Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-09-01

there is many situation in po'ui,s, Mnerr il 1,
easier 70 20 than In stand; where To stop H. 20 tat!
where you can only Keep your ,cei, by going swnly
aud steadily forward.
sue. was the situation OF Prcsiden. + y,er wien
ne rose 70 power. Between tn easy. down hill
road OF Democracy-thc Joeilis deseensus .qrsrni-
anu the upward and somewhat lnbor.ou, p,th o
wing tNsioim, It wa too late for him 10 choose -
tic eou'd only elect 20 tread the sleeper the roughc
way IN which, Tor foil twelve years, nc Prrsden
nau mace Footprint, except him who, too carl,
Tor ms country, was stricken down in the very h..
sionlnS OF that great and useful career, which ne
was about tn run. Conscious Of all the ,o,al nj,
eess'ties OF such position, warm with the general
enihu'iasm towards the noble old man " no lad las,
'''en, and unossSiied yet 10y the blaudi hn,cn,s
OF hhtery. whispering to hun OF renewed power
and OF a personal patty OF his own, lac took, with
out hesitation, the manly, the becoming, and We,
pruden; course, which we yesterday reviewed.
Tho President came in with but a secondary m.
Pul"ity and reputation. Among many re,pec,all,
names his only chance! TO bc selected, as one that
could with fitness be placed VA tho eli corol t;ck.,
OF Harrison, and bring some strength, ar do II At
least a certain credit lie was chosen Vice pres;-
dent las every body knowsl with little reference to
the possibility OF his icing called upon to ex-
cTciso the Presidential functions. Such has, thus
TAR, been the practice, as to the designation of our
Vice Presidents. They always chosen from
among the more conspic gous followers of the pcpu.
lar cheliain Of the day; and are, and must be- so
eh"sen because /: is expected that If called TO sup.
Ply his place, they will carry out the course Of pub.
hc measures which he was brought in to set on foot
Such is the Obvious genius and purpose of our ins,
tuuons, rs to this particular matter
To the political necessities which we have already
develored-thc necessities imposed ON the Vice Pre-
sident by previous ScIs, or subsequent avowals-
was added the strong fact of the expectation which
the public has right entertain of his continuing,
as President, his predecessors main measures TO-
Sether with the important fact Of his insuficiency
IN point of the public confidence in his abilities or
mercy, 10 originate or TO WELD party entirely his
own To suffer himself to be persuaded. by tb,
snaI-bra'ned aspranIs around him. that they can
form for him an Administration that shall act n, i
II had seen an original and totally independent one.
to imagine that men light and as rash as MIR
Wise, and as versatile Judge Upshur or MIR Gil.
mer, can snatch, from great, powerful and a sa-
'cious party, the control of public affairs, and
WELD II IN their petty hands, would he a mistake
only less foolish than it would be fatal We cannot
consent to believe that MIR Tyler will ever. from
personal ambition, DO thing at once so wicked and
unwise.
That MIR. Henry Wise should he Disconnected
win every successful party, is perfectly natural,
"hen Mr.. Henry Wse's character is well under.
STOOD man whose aUi,lies and whose practical
hness lor the conduc. of affairs bear so little pro-
portion to his ambition, must ever find himseICds-
appointed and neglected, as soon as the party with
which he has acted succeeds to power and Office
lmpeiuous IN every thing, he must perpemully.
even IN what is right, pass Leyond into what is
mschievous and wrong. His fiery zeal has often
zone pubic seTvcei but 1t is always perous, be-
cause dithcult TO stop at any safe point Like FIRE,
ne IS useful as servant but terrible ms a master;
so that few men have ever made such fsur,.
VINO were so unit for leading and confronting
part IN public measures. In that which forms after
all, the first virtue of the Statesman Prudence no
man was ever more deficient. To say all in a sim
gle word we have known, IN politics, few men more
formidable as an enemy, or more dangerous as a
friend. To the Wings, thus far, his friendship has
been very like some OF our Virginia Public Works,
TO support which costs good deal more than they
are worth in fee simple.
such ate the aspects of the general question he
tween the Wing party, and the President IN his SUD
posed position. We soy supposed, because we
cling TO the persuasion that 1t Is no more. IL re-
mans only TO advert to the single particular and as
certaIne' difference between hL aud ms friends at
arse-hs conduct on the Bank question.
ms IN the view of the entire Wing party, was
an open question: question OF mere eIpcdiency.
Inc ancient constitutional scrup.es Of all States
Rights men, except those who have gone off into
mere unreasoning Locofoism, have vanished before
the enormous evils which Anti Bankism has in
ncted upon the county, IN the shape Of the very
thins which It denounced. The very Veto Mes
sage OF the President makes it evident that he in
common with all bis friends has renowned The
essential objections to the creation OF an United
States Bank. lie avows the inevitable necessitv of
employing, IN the management Of the public re-.
venue, an agent Of this sort.
To the particular notifications, which his con-
sIIutiona scrup'es make him desire TO impose upon
such an Institution, the Wing party, even when
ihey differ from hun, willingly assent so long ms II
shall bc apparent that his objections are made in
strict good faith. Should it, however, appear that
ne IS rather consulting the pleasure OF a ctbal, the
OPINIONS OF political wire drawers and casuists, or
WIG 'VSes OF an adversary who applaud only to be
tray him-should he commit the disgracoful and un
Pnncipled folly thhero unprecedented in even our
worst Administrations Of annulIng thnt very form
OF the lw, which he has himself directly indicated
as unolJectonabe, he must, Of necessity, he taken
TO have put himself AMI the Executive part of the
Government into the hands Of either the Democrats
or OF what is worse, Wings, who are ambitious Of
admission into that party
Taking Of such a change as this last, some OF our
ndvcrsaries ask how It happens that Wings arc
going over to the Democratic party, and that no
Democrats come over to the Wing pauy2 We can
give them for Il a somewhat ancient answer. "Wbot
is the reason, said some to Arcesaus the Stoic)
that Siocs sometimes turn Epicurcans but that no
Epicurcan ever turns Sioc2" "D.d you not know.
answered hey that you may make Cock into a
CaPon, but that Capon can never again be turned
into a Cock 2"
TO The Editors Of the Wing.
TO THE non. W e. RIvEs.
had the pleasure to hear your speech in the Sc.
nate last week, on tie bill Tor distributing the pro-
ceeds OF the public Iands,-and permit me to say, |