Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-09-15

4 the other TO attack and pcos,rate eveyman aud
| every press that dares speak OF the Executive
as independent branch OF the Government, or 20
tefend his motives in the discharge Of his eonslu-
| tiOnal duties" SC. o.
| Throughout the whole Of this long extract, me
reader will perceive, the winter, playing upon the
feelings ofthe President on the one hand, and the
Wing party on the other, has set himself deliberate.
| ~ TO work TO compose a Letter which he surposeS
will operate upon The minds of both so To ma ke
breach between the President and the Clay me a.
| IN which description he includes the whole body
| oi the Wings who have so glotlousy seconded ali
the Presidents recommendations, and triumphant
" carried through those measures which the prc.i-
dent says in his MESSAGE he "uusts will prove high
" beneficial To the interest Of the country. and tut.
/ " answer Us Just expectations The couusels of
thus writer are insidious and odious rs those of
| the great Tcmpter, when seeking TO bring about
the fail OF Man. His assumptions we need M,
say, oflhe feelings OF the Wings, we believe al
50 OF the tn pushts and designs OF the President arc
uniounded and srotu'tiouS; Just much those
of the writers of letters elsewhere who have their
own reasons for desiring TO bring abouta reptuIe
between the President and his best rierds and. by
what sam Weller would call an "cxtonishirS COIN
ctdenee," have fallen upon the mode OF opera
ting by mstepresenting the motives and intentions
OF both.
No one can Doubt thu, the aim OF these dexter.
Gus tacticians is To break down the whis party 10y
sowing general dlstTust among its leading MEM
bcts. As Tor the members OF the Cabinet, whom
this writer mpudenIy accuses of "playing the game
OF the Presidents ensmies, they need do ence of
ours. Their own high and honorable character and
conscious reciude ought be their sufficient pro-
lection from mere wanton asperson such I'll 5.
For the WHIGs IN CosGRESs, heartily concurring
IN all that they have done, We should be wanting
IN common justice not to bear testimony TO their
high toned pair otiSm; their zeal for the public good
their snsleness at purpose, their perseverance, ant
their srlf-dryo,on All thit the writer says OF their
purposes and wishes, rs body, is utterly ground
ess, rs We have no doubt is what he says of the
Presidents feelings towards them.
Ii can hardly be necessary for MS TO add, to what
we have already suggested, that we have not the
least idea that the President counIenances IN any
way the base uses which thus made of his nanIe
II any doubt could exist upon that point in the
most prcludiced mind, the tone of his Yesterdays
Message to Congress would scatter it to the winds.
But, 'forewarncd, forcarmed" We have thought
1t our duty TO sound the alarm, seeing those signs
not to be mistaken OF danger the integrity Of the
Wing party. IL will, least, not he our fault IT,
after this warning it IA. a victim insidious arti-
hces, such as those we have, to some extent endea-
voured tn reveal, and may hereafter have occasion
TO recur to; for doubt whether, in any frcec un.
try, more thoroughly odious conspiracy was ever
concocted. In despotisms, conspiracy against the
sovereign may be UNSUITABLE. But, in a free Go
Vernment like this, where the People Is the sovo-
reign, such conSpracles against their known will call
for the ScvercsI condemnation.