Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-10-24
GENERAL TAYLoRS SUPPRESSED PAN
MILL LETTER ONCE MORE

MILL LETTER ONCE MORE!
We make no comments upon the facts sci
forth in the following communication. An in.
telligent and honest minded people will know
how to appreciate such strange proceedings:
To tie Editors of The Enquirer:
Gentlemen In your paper of the l9lh, you
dwell, with meriled severity, upon the fact, SO
dissraceful TO General Taylor. that ne nas writ
ten secret letters for private circulation, IN
which he adapts his views 10 sYMPArH,Es and
i.ArlruDEs, instead Of TO honesty and sound
principle. The letter 10 DR.. Pannill OF Orange,
particularly. has elected some remark in this Vi
cinily as well as in the press. The Doctor re
fuses to publish, tat least by printing! but IS
understood, nevertheless, to have used the let
ter for eIec,ionecring purposes. Now, give it
as nv opinion, that this letter is 4 mere CATCH,
and was SO designed by its author
On Saturday last discussion took place be-
tween the Democratic Elector, Mr.. Lcake, on
the one side, and Messrs Pannill and Bull on
behalf of the Feds Mr.. Leakc, in his opening
speech, alluded 10 THE LETTER, and called upon
Doctor P. to produce it. He said that parts of il
(if not the whoIe) bad been publicly read, ana
that it was also understood 10 have been used
privately for elec,ioneering purposes. DR.. Pan
mill denied MIR. Leake's right TO make The call
He said The letter was private, confidential
one, ard that GENERAL TAYLOR REQUESTED THAT
1T SHOULD NOT BE PUBLISHED. He said re knew,
we'll enough, what Mr.. Lcake's object was--he
(Mr. Leake) wished 10 have the letter published,
in order that il might iEJURE GENERAL TAY-
LoR! To all this Mr.. Leake replied, that If the
letter were private and confidential, the sea! OF
that confidence had been already broken by
reading the letter, or parts of il PUBLICLY; ana
that having been introduced by DIR. Pannill into
the canvass, it became public property, and ina,
the public had right 10 its GENERAL publica'
ton. As to the idea, that Mr.. I.eake wished 10
iniure General Taylor b. its publication, he
said that it was very odd ground for General
Taylors OWN FRIENDS TO take, that the pd6lica-
lion of General Taylor's own LETTERS WOULD
| INJURE HIM.
DR.. Pannill said he would state the circum
stances INJECTED with this letter. He SAID,
| that Immediately after the Democratic Mass
Meeting in Orange, on the 18th July, he had
! addressed letter 10 General Taylor, stating,
among other things, that Mr. Leake, the Demo
cratic Eiector. had charged him General Tay-
lori in his speech. ON that OCCASION, with being
| in favor of the Wilmol Proyiso, AND AN ADO
Llr,osIsT; and requesting 10 know OF the Gene
raj whether these charges were true. In reply,
1
the Doctor finally read short extract, very
nearly as follows:
"If these gentlemen choose 10 make asser-
tons, regardless of the obligations OF TRUTH
can only say that leave them 10 The workings
of their own guilty conscences.
This extract was taken down as the Doctor
read it, | do not say that il is LITERALLY cor
rect II is very nearly so, however, and p'edge
myself to its general accuracy. IL Inaccurate
DR.. Pannill can correct il BY PUBLISHING TIL !
LETTER. And now wha, does this much-'alKeu
Of letter amount to- l presume the extrac,
read BY the Doctor is the most coMMlTrAL ahe
satisfactory part of it. have said It was
CATCH; it is worse; i, is a most wre'ched subter
tuge. "If these gentlemen choose TO MAKE AS
sERrloss, regardless Of the obligations OF truth,
sc. And what assertions' Dr. Pann'ii .el'
General Taylor that Mr.. Leake had CHARGE
him with being an ABoLITioNIsr, as well as
Proyisoist In this the Doctor was unquestion
I ably mistaken. Mr.. Leake ONLY charged tina