Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-09-25
RICHMOND, VA.
saturday Morning, September 22. ls4o'
GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WooL'
Ypsrerday's Who deyotes nearly TWO Columns

Saturday Morning, september %|s iofD
GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WOOL
Yesterdays Wing devotes nearly TWO columns
to an "incomparable achievement. OF 10 OWL,
which, il boasts. twill convulse the wings Oh 'i'
universe with laughter and which has maze
its own "sides sore from laughing we 'e' 'n'
Wb;s tell its own beautiful story, its own exo'''
inc Comments on which i, appropriately adorns
Nth flowing Italics and staring Capitals:
mTbe old fox of the Union is caught al last,
nicely adroily, beautifully trapped, and in ms
VIZ "a bout month since, we published in the
shape of a letter from Washington 40 extract
from a letter written from The same place 70 she
Richmond Enquirer IN lS29!-N contained an
intamo proposition TO establish secret ,, s.iii
OF Espionage Throughout, the Repuplic. we ieu
some repugnance to seem, oy puons,ni"s y, W
give couItenance 10 such an aoohlnau.e PioJ..'
1ard some friends from the country nave coni'
p|ained OF our admitting such deleslaole pro-
nos,lion into cur columns But We SAID Eolh'nS.
We fell a presen,imen, thai we were ABOUT 10
book the veteran aud arltu dodger he eyed the
BAH long time, nibbled a! II very genny' ana
last Saturday fairly sorsed it. 10 ana pcnoid
him flu,teripe in the dust With the exception
of change ofda,e, and the first Two sentences,
prefixed 10 eild The bat and the substitution oil
Loeofeyism for Coalition, and Union tor Ma
tionai Republican, zine Viii g paper al that day1
the leter is an exact transcript OF potnon oi
leuer signed 'Arisiides, published IN me Enqu!>
rer Of l4lh April, 1929, and copied ialo Niles he
gisler OF May d, 1877 -,
"We copy The entire article oil the Union, ana
pray the reader to scan closely every ssu'eics
all the while that all the ferocious blows Oh .he
Union. directed against the infamous proposition
and lis authors, are applicable 10 themselves
alonel"
We snail leave our readers TO make their
own comments on the ethics Of this very credit
table scheme of the Wing to pass of false
picture for true one which, by The way, is IN
strict keeping with The usual course of its party
leaders, to raise capital on false pretences. Our
object is to show, that the Wing, with all its
trckery and empty JOY, is itself caugM IN It's
o,on snare. The caption of the Wings article
is ",he infamous system Of sspiOnags''-all the
structures of the Union are aimed at the secret
system OF espionage recommended in the letter
We ssk the reader TO remember this fact, and
the further fact that the Wing says that "the
letter is on enact transcript Of portion OF let
ter signed "Ars,ides," &C." Now, will it be
believed, that, after all these grand fourishes,
The Wing has NOT published an exact copy of
said portion, nor any thing like it? The most
Objectionable passage in the letter is as follows:
"All their efforts, however, must eventually DC
unayaling il the friends OF official responsibility,
proby, industry and Ietrenchment, Will lena
their aid in communicating correct and aulhen'
tic information 10 the proper departments, ron
the immediate vicinity OF every unworthy ms
cumbent, with The qualification and character oil
suitable substitute, instead eli permitting 'heir
sympathies 10 he enlisted by the iawnins hvp oc>
fisy VI those who are ready 10 creep and lick Inc
dust from lhe feet OF those they have revlled.--
For The people To VOLUNTEER such information
as above indicated, is be only way to insure JUS
tce, safety and efficiency 10 the public service"
Now We have turned 10 the Enquirer of April
Ia, 1929. and find appended to the above note
(whethef written by "Afis;iIes" or The editor
does not appear; though that is matter oil no i'm.
porlance0 in the following words:
ut is hoped this will not be done clandssiatly
oul "rLSLf duu FAIRLY, ldliti W Fuo!IC MststH5s
than in ANY undsrhanded way, wnich would de-
ssrDsdty defeat It's object"
This note fully and uneq1ivocailY reprcbates
every thing like "secret system OF espionage"
the gis, OF tie letter as published in the Wing
This liul. note is OF the utmost importance in
explaining and qualifying The conIeIt-ye The
Wing entirely omils il, and toasts that 1t has
Published ian exact transcript" We have no
time 10 trace down the reflections suggested by
this new and monsrous phase Of The affair."
We leave il TO the Wings owl parry 10 pass The
proper judgment on paper, which palms oft as
original le;,er twenty years Cld-and, what IS
worse, false copy cfsaid docnmsni-and then,
exults in lis "incor.paTabe achievement"
We do mol know whether the Union will no
lice such paper-bat, il i, does, "Bundlecund"
(as the Wing calls him) viii have the richest
field tor all his sarcasm and power. No man
can mere thoroughly "rource" the Wing Tor lis
unwarrantable course. To the Wing, thus
caush, in lis own snare, the lines quoted by
itself are emnen,ly applIcable: