Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-01-25
CORRESPONDENCE.

CHAREorrksvu.LE, Jan'y 9th, ls45
Dear Sir-Thc enclosed proceedings Of the meeting
this day held by portion OF your will apprise
you OF the object Of this communication. The duty
signed is indeed simple one, and yet that
attempting to discharge IL, shall fail convey you
idea OF the deep feeling Of Disappointment and
greet with which your friends in this part Of District
have received the into gcnce that decline being
ddate for election 10 Congress. When first you sought
the suirages OF the people Of Abemare you person.
ally stranger TO all OF We ignorant, how
that the representative OF others both the State
and national councils, had been faithful the great
principles which We believed lie At the foundation OF
counuy's happiness and prosperity and therefore
corded You cheerful anG jealous support But have
additional motive desiring that the which
binds together representative and constituent
shall be severed Not only has the confidence
which then reposed your fidelity the principles
the Constitution and the OF the country and
IN ability 10 uphold and promote them been fully vim
Dictated and greatly strengthened but having enjoyed with
you the pleasures Of social intercourse having labored
With you IN common having shared with you the
fortunes alike victory and defea having in word
to know the well the politician,
withhold the acknowledgement that feelings of personal
attachment and regard, combine with public aud political
TO enhance our regret at your proposed
tiremen from public life. Think that expr,
ing feelings merely they shared know by
all whom we represent and sincerely believe by the
Wings of the entire District ."
In asking you, then, do respectfully yet
earnestly TO iorego the determination which you have
d, and be candidate the
TRACES o the District hope, that the considera
ions which prompt You retire. will, mature
Hecton, be found less and less Imperative than
you have conceived them be; and beg you be
sured that any delay part in answering this app
cation, will be abundanty compensated Us, il shall
cOnduce the desired result by aordng you aud OPP
portuntY for consulting with friends at houe the
practcabhy OF arranging private affairs
from derment by continuance in the public service
We have been instructed you Of the
ing r,nness and unabs<d zeal, with which the Wings of
Abemare, notwithstanding their late great defeat pre-
pared rally again the support OF their principles but
doing diseam the unworthy suspicion which such
assurance might t. imply, that your proposed
remeni in way connected with apprehensons
the rcsu, the approaching in the District We
entertain such idea: implicitly conde in the candor
If your statement that private considerations alone inhu
you: bat sacred and paramount these often
cherish the hope that IN your case least
the present OCCASION way may be found for reconc
the claims Of private duty, with OF he public
good.
Most respectfully your friends and fellow citizens,
E6BERT X. WATSON, DAVID HAScocG,
JoBN r. JOKES. EDaUsp DAVIS
SAA'L w. MARus, GABRIEL s. HIRPER,
Henry Oliver, JoHN J. BowcoCk,
JoHS b. SPIEcE, JOHN X. WogDs
BENJ. l. DARSELLE, Commmtee.