Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-12-09
THE TERrIUM oUIps.

Never was little baud Of impraeiieaSlss. or irn
Possibies, Ptiablss (Whichever title the reader
p'eases; they deserve them SlD so completely scat
tered, broken doten and reduced to original dement's
than has been this same squad OF TefIium q uids-
OF animals neither flesh, fish nor fowl.
I. Mr.. Wise-the Ajax Talamon Of the band
has thrown away his weapons, and declares he will
80 no farther, and returns, like a prodissl badIy
pleased with the usage he has received i'm his crrat.
&c expedition in search Of abs raetions Being con.
WINGED OF the folly OF the enterprise to raise one he
now says he is aseiai any Third party" He is
united then TO the great whis party whence he
strayed in an unlueky moment.
DR. .Milgory-h,s become disguised with his
position. lie even declares, by way OF atonins
Tor his error, and to seal his pentcnce that unless
Capt. Tyler accounts sliiStaetoriiy for the remov.
al OF some officer at the Navy Yard a. Portsmouth,
who has been unustly elected To- make way 70. a
better Tyler man, he will demand an INVESTIGATION
before Congress, Think of that, Master Books F.!
). Mr.. Hunier-has never been thoroughly n
Wing. Not he-not every inch nor any inch that
way. He has always been as shy of the name as
he is really modest. He has always Justly been
cossed IN the doubtful gender politically and there
fore he has better right than any OF the tiers stai
to his present position OF betweenity. II he is not
Whis, he Is not Democrat, IN the modern sense
OF the Word; and Il he is not now poring over SAY
and Nautilus, Sir Robert Finer and Macheyelli
and Gaatn and Gouge, he is doing the next best
thing-dreaming in Utopial
1. Last Of al-eomes, in this strange catccory
Governor Gilmer. lie, too, has been dreaming;
but his "vslonS Of the night" have no, been gilded
with the brightness of hope, the sweet solaee of
an approving conscience. His premature political
deah-the eclipse OF his once brilliant destiny and
the CONSCIOUSNESS of his own humiliation, have
wrought his brain 10 an agony Of busy thought
which murders sleep" and drives him each asa.
turday night 20 pen and paper, to disenchant, by
newspaper dreams, the cruel vampire that drinks
the blood OF his repose.
He is not the man to retrace his stems Like
Macbeth, he reasons
81 am in blood
stccpcdn tar, di ut as 10 90 DER
Every inch a whig-ribs, backbone and alj.~
rather hard words TO rennunce and re-asSune
The Governor IS fixed IN the ranks OF the ocoCocos
he tried very hard, us true, to hold off but no
the Wings SAID, take your true place. You have
made YOU bed don't refuse to lie in It," The I.o-
cofoeos said too, "shew your hand" and they made
him shew IL The election came on in this county
oh that unhappy election! Had u not been
for It, who knows where the Governor would have
been; but the election came, and the Governor must
vote. Cruel alternative! To vote and lose the con
fiiencc Of the Wings for all future time, and vet
not 10 vote, and thus the sleeping lion of de-
mocracy, 80 shake the dew drops f,om his mane,n
and roar IerrIhcal,y, scattering dl.mny amidst the
Jsckals of federalism!
IT'S hard fate! SIX months before, TO no IN.
party IN such low rcpute to repudiite in scorn
nomination by them and Elk months afterwards, TO
vote Tor the most obnoxious Of the crew! Twas A
hard choice, but "the way OF transsressors is hardn
the Governor taking his counsel of his homes and
stimulated 10y hrs fears, takes the fated plunge
crosses the RuOcon, and Cesar and the Senate are
at open war!
These circumstances, have fixed the Governor
with his late opponents and his now loving lies
Mutually dlsirusuu OF each other the terms of union
are regarded with suspicion and each will be.
hrStto profit 10y any the least indication of Is!oyaty
Such position may have It's sweets, none can deny
It's thOrns.-C Char. .idr.