Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-05-16

VINO were from My 10 Two Hunureu miles
great complaint TO be with the Wings that It did
not rain in every county in the District we heard
gentleman say, that t had right 10 rain IN Mndl.
son or Greene unless it rained in Nelson and Bedford
too" We will not discuss this question.
What are The facts? That it raned in the counties
Lof Rappahannock, Madison and Greene, on the frst
day of the election as, in the opinion OF officers oil
the law acting under oalh to justify their determination
to keep the polls open This determination was made
without concert by honorable men, at the time,
al four or five different places Distant ten, fifteen
and thirty miles apart. The law and the facts were
before ihem-and they are condemned by persons who
were not the spot, and who could not by possibility
know anything about the causes which alone ought TO
effect the decision. How can man IN Bedford, IN
Richmond or in Charlottesville, decide whether ''ma
nv" voters in the counties of Rappnhannock Madison
or reenp some precinct in either, were or were
mol kept from the polls by the state of the weather.
Those who wish to judge correctly. whose object IS
not 10 do wanton injustice by ndulgng mere Prejudice
will wait until they can see the facts
What does the course of the Wings manifest: u"
they pretend that any Wing voter was kept from the
polls any where in the DISTRICT except in Madison ana
Greene, by the state of the weather. Do they deny
tha, both Wing and Democratic voters were Kept from
The polls in these counties by the rain? Do they deny
that the voters who polled for both Messrs Gmer
and Goeain the last two days were Legally autho
lived 10 vote and that MIR. Gilmer now has majority
of the votes actually cast in the election They seek
then obviously to obtain the seat IN opposition 10 the
EXPRESSED will Of majority of the district
Charlottesville Jtfersonian.
.syo where else but in MAoI.oS, where Gov Gmer in
,,n throughout Virginia that have heard there any
notion attempt keep open the po ana lar was any
The above is from The Richmond Wing, and is lis
assertion true? No. The polls were also kept open IN
the counties of 2. William, Rappahannock, Richie and
Greene. ,
But Governor Gilmer was there in person. And
will the Wing deny his right TO be there 1t can not
4 ,uin Mr. q rIn a
BEDFORD where he obtained majority Of $50; and
doubtless his being in Bedford Gin person, had the
effect of nnmatng his political friends 10 exerton IN
his BEHALF and no of the Democratic party has
insinuated anything criminal against MIR Goggin, for
being person the day of election, in that county
where the largest number of his political friends re
sided.
AS an answer 10 The nsinuation contained in the
above extract from the Whg refer our readers TO
the correspondence in this days paper, between CO.
vernon Gilmer and Mr.. Magruder, the editor Of the
Advocate.
The Wing asserts, that out of 1900 precincts in the
State of Virginia. only two (Robinson's in Madison
and one in Rappahannock) were kept OPEN The
Whir is wrong again. The polls were kept open at
other precincts in Madison besides Robinson; they
also open at Dumfries precinct in Prince William,
when al all the other precincts in that county they
were closed; at Harrsvle precinct, Richie county,
the polls were kept open. (And at Sperryville, in
Rappahannock where the Wings behindhand, on
the evening of the first day, and the poll kept open
by Wing Commissioners Enquirtr) tits not unlaw-
full or unusual TO keep the polls open at precinct in
county, and close them at the others If The officer
conducting the election al Robinson precinct alone had
decided keeping the polls open and The officers al
the other precincts closed thers, (Which was not the
fact) the aw would sustain the Sheriff, and the votes
polIed on the second and third days could no: be
stricken from the poll Charlottesville Je6ersonian.
Charlottesville, May 10, 1s43.
To the Editor Of the Jefersonan
| | will thank you 10 publish The accompanying cor
respondence between Mr.. Magruder and myself