Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-04

Tic f-s,,,,l Whio State Committee have reached No
of their ponderous addresses and have piled up Pe-
lion upon Ossa of statistical tables 10 prove the waste
fnl erravopance of Mr.. Van Buren's Administration
In our last Friday and Tuesdays papers, we published
facts drawn from the public records, TO disprove the
rash assertions Of these Wing gentlemen. Their
charges and our defence have now gone before The
world together and for the present, we VIII leave the
decision TO the coed OF the people We shall
hereafter pubsh full review Of all these addresses in
a form. which will more certainly meet with public at
,ention We are content this morning to allude TO
glarnp Inconsistency in the published statements OF
these gentlemen. In their I'd address ihey make out
the ayerare yearly expenses of Mr. Van Buren,, TO be
irty-eioht millions and upwards in their 4Ih address,
thew state i, at $50 727 ,242 (includlng Treasury
Noes)-and in last Fridays Wing, (where two Editors
are members of the Central Committee IL set down
at s33 1885, SIC "Try again, gentlemen, and agree
among Yourselves upon definite sum to charge
Mr. Van Buren, with. else all your deductions will want
certainty and strength! Though the Wing Committee IN
their Sd address, employ towards toe Democrats, mid
terms If "gross effort at decepton; they IN Their lasi
address, express much feeling at our having objected IN
the EnOnirer that they should have calculated The aver
ace Of Mr. Van Buren, expend tures from three years
onlv "suppress,ng 1910" We were analyziOg pubic
document, and were endeavorng to show the Unfair
ness OF lis deductions Further examination and re-
ec:ion have satisfied u.s. that represented the mat
ter correctly, and, therefore. have nothing to "fe-
tract" ln politics, both sides employ the strong
est arguments TO support their own cause, and To
defeat their opponents; The Wings are generally
famous for employing the most specous, humbug
positions)-and il would be R strange consumma-
lion, if we should be prohibited from the investign-
ton and refuta,ion OF what we deem a false argu.
ment from acknowledged premises, by the charge OF
unjust and injurious (persOnaD impulatlons. We do
understand what is meant By the phrase, tive shall
be forced by bis the editor OF the Enquirer 81 own
conduct, 10 have done with him forever" unless he
sretracs' what he has said about the Committed ad
dress
We will, in The first place, inform the Committee,
that the Enquirer has than one Editor, and that
the Senior Editor TO whom The Committee plainly al
udes) did not write the brief notice of their Address
In the second place, bound to add, as guardians
of the peoples rights, that no threat can make US
swerve from our public duty, or abandon the defence
of the truth. We may be visited with social excom-
muncation, as proposed by some of the present
committee in $40 at the Log Cabin in the case
of the Senior Editor of this paper-"f forced we
can readily submit to the "palns and penalties OF
Wing ana 'lemas but, long we fly at our mast
head the pure banner OF Truth without tear, we shall
botray what consider is due 10 truth and the
rights OF the people.