Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-25
n IN THE WEST.

we caution tho public TO put littlo trust in those
quotations from a few western papers, winch are vs.
tentatiously b!Izoned in the Jackson print in this city.
and the Telegraph, os evidence of tho appreciation
With which Ohio and Kentucky havo received the
defeat of the Maysvillc road That tn. papersof Ken.
dali, Penn, Dawson, and Gardiner, who have rccciv-
ed the Presidents bounty, and 4 few others which ure
eudesvoring TO deserve ii. by unqualified s~orvility,
and The shameless and instantaneous abandonment Of
the very principles upon which they first supported
him; that these and such as these should approve, is
by no means surprising Hut they do not spcnk the
public sentiment. Iftha, may be coniectured from the
numbers Of public prints which have espoused he two
sides, the approvers orc IN q lean minority. The toue
is still more decisive of the state of sea'iueu,. One
side is beseeching and apologetic, the other bold, con-
fdent and cccided. 'phe approving prints are placed
10 the ridiculous situation of being compelled to eat
their own words, not a month uttered Praising The
President a month ago, for what he could do, they arc
now equally praising him for not doing the same
thing. PROD sacy 30 l-grant. cannot escape censure'
and must strip those guilty of it, of al! influence. 1t
ia disrespeo,fult to the public which it seeks to involve
10 it's disregard Of principle, not less than ,ntrinsically
unworthy.
1t nav be pronounced impossible, that Kentucky
aud the N W. States. shall continue their support of
the administration. lnteres, and resentment concur
10 forbid il. They cannot forgive the man who has
both duped and injured them. This conclusion rs
cDnHrmed by all the indications, except those furnish
ed by the rewarded, and more desperate portion of
the Jackson press. One excepted, the entire Ohio
Delegation are considered as opposed to the admins.
tration, aud several changes have occurred in that Of
Kentucky Different papers say that numerous in
divduals have openly changed, and every private &C
count represents hostility to tho administration as I'M
equivocally certain
The Cincinnati Advertiser, a Jackson PAPER, holds
this language:
1--WE agree with the Editor Of the Telegraph. that the Message
Of the President, in returning the bill which appropriated
0l6O, 90 TO tho above Road, 10 one Of The most important acts
Of his evenliul life, However II may ba ha lied by the republic
Cans Of Tho South. We can assure the Editor that the republi-
ciplss svowed in this message. were charged against Gen Jack
ON, in tho late contest for the Presidency, by his oppouents-
90, his friends successfully repeled the charge Little did they
soppose, that, by a high ofHEial &C, Of the pretidsnt, all their
arguments used in his behalf would be refncd. and a complete
III umph Given to his adveTsares. Such, however. is the
Illuminating altitude IN which the above message has placed the
friends Of the Administration in the Weu.
Eve have looked through the whole Message, IN order that
we might thoroughly understand il Indeed we had hoped
that, il had placed the great question Of Internal Improvement
on a around, which could he consistently sustained by the
icadrpa friends Of the Administrations; hut, we arc compelled
TO admit, and We do it With nminged souow, that. unless
there be a total abandonment Of the policy Of the West, in
rssrd to Internal improvements, the message mus, he condcm-
ued"