Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-14

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THE LATE RESULTS IN NEW YORK.
Tho overthrow in New York, though deeisiv
we think, Of nothing else, perfectly Of the pre-
sent position Of the Wings, and OF their course Tor III
next two years
while even these popular maiorities were yet un
expected and the Wings seemed little likely to los
their sscendeney in either House Of Congress, GU
personal opinion was what i. now is. and was u &C,
upon many of our friends in Congress to the fol
lowing effect.
That the struggle. for near year, by the Wing
in the National Legislature, to effect the objects
the great revolution Of 1910 had surely proven il
sell on impossible one, in the face Of u renegad:
Administration, which cannot he dslodsed from il.
rai'oroasly- gotten power, and which wiolJs it's en-
'irs strength and all that ii has of policy, to fl,
no' only the peculiar measures to which il, was
Pledged but even those m, N Indispensable for car
fying on its own operations, whenever, by thwart,
ing 'hem reproach could be thrown upon the wings,
the favour oil the o:her party he consolidated or thoso
puohe EMBARRASSMENT, be aggravated, which the
NATION expected the majority TO remove, even now
when betrayal had stripped tina, majority Of all
power but to mark their ftutess fidelity to prnci
pies which they could no longer bring about:
That high a. was the direct duty OF honoura Die
men TO perform the trust which bad been delegated
to them. and to vote they voted on each lesisls
tive measure when /. presented itself il was clear
that none OF the Whis measures could 10 proper
iy accomplished; that tho eonjunelutc was such as
must, necessarily, render all legislation, which
could DO bought about, Of very mixed sort, hard.
" NJ either to do good TO the country, or attract
approval or popularity to The party chiefly effect
ing il:
That the ultimate hope OF the nation was in the
hnai return OF the people to Viii. measures, the
advantage Of which could be in no sort realized by
any thing which Me rylst will allow to DO done
WHO would now sanction no Wing measure, unless
certain that It was one which he could no, avoid,
or which Was preiadeial to them AMI the co un,ry:
That they stood IN the falsest and mos, insvita.
bly, fatal of all political posicns--one in which
they were responsible for every thing, and were
permitted TO 10 nothing, but to uphold a govern.
ment which they could not control, to authorize
what they did not approve, to repair as far as thew
could ioies OF which the guilt was that Of o,hers
and the reproach theirs, and, in short, to bear a
doub!s war, such as never was before seen. both
against an Administration and an Opposition.
~"Sr NC ihoistcu, was sOIt OF nght loo uneUual
to be maintained; in which they could do nothing. eli
'her Tor country or party. 1. was their buIness
not To be, in the necessary popular view, response.
o'e ior any series OF public measures. unless they
eouicHeeiy make them such as they fairly intend
ed them to b.. Ii majority, in point of numbers
merely, and not Of power; il. therefore, really the
minority, II was their business to make themselves
seem what they were, and to divest themselves OF
superiority OF mere members, that flung
on lhsm odium without power, and the blame with
out the control OF whatever did 0. did no, come 10
pass.
Ia other countries, where the public will, through
Representative bodies, limits, at lis pleasure, the
Executive Administration, add compels il TO do
what 1t demands, there would have been remedy
Tor this strange state of things: Legislative vote
would have at oncs compelled enlir: ministry Of
iufhconis TO resign, and their incapable master TO
put IN their places men who would conform To the
public voice, not royal commands. Bu, TO u.s. whose
Government: has overlooked this indispensable guard
against Executive ab1olutism, there is no relief bat
a. the end Of iour years.
IL va. thea, ~ thought, obviously the bushes,
of the Wings to sc, rii OF ihei: Legislative ma.
jority, nad leave President, who had placej them
and the country in this condition. to carry on the
Government GA III, Loeoio:o scheme and with the
Loeoioeo aid on which nc in:eni making them,
openly, what ;hey have long en in point of fact
the Administration party; while We became. quite
at our eas', the Opposition.
As do not hold with any OF that system o
conduct which surrond.rs up duties which have
been pu. into ones hands, would not, OF course
have advised a resisnins, to escap, from a disad
vantage; but We should have hailed a relief from
such position by any fair pabiie means, and will
linsiy, OF coursc. by tho most natural one, tenn.
porary iaiiuFo % that popular superiority, which
VIC have hitherto had in vain, and which very natu-
rally has grown iniif!ren: TO minilssting its.lf,
when nothing is TO DC gained bat the embirrass
ment aud the disadvantage in wnich We have thus
Ear stool.
We announce, therefore, with pleasure, to IT,.
country, thlt the late eeclions-carried obviously in
consequence Of the supinenss, produced by this
state Of ,hinss-~ill relieve the Wings from tina,
powerIess responsibility which we have already
deschbsdi and that the parry takes up a nov posi-
son, in which it will become tho assaian, not the
assaei, the besisgOr, not the besiegcd, the swo d.
not tho shield, the arrow. not the target.
We could, of c,urs-, when ca lied in Us doctor,
give Tyierish or LocJfocoism Those h1s and quac
me5eincsl TO paIieot already dosed to death It'll
Stops and poIsOns. But when fiirly coDgos'd, We
are no: violently unwilling to soc him try tho rats
bane no chooses. IA hair VI tho dog" may cure hi,
bite. We can imagine nothing husr 10 bfins "
lorism into contempt, than to let it expose itself
As to I.osofocoisn, the beI way is no, to shake it,
and 1t will som settle TO tho bottom, whers il DO
ongs.
BOZ IN RICHMOND.
We annex Mr. Dickens account of his visit TO
this city. IL is short, aud will scarcely DO deemed