The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-23
pasanin on the Rampage.

Pasauin on the Rampage.
Our neighbor of the Enquirer is out upon
the Whig and ourselves-upon the Wing
with much critical and humorous raillery
and upon ourselves, "more 3d." We do net
object to the distinction. 1t is rather fat
tering. 1t is agreeable to present salient
points for such an artist. We feel sort Of
proprietary interest in the wit Of our friend
the Pssquin Of the Enquirer.
He affects to think us given to "ambigu'
ity," and thus INDUCES refined irony Of
that proverbial simplicity, artlessness, and
directness Of the Dispatch! We have
never thought the Enquirer positively
cruel; but this looks little vicious. We
need but allude to one of his charges te
satisfy the readers of the Dispatch of this
He charges that we were ambiguous in our
support Of the committee of nine, when
all know that we supported it out and
out, and srs ready to stand by it as
long as it thinks proper to make
an effort. 1t was the only wholly
unobiectionable and wise movement "
that has taken place since the war.
Declaring the question of negro suffrage
settled-which the editor of the Enquirer
admits, as do some of the political apostles
whose "acts' of late have been like his Of
the Enqurer-acts Of hostility to the nine
they went to Washington to demonstrate
against the shackling of the white man
while the negro was clothed with the i'm
munities of freeman and citizen. This
was all-the beginning and the end Of their
mission. To this no sound objection could
be made, and to this the Dispatch gave its
unequivocal and earnest support.
Again. Our lively contemporary pro-
fesses to be in fog as to where we are on
the new ticket. 1t confesses that we de-
clared that we "admired tits word) the
men whose names are on the ticket. That's
enough to remove some of the fog, at least
with the help of little anti-fogmatic."
It is something to have "respect" for tho
persons proposed to fill the chief Offices of
the Government, and government 50 Off
cered, according to the Enquirer'S own
showing, will satisfy that fastidious jour
nal for it says if they could only fill
"our Offices with decent people Of any sort,
" of any nationality, we would, we are sure,
abe content" Then we are sure the En-
quirer must be satisfied with the WALKER
ticket, and, logically, It's support of that
ticket may be counted on.
There ia nothing further that this lively
pasquinade of our neighbours lays at our
door. 1t propounds great many questions
to both the WING and us. They assume 8
familiarity on our part with men and par
ties which we do not enjoy. The Enquirer
is as well informed about them as we are,
and we have as much ground to ask light
of that paper as it he's to beg information
of us. Indeed, more; because it conducted,
as one of the allies,-WELLs heading the
other-the combined war against the nine.
The nine cut off some of the heads Of the
hydra, and we, like another IoLAUs, endea-
Yored to scar over the wounds to prevent
the shooting out of other heads; but the
Enquirer was ever saving them over with
the most unctuous ointments, that helped tc
revive life and reanimate the purposes
which have so vexed the State.
With oil its character as marplo OF, with
all its free satires, we have weakness for
the Enquirer. We are, indeed, unlike-we
are SO simple and it so versatile and sharp
we cannot get even with it. Our directness
is ridiculous, and we are ever reminded Of
the trouble of pushing a straight stick
down q crooked mans throat. But still we
| admire the Enquirer. To-day it is pious
and Observation-Disclosures, bubbline
over with rolGoking humor and recherche
innuendoes that ANACREoN might be proud
of. One day our friend breaches, the next
| he Jokes. At one time he is BENEDIcK, al
| another o LoTHARIo. He "cusses" thu
German :" as though he were GERMAN.
IcUs, and had right to. Now he Grips
it with EURIPIDEs," and next he "can,
cans" it with sold CANTHARIDEs''-and
so on, and so on, with endless versatility
and entertainment. -...-.-.-.
And yet the Enquirer says it rests Oh its
lance. Not bit OF it. It's lance is never
in rest it is ever flying, as though ii
vas Bedouin's-indeed, that is what the
Enquirer is; and yet we like this Be.
douin, and trust that when he wearies
Of flying in the air-emazing and per-
picking by his ovements-leaving every
where doubt as to whom he will next point
his shafts at; when, indeed, the genius-en-
lowed Cnlebs has seeded his crop of edito-
rial wild oats, and settles down to solid
work in harness, We shall have his aid by
the side Of the utilitsrian horse of the Dis
patch pulling the wagon Of toe Common
wealth out of the mud as. zas.