Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-10-22
cALUMNY ON MIR. CALHOUN.


statement which had appeared in Philadelphia
Wig Gazette, charging Mr.. Calhoun and the
Southern friends oi Mr.. Polk, with hostile de-
Sims 10 the Government itself. We were sails
fled. from what W. had heard of Mr.. Calhoun's
course, directly through 4 member OF the House
of Representatives from South Carolina, who
had converscd with him on the day of the all
journmcnl of the last Congress, that his views
were grossly mi>iep!escnlcd We knew that
his friends in Virginia were sllamclcs>y SIAN
dcrc,!-tila, every Republican, with whom chad
anv sort OF intercourse w. entirely innocent 81
any participation in a Di,unon ploi-and Vt
were satisfied that tic design attributed 10 Mr..
poli:. was either an idle chmTra or an insidious
hu.nhus We are happy 10 i!ni that The lasl
Charleston Mercury has ccnradiced The whole
fabrication from The best authorly--and we need
add nothing more, "a 1,it the whole story down,
than Ia ,ubioin lhc following positive con'radic-
ton llom he .rcnds o, M Calhoun 4; Charles
,on:
'.SdH|crs nj NJ. C0iicnn ior Pennsylvania
EiclGoHs--Ou, attention has llI> seen called !oan
article from the Nal. intelligence: of the 10Th
This, paper took it from '!a United States Gaaelc
Of Monday. the 1tI, Ms d"g N ne PtiL"dsiph'9
dec'i0uS
Let it he o',scr.cd that it hcgn. by saving
that joan G. Calhoun has lus arrived in Chari.S-
Polk would he elected" &C. &c. What we es-
pccially call attention To here is that part oi The
letter which says, Nh. Calhoun 'had miormed has
fieadS.'
I'VE nave the authority of many oi Mr.. Cal
houns friends who wished him while here, and
who embrace those with whom he convcrScd free
" and contidcnial!v la say that the statement oi
the writer is l-toHp rariam in Kramer and sub
stance from What Mr. Calhoun dhd mg -" his
iriomJS' in almost every essential raiicDlar.-
Without cnImcratng the misrepresentation ui-
Ihcr than l. nccesSarv il is suit len, 20 say that
Mr.. CalliJun in 10 instance >ad IT, his friends
thai i was understood by The Central Committee
in Washington, tia: the Polk speakers are 10
ii.ht Tor Polk in Pennsylvania a. Proiec-
Zionist. 10 secure The vote OF that State as ne
cess1ly to make him Presidents while his elec-
ton is 10 " regarded Is a free trade triumph,
nordid H. in the renoics degree, excuse or justify
ans Thing 80 reprehcnSibc as deception on This OF
any other poinr, nor did he say hat he had been
Offered place or was 10 bc a member ol Mr..
Folks Cah,Eel nor i.tat the patronage I'll the Co
vernmcnl vas To IL u>cl for any successor: nor
tina, Mr.. POW aronid trrrc Mc rcpcat n H. 1SnB
Of 1872 aa@ Inc anncraitoa II T9wS-hor thai,
il case .hc Tariff was not repealed, the would
nulliir the Taritf-aH0 the Government, Army,
Nav. and Treasury, heinz ia The hanc, of South
en- Dislmionis,:, rS.v viii h9yc rorhing To fear,
nor anvrlin. ahnr; Old !i!clp:y's banging nor
Young Hickory either Nor did h. counicuancc
anv sentiment ur measure for Di.unon.
"Thc par; If The pr"lcnrd conversation of Mr..
Calhoun which bears any resemblance 10 what
Mr.. Calhoun did say. is hat in which he is re-
presented - expressing The opinion that Mr..
Polk would be elected.
ale ail express his confidence Of snci re-
sui, and at The same time declared his oon'dencc
in Mr.. Pok:' political orthodoxy, his high T.
spec FIR him as d man. and testified also 10 The
un5lcm>hcd purity Of his private character: AMI
his hopes and expectations that his ad:nlhi>'ra-
ton would reform many Of tie abuses OF HE Ito
yernmeri and restore hc good oil Republican
CONSTRUCTION oiiS powers. IL >lor', that Il would
be- n great victory lprrhc tue principles OF con,l-
lu;ional Government. II Mr. Calhoun, in ,sic IN
timale and confidential intercourse with his old
and trusted political friends. whHc spe,u,iae r6b
item. did not give the views o. statements charged
in his letter, ii is hardly credible he would com
init the folly of baZHnirg them 10 labbins re-
taller of private conversations in the ranks OF ms
political opponents. Nor can any honorable mind
Weld crcdence 10 such gossip, when The very
reacherv OF betrayal shows that no barrier OF
social confidence is regarded, when Il mo'tre casts
for misrepresentation
"The eticr-wri,cr says he pledges the honor
of man who has no cause 10 lie (!) that the sue
cessiul completion Of these measures constitutes
the sole cause of their support OF Mr. Polk-lor
personally they despise him. Free Trade, and
annexation Of di>unicn, constitute the chief and
only conditions Of the support of Mr. Polk; and
if you are so blinded BY party as mol to know 1t,
| tel YOU II is NJ Wt7c, here The slanderous
character of the above paragraph on the Demo.
cratic pary of Charleston, has scarcely parallel
i'll this age of falsehood and forgery.
The object and motive of tEe whole IS too pal
pab!e. The letter was written for The Pennsylra
MIA elections and was published The day they be-
gan, in the Wing organ, from whence, with lis
endorsement, i, has been transferred 10 The M
hon0' Lteligcnerr, (whose editors, lrolrias M.
Calopn leo trcH no, 10 kRor the whole thing 10 be
inconsistent with his charac'er.) have yet condo
seconded 10 circulate the SANDER endorsing il with
a hlaZoning CAPTION Of their own