Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-05-19

adjourn until next FrGay night, May 10th.
This latter motion evailed, 66 to 55-an adjourn
nent took place uear | P. M.-and the whole ques
ton OF making De docratic nomination will come
up' as Unfinished business, in The meeting on Friday
| night next.
For the Enquirer.
TO THE VOTERS OF FLUVANNA COUNTY
Doctor WIN. A Gray has published in the shape
oi circular letter, an address TO you. in which he
tells you that, to his asonishment he has been wait.
ed Oh by delegated committee aud informed that
he was nominated and unanimously chosen AZ the
candidate OF the Wing party for the chs uug Legis.
lature although ''he positively refused when $50
l!ced by a number Of the leading and most innuen.
iial members Of the party to suffer himself to be no.
minated Tor that Office and although 'it being late
III the afternoon, and e residing distance ron,
the Cour; House, left before the meeting was organ
lied, confidently believing that his friends had ex.
cused him' Notwithstanding his positive refusal
and solenu p.otestarions against tile act the Doctor
has then, II seems, been unanimously chosen as the
candidate oi the Wang party, and he manifestly con.
celvrd himself thus tu tc placed in most painful
dilemma IN awidi contemplation OF which, address
ing lis fellow citizens he patsrticay asks, "Whai
| nOT, my cOuntrym can DOR
Painfully revolving the question in his III nd III.
! Doctor arrived al the conclusion, that he was bound
10 accept the proilrred post ot danger. lie rightly
thought thai the man who should turn his back upon
his friends when called Oh by them in their hour 0i
greatest peril and Distress would Justly merit the op.
probrium of every honorable mind. The master spi.
rlt, selected by his companions lead fprlOrn hone
Ill hazardous enterprise he rightly considered that
however inpregnabe in lis defcnces the fortress
against which he vas 10 march, however npracti.
cable the undertaking and desperate the enterprise
yet did not become him to decline the post of dan.
GER For him 10 do ''Inght be considered unmsn.
ly and unpatriotic" Never did sacriliciai victim
approach the altar on which he to immola.
fAd oil
And we'll might the Doctor shrink back from the
position which the leading of his party persist.
cd III assigning to him. Even had he been al aspi.
rant for political preternent and he says he not.
ne could see no comfortable prospect before HIM for
the qualification of such ASPIRATIONS Nay, e uubt-
less discerned looming mp in the prospective pnran
tous clouds, onnously threatening 10 with in.
evtsble and disastrous defeat, and ruin him who
should oppose the worthy candidate, Col. d. W. X.
| BnWes, of the iihomtahl- Democracy uf FIuysuus
That the Doctor, under the pressure of these con
sideratons determined, Notwithstanding the certain
prospect Of his defeat. TO accept the candidacy s,r
in the House Of Delegates OF Virginia, il il not
for 10 complain. He ia rather to be applaud-d Tor
consentiug to the sacrifice. But that he, in his ad
dress to you in which he thought proper 10 refer To
| his anccedents in connection with politics and poll
ticaI parties should have neglected to give and ia.
deed studousy avoided givin. his whole an.eceden;s
| II this respect, we do complain and shall pro.
ceed To supply the omission.
The Doctor says, with the Wing party have |
| been identified from my youth, under this banner
| what banner ID. had not before referred 10 any
'have fought, and until shall become convinced
that Mry are wrong, | expect to r-lnain with them"
| Would you not infer from this tia: the Doctor
"old liner" simon pure Wing, whose affections for
| Ls early, first love had never known any variable
ness; thGt hG, at east had never yielded To the seduc
| tive wies of "San, and never entered the "cu!vert!
| Yet.if rumor does not SANDER him most egregously,
| ne did make the acquaintance OF "Sanl' when he
was about, becane III fact his enthusiastic admrer
and devoted follower, end u cet in one of his
ellis. Unless the waters Of another Lethe icOud i; be
those of the Lche o: Tartarus I! were drunk by the
Doctor during his so Ourn in the culver," his memo
| nv could not be Oblivion, of his connection with the
Know NOthings, and of the further fac: that that par.
~ boosted that rose upon the ruins of both the old
parties professed common hostility to both, and
| swore the country could only be saved by putting
| Know. Notbings into office. How, then, could the
Doctor say that he had been identified with thu Wing
party from bis youth Was it not, tn say The least,
dlsingenuous in him not to disclose the fact that he
| had Joined "the Order" Are We to infer from the
| Ductor's silence that, in his estimation, Know. Moth
ingsm and Whiggery are essentially the sanel That
| the profession by Know. y Nothngism of u common
| hostility TO the Wing and Democratic parties
mere trick device resOrted to for the purpose of
| trapping unsuspectng Democrats, and cheating and
| d-frnudlng them of their votes Is Whiggery and
| Know Sothingi-m near of kin, 20 homogeneous,
| that the Hudibrastc distich--
"Put them in bag and shake 'ein,
Yourself of sudden shall mistake EN-"
| May, with entire proprety, be applied to them. And
| has the Doctor severed his connection with the "Or.
der" aud ior-aken its principles, i's dsmnabe
heresies, 40 scnay reprobatcd by The people of Flu
wanna only kept in the back ground because OF their
| unpopuarty 7 We would feign believe The former,
but insist that, f the fact So it his duty TO
avail himse. of the opportunity afforded by his ad
dress publicly TO disavow his repentance and recan.
taton. Having failed to do So are justified in
asserting that he is still Know o,hing in principle
and we ask the voters Of F.uvsnna If they intend TO
send Know Nothing to represent them in the Legis
| a,ure We know you will not. The Doctor knew you
would not, and hence II is that he endsavors to divert
| your attention from the fact of his completely with
| Know NOthingsln.
| What protean shapea, what mutations in name and
ostensbe principles assumed and adopted by the
opponents Of the Democracy! They are no sooner
whipped, scourged and pillowed under name
than they straight-way adopt another, and, by the
| change of name, expect to impose their execrable
doctrines upon the people. Past experience should
| have taught them better.
I've years ago the Know Nothing party was the
head aud front of the opposition. Every Wing, with
! few honorable exceptions, betook himself TO the
| "cuvert" Nothing could exceed the aacrity with
which they wended their way along narrow lanes and
alleys and subterranean passages, by dark lanterns
lighted TO the mysterious GbOdes Of SAM when, BY
| solemn ua'hs and grips, they pledged Themselves Ia
help one another into office, the dead bodies oi
the damned foreigners, Catholics aud Denocrats.-
| But certain Wise man from the EAst, rose up
ayan-t them. He dared them tn come up 0At ot
their dark holes and him in open honorable con-
1ct He detied them the encounter. They thought
discretion the better part of vn!or. He tore away tie
veil which concealed them, exposed their horrit here
sizes TO the gaze Of indignant public and marahai
iny the hots of the indonitab!e Democracy for 'h-
contest, gave them a drub5lng from which they have
not and never will recover. AMI now, sam IL illi
en- SD low, there is 80 poor "a 10 do him
ence. The Doctor does NOT deign him even pass
|
that thu poor fellow ever e1IsIed. SIC transit gi0r'a
! mundi
Know. .Nothingisn having been thus killed Of
WbIggery-upon the ruins ot which the former rinted
for a time-has had its carcass miraculously rrsur
rected, and the breath of life again infused into
! So at least it would appear from the Doctors af
dreaa. And, certainly, person looking upon th'
| meeting which nominated the Doctor, would suppos,
either that the individuals who composed it, wer,
! the followers of the unfortunate "Sam," mourning
aud sorrowing bis misfortunes or that il
assembly Of ghosts and spec,res recently loosed from
the ombs to walk abroad on the earth only for awh
so desolate and sepuchral air did they wear. Thi
meeting was As remarkable for paucity in number
a. for its want of animation ard was, n both re-
specie suggestive Of the Doctors tate. on the All
| Thursday in May.
| The Doctor candiGiy avows his want of polifica
information and the paragraph on the subject of IL,
public lands furnishes latnenable confirmation Of hi
truth of that svowal. The hippaut manner IL wbic!
be treats and dispOses of this subject is resy asi"n
ishing as well painful. Les, should b- chnrpec
with doing him an injustice, l will give this para
graph in full:
"Apart from the principles which have heretofore
divided the parties the main Issue, as cpnc-Ve"o"
is that of the public lauda Shall virginia S -
her quota of ths proceeds of these landsi debt o.
great magnitude hangs over her TO pay which she ma
been compelled TO suspend her PaG'c improvements
in great degree. Her citizens are borne DOWN ~ al
taxation' ana
Tn. nrncccds OF these lands would to grea; extent
liouida,e this debt relieve you from the burden o
tsra,on and enable you to revive yoar works of in.
t-rna Improvement Ought We not then TO feceiv.
tbsrn 10 ,heir various public interests VI ark the
nrosnerity am, therefore, fellow. citizens, q lane
disrributonist."