Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-29
BY LAM. EYS,yIyI,c -,
FROM WASHINGTON


The Tariff Bill passed the sena,. SATURDAY.
night, n, o'clock, by the follow ing vote:
| YEAS-Messrs. Barrow, Il ties. Bayard. Buch.
ans n. Choate, Conrad, Cr,fs, Cri;tendep, DAYTON.
Evans, Huntington, Miller, Moreheaj. Ph.ln,
forer, sImmons, Smith, Of Indians, Sprsgue
Sturgeon, Tal'madge, White. Williams, Wood
bridge. Wright-2i.
NAfS-Messrs. Allen, Archer Basby. Benton.
Berrien. Calhoun, Clayton, Cuthb.rt, Fulton, Gra.
ram, Henderson, hing, Linn, Manyum Merick
ffeston Rives, Sewer, Smith, OF Connecticut, Tap
pan, Walker, Woodbury., Youne-23.
Two Democrats (Nes.rs. McRober,s and VIII.
eox') and one Wing (Mr Kerr,l were absent.
Itwi be taken up in tn. House TODAY. on the
Senate's amendments-whch are not material
ard viii doubtless be passed. We do not know
whether the Executive will sign tive presume
ne WILL as the Junto have written to the Guard
that another veto eanno, be stood:
Correspondence OF the Wing.
WAsHIseros, August 81, Is4s
DEAR STA: Affairs 90 forward; but with a very
tedious scr; OF pace nov. when the event appears
to every ones mag nation, incapable of being long
deferred.
Know not how, but this Is world where people,
are 50 accustomed see through ell kinds of nists
that they become incapable of distinct vision, even
when all has cleared up. Speculation and alarms
have been just as rite here, for the last week, as if
no decisive event had happene5; and the eternal
ba6blers and qudnunes of the Capitol are to-day
just as eager in conjecture Just as elate with some
enormous discovery, just confidently out OF the
secret, as II we were now at the beginning of Gacs,
| instead OF their end.
The great doubt, which now agtates these news
\ mongerins heads with many a portentous shake is
what will become Of the Tariff bill, when returned
4 by the Senate The House, they now aver. has
changed its feelings msny who lately voted for il
will now oppose 4. or the composition of the body
has been shifted, by the going away Of many men,
All this will, think, prove entirely illusory. If
feelings have changed or If the House has altered
the political situation has no. and that will again
eon'roul every thing else. Ii men yielded before
SUI more must they yield now. l never knew sp
rl,s TO grow holder IN the progress Of events when
they had once ialteIed. IL is too late 10 I've coura.
geous now-too late 10 pay the independent, the
daring part, dsfyng alike Presidents. au,hori-
| ~ and the unsteady chances OF popular iudse-
ment. can assure the spectators that people are
not very apt TO be brave or patriotic upon ''second
thoughts" Oncs a6stej of the first high impulse
who ever became hero or a mauyr1 No: il i. in
a sort OF delirium OF the faculties in SORT Of
trinspor; OF reused feeling and sense that men, lifted
oy the spirit OF great fact, do what, in public al
fairs, IS noble. Great events elnnot he dealt with
by minds 10 their ordinary frame: and II YOU wait
as folks now always do in this country TO exhaust
dong very great thing you doing a perfectly
sale one, you will only end in being q dwelling
patriot and hero that kept out of all harms 9ay
! In snort, am convinced that the failure of q Re
venue BIZ can now hardly, by any possibility, hap
PEN II It does, 1t will only be by some mere
chance, or some party juggiery Of the Democrats.
every one Of whom would gladly, for party purpo-
ses see the measure fail, because they believe that
the profound injury which would be ind cied on
the country, the country would revenge upon the
Wings. -
There is little probability now of an adjournment
before The close Of next week. The Senate's a.
mendmen's will scarcely escape without some days
contest 10 the House.
You will, Of course, have seen, with astonish-
meni, the disclosure Of the AshbuTion treaty cop-
CD last night, into the Globe, from the Northern
papers. The fact Of such spIdg alton is exceed.
ng!y discreditabe 10 those concerned and almost IN
the country itself 1t will greatly exllt in Europe
J the lame OF our diplomacy. Indeed, we must soon
DE looked upon as nation without counsel, as
without deeeney, when obseIvances as high and as
proper IS this are no longer regarded.
The Treaty itself is, ia its main particulars such
as at hlsI told you. WE pay Maine and Massa-
ehusetIs Tor the territory which is ceded. do not
see that this is accomplishing any thing to slorify
the nesotiator. ! apprehend that he has succeeded
IN 1hiS very d.ficul! affair" by very easy me.
ihod. 10 which ell implements generally yield he
has granted every thing that the other side asked.
But the Treaty has passed the Senate, nj any
: event' As soon as THAT Happened, Mr. Webster
> Vs.. " MS l'eh1s ten Gays sinee) would
5 reti'e from the Cabinet; mo pcStponement on nc.
count OF the weather" fair or foul with the Tyer
q parly, he would positively evaporAte, and sth.
place which knew him should know him no lonse-.r
Z Now, he has, apparently, re engaged himself, like
. genuine stage hero, "for very few nights more.
5 IL Is now announced, that he will no. resign nil
G queen Vic puts her royal assent 10 the Treaty.
Ills resignation shifts like the horizons 20 whiekev-
erway you will, tits equally far oil.
!, In the Senate, to day, Mr. Merrick, in whom no.
body has any confidence. made what is technica ly
called "a spurge," on the Tarf-declarins tht,
5 HE would not submit TO Executive dic,atiun Hy
! would vote against the bill. MIR Merrckfas bfer
considered as lule likely be fired tn any $, G,
Ioity notions as aoy body in the Senate and oil
tnis only excited, therefore, suspicion that he was
playing MIR Tyler's game, and wished, bv the DOM
pons preienees. TO aid in preventing the bill from
going back to the President.
In haste, yours, J..