Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-06-04
To the Editors ofhe ENQUIRER.

1
Gentlemen: Many strange reports, exaggera.
ted statements and foul ISLANDERS having been pul
in circulation relative 10 The events thai have oc.
CURED in This county before and on the day o!
election, am induced 10 furnish you with brief
but correct statement of what dill occur. | do no,
do this 10 protect or deierd my friend, Judge Bay.
ly, from the illberal, unjust and ungenerous al
lacks OF partisan presses or partisan leaders,
He has always had these 10 encounter and II
they had been silent on this occasion. or less
sparing OF their abuse and Misrepresentation than
usual he might justly have suspected that he had
been guilty Of some act OF omission or commits.
sion that meriled severe rebuke and censure.-
Wing presses and Wing politicians always
abuse those most they most fear. Nor will
condescend 10 notice or deny the many idle and
false reports put in circulation with III, vain hope
OF doing him some injury. | will not conde-
scend TO notice Them, because know 10 inielli.
gent or viruous man will believe them. |, would
be an insul, 10 his understanding 10 believe this
Of him. | will not condescend TO notice Them.
because know with what utter contempt and in
difference he regards all of those idle Tumors.-
He has not lived to learn that he who has marked
out high aims Tor himself must not expect opposi.
ton-opposiion from the jealousies of those who
appreciate no excellence-opposition from envi-
Gus and contracted minds, which ever delight in
msrepresenting the motives. darkening the for
tunes, and holding up to the world as ambitious
restless desperate characters, full of schemes of
selfinleresl and ll-aggrandisemenl, all who
would raise themselves above the humble and
humiialing position that they themselves occu-
py. He is 100 we'll versed in human nature, TO
be surprised at this kind Of opposition, and has
TOO much confidence in The intelligence and puri.
~ OF the people 10 fear il. But let me speak OF
events connected with The election For many
months there has been an angry dispute going on
in this county between the members of the Me,ho-
dist church, and gentlemen unconnected with this
society will mol stop to deail TO you the rise and
progress Of this unfortunate and Improbable con-
troyersy; but il will be sufficient 10 stale, that no
one here, not even their mos, excited opponent,
believes or has charged the Melhodists and those
who 60 win them in adhering TO their long es-
tablished connection with the Philadelphia Con-
terence, with being abolitionists. However flip
PANTY they may have been charged with it else
where, no one here conversanl with the whole
history OF the affair has thus wantonly nsulted
them. To charge them with this is The most az
gravated insult you can offer them, one which
they may forgive but will never forget. 10 prefer
charge OF this kind agai osl men living in slave
holding community, and owning slaves 10 no in
considerable extent is 100 ridiculous 10 be believed
and loo absurd 10 require refntalon. There is
mol an aboitionisl in The Methodist society, or in
ne county of Accomac, that | am aware OF; and
10 people in the Stare have greater adherence
II abolitionism than is entertained by The people
u this county. No people, the Methodisis in
;luded, have so often publicly abpTd and de-