The North-Carolina standard., 1839-12-11
THE s"wHIG" CONVENTION.

j Committee through all its mazes of silly verbi
age and ridiculous pomposity; but shall note her
and there speck of those everlasting beauties an
immortal loquacities that are so well calculated t
astonish and dismay!
1t will be recollected that the Committee esta
blished their claims to qualification highly neces
sary in the discussion of matters of deep interest
which is no less than deep profundity. They mex
proceed with the following:
"In Great Britain, it is maxim of conduct will
the people, which has been sanctied by the usag,
of centuries, 10 hold the most prominent Ministe
" responsible for any disastrous results which may
! 's flow from the measures, which are commenced
and consummated during his ascendancy in the
!" councils of State, If this maxim should be en-
forced with even partial degree of rigor in this
country in reference to Mr.. VAN buren,, where
and at what point would the popular malediction
" terminate gu
| We always knew that the Federalists had a high
veneration forF'Brtish maxims," and it is now We
ry apparent that this Committee, (who concentrate
all the political acumen Of Federal Whiggery with
in themselVes) consider the President of the Uni
ted States as merely the Prime Minister of the Bank
Monarchy. Because it is the doctrine of the Bri-
tish Government that ''lhe King can do no wrong" !"
the Prime Minister is the scape-goat for his sins
and suffers all the odium of his tyranny So the
Went to the will of King Bank, and render him ac-
countable forall the iniquities of the Monarchy
This is most capital modern 'Whig" doctrine.
The next paragraph which will attract the atten-
ton OF the most careless observer is one wherein
the Report speaks of our maratime enterprises and
The "SubstGttiaL achievements which have been
reduced 10 '1tst and ashes" The reducing of an
"achieVemen" to "dust and ashes' must be most
rare Process-we dare say the "achevement' is
several time sublmated before it is reduced to
"dust," not % speak of "ashes.' Whenever the
Committee obtain leisure from the cares of State,
we expect they will publish book of Chemistry,
whereby the idmring world will become acquaint-
ed with the manner in which moral conceptions
are transmitted into physical substances and po!it-
cal bombast into calcedones, fit to be inserted in
the crown of Federal Whiggery.
But there is another sentence Immediately fol-
lowing, which will excite the greatest wonderment
among both the wise and the simple of all degrees
the wonder will be that any ones brain could
have been fraught with mighty conception,
and not before this have been compelled to bring
it forth to the world. 1t is sort of Captain of the
Host to train Of very smart and pretty followers
What shall we liken it unto? 1t is "morning
gun" to day of very heavy cannonadng. Lucky |
elioWs were those who were present at the rehear-
sal We think the Reciter must have enjoyed all
he felicity OF which great mind is susceptible, in
irst announcing truths which the happiness, the
'ery existence, of mankind depend. We think we
lear the reader parenthetically exclaim "Take care
ny dear Dangles the morning gun is going to fire ="
Here it is: z.v,~-..--
We beheld the farmer sowing his ground with
the joyous anticipation that rich harvest was to
spring from the bosom of earth to requte his tolls
Never, since the days of Nebucadnezzar, who
ook fancy to eat grass has the world been served
With such rare dish, that presented in the a.
owe. We have not only farmer sowing his
round, but farmer expecting to reap rich har-
est. Surely those admirable administrations
l which such things were done and hoped for,
lough Federal Whiggery has heretofore abused s
lem all, except one. But if the Report says one
ling and intends another, according TO the custom
the Whiggery-that is, if the authors meant that
lie farmer was sowing his seed instead of the
round, still it is very remarkable that farmer
lould sow seed with expectation that they :
outd vegetate and produce crop. Very singular e
mes indeed were those. The fact that most g
oundant crop was experienced last year may be
accounted for, in the absence of Mr.. VAN buren, i
om the seat of Government during part of the $
-owlng season. But how any seed which have o
zen sown during his administration ever came I'D.
aqueston we leave to Federal Whiggery to set q
e. Among the phenomena that occurred before
IS administration was that of farmer sowing his
ound and expecting crop-which clearly estab-
shes, the fact that nething of the kind ever occur
d under Mr.. VAN BUREN. The farmers know
est about this.
The Report goes on stronger and stronger, and
YES the following charming illustration of mechan-
al labor:
" We beheld the mechanic providing himself with i;
all the component elements of matter which ner- Il
tain to his vocation in life and cherishng the fond =
assurance that he was to become the participant !;
of fresh comforts, when these ingredients should
be wrought into articles of human consumption I a
and use.'
We here not only have the mechanic, but the Fl
echanic providing himself with all the comno- d
mt elements of matter which pertain to his voca-
IN" We like to see one come straight to the mat, 7
r in hand, and not go roundabout way to assert v
thing. Some persons would think that this delec- c
bic flourish about tools and mate erials miobt be Il
'thed in language more concise and intelIioible :,
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