Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-11-19
PREDICTIONS AND REVELATIONS.

aud its hypocrisy
PREDICTIONS AND REVELATIONS;
We were defeated and disappointed in lSlo-
but the wheel Of fortune has changed. II IS time
for the Wings TO take their turn. when James
X Polk was nominated, in May last, the Clay
narty though, the work was done. Clay was Ger
! tainiy elected He had but 10 pass through The
| forms OF the CONSTITUTIONAL be elected by The
bollot-box. without further uouble. Their most
knowing ones laughed al the very idea OF serious
opposition They laughed al us, Tor affecting 10
| express the slightest hope OF success. They would
give Mr. Polk, out of excessive generosity, some
| four States: and one of these was South Caroh-
ma, if she would please 10 give il TO him. fou
could never bring Wing in our city 10 talk Sc
riously upon the subject. New York, Pennsy-
yania every thing, almost belonged To the Lion
Even old Virginia was irrevocahly transferred 10
/ Ashland. Tell them of the cheering accounts
we had received from the North or The West, and
| they would sneer al YOU. So infatuated were
| they. with the overweaning confidence oil victory;
so idle did they consider all opposition 10 The lri-
umphant star OF II. Clay that they believed every
| Democrat, who expressed The slightest hope, was
only playing the impostor upon the world. II
/ was not week before the election, that the w hiS
paess in Petersburg boldly told US, that we knew
! Mr.. Polk had no chance at all-and that we were
4 lrNlHS uHiy w saw "'t" N''"' '''N
not he effected
The Wing Press in this City lost lis temper
upon the occasion-and was 50 perfectly confident
Of success, that i, rebuked its own friends for ex
pressing the slightest doubts As this matter Is
historical we beg leave 10 quote the following,
To show now much the Wings were delided-and
therefore how much they must be disappointed BY
the result. We copy the following paragraphs
from the Wing OF the l1th OF October:
"The election OF Henry Clay is ENTIRELY GER
tain Nothing but his death can prevent H. 1t
is certain 100 by great electoral majority, two 10
| one al least.
THE Wings of Virginia are Respondent set!
Jackson and Jacksonism have run over them so
long, that they have almost forgotten the conf
dence and the buoyancy OF freemen! They have
nearly forgotten ssif-rcliance and the spirit which
conquers b. determining 10 conquer.
"Will they then allow us to MAKE THEM
EASY? CLAY is already elected, and by an
immense electoral majority. VIRGINIA is for
Clay! Yes, Virginia! A few weeks will prove
it, We will no, give our local proofs We de-
mand 10 be bciiered, because heretofore all, even
our enemies, will confess that we have volunlari
| IL deceived no man,
| Virginia and New York are safe for Henry
Claw We stake our editori0i reputation upon
| it. Packed by them, Kentucky Tennessee, Lou
isiana, North Carolina Maryland, New Jersey
| Delaware and New England, Maine and New
Hampshire excepted, he cannot TAIL OF an cleo
ZION, 10y majority ,qnnlicd emily sarc IN that 81
| General Harrison, If by ms
We can allow for soI.cITrDE, for 0nTietu
when such incalculable consequences are al
stake: Bur he who rcaiy doubts is fool or
pol,roon Be anxious il you like the system OF
borrowing trouble but serious doubt speculation
is inadmissibe We are much disposed 10 think
that mar FIsiiY, or inclined 10 be tishy, who
doubts now We should regard him as one who
wanted watching in The hour OF uial-one whom
you must sci a tiled ,oldier 10 guard, 10 keep him
| from running away.
"Give all donbl and apprehension 10 the winds !!
The day is already decided Is there no virtue,
no frmncsS, extant? Has Jackson crushed the
iree-born spiri; OF the American People,"
No wonder then, that The Wings are disap-
pointed by the result They must have been as
much asionished, as if they had seen thunder
| bolt fall al their feet on summers morning II
| We ventured 10 talk about our hopes we were
told at once, that we were Dragging playing the
brageadocio-lhat We were the usurper of boast
| ing-that We were drawing down upon our heads
the curses of our friends, for tempting them TO
| bet upon the elections, &c, &c. We did venture,
however, to express our own opinions upon the
matter, in defiance of all their sneers. We sought
the hes; information we could obtain from all
cautions By the defeat of our hopes in 1870 yet
when recollected how much more enthusiastic
and determined we were in H. than in 'I0-and
how much more so than lh= Wings of the present
day, we could not help trusting 10 our own
Judgment, and hazarding our own views OF
The result, The most remarkable of these es-
Inmates was the one which we published in
the Enquirer of the l9!h of October. We
recollect with what dersion il was received by
our friends, The Wings of Richmond-how The
Richmond Wing laughed al us for daring TO
make such preGiction-:nd how boldly it came
up TO The scratch about a suit of clothes which il
wagered against our carrying even twothir!s OF
the number. We lay the article before our read
ers, 10 show the Wings how completely they have
been misled by their devotion 10 a man-we mean,
of course, Mr.. Clay. They seemed 10 think. that
Clay was like Cesar, when The latter cheer
cd the boatmen in the storm, by The bold declara-
lion, "You carry CAESAR and his fortunes
From lie Enquirer Of Octoter ~, 1871
"g We too are OJserrers-or, rs the Painter
said when he saw picture of another, H. too,
am Painter We differ from both the ObserrcrS
in their calculation, and beg leave respectfully 10
submit "A Fair Calculation OF our own:
We claim for Mr. Polk
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