Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-12
IS eeeetasoeuU Sgssesa.
FRIDAY MORNING. FEB. ~. 1880.
THE VIRGINIA SENATOR'S.

The VIRGINIA SENATOR'S.
y correspondent of the Political Arena, from
Washington. Expresses tho belief, that both Sir
Tszewel and Mr.. Tyler, viii GO TO confirm all tie
Presidents nominations, Hill, Kendall, Lce-aH,
without discrimination. Nobody expected mulch
independence from either and nobody will there.
tore be much disappointed yet were it worth white,
We would ask the latter gentleman, if he remembers
ms earnest and reiterated professions to the party
Who put HIM into the Scuate, sbfee years upts
When ioterrogatrd by The friends of tho then Al
mhistratiGn, by whose powerful and concentrated
suffrage, he elected Mr.. Randolph-a deed bv the
bye, which we believe every man of them has lived
To rcpmt-wh'n nlerrog ttcl by them what his
course IN that body would be, has he forgotten his
'lnFtcer That he would go all occasions for lis
pr'ncipcsthlt is tn say for the Virginia doctrir es
as they are caIed--but hat lie would avoid all OK.
rcmes, that he abhorred the spirit of personal poll
ties and would support nothing which he did NOT
believe right in itself Denial of what is not atrrcc.
able. IS the fashion of the time-bnt we have too
much confidence IN Mr. Tylers honor. to fear that
he Will deny this. The repc alton of the friends
g tho Administration was in the same frank spirit.
They told him they DID not wish or expect bim
to apostatize from his principlcs-,hat they were
the principles Of the State, and he could not ass
her Representative, abandon them with honor
How has Mr. Tyler kept those fine promises? WHAT
member of the Senate has been truer TO the great
JugScFnaut, -noro thorough, more indiscriminaie.
III support Of extreme party measures, Among tie
hrst OF his votes was one declaring Daft Green cleo
ted Printer to the Senate. under Eator's famors
resolution in the teeth of an myossibitv-for il Is
impossible that 81 should be a majority of 43-a
measure than which the records of party canf1ot
produce one more exclusively PERSONAL and indef;i-
s'be on principle. Il it in accordance with Tia,
principles, about which Mr.. Tyler made such Aonr-
ish at the period of his election, to sanction the
policy OF prescribing for not choosing to SNIP
port particular individual for the Presidencv-and
on the other hand, to approve the principle of re.
warning Editors who controul the Press end mem
bers of Congress whose official situation enables them
to ecciiuneer with efficacy. because they did Gun.
port that individual? Is MS one of his princples
ono of the Vi glnIo doctrines--which when he wns
elected, hc talked so much about?
Let not that gentleman suppose It's to be inaanneu
ny personal luminosity towards him Itis far from
the case We like, nay love the man--and rcoret
deeply that one privately ai!ab!e should be no.
hicaly so inlirm, and afraid of doing riohi We
are aPpriscd of tic principle upon which he hos re-
gulo,cd his course ia the Senate. He was oleetcd
by the late Administration party in The General Az
semby of '26-27--a strength Of 20 or So out 90
2j8 and fraction of the Jackson party. Thu.
ladder having answered its purpose he soon kicked
1t away and set himself to propate the party. q
majority in fact. whom his election and the circunt
stances attending it, had offended. This pcrhnr,s
was natural bot we did not expect it from the man,
or The little siraiogcms he has employed to eject
thio object and the lwits md nqcs II has been his
pleasure 20 give to the friends of Adams and CIov
in violation Of The maxim not to abuse the bti,r,!
that carried You oyer sae--hc is conscious. TIis
has resulted, in what perhaps be cared little about
The total alienation Of tho political affections Of the
minority indeed, bat The respectable minority ~
whose aid he was elected. Whether the other ,c-
suit will be comfortable to biz cxpcc aion,-wbefhcr
he has succeeded in gaining his foes by tho course
which h's lost to h.n his Iruc friends, Ipc election
Of 1892 will show.