Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-08-25

We ask attention 10 The following capilal
sketch Of Wing independence" and Wing
"gains:"
To The Editors Of The Enquirer:
BiRcH's OLD FIELD, July 80, lS4S.
Messrs. Editors: don't ike 10 BE- troublesome
10 you all, but seeing as now these no party Eel.
lows, who was Wigs mol long aso,-and little
longer, namely, in 1910, good Dimicrals-mak-
in. a moas;rous fuss about the great number Of
iad,pgndcnt v3,efs who was going for General
TAYLOR, thought as | lived down here in pref
~ we'll sellled neighborhool, and knowcd consi-
cradle abou the people, would just lei you
know something Of what knuwed and thought
abontlhe matter
Well, then, in The furst place, We are mostly
Dimiclals about here. We haint been this mans
man, nor that mans man; but, being lucky
enough 10 have Post Once near by, where
heaps of people get together 10 read and talk and
having heerd good deal OF stumpspeaking, most
on Us think the Dinicrat doctrines are ne true
real grit; and 50 We haze always stuck 10 Them
In consequence, we also votes Tor them men who
processes them doctrines aud a yel we has had
nothing 10 complain Of; for as lar as can see
our men have always stuck 10 their text This
being The case, we can't see no reason FOR MOI DO
ing Just AS We have been, because "e have gel
along mighty well, and don't like his lraepcaient
candidate no how, seeing he is just independent
OF parties, as they sdY now, tecans', as he says
himself, he don't know nothing about politics..
For my part, believe the lguuranlcsi man in The
neie hborhoud is eineraly The mot independent,
'specia Is in matters OF opinion; and il lha, is
recommendation Tor President don't see no use
in schools, newspapers nor nothing else, where
politics ami other things i larnt. Nor can | see
what particular qualification this or tina, man
has ior sich a high Office, who says himself he
ani voted FOR forty years, and don't understand
anything about the Bank and Tariff; Tor why}-
Because he never studied them; ADD am a
thinking, he is getting TOO old 10 b. q very apt
scholar. Besides, he says hesc Wing fellows is
nearer Jcfiersnnianism han we Dimicrats, which
think is munstruus, seeing Mr. J-h-fson never
te.ched iiank nor Protective Tariff win tor;y
foot pole. Toiel! you the PLAIN ruth, we are Dnni-
cras down here from piacip'e; and the sort Ola IN
dependent candidate We want is one who ami
acart, and kuO1cs iotc 10 come out and show his
hand: and when he does show i, shows il lull OF
Dimicralic !rumps. We don't want A man that is
so independent as not to know what his own opin-
lens sra;-any ui u, down here would be willing 10
accept n Presidency on such terms.
ranf 10 le; YOU know something about Other paris
travels about considerable, aud Know sight ol
n.opie in five or six counties arolnd, and amt
hesri oil these great changes yet mat me wings
talk 50 much about. Ia M jon ncYinss here AM
here, | have ipund ionr N tepsndsat Democfa lc
Whis TAYLOR men, bIl only twa Of ih-m intend
"a voting lof The old hero; AMI do beli'Vr 'he
others had no vote. Tnen, IN toih"t side, nave
met exactly four old fashioned Wings, all o
whom hal votes, and who said they would NJ Vo'e
tnr Gen Taylor TO save his lille, nniess h coined
.e.tl IN