Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-18

We love TO see a man jealous Of the honour Of his
State. Even tho he should be Mississippsn, il
is right and fine for tho his State may hare no
honour, yet this individual feeling among her ci,i-
Gems may at last call it back and meantime the
sentiment, however illusion to ones State, i,
good thing in the private mans bosom, and signi
fcs that he has honour. tho his country may, pc
iticslly, have none.
We are glad to find, therefore, in that able and
pleasant paper, the Louisville Journal, the amusing
eIculpa,ion OF Kentucky from the sin OF Losofoco-
ism, which place at foot.
| Kentucky has 4 character as State. She is, in
deed, OF the few of Communities ,ha, ex-
hibit marked identity, and seem animated by any
thing like living political soul. In OF our States
the public functions seem to go en- without mind
or heart in them: they have, at best, sort of We
getable life, through which, by suction capillary
attraction, the dull juices move, without rulsition.
Or they are like auIoma,a, shat squeak out poor
little artificial dice, when some performer them
fills the bellows, ard csper and turn summerse,s,
when the strings pulled by some knowing hand
In word, they have ohing OF the life nor thought
nor individuality OF a true and distinctive public
being, in them. They are become set OF soul
less corporations, kind OF localized Party that
neither thinks feels Itself, but has its OF SEN
,ntion somewhere else, perhaps thousand miles
off, where the Chief Of the faction, the party head
that does the thinking and feeling, chances TO re
side.
Such, Virginia not once; But such is she
become. Filled, Of old, with capacity and with
character, she led to undertake think for all
the res, of the Union. The consequence was, that
she ceased to take care OF her own affairs; and,
her fes a and he b.a
dually lost even that influence abroad, for which
she vain gloriously sacrificed what could alone have
secured i, and rendered i, pernanent-an able and
energetic domestic policy, wi,hou, which no
country can long be any thing. She set to think
for every body; aud she his ended by letting every
body think for her.
Not SO her vigorous eldest born OF the West
into whom she seems, in begeitins her, to have
transfused rather too large part of her own vi.
tality. IL was an over.effori, which has left her
spent.
| Bat to return to our more immediate subject ::
The event of the Elections in certain parts of Ken
lucky, has given many people the no;ion tina, 10.
coiocosm has obtained some new success ,here. In
Truth, they take the election OF small body of Re-
lief and Stay Law men, for success OF SO many
Locofocos. the mistake is natural one enough;
bu, yet il is a mere mistake. One who is familiar
with Jack Asses, and has never seen Mule, may
very naturally, when he HAIRS the latter imperfec,
y described, suppose the beast Identical with that
which he knows. Both have Look OF extreme
wisdom: both are blest with large provision OF
ears-of which, however, thew make a very indif-
ferent use: and both bray most sonoFously. Yo.
tho much akin, they are totally differen, ami.
mails.
Now, the difference between the Relief man and
the Loco is just such between tho Mule and AS.
The Relief man mus, have Wing in him :
the Mule mast have some Horse. He is not above
half Jack ASS tho 10 point of favour, temper.
voice, and IDEAS, very little like the other pa.
rent. He is further like the Mule. by being an Ac-
cidental creature, and WON'T propagate.