Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-11-30
NIB. LETcHER AND DIR. RUFFNER.

In Saturdays issue. We published the some
what notorious address Of the Rev. Dr. Rutincr,
and to-day We reproduce Mr.. Letchcr's excuse
for his endorsement Of that emancipation docu-
ment We also publish the letter ITO the Peo-
pie of Virginia" from DR.. Rufner, speeifratty
denying the allegations Of Mr.. Letcher's ex-
cuSe.
The three iocuments are now before the
Democracy Of the State, as well as before the
opposition. and as it is within our knowledge
that many of the Wing stump orators have
most carefully filed away the RutIncr Pamphlet,
with emphatic marks and annotations TO repro
ducc against the party should Mr. Letcher he
nominated we propose to forewarn tn" Dcmoc-
racy in time. to prevent the use of this
bottled thunder" No further comments upon
these documents are necessary from us. II they
do not carry their own conviction and emphatic
warning, nothing additional from us would
have any effect If the party is determined
to brave the sentiment Of Virginia. and, relying
solely upon party ties, I" nominate the only
man in the State. against whom very large
portion of the party have so very emphatically
protested both individually and i'll popular
meetings, it will argue rashnes> uncxampled
in party history. and which, we predict, will
be most sadly repcntcd when too late to
remedy. The ties IF party are solely relied
upon by the friends Of Mr.. Letcher to
drag his nomination through the popular
ordeal Clogged rs that nomination will
he with the objections urged against him,
and the popular manifestations protesting
against him, VIC predict "A hard road to travel
for the party in the ensuing campaign. with
Mr. Letcher as the nominee For the first time
in the history Of the Democracy Of Virginia
will popular election hinge upon the anti
slavery sentiments Of Democratic nominee
In addition to this the dcnominational affection
Of very large church will be appealed to, to
sustain an honored and beloved minister in the
issue of veracity raised by Mr.. LctcherS letter
TO the editor of 'rhc South" and DIR. Ruifncr's
reply addressed to the people of Virginia. The
deep seated resentment Of the Democratic par
ty against Know -Nothingism, will be ridicucd
BY the opposition. when the denounccr Of the
nominees Of 1866 is the candidate oi the DE
moeracy in 1852. If ever party was called
upon to take back and deny every objection
formerly so signally urged against their oppo-
neuts. the Democracy, with Mr. Letchcr aS their
nominee, will be made to rcpudatc their past
course with regard to Summers and Flournoy.
The charge of emancipation, urged against Sum-
merS, must necessarily stand withdrawn ami re-
pudiated by the nomination of MIR. Letcher;
while the Know -Nothingsm of Flournoy is for
given and excused by the nomination Of John
Lctchcr, the traduce- of the nominees of his par
ty in that contest. Ii is now known that E.x-
Gov. Wm Smith stated, in II public speech in
Fauquier last Monday, that Mr. Letclicr informed
him on the day after the nomination that three
Of the d-drst rcnegades in the State" were the
nominees and this dcnunciation was made not
wtl,stantling he had urgently solicited one of
those very 'rvnegadcS' to be candidate for
the t. S. Senate against r. Al. I. Hunter.
Mr.. Letcher is violently urged by the anti
internal improvement politicians throughout
the State, for reasons hest known to them and
Mr. Lctcher; and with him as Governor and
them as his advisers and supporters, the credit
of the State must sink. internal improvements
languish, and enterprise and progress die. Many
ofthese politicians now SO urgently pressing Mr.
Letcher, are the same men who have fed
upon the State credit. stricken down by their
own hands-,and to perpctuate that policy. the
politicians Of the Essex Junto have lengued
with certain politicians Of the Baltimore into
rest in North Western Virginia, to paralyze the
internal improvements Of the State.