Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-08-15
To rnn Eulrons or rns Vino.

10 IHE EuIroRS Oh THE WIG.
Gentlemen: Your contemporary" Mr.. Editor
Richie, from the motto which he has so long display
I'd himself, seems to have settled down IN his own
mind, that no Is pre-cminchtiy remarkaple Tor ms
gualitv OF fearless dcvotcdness To truth. against pow
or or numbers. Although / shall run almost ia the
winds eye" ! do not propose at this time actually
20 dispute the point with him, or even to investigate
the evidences he has furnished OF his title to this IA
voritc feature in his own eyes, ofhis character. You
however, seem sometimes hardy enough To throw out
that from which il is inierable that you az least, are
somewhat ~sccptical respecting the veteran editors in.
fcxibiliiy. But on matters of the high import of this,
permit ne To remind you, that the coalition men
are not at all times the most impartial Judges. He is
rot wholly dcs.itntc of evidence III favor of the dis
tInction which lac claims for himself, and this ] Link,
ON 4 candid revision OF the subject. you must admit.
Allow hun then. not because it Is SO, but because 1t
might DO SO, therefore allow him for argument saee
to stand on this point, in a minority of one by himself,
one against the fearful odds OF Ia united and unsha-
kan conviction of the whole community to tie contra
~. Allow him To be u mere time snrving parasite,
irick, scurf. foam purged OF by the la5ouring waters,
floating with the current aud uiternateiy dissolved
ty the FIRST opposing element and again re formed;
or tho guy and heartlcss weather-cock dressed oil
in all the stern habllimcnts OF truth and resolution,
proudly Growing and Tapping the wings of victory
with his hbk up, trembling and whirling be-
fore every breeze that blows, ut once the sub
J3ct and the sarcasm OF the vilcst sycOphancy
ever played OF before the eyes OF IN intelligent
people = allow all this, vet vou cannot deny as hum
bly, conceive, that the cons,u'cy with which he pro-
claims himself from week to week and from year to
year TO ne "vcrltc sans pour furnishes NJ least one lI-
stance of his capacity To- stem q current.
A word or two of DEPRESSION UPON wcatliercocks,
aud ] have done. No one has been more frequently
called weather cockical than Mr.. Editor Richie. and
why? Who, permit me TO ask, faces the storms with
more pronptitudc than weathcr-cocks?-or who
more constant TO the ccntrc?-k he like q wea-
ther-cock? boldly ask, IL he true as a wca-
thcr-cock' Weather cocks never turn tail TO the
wind.-TTuth, fearless truth, faces the storms of
power, weathcr-cocks face the storms of the heavens
If he is like a weather cock. is not n weather. cock
therefore like him! If Richie be a weather cock
why not a weathcr-cUcI be a Ri;c.ii| Yet he is
powerful, they are the degraded. What Mcssrs.
Jjditors must be the feelings of weather cocks when
they see themselves the mere b~y-words of scorn and
contempt; and Difference. honour, and respect at the
that generous zeal which has So long shown conspic-
uously through your columns, demand Of the public
as the only redress for the long injured weather cocks
that they no longer be called by that odious name.
but that in future they be called Ritclics. and feel
prophetic when ! say success will crown your efforts
Led into this depression, but | cannot regret il, II is
one of the fond exercises of the mind which il loves
10 indulge; IL is the cause of equality between equals
who have been %uncqually dealt by--a cause where
both the Judgment and best feelings of tho human
heart alike embarked, | can never cease to feel n
lively interest in, until the last expiring pulsotions
of life arc gone--bcforc men then | cannot apologize
for it-And when | now resign il over into your
hands, family aud iacbly touched as it is, / feel that |
rather tear myself away from it than voluntarily
leave IT. RICHMOND.
L. ;. What docs the Enquirer mem by complain
ing that his paper docs not reach its d.siina,ion?' He
gays IL is duly mailcd.-Is Gov. Preston to be reform
cd'-and is the independent Editor paving the way to
ii? Lay OH McDuf.