Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-12-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the n. Y. Express.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 3Oth.
SPeehlGhans tpoH the ofiAe JFAir leaders Bar
7oyi es"esTi Of action aud peace necessary or oil il
lost
Cabinet meetings long and probably busy cen.
tinue TO be held about every day al the White House
The Fiscal Agency scheme, have no doubt is in
the process OF formation, that is being nut into
words, or into a Bill, the outline some time ngo
having been agreed upon. Strangers therefore
who have business with the heads OF departmsnts
or with the Executive, hnd II quite impossible TO
get audience, ShereupOn of course there is much
grGmbung and not q lttie s-oldIng done IL IL
busy tIme with Executive officers, this annual rem.
derns up their accounts 20 Congress thi. prepara-
ton OF long documents, under which Tor weeks all
presses are 10 groan.
No: enough OF the Members of Congress hove
come TO enable looEer-on here yet to lee the Con
! sressona pulse. The propens.ues Ut the copoSi-
ton cannot be told as yet They are ia a arar-
dary, though, II Is seen, as well as the W hiss
/ COMMITTED To the hard money Sub-Trcasurv
scheme, uenouncIng ali crCtIt schemes and hostte
5 hemes and hostile TO all paper Of course no pI,n
from the President find favor In their ewes Thar
| squInis at ESchqueT Bills or any thing, the ike
They court 'the spolls Of the President hut il Is
clear the large mainrIty OF them will have noihirg
/ 10 do with the main prin,ip pies upon which hs cine
/ INTO power. u Is then tue time for the WEiss Ia
| re-rnIly-to forget and forgive 10 heal IN wounds
and 70 undo what has been unBisely done. Thev
I must remember that this government can only be
administered upon compromise and concession, and
That WhiIa oil Of US may be bound TO keep our
eyes upon ideal truths yet that it Is world of rea
ty, this, to be taken as IL is.
What course, though, the Wing leaders in Con-
gress will take, no foresight yet can detect The
policy OF MIR Clay, who mas SOW much power ov.r
his fellow men, whether OF his own, or Of opposite
POLITICS, is much specuated upon in all quarters
here his .ong experience, and his m1Eniics ut
talents, give him almost omnIpotent command 10 the
Halls OF CongTess,-an4 1! really does not seem to
me, that he Is st0rn Of much Of his power whether
a Zoe or a irGHG has aj1rItY there. lie Impres-
ses his own genius upon tie legislature OF the
country, no matter IN whose hands Il is,--as, Wit
ness, the great measures he carried during the II
years Of Jackson and Van Burcnism. The course
oil such man IS naturally specialized upon with
great animation by oil classes Of opinion. His tone
and temper, and indications TOO, must always be
hera.cd with interest. The public GO,es we have
from MIN beyond the mountains, breathe ItltIe or
nothing Of cOncution. The assault upon the veto
power in the BlitImors letter, as he was about
crossing these mountains, threatened an onset upon
that part Of the Consultation. Whatever he does
or whatever he Is-wbcneyer his bugIe blast rings
IN the Senate hosts gather around him sui dued or
dazz ed by the spenGOr ofhIs intellect. IL is clear
though, he can oct Little m concert with the Prcs-
dent. Their Old friendship has gone TO the " Inrs
and suspicion takes its place. True or untrue be
the alleged causes Of this estraugmeni there IL is
known to us oil. The great mon OF Congress end
the Executive power stand before the public eve IN
Opeu opposition. Both are charged by their re-
spcc,ve adyersarigs with having an eye upon the
succession, ard both will be suspected by many Of
the people Of 50 acting and speaking as 10 crafty
that ambition, no matter how lheyact.
The position Of us thCn,-Oft that class Of wings
who belong TO no man, and range undern no leader
- therefore, pCcuiIr A TO that though the posi-
ton OF all classes Of Wings Is enough peculiar.
Between the ong.helds and the wrong heads
among us Ut seemsas II almost Systematically Tor the
100 days past engaged ~ mutual Destruction a
man that owns his own soul and body, has a hard
gauntlet ~ run. Attack, recriminaton meet Us
whatever way we turn. To escape II Is impossI BILE
indeed, even from ones fricndl From all this /
see no other way oi escape tnsG that Of letting the
leaders take clte Of th,msaIves There must be
general uuprIsing Of the People to act upon Con-
gress, and ~ force ito Icgisate for the country
without reference 10 p3ry heads II We mix %
PresldcnrmakIus, for CXBmplo, With tie currency
we can have no Bank, nor any thing else. fl we
NIX up the Iarh, there will be but another "BII
OF aDOmiuauOns," as an old one was called. Per.
haps then we must look o rev lights in Congress
to guide Us who are abroad. There certainly must
be, 81 ~ want success, nCgoiltOrs Oetwcon the
Executive and legislative power IL Mr. Tyler
and Mr. Clay will not act tgclher, we must look
% those who At least the spint Of the bitter
ness and Of wrath directed against an, who al the
close Of the EElm season, had any Intercourse wi h
the Executive, must be done away with especially
by those among us who read, that without Egocu-
i've sanction, little or nothing IN this Government
can be brought about. y.