Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-06-29
RICHMOND, VA.
Thursday Morning, June %. ls4s.
EDITORIAL cORREsPo EDEHcE.
EAuourp Ss,,ro, Inc "a ,oa

Stoienl ana magnificent storm, with shar
ioud thunder and lightning. (Which must ha1
struck some object nearl II the theory is tru
there is no ozone or cholera in this atmospher
The copious showers to day have purified an
cooled the atmosphere, which for three days hs
been like heated copper, and tonight we have
refreshing and delicious breeze. The heat {
'ne weather until this afternoon is almost ur
Precedented here and elsewhere. Al Martin,
burg, letter states the thermometer on Frida
was 1854. fear that the weather may increas
the cholera in your city, where, from the death
Of valuable citizens reported in the papers an
from private accounts. regret to perceive tn
disease is on the advance.
We had religious service to-day in tho LAT,
Ballroom, but now the House OF Delegates Th,
venerable Minister was DR.. Balch, Of the Pres
byterian Church, who pronounced very inte
resting discourse, though his first appearance
was grotesquo. He is a divine Of great learn
ing, but Of some eccentrcity. The lesson be
read from scripture was the 9lst psalm, which
was selected as the most suitable for the occa
sion, being, as he expressed it, emphatically the
anticholera passage Of scripture. Some OF the
verses run thus:
Thou shalt afraid for the terror by night nor
for the arrow that fieth by day;
D. Nor for the pestilence that walketh In darkness
nor Tor the destruction IN at wasteth at MONDAY.
T. thousand shall fall at thy side and Ten thousand
at thy right hand; but II shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and the
reward Of the wicked.
q hon od., h.I tSh L. AZ
fuge; even the Most High, thy habltation;
10. There shall no evil befa thee, neither shall any
plague come nigh thy dwelling.
IL. For he shall give his angels charge thee, 10
keep thee In all thy ways
see from the Wing that Mr.. William Mel
son has shown a most laudabe industry and
zeal TO have the charges against the Custom
House at Richmond fully met and exposed
Your comments on his first letter in the Wing
certainly place that paper 10 a most embar-
RAISING position. | am glad to find from
his second letter that he does not mean to
let the Wing of on the plea of "conve.
nence,' but to have the whole subject.mat.
ter investigated, by challenging the accusers
TO do their worst. He is right. The reno.
val Of Captain Nelson, and the officers 10 the
Custom House as it stands, is more than naked
prescription BY protesting no party Cabinet
it is direct attempt to afix q stigma upon the
character of good officer and most excellent
man. BY imputins 10 him want of 'hones,y,
fidelity and capacity" laid down as the tests in
the Inaugural. II was bad enough to prescribe
patriot and christian, who has scrupulously
refrained from employing his Office for party
ends, and whose political course has been mode
rate and liberal-it was cruel and tyrannous TO
attempt to put it on other grounds, and to blast
bis character, in order to afford some excuse
for the sinister designs of Mr. w. B. Preston,
the only virginiau in the Cabinet, who is uni
versslly regarded as the main agent in this great
wrong Let all the facts be probed 10 the bot
tom, and let captain r,eIson 10 triou upvu Ma
merits as an officer and maR. No one but an
interested partzan can believe that The public
interests will be bene 6ted by the change that
has been made.
Alter all The slang OF the Taylor press about The
corrupting influences of "oreans." The "second
Washington" it seems, as not been able 10 dis
pense with peculiar 'organ" OF his own. THE
Republic" has appeared, but have not seen
copy-though heard Of single copy having
found It's way 10 The Springs, some days since
A distinguished Democra, speaks OF its ediori-
ais as breathing The very essence Of federalism.
From the following synopsis of its contents,
which find in The Union, this long-eIpecled re-
feclor uf Taylorism will only serve 10 make
the darknes, OF that arrant humbug still more
visible. The Union has pinned The Republic
down on The Wilmol Proviso, and has exposed
the deception on This question of The whole sys.
tenn Of Taylorism:
THE TAYLOR WING PLATFORM.
The Albany Argus having carefully and in
dus,riously spoiled down" The two articles in the
fits, number OF the Republic, has extracted from
them The following platform OF principles upon
which the government, is TO be administered un.
der the nominal administration OF The Second
Washington" Thus
/. The negative of the constitutional pferog-
alive and saieguard-the veto power oy which
responsibility may be avoided, the Executive IT
dured to a simple and working machine,
and The edic,s OF Congress. whatever they may
be, registered, ard mo questions asked"
2. In like SPIRIT congressional enactment
to be taken prima faeis as evidence oil the consi-
| tulionality and expediency OF tariff, internal
Improvements BY the general government and
| the regulation OF The currency doubtless ma
| tional bank included land The Executive sim.
| p,y to write "aprroged"-a duty without labor,
and which may be performed experlly by what
| is known in counting house manipulations as
"machne writing"
| Positively will mol go 10 war for the con-
quest OF Mexico.
4. AS TO slavery in The Territories, slavery in
the District of Coumbia-the Wimo Provso-
in Short every thing touching the greatest ques-
lion of lie times, and which Northern and South.
ern agitaors are pressing upon the county
mum, mol word. The administration plants It.
self upon the remarkably explicit ground, 1.-THE
dissolution otthe Union is an impraclcabiliIy-
q peaceful separation certainly So" What car
be clearer or more conclusive, when you onc'
find hem out, than Gen. TaYlor's views on hi
slavery question:
II this broad and we.de6ned platform will no
satisfy those presses Of The Wing party that ar
calling so loudly for an administrative policy
we shall conclude that nothing which his admin
is,ration may do will suit them.
VIEWS OF THE CABINET UPON GEN
TAYLoR'S PLEDGES.
The Albany Argus thus ingeniously extracts
from the editorials of the Republic, The acknow
LEGGED organ OF General Tayior auo tue aomin
is,ra,iou, the views of the cabinet upon the sub
ject Of The Generals pledges and professions be
fore the election. Itsays:
"We must not overlook the ingenious effort
the Republic to reconcile the attitude of Gen
Taylor before and since the election. 1t insist
that the Wing Convention, which convenient
avoided an avowal OF Wing or any other princ
plies, nominated him as Waig, after the decld
ration made 10 that body BY the Louisiana dele
gation-that any impression that he suppose
himself any thing else, or that they or anyhod
1.ave those who were daped) regarded him 9
any,biur else, was an absurdity--aud the MOTTO
I lha, be meant, or that they meant, any thin
; less than the removal of Democrats and The al
:. poin,men, of Wings, preposterous, We confe:
!. Ina, wa never for a moment regarded him
any other light: but there were those who Oh
, and ranosina nnan the faith Of his Oft repeate