Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-05-19
70 yYE EDITORS or THE yeUJaEa


scrher 10 your peper takes, ot correcting one or Two
into which you have fallen, respecting the Tyler
politicians aud politics Of This place.
In article OF yours, short " he since, in Which
you commented severely but Justly on the undue m
reference Of oficehodcrs, political matters, you
charged the "Prnnsylvanian with having made state
ments concerning certain individuals connected with
the Tyler meeting held OF the district court room IN
this city, which should have been credited TO the Ph
ladelphia Gazette =
First, II said that the Collector OF the Port was
present-this not so--for, | believe MIR. Blythe
seldom, attends political neetnss-bu SIR had
you ea'd that The late rJeeted Collector, Thomas )
Smith, there, you would have been correct-and
Seeoadiy, You erred in applying 'he term "ofilce
holder" 10 Wm. Strickland, Esq, when you Should
have said objcehunftr, he Is applying for the Jon oil
putting up Tie public buildings al Washington, which
IN contemplation for the Of the Naval aud Wal
Departments
Having thus set you right two unmpor-
iant mistakes, IN respect worth the time taken 10
correct them, ii not for the attemp, made by The
Madisonian, from behind those errors, TO deny the
partlcp patton OF oiceholders in the meeting referred
shall proce 10 give you, for the sake of your
readers, and the cause of ru, and Democracy in the
odd Domnon,' true statement Of MI Tyl7r s
prospects in Pennsylvania.
About the period Of and for long time after, when
the vein messages Of the President the Bank bill,
of the Extra Session Of Congress, sent forth To
The country, The Democracy o this State ready
To rally around and sustain htm, WHO t!u- n"biy
burst he bands If party with which he seemed f,
tered, by sirndiast adherence To, and exercs
of the constitutional principles of his original fan
Had he quickly followed up these great n.asures by
others Of corresponding character, h. would have
done well bu; he ial,ered too long, and has,
quence thereof, fear, lost every chance Of
ton by the National Convention for reelection the
station he fills
Unfortunately for the President, his advisers, both
here and al Washington, were men in whom the Re-
pubcans could place coniceDce and every attempt
which was then mnde 10 bring .mbl bodies Of opposite
parties together in support of the Administration, only
led collision, confusion and, eventually dlsuniu
The managcm.n nj Of public affairs, ion this quarter
centred who has been his whole llir time
a misunderstanding neither power nor Influence oil
any kind with his original party, and vino is hated
despised by all parties for his ,reacrrv those
who have been The frs, To him The Prs side Il,
canno! be ignorant of this, because, after lapse o
over eighteen months active operations hy him and
his little knot of parasites who attached him fro
motives Of personal interest, the Administration parts
which embraced time nearly every Dpmocra al
in The City and County Of Phrludeph,u, at leas,
feelings, independent Of between three and four
hundred actire men, who formed valuable nucleus for
operations has dwlndl d down TO the incumbents
of the custom house, and there the profess
sions of those OF attachment 10 the Preside nj are
hollow aud iasncere. Notwithstanding i:ls state Of
things, Nj T;er has still many warm friends isse,
who would be ready uud willing TO serve him il the
management of his interests placed in proper
hands.
You were right Sir, in asserting, tina, the meeting
referred 10 in your columns only gathering oil
0E;ceko'derS-th,s know from personal knewle drc
and observation Of all who there-and les, there
should be any of your readers unwilling 10 be-
eve this assertion, shall name few OF those pre-
sent, in order TO prevent any farther cav on the mat.
ter Here they
L. JOEL B. SUTHERLAND, Naval Officer.
9 FRANCIS J. GRUSD, Weigher
g. ROBERT ESoLlsu, Inspector.
d. THoAAs GRAHAM Deputy Weigher.
s. SANDY HARRIS, Inspector.
g. BARTHOLOMEW GRAVES, Inspector
T. DAAIEL NJ. KEN, Inspector.
6 TmomAs b RussuM, Inspector.
g. ANDREW REDHErFER, Inspector
10 SAMUEL Tyson, Inspector.
H. GEORGE WEvEL, Inspector
IL Mr. WATT, District Attorney.
And nearly all the PoreIs and Watchmen of that
Department, independent of many others holding Of
fee under the Government.
II is u INFECTIOUS fact, known to nearly eYerv man in
the community, that all these officers are constantly
in fear Of removal and, antIdote TO ces
arising from The cause of this perpetual dread Of the
guillotine, they have TO contribute what ENGLAND
called biack mail, in the shape of FIVE, ten and some
times as much as twenty FIVE dollars per month. 10
pay the travelling md other expenses of a certain
individual 10 Washington, and back again, under the
preience of attending TO their interests On ore OF
these occasions, only necessary for this sharper
to head list, wth his own pretended subscription OF
twenty five dollars in order 10 raise, for some purpose
or other, upwards of three hundred dollars on an
other one hundred and thirty, besides the present OF
patent lever gold watch, 10 purchase which, few OF
his instruments, in the same Department. contrived 10
squeeze funds enough from his victims
Yet, Sir such is the source from whence an express
sion of the sense of pnblIc opinion, in favor of Mr.
Tyers Administration, is usually extracted for foreign
we intended make charge against the
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