Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-02-27
An w1IIorCuRy yEWToN,s EXPOSE

The Richmond Wing attempts in vain to counteract
the consequences of its own indIscreton. The bul!e
tin has gone FORTH and aoors in vain to arrest its
gress 1t might well attempt to chain up the roar
ing wind. II placed the States witness on the stand
called the public attention TO his evidence, declaring
ssthe reader will be amply repaid BY a perusal and
noe it seeks 10 take him from The stand; to deny his
statements and explain them all away. capital SEN
tinel indeed have the Wings upon the wach'ower.
Here is Mr. Newton still attestng TO the want OF
dou1 the want Of honesty in the Wing party OF lSiO--
and bearing testimony 10 the truth of every charge,
which the Republicans made aga. INST them-of their
Withholding their principles from "the public eyc-o!
their affecting opinions which they did not sincerely
,erain-of their imposing upon the people by wearing
mask to conceal their desgns-spreadng their nets 50
as 10 catch birds of every featherina word, Of seek
ing power under false pretences. The Whlgs abored
to deny these charges; and 10! here is Of their
most respectable members-a gentleman of consdera-
BILE observation-disclosures Of their electors
in lS40-one Of their own Representatives frnm
VIRGINIA in the present Congress, confirming every
charqe against The /" honesty Of TIE Wing leud-
prs in The great campaign Of 1910. The Richmond
Wing now attempts 10 wipe of the effect Of lis
own ,ndiscretion-frs "offers apology for the Wing
Central State Club by artoSc authority and direction
,rgs says, that after the Committee OF In
vt,ion had ordered the other letters u be published,
Mr. N.w,on's was received by one OF the commttee
of three and this Of the editors of Wing,
who placed it among the rest without perusal-tbe
foreman published il without any examination OF the
pnts-and GOOD easy soul. could have been
more than the editor the day to hear
the general burst ofndignuton which escaped the lips
of the Wings and still more the morning after when they
fl, the scorching structures Of the Enquter Mr. New
ton had addressed private note to the aforesaid Editor
him 10 read it, and 10 it in such manner
as was best calculated to produce the end in view 1--WE
use Mr. New,on's own words) But the Editor had
sother fish 10 fry it seems, and in the while the
en-, is let out of the bag And what does the Eal-
tor do, He turns upon Mr. Newton, whose confidence
he had so faithfully improved and raps him most Sc
verey over the knuckes, and cenounces HIM. because,
like an honest man, he had "denounced his own par
~" and the Convention who had put him upon The
Electoral ticket, We have time this morning to es-
nose the himsy positions Of the H. Wing, attempt
mo 10 Justify the Convention and Address of 40,
and we must say written in the very same esuitical
spirit which Mr.. Newton charges upon the Wing par
ty Of 1870 What, for instance will any honest Poii-
cinn sav to this argument of the Wing, that "the Ad
dress Of 40 does not say WHAT the opinions OF the
Who party were as to Bank or the 1dr!t-but
(onivj "deols entirely in the opinions Of Gen Harri
son aud MIR Van Buren," Nothing ever came out OF
the school Of Ignaius Loyala moe utterly jesui'ical
than this school boy of twelve years OF age can see
through the miserable quibblc.
But the most amusing and extraordinary point OF
the whole story is that the very man VINO is now de-
nouncing Mr. Newton, Qhe Wing Editor htmse!t,
Substantially his person, took the same ground
in his letter to the Amherst dinner, as Mr. Newton
does now-lSee the extract from that candid litter, in
another par, of our paper.]
Try the Wings of 40, indeed BY any TESTIFY them
by their own acts in Al soon as they get into power
compared with their professions in the address OF 3sand