment, that they have not had t'"'' "
discuss The new subjects, explain away al! msiep''
sensations, end overcome all objections
Under these disadvantages, the Republicans n'sf
gone into the battle; and i! they somsstil "n
i, is M more than they could have expected. we n'
also to encounter the various other humbugs oil .s
4 Wings, circulated they in such Pfo'"'
by reckless press and We had also to niee' y"
party 10 the metropolis never better organized, ~
more desperate in its purposes nor more aooo"",s Tia
eXpedients. We had, besides, TO cope win at ~
Wing chvalry from Richmond, which pou:ea ~.
into all the surrounding counties. But We 100 " a..
: had many gallant Champion in the field t n
many active Republicans in the coant'es-a"II -,
Richmond Spartan Band, which yields to NJ ''''
of men, in firmness. energy, and efficiency. :,i1
few days will decide the contest AS sc saw a..
months ago. the morning after the election MI
prepared for either fortune. elf victorious, "r
improve upon it. IF defeated, shall be The a.,
yield-among The first to rally We shall nain.am
n ndomitabe spir-maintain our State ii'gh'' P =,
! pes-fy again The illus,rious flag of 99-,H't' Wv
issue, which must now be made up-a"d 7if,S : ~.
' at Henry Clay, the Federal candidate, and ~ -