Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-11-05
JEFFERsONIAN DEMOCRAT.
To Tie Editors Of Tic Enquirer.

Having witnessed for The last ten days much
very much. to admire and delight, in the various
| Democratic Republican assemblies, which have
| followed 50 closely one upon another, filled, as
they were with the warmesi zeal, faith and iervol
! in ther countrys cause, OF honor and renown: and
| also, something 10 deprecaie and deplore in the
late Wing Convention. held a; York Town, when
! a Nations Sabbath AMI Nations field OF fame
were desecraied by the most uDw-ise and unholy
T partv purposes. First-on the 1h October there
was hickory raising Of one entire tree four al
its branches ninety feet in The clear on an Amerl-
! can rel!ouht two miles from Gloucesertown, i'm
! mciia,ely on the road 10 Gloucester Courthouse.
| and at the store OF Col. HAYES. Here were con-
vened some three hundred or more persons Of all
sexes and agcs-and, il is said, there were not
twenty Wings presen-who were all well enter
tained by your lar-iamed Scott, Of your Spartan
Band renown, BY Garrett, Nelson, and VIII
liam B. Talafero, combined with The best OF
this clmc's good things. Next came the gil
gan,c effort of Whiger;, or Coonery, b. the
mighty fiat of the Clay Central Committee
al Richmond, assembling at York Town, on
Re eighteenth and nineteenth OF October, 10 convert
| all of Bavlv's district 10 Coors or Clay. by the
nunda,ion Of vast Wing gathering, from not
onlv this 1th Congressional District hut from the
entire Union. And what vasl abClnon his
great e:lor, was, AFTER weeks 81. drumming ana
cGasino. Wise's once no~ Bdrlys District, OF
| 10000 nhab did nor furnish 400 Ccons, all
told. big and ille old and Young; and the entire
Union could convene 500, although, according 10
Wing arithmetic the assembly is yariou>ly esi-
mated AT from 1000 To 5000: and they would iain
have you believe all those were good and true
Whgs-vet no reasonable, rejecting and cool
consideraie man would compute the ra!!eS higher
than 500 and more properly 600 as reasonable
certainty. hich is admitted on all hands TO have
been al the least half Wings ana halt Democrats
Indeed some boa>ing Wing offered 10 bet that,
in small assembly around him. majority were
Wings. and 4 treat Tor the company was taken.
Upon 4 CONT, out Of II named there were OF
them Democrats There wele orators there. True,
both big and lille; such a. orators Puff, Powder
Punch and Panther. with Tray, ElancLe and
Sweetheart barking in the cry.
con:crs to Democracy ALTO Whigery, more.
Then came The evel-to-le-rcinembered .ai OF de-
ober a, Hampton, when and where The Demo.
cratic Convention of the seventh Congressional
District convened, under somewhat di>adranla-
oeous circumstances Of weather and sessions OF
Couri. Nevertheless, we had there, al good and
irne from eight 10 Twelve hundred, no, one nun
dred of whom were Wings; with Hunter. Scott,
John Tyler. jr. Patton CaSkie, Young, Bayly,
William p, 0he Judge was absent bv unavoida-
hle necessity and Chopper, 10 enliSh'en and
edifv, amuse and delight This large assembly,
Nlison and others were also there. bur orpor'll-
nily offered no, for their being heard. To saw
tina, the efforts OF your men nj Richmond and Us
Spartan Band were great and thrilling. IS too small
praise. The able, talented, and truly eloquent
Hunter led oil' this rich repast OF mind ieedihs
on mighty mind. MOI to be invidlonS II Is hart
10 rclI among The great, who here was greatest
Yet there was much novel racincsS in Patton |
and rare candor from Chopper, particularly when |
he charged the entire Wing party with being so
destilntc of spirit as TO possess but onc man who
had the bravery 10 oppose Henry A. Wise in the
canvass: and, after he had fought inaniuv and
Valiant: in their cause 10 receive As his recon-
pense the coniumelv and contempt Of the party. |
through lis dirty organ the r. Wing Would
that Won could have seen the burning ardor OF this
assembly, especially when he said ne could ASK
his counlrys forgiveness for having once elected
WIN. c. Rives. or as he NAV more properly be
termed, silly Billy; bII he knew not how 10 ask
that forgiveness in having elected VIM $. Ar
cher into whose support he was BETRAYED BY con-
LESSONS and professions of concurrence in all Of
Vireinias unchanged and Interchangeable political
doctrines.
Coonerv is dead in this Distric;-and will
fully and finally be buried on The first Monday
in November Here, also, was Tree Barbecue
TO all parties
On Friday, the 25lh, came of the great Demo
cratic gathering 10 a free Barbecue al Smiths
Point in Norfolk where some 5000, II IS supposed,
of all sexes and ages were assembled, and ad-
dressed by Caskie and Patton in the day, who
made their names thrice glorious amongst them.
This was the largest assembly ever Witnessed by
me but one. and said 10 have been the largest Po-
litical assembly ever mad in Norfolk. lniermedi-
ate of this DR.. Mallory. according 10 previous
notice of some weeks addressed the Deniocra-
cy Of York al their last York Court, which
was on the Dis, oi October, when wind AMI
weather so prevailed as to permit Mr.. Pits oi
Acconack being present The Wings were
not content with having had the two best days
of the week before all 10 themselves, TO
preach TO this good people, but sought re,
ply To Mallory, when it was agreed they should
take il al stated intervals, turn and turn about
And how. think Won, did Pits defend It's party
from Malorys broadsides of clear change and
proof of inconstancr and change of opinions J
Bv quoting the Democratic address OF lSl0 ne
proved the Wings of that day 10 have been for a
Bank. or rather. thai they lied in their Address Of
lS40 when they said that Gen. Harrison had but
one opnion of a Bank. and that was against it
and quoted his letters aud speeches so 10 prove
Certainly, that part OF them who lake Pi!ss
ground. must have done SO then or now--both
possibly. Of such like were all his arguments,
showing lawyer-lke ability TO pervert both fact
and history 10 cover over their reacherous course
then and now-provins the truth OF The adage,
"When rosues fallnut, honest men get their due"
But then they were lying and deceving the
people, as you TOO often told tbem-and as
we were net so soft as 10 Lelieve them then, row
they confess the corn, and call on us 10 prove
they stole il But of all the disgraceiu &C.
currences of modern times, South OF Mason
& Dixon's Line, is the fact that the Wings of
Norfolk, Va. on The morning of the 25h Ocio-
Der, amongst,he other flags, hung out across the
street near French's Hotel, was one with jim c.
Calhoun painted on il, earning ttro negroes IN his