Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-03-31
FOR THE ENQUIRER.

FOR THE ENQUIRER.
In TIE Richmond Wing of the 10Th instant, there
appeared the following paragraph:
The Petersburg Inielligencer tells pleasant tale
" abou! hopeful scheme of certain Accomac poti-
" cans, based upon the expected confirmation Of Mr.
Wise rs Minister 10 France II appears, that Judge
Bayly was 10 he the candidate for Congress, and
" Gr. Scart0rough-or some such gentleman, who
. had been John Q. Adams man and Wing ever
saee had lus' abandoned the Wing party and given
" m his adhesion to the Locos-was to take the
Jadse slippers. The whole matter was upon fair
100, and The parties, It IS said, were in attendance
ut The lake Loco Foco Convention TO consutnmate the
scheme, when the of the rejection Of
" Use and the defeat of all their hopes.
- tia, the Eastern District, i'll being again sad.
dtd with Wise even, may still say, it is an i'll wind
" hat blows them good
more ineXcusabe libel il has seldom been our fate
see even IN that most llbelous Of prints, the Rich
Aond Wing The writer of this communication has
"no"n Nj Scarborough intimately, since he was a boy
a. grammar school, twenty years ago, and he knows
@ 20 nave been from the earliest formation Of his pc.
"'ca opinions 10 this time, decided State Rights
man II Is true, being no politician, he was imposed
4poa ~ assurances, by none gwen with more pertna-
eyt than the Editors of the Wing, that General Har
's9n would conduct the Government upon State
i.2ls principles, and voted III 1910 with the Wings.
I' 'Ne policy was no sooner developed at the extra
,ss'ch' than he renounced his connexion with them
Iaceeo, even before that, his msnivinrs were such,
t ~ refused 10 vote against the Democratic candi
sles IN lie Spring OF 1871. Last Spring il is known,
'' ~ would have voted for them, if he had been in
e c""htF at the time In addition TO all this, it is
-S' "ho"i that Mr. S. expressed his willingness TO
'"s'd' as delegate, the Democratic Convention,
3''t Judge Bayly had consented, under any circum-
S"",S, 10 become candidate for Congress; and, at
-' Judge b Welded only so far TO the earnest soil
eaons Of the Democrats of the Eartern Shore as to
eht 10 do SO, # 1t was ascertaned, TO be the decided
'h OF the entire party of the district. In that event.
7 would have sacrificed his wishes to theirs. Now,
~" .. De believed that the most venal OF men would
'e aolndoned his party to take advantage OF such
''"thgency as this: or, that any man, removed one
.'-e from an IDIOT, could have supposed that the
-'Hee OF one party, lost by his precptate abandon
'' 81 1t, on the eve Of an election would be COM
tAsaed by any favor suddenly shown from the other:
"4i,y, Il Judge Bayy be the odious man represented
- we wing, Mr.. S. must have foreseen that the con
,,.-hCy never could happen in which his Judgeship
"0aid be Voluntarily vacated.
"'h'nsh MIR. Scarborough is a gentleman of the
'st character, yet, if he had been politician, he
gu nave expected such attacks as this. But, from
~ manhood, he has been devoted exclusively TO his
s''pn ii - believed, that The late Democratic Con.
'"uon Is The first political body of which he has been
F'loer-'n It he slent-and TO it he went, as
s"of recreation from the abors Of a most extensive
c"ce And this unobtrusive gentleman is dragged
~ the public, from the privacy of his choice, by
s' richmond Wing, and, upon the most groundess
~fCon, IS attempted TO be held up TO scorn Can
ming excuse such conduct as this 4, IL it is 10 be
.a'ee, The press instead Of lis being a shield Of
.'N, VIII become lis deadliest scourge
""u what can Justify the manner in which this gen.
-''' IS referred 10 by the Whig' HE'S spoken Of