Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-20

Really, there seems 10 be neither candour nor
truth in the partisans Of the Loco Foco party. A
lew days since, we made several extracts from the
Enquirer o! lS33-in which the Editor o. that print
repudated, with dis,incness and emphasis the idea
that the Compromise Act was binding. He would
amend taller it-abrogate it. Ii should not s;ay
upon the statute book! He would not abide Nv
ITS provisions-it was odious Tariff Bll-,hs
result OF a wicked arrangement between hose de-
testable men, Clay and Calhouni N,o,c, this sam,
Editor affects TO be Mortified ut the idea OF any nj
ITERATION IN that Act. Ii 10 ga treaty Of ami,y and
peace"-"sacred and inviolate"-as holy as the
Constitutional Compromise, 10 the Observance
OF which, the honor and faith Of the whole
country are solemnly pledged But this dis
gushing hypocrisy is not the least detestable trnit
in this Patriots conduct. Whilst protesting him.
self tho sworn friend OF an Act-whieh he had sni,
upon-he designedly gives to TINT Ac, an interpre-
talion, which he knows its trainers did not recoe.
nize, and which he himself knows TO be unjust.
lie pretends that the Act of 33 limits duties TO 90
per cenl-there is no such limitation in the Act
and that the Land Money must, to authorize 30 per
cent, 60 into tho Federal Treasury. This, too. bs
knows 10 be false, the Distribution Bill was
| passed almost simultaneously with the COMPROMISE
Act and duties were looked 10 by both parties as the
only source Of revenue TO the Federal Government.
But on this poin, have the authority Of one. who
was actor o, the time, and whose word. the Ed;
tor Of the Enquirer cannot gainsay. It is JOHN
TYLER himself lie, al the very moment Of de o.
clarng, that the compromise Act should 10 held
SACRED and involate." proclaimed that the Ds,ri
button Of the Land Money could not in any wnv
interfere with, or dislurb'the Compromise. We have
copied this authority before bu. it comes in so pat
TO jiObet two political hypocres at once, that its
republication is admissible.
IL is an extract from the speech made by Mr. Ty
er in 1889, and written out for tho press by biusec
Hear him:
Ihe public lands are not mentioned in the compro,oiso
The aeiis, that ilc lani bill at the moment OF fe m,
sage OF the compromise bi, in the Presidents Doc
- a ~ congress vas concerned, the procecf al lilo
sales bad beendsposed Of 10y what only wanted tho vi
s G6aPRo!%GsSsge G aGr ne T Mi new ~ TgES
WY DbPENDENr ON ANY DEPOSITION OF TIIE
/ On this shameless inconsistency. the I.vncbb,,,
Vrginian thus comments:
"THE COMPROMISE ACT.
perhaps the public will be surprised IN lo,,n
That tho Richmond Enquirer, which now affects In
he very much horror struck nj the idea of VIOLATING
; vac compromise Act, has declared, over and often
not only tha, that Act has no peculiar claims To
sancIisy, but that in point Of fact il was so inner
Iec', and even Objectionable in some Of lie leatnfes
mat 4 ought 10 be Volatedl II Is ominenty dsfef
iiVe' said the Enquirer, in 1888, 'and must l.,
amended And yet now 1t says il is too holy n be
, lltr' "'N "''V'
I "Nr Tyler, j, is true in 1899, when he made HE
celebrated Report and Speech, in favor Of stril,u.
uon' voted Tor resolution declaring that the Com
promise AetOught not 10 be violated; but al the s,ro
t'me' he gave TO that Act construction. which n
+, nc adhered 70 Il now, would show that the Mn
lately vetoed by him does no, conflict with i,s
provisions, but docs, in fact maintain them sacred
, and nviolais' ' ''S'ep
> There is another fact, deserving 10 be mainland
~ TINS connection. The resolution Of 1880. declaring
mat the Compromise Act ough, TO be held s,rrsd
y ana inyiolaie, was adopted in the House OF Dele
gates, W vote Of 80 10 35-and will Il bo bsIisvsd
= That nearly oil the members who voted araip,t 4,
4 and who, by that vote, declared that tho Comnro
mise Act ought no. to be held sacred and invioioto
y were Loco FocoS7 Yet tho fact Is 80. WIN s,s
they a at once 20 solictous 10 preserve this Al
. tile. WIZ WV" "OS
y "Bui to cap the climax, this Act, To prsv,rv,
which from violation Mr. Tyler professedly vetoed
, the Iauh Bill, was the other div, on the door nj
= we Senate, pronounced TO DO UNCONSTITtf
IlONAL' by John G.. Calhoun And so Al,
IYor y lauded 10 the skies Tor a veto The sie a.
4 winch y % preserve sacred and involato m I'm
!, CONSTITUTIONAL law!i"
10 Fall, the Editor Of the VIcksburg Sentinel. re-