Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-01-04
Beauties Of the Wig Press !

The object f,he whole proceeding Ingsrsos bill to offer
incense 10 jackson ut the expense Of ,s who
pur.urs oceupation of DESTROYING 9haTace a. anu
The Creatu,e's at his dirty rOrk agaia
The Richmond Wing seems determined ''to Perse-
cut. General Jackson t, his grave Yesterday, 1t
sumatz,s him as the "ruhltss Jucgernaut, on
whose altar "another victim (Judge isD IS 20 De Sd
crifced"-although Mr. lngersoll's bill "ssmpiy pro-
rides. in three lines the fine paid by General Jack.
son 10 the U SIT also charges him with 'begging"
the money! and refusing TO "receive the aims (excepD
on his own ,erms'-and coureously quotes upon HIM
The proverb, that "Beggars should not be choosers
Now General Jackson is no beggar for the money
but it is demanded for him. from louisiana and
other States He will have it, only on terms that are
consistent with his sefrespect. The Wing re-
pea,s hat is not true, that he s begging back fine
which was paid for him by other people The Wing
knows or ought know that the General paid the fine
on, Of his funds-and that the money raised Tor
him by sympathy OF his graceful fellow ctzens which
would ha We contributed TO his relief, diverted ID
very different 1--WE are almost certain, cha7a5le) des
tination.
The Wing of Yesterday teens with other ic.ions,
or with apocryphal statements II no sooner with
draws the absurd statement Of Marion, than it falls into
another blunder of its own We said the letter at,r-
buted to US by Marion was from the pen of member
of Congress The Wing next ind oates Gen D,om-
gooe as the author The suppos!tion is equally grau
tous and unfounded
"cerain small beer spouters in the Democratic Assc-
citation of goes to say, that he "does
not know of one, among all (our) frothy decaimers
who is capable of arriving at the grade of second
County Court Lawyer." "Comparisons are Odorous,
as Dogberry says. The folly Of the Wing shall not
provoke any nvidous COMPARISON with the orators of
the Wing Club. But we may truly say, that, Of the
young Democrats, who now coming on in this city,
there are three four who promise /, grace any pro-
fessou any party. Among these is one, of whom
the highest authority in this land has pronounced that
he has delivered 'the best First Speech he had ever
heard at any bar"
The Wing forgets the firm of the Enquirer and is
polite enough 10 attribute 10 "ihe old gentleman" an
article which he never until he returned on Tues
day night from his visit TO the country.
The Wing also teens with s'rumors from Washing
ton'-such that Mr. R,ves "has declared his preie
renee for Mr.. Clay Mr.. Van Buren"-2dy, that
the ssknowing at Washington rely upon one OF
two things-frst and most probable, that South Ca.o-
lima will vote for Henry Clay and leas, pro-
babe, that if she does not, she will throw her vote
away, as she did in 1896 by voting for Mr. Calhoun.
And again, that "the White House, its tenants and
depeniants have themselves been seized with the Clay
mania, and are entirely agreed that he is preferable 10
Van though Of course, not marvellously proper
man as the Captain HIMSELF" What do the really
"knowing ones" say of this batch of rumors Are
they all true Are any of them true VIII the
Madisonan endorse the first and third, and the Specn
tor the second