Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-09-27
THE HOAX.

The Wing has perpetratcd one ofthe best hoax
es we remember ever to have seen. Four or
five weeks ago, we read in its columns a letter
written from Washington, in-which a wholesale
prescription was urged, and indeed announced as
The policy of the Cabinet. Not only so, but NE
Wing party was called upon every where, 10
"voluntee.' information to the Government,
which might enable it to carry out this system of
removals with greater efficacy and despatch. The
letter, altogether, was of a character which, it
seemed to us, was calculated to do in Jury 10 the
Administration in the minds of all sober minded
men,and we regretted its appearance in the Wing
organ of Virginia. We were rather surprised to
find that the Democratic journals Of the State
took no notice of the letter. The Enquirer even,
we believe, said not a Iword.
After the lapse of several weeks, however, the
eye of the Bundlecund Editor of the Union was
directed TO the letter, and forthwith the readers Of
that chaste journal were apprized of the scorn,
loathlng and horror, which the suggestions of the
Wings correspondent had excited in his breast.
We copy at large the comments of the Union and
the letter itself, and beg our readers to give both
most attentive perusal and then be prepared for
the sequel.
Well-the reader, having perused the Unions
article, In another column, and sympathised in
the ~virtuous indignation of Bundlecund-we now
proceed to state, that this letter is, with the ex-
ception of change of date and the first two sem
fences, and the substitution Of Locotocoism for
Coalition, and "Union'' for "National Repubii-
can" an exact copy ola portion Of a letter, sign
ed "Aristides,' published in the Richmond En-
quirer of Nth of April, 1929, and copied into
Niles Weekly Register of the ID May follow
ing y Il
A more successful hoax was never practised.-
As a mere Joke it is admirable, but, as the Rich
:" i""ea ' says
1.-The most sober mind, may draw a p~nfitable moral from
,"e Mnoee Ina /, ~ eAn'n'ls' Will a 'mce mo- less over
Hen""1 'n'" Taa'n ,e ip'Nu's"eSS n ne "PP@-
enounh to see a great political lfale, denouncinu as base
de'es,abe and infamous. a proposiiion which twenty years
AGO. he permitted t. pass nncensured in his columns
Then. when The ,ni,bty Lack an sy,ved bis iron srenire
over the Republic. a suggestion from the seat of the fed
eral G,veraineni that a Jesnliical system of espionage
%.9nl De ".e'nl, no, only proved nothing against the
a'a"e !. a put os'9re u world through Inc lead
= m no nosi,;ys,y 90, :, =, ~ n f, ~ ;, a ol s";;11'
Grafton Of he President friends Bn, nor The very
same suggestion, conched in the vcry same words. en-
bodies an "infamous prop sition;" and its publication in
a Wing paper is proof undeniable that "this riie and in
famous system 9 secret espionage" is one 'nlich has
peer es'aphs'ed "nder THE PATRONAGE or THE CABINET
nm ,o Ia'u, = =" s.1aa 'J ~ ,o s ns',"HJIS d"a gsents ~ a. :,
Rraee,iny men of all n,},; I~ ,y;IJ ash h '' ~ ~ i i ,ha,
what convicis Gen. TayIor,, Cabinet Of an infamous nI
icy established notl,ins wh,tever grains, Gen, jackson 5?
They will consider, too, that the letter, upon which the
Union bases all its indignant comments, though not gen.
u,0e as Pool,snea now was genuine as published In i'e
hnq"lfIer OF 1879; and every word. which the onloo
now says ' 'ne proposition l, 'n"o's, holds strictly COED
:, 'n ol's'na' ie'ef oi lux, n"y' WA me conclusion I'll
az a." MINDS mus, De 'lai me .'uieh' aouse oil zen.
qan Of the opposition is d,ily lrri,bted. is Of No mere "
proper weight thar This most mioriunaIe denuncalion of
the Infamous System of Espionage"
1t appears that there was appended to the let
fer. when published in tbe Enuduirer an editorial
suggestion, in the shane off note TO Inc following
effect.
81, is bo,ed t,is u;u 49,, ho dina o,.aao.;a,u L.,
openly and fa;,ly. ,a,her nv 'rh,,c woe,i 1" ,, =, !, ~, ;"
underhanded way. which would deseryedly defeat It's oh
iec'."
This, forming no part of the letter. was not
quoted by the Wing. II is now paraded bv the
ENQUIRER as showing Instrumentation on the mart
of espionage. II is welcome to all the shelter this