Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-09-28
RICHMOND, VA.
wednesday Morning, September 20, ls4o.
THE ESPIONAGE" ONCE MORE.

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Gus" character OF lis own ehusiors' IL '"s's''
that the original Letter was pr nach!y P'oiiSh
ed in the Enquirer" Of 1929, and MAT The i'''e "o.'
which :, ~. view Of al! candid men ki!s hi
"b 5, Joke OF The season" wa editorial. aud prove
us;pny. that the Enquirer o! lo29 Ee'naea ''
~, ,he snseeslicn OF genera! espionage Ceioft
+. readers without any qualification, aud, ther''
Ire. ven.nred modest "hope" that The plan >hou!e
have the resemblance Ci publicly, els lis aoin'
rabIe "obect', (Which the editor by No means uis'
approved) might be de'eaied"
We find in the ErQGirer OF The IAN apfi'
1929. another leucr from CATS ides," reviewing
the s,fic,uf,s OF lhs lla,iona! lnIeilisencer and
Journal on another proposition OF his ('n regard
n Presidea, Jackson's business houfs) in his
frs, letter. Tie Enquirer accompanies tins !eoei
with an editorial, which commences as follows
& Hithom pretnd;ng 10 guarantee the accuracy
OF the statements q Aris ides, by giving them
leading place in this paper for aohtcEhe IS IN
tirelu indebted TO III fofeman Of our o@e) VIC
must undertake to say that we have never known
more preposierous attempt 10 sophIsllcate pain
matter Of fact. Than We have Witnessed in the pre-
sen, instance" The E!i;or WAS not, therefore,
responsible for giving prominence" TO ATisldes
But The Times oil Monday says in regard 10
his noe, (Which it assumes To be edi'ollai) that
at only shows .!a, Inc proposition TO IS abiish
s,sem Of espionage on The public officers, was
no, pub!;s ed inadvertently, and tia! the kdh.rI
no. the letei-wri!er advised public rather than
a private way Of communicating information
about their conduct"
Now VIC have never heard or dreami OF any
tang like ''paoIic" espionage, whose exclusive
element is seclccy-and as The Times seems not
o be aware OF ,ac meaning oil the void, We
nropose 10 enlich;en il, though The TASK may net
help he "lu.ubrcus cachinalions" OF 'ha' pa
per. Noah Webster in bis Dictionary says;
"E,piopage. The practice or employment OIL
spic,; lie praclicc Of watching The WORDS anu
cou,!ac, OF others, aud attempting To make DIS
caycrss. a. $; rs or Ssc,e, cmissarics; Inc prac
ire Of watching others mitheld being StSp et.d,
and giving intelligence OF discoveries made.
How thea, espionage can be "pub!ic," or any
thing else than c,ci We canno; conceive. -
Blu, the mel. expressly rerudiates all secret
"underf andcd' prac;ices-aEd asss for "cpe
and fair" and public action--s,ill The Times
mo,t strangely holds The author of the note re.
sponsiblc for recommending system oil espi
oaage," which is from ills very nature, s'eftt =
Thus does Inc Times, the Wings second in TINS
'.labor Of love-" tunblc from one b!under INTO
another, "laughirg" all the time. We wonder
at its peculiar temperament.
We copy ii2 following amusing article ifoa
the Examiner, which Gacc> ne authorship CT 'ae
':incomraIab!e achievement" ~ TIE Wing. HE
editorial" in he Etqni:er; 20 which ii allades, We
have satisfied Ourselves On father examination;
is a part ol the original Letter in the thqaiIet,
and utterly qualities the secrecy, Tue tsmono &c
from which the Wing and Tic Times so rliiou-
ousy plucktt their "soaI's-wool". The Exami'
ner says:
We receive that Mr.. Jenny T@i'cher con
linucs To "rnrich he style OF The rar!iZan press
with rchips OF exotic metaphor" Inc SAFES
COPY OF Miles Register is doing good service in
Inc cause. We were considerably amused ~ a
lille mistake which that instructive newspaper,
HE Richmond Wing, step, into, through Jemmy's
Lnavic III Inc enlightened game OF Whist, known
a. a rcais ii We spell rigiliiy--cf which il le-
minis one.
graf many years agc, just after triumph
of Tie Rspubc9a party III violent struggle,
some savage individual wrote a letter, in The
Richmond Enquirer of that date, proposing a
system Of tSp:oaa. e upon TIC doing OF the Fcde-
ra!ists remau,pg 10 othc: thai The powers al
WASHINGTON might know whom 10 turn on and
whom 10 save uauarmej. II seems the man who
DOES tie funny things Tor the Wing got held
Of This letter al cred the "or.s "tepuolican par
y" TO Wing parity" and "Fsi,raisls" to so
coocos" wherever they occurred, and inserted il
in the newspaper aforesaid, as trap Tor the sc
Nor editor oil Inc Unipn The Uniou expressed
Itself with gscal warmth upon thcmeasurc adTo'
Gated by lie letter i'll the Wing. Whereupon
the latter comes back with the bu5est flourish
and co ifcation over the success Of i!s ingenious
scheme The Wings OF the universe should be
conyulsed with laughter" the "o!d fox caught,
the "bait iakcn,' &c TIE Times copies the let
tel, clcI .ica,iUn aid al. The friends vi boil
mus, neecs haze iooEcl very blank when ,EeJ
saw he Enquirer Of lie mex. day. The editor:
If that paper on referring 10 III. volume conia m
ing Ire urg,nai lel.er, ioani succeeding the sam
ali ,da1riai repro5atng the scheme in terms a.
siioIg Is those emp,oyed by The Union OF lht
other day. Tw;,cher had made The ugly miaak
0: repatishins lie Letter As end ,sed by The for
mer cdor OF The Enquirer, nov oi the Union
ava oil missing ea'tcly The editorial ;epudi2ties
me letter.
We understand that this matter is chucke;
over by some as something ye;y smart. Bat in
deed II seems to us rs disreputabie aud dirty
| lfick as a gentleman ever soiled he hautis with
Yesterday tnurn.n2, tie newspaper comes bacl
| vi n this n,l and poo! "come cli'-lhal The e,li
| total gaoc! BIZ The EuqIircr was not pn,t Q
the original l.,e:! Jenny had bctier have II
| i-d W ms I'D ca;holcon Tor all Gciccton-aVELI
vor ~ iT}"