Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-03-15

blsot, Tor hele,rns nothing, and is no wiser nov
.nan ne was snlf a century ago. he is a fanatic
oa ne has no ibera'ty. no charity, no enlarged
nauonai comprehension OF the movements and do
ings oithe world. Never there an instance o
ltne more triumphant dominion Of the Press than ia
thls case. For thirty wears he has KEEP. Yirgini'
Standing stu OF late, the most powerful minds o
Nrsinii, from Leigh TO RveS, and so on, have ira
rersed hill and dale. mountain and valley TO breal
MN down, Illuminating by their eloquence the te.
nants oil the Log Cabins OF the Aiiesahanies, n,
wen as the stately Mansions OF E,sieon Virgioa.-
out R1chies Enquirer was after them week aftei
week, smoothing bat they SAID parryins thei
oo~s, exunguishing their logic and making at last
Ine minds OF oil his hearers darker than ever. In
the cavern OF the mountains, on the island of the
swamp on the peaks of the hills in the recesses of
Ue valleys, where Orator never Irod, or Eloauence
never eneIed,-yet there-eyen there-was the
sprit oil Rtchie,-d spirit that seems never TO die.
IN spite OF truth, IN spite of justice spite of local
pfide, and even self respect, Virginia threw away
hsr own son. born OF her and hers, too ard took up
and adopted the cast off Offspring of New York
ana hNchle DID II all, IN spite, | was going TO saw
OF almost every body! Richie has GOT Virginia in
ehainS, the People there will own it, but Ii is
TACT lney 'rei and worry IN them, it is true bot
they cant break out, as long as there is any thing
'eit o, hun on earth. Now he tshtens up, and
now ne oosens ou',-anon the road is rough and
terrible, as 1t has been for the few years past blu,
ne Keeps ms seat,-Nirglnla in his biIs--probAbly
10 the end It's, therefore, my sincere and delibe
rate conviction that his death will be of more bent
to Virginia than was the invention of the cotton sin
! by Whitney, or the application of steam power. by
Fulton, to Nivisatlon,-to the world.
VIRGINIA AND HER RESOURCES.
| And why do judge thus harshly of one man
Here me, and will tell.
Virginia is the great central State of This Irn;o,.
/ It's geographical pivot its back bone on the mao
u may reterite phrases. Is climate as a who'll
the most agreeable and healthy in the pc
H@tes' IL rs to US what upper Italy is 10 Europe.
Ii rs not all fit, nor all mountain but about The
rlShtlntermingling of each The Maker of He wen
and Earth has written for it an august destiny ON
ITS very Biography and the greatest of men
george Washington, | mean, OF course was giyen
10 i--Hoi himself seems TO have ftvored ii with
succession oil men, the most Illustrious in history
"a purity too, in simplicity OF purpose and heart
lhey were no bISots fanatics, no Virsinisns-
no Americans peculiarly, but the heads and lights of
The whole human race. They sought To create no
preudces but to bend down all the Iars thai ssv.,
Ell Inank nd. They were the very men 10 act well
their parts. The fervid eloquence OF Patrick Hem
| ry powerfully started the revolution. The staid
northern sobriety of George Washington conouer.
ed, directed, and secured It. Thomas Jefferson gave
It an impetus, to break down mere IONS. II needed
! perhaps James Madison created defended and
made II reverential as written out. Their mower
their vitality ended with the peace of 1916 when
America started on new of material aud busi.
mes enthusiasm. One Thomas Richie then got
hod OF the real reIns OF the Government lie lend
ing Press and Virginia has no, ofhe,selC advanced
step Since. He has discouraged nearly all enter
prise. de deems al! things unconstitutional that
are tor good For nothing, lie is against every thing
/ lie Is the great head OF all things "3ntin ms
shnlHium boHu1 IS TO make the world stand still Re
I rigs land tups and deems this Statesmansbio Dad
himself virginia, he Intends, shall have no resur
recton. Thus Virginia is hardly a wear ahead of
where she was in 1916
| stand upon that front of the CapitoI. which
oyerloOks James River, the falls and tho roII,n,
country beyond. New Eng land is locked in Frost
ireo' ~ and The SHOWS deeply cover her soil-but
mere, summer sun, uneoniouably warm is over
us ana James RIVER runs rafting the rocks all
open, all eheerul, all Joyous in its yyeIeone rsys
IL has been almost unconstitutional 10 plant manu-,
factories upon these rocks till within The few mast
years,-and when 1t was done, it was in snite of
storm, hard names, and odium too. | ought TO see
100000 People from this point of view o,,cI,
TO see Lowell, Watham, Providence, and more com,
blned. The adventurous Yankee though VINO
pioneers IN enterprise, has been assailed cSlumni,
led, and abused by Riches press and he il gons
to Piusburg, Cincinnati, New Orleans, St. Louis or
Gaena. his kIih and kindred have been rIdiculed
and he is Oft. Daniel Webster himself could moi
speak national sentiments 10 Virginjans from This
idcade OF the Capitol, but that Rahies nr.ss INNS,
inhos2it'biy attack him. While our Northern hearts
and homes are wide open to Virginia Grafton, Of anv
school, Riches press asSals, attacks c,lun,niates
the great New England man only because he ;s
| New England man. Within the walls of This Ca
pitol too lie stimulates these attacks Abuse of ma
and our race Hes hot and swi III under his nsoston
hear from the gallery Of the House a GENT BIv.
ly sowing the seeds OF disorder and di.union uno,
the New York controversy, cilumni,tiny ali h.,
his own Acccmac Mankind, and Richie, nen d,ons
and the smile over his lips while 10 the n,,,an
/ al sentiments Of Mr. Coles Of Aibemarle IsIvs,ed
win a soundness and elegance worthy Of a Yirgin
ian, only irgid lo0k IS given,-for he il an Anal,
can as well Vlrginian Such man. such a ~ riter
depopudtes the country around him. Its cbivnlrv
em'grite under its whitening influence The cbiv
airy Of other lands stops but TO al9bt where ,o ,o
hUspitable Press betrs sway. Yearly ipdc.d ="
the census shows, Riches Virginia is depoou,tsd
II a century more were given him around Ricb
mond would be but the Roman Campagna An
the medSu OF the Federal Government i,s, -,
unlus, that tend 10 It's depOpulation he breaches
! ire emPuVe 10 Dram oH his People Graduation
and Cession, ASH pre-emptpn were not ENOUGH M
distribution, Tor th't would bring back what tskes
from i-whi0 all the while, what Is left Of the peo
pic there are harrassed by fanatic cries Of 'Nor.
thern Abolition" to scire off People, II would seem
from their proximity to the Potomac RIVER. Hs
teaches them 10 believe all others are their enemies,
lie lncuieftes and sgsuains all the pfeiud,res of
People peculiarly agricultural. II thing, GET oE
over or beyond '9S, and what 9s is. nobody knows
why all things are gone TO desiruc ion as If ciyilil
ziuOn, the dummies, the world were perfect when
he lllItchie) dlsd IN '9S-for dead IN many senses
he his been sincei-as # TOO in 43 years, Mankind
had learnt nothing ataifi
! We Northern people know nothing Of the 70.
s)urcest INC n'tufal grandeur e Virgins, unless a
be The few vino may have uavelled in t. in nea,lv
al ts parts, as have often too. among is gytious
mounL'in', and not less glorious va leys From Inc
Blue Ridge 10 The O:ean, q ght be Lornba,dv. n
might he insmmg, abundant ltaiy. Over and
anons The Alcghabies, u " Swirz rlind sIu,ost-
here . a race Of men among these mou,taips If,
whose form, stUufe, rObust vigorous hettb IN,
W9nd Knows no superior. II, after the war, De
WIZ C.hion, the onbode ed genius Of America Al
peace had been Vir-inidn, and could then and
thefe, A. ~ New York, have broken the trammsl,
Of al prejudIces, Norfolk would have been the en-.
20 Jun nov OF the commerce Of The American world
snl canals and rail roads, profitable tho. would
nave ih'oided every impouant valley Of Virginia
tesmipg with the rich trade Of the vast and Iru0u
west IL ~ an unnt turai circuit of trade that dr,,
the Ohio valley TO New York by the Lake. and n
would have been ,ser fir 10 conduct IL th,ovgb an,
AHeknanics 10 Norfolk IN Virginia. An tbis. 4
though. Of though, wouid have been runoons,itu.
tionP with men OF Riches calbre. IL vsoult
have croued a"Nstiona Debtr A shocking tb,n,
indeed u would have made "Monopov 8 ape.
demIsm" perhaps, though Vagina herssC vbe,
u - twenty yeas too late, attempts feeble init,
ton OF II al. What Of the poetry Of this earth tina
eyer runs m the veins Of men Of the Richie school
y the poetry VI the past. The future never hls thei
aspatons. They dwell upon land marks, not a
gu'de posts IN the track Of time, but a. anchors Il
clog 70 and drown around. The whirigind Of event
sweeps over them and they are buried In the sand
4 Not 80 with our Clinton. fIe committed himself 4
inc spnt within him, and u led hun 10 wealth. an
. hs own city 70 be the Rome Of America.
j. APPOINTMENTS By THE PRESIDENT.
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