Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-01-05
PROPOSALS
For Eniaryiag and Continuing
THE YEOMAN,
A RkeuLAn PoIIrIcAL AND MIseELLANE-
VII A. NM
Gus NEWSPAPER.

Gus NEWSPAPER.
WHEN the undersigned commenced, in January
last the publication OF weekly political sheet I'M
der the name Of the YEoMAN, to be continued I'M
Ill the Presidential election. he ntimated that. If
circumstances should prove suspicious, it would
probably be converted, after that period. into
saar Journal The awakening spirit of the times
has thus far crowned his enterprise with sue
cess as brilliant unexpected. The people of the
country have at length learned from bitter expert
ence that every citizen must make it part Of his
business to watch over the administration of its al
fairs. The maxim that perpetual vigilance is the
price that must be paid for liberty, is longer re-
garded rhetorical flourish of high sounding
words:-it has become. and if it please Heaven, it
will continue to be, practical maxim with the |
people Of this generation. storm has arisen |
which will long hurl from their high places the
prohgate and ambitious men who have blinded and
deceived the people, who have abused their gene
rous confidence. who have brought the institutions
Of the country and the country itself to the verge
Of ruin. The political atmosphere will be purified,
in some degree at least and the acclamatons of the
people will elevate to the first office in their gift an
honest man, true patriot, and genuine lover of
liberty.
But the election of William Henry Harrison
though an important and indispensable STEP is, af
ter ALL but step towards the attainment of those
great objects which every enlightened patriot per-
ceives to be essential to the preservation of our
liberty and our institutions. Those objects, some
OF which can be attained only by an amendment of
the Constitution, ore
First and chiefly, the reduction Of the power, i'm
porance and. patronage of the Presidential office;
and under this head that the President should be
ineligible for second term, and that the power of
removal from Office without the consent of the Senate
should be taken from him -
That public opinion, purified and enlightened by
fair discussion, should frown on the vile system OF
buying up political partizans with the Offices in the
gift of the government, and of prescribing one half
OF the people for opinions sake, and treating them
as enemies of the country
That the freedom of elections should be. res
tored by disavowal of the base and degrading
doctrine that the officers of the government are the
"hirelings" and servants Of the President and bound
by virtue of their Office, to become clectioneering
parzans, and TO contribute a part of their
salaries to raso fund for corrupting the people -
The restoration Of purity independence and their
original deiberatve character the legislative bodies
now corrupt add servile to an alarming extent, by
making the members of the two houses Ineligible TO
any Office with Some few exceptons) in the gift OF
the Executive, and by the abandonment once and
forever, of the base, degrading and antrepublican
doctrine, that every member of the party in power
must vote as the head of the party directs. on pain
OF denuneiaton, obloquy and unmeasured abuse
through all the journals of the party
The publication of degraded and venal press
now the dissemination of falsehoods and servie
doctrines, and the executioner Of the victims n,
presidential wrath
The reduction of the superintendent weight OF
the Federal government by severe and scruinizing
reduction of It's expenses disbursements and a
jealous resistance of all It's encroachments on the
rights of the states and the peope:-
Finally, the restoration of the Republic, in all its
departments, TO its pristine simplicity and purity
If these great objects be unattanable-if these
views be Utopian, some will be ready to pro.
nounee them-then is our whole system OF govern
ment UtoPian nlso-and the great problem of the
capacity of man for selfgovernment will have been
finally and fatally solved. The American people
has already taken one long step towards monarchy.
by permitting President nominate his successor
That almost fatal step is about to be retraced Now
IS the appointed time to purity our ins,itutons-no
or never
They fatally deceive themselves who imagine that
single effor-that a mere change of MEXICAN at
once effect this great and glorious object A great
and long continued effort will be necessary We
reiigiously believe that WILLIAM HENRY HARRIsoS
Is an honest man and true pairiot-and moreoyeg
that he will faithfully devote himself TO the carving
out of the political doctrines which we have thus
family Skeiched. But antagonist doctrines and
practices have struck deep root in the country and
will not easily be eradicated. We repeat what we
do firmly believe that great and continued efforts will
be necessary in order TO purify our institutions.
We offer ourselves humble co-aborers in this
great work. We chcerfuly concedc to the jealous
and able journal which public opinion and its own
unwearied efforts have placed at the head of the
Wing opposition press in Virginia the rank which
il has fairly earned and well deserved In a pro-
fessonal career which has now extended here and
elsewhere, over nearly fourth of a century, We
have honestly devoted ourselves to the dissemination
Of what we have believed to be Just and sound DO
ltcal principles We have never failed To denounc,
usurpaOn, quailed beneath the frown of those in
high places We will continue to do battle in III,
good cause not anxious about the rank that shall
be assigned TO us.
About the 10th of January, we propose to con.
vert the weekly political sheet called The Yro-
nal, Of the same name, which will be published
ttoiee in each week during the vacation of the Lc-
gislature, and thrice week during the session o
that body. We have already announced the polifi
cal principles of the proposed journal. Fol
the rest, let il suffice TO say, that we shall aim al
making it emphatically a newspaper, and an usefu
and entertaining miscelany and with this view
we shall secure such intellectual aid as will give il
standing with the most approved journals of the
day. Such being its character. we ask the patron.
age and support of an enlightened metropolis and
Of the people Of Virginia.
JOHN S. GALLAHER.
TERMS or PUBLICATION.
The YEoNAN VIII be printed on a sheet of large
size, twice week during the recess, and thrice
during the session Of the Legislature, at Five Dol
lars per annum.
PAYMENTS in all raaea rnusf h.. IN