Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-23

sicas Of their willingness TO DO sny thing that did
not sacrifice their honor their constituency aud every
principle which they hold dear yet, he persists in
his efforts, as part OF the Legislature, to palsy
the will Of the People as expressed through their
Representatives. Will not the People, then. ask.
speak out in opposition TO the course OF the Exeeu.
uvef Will the ireemen OF this Union succumb TO
the Legislation Of Charles City County Court
Lawyer, whose eroeadile tears, at Harrisburg, will
remind them OF what they have Loaf by his e,eva
ton to the Office which he thought the farmer Of
Ashland so pre-. eminen,ly qualified to fiji I say,
and AN in earnest when make the declaration.
that DO not think the People eau understand the
true state OF affairs at Washington. Do they know
that this Congress has been KEEP, in session Tor
nine months by the opposition OF Cap, Tyler to the
great and leading measures OF the Session With
the Gsg, as il is called, the one no ur rule, with ali
Efforts to stop debate The necessity or further
ton, and longer continuance OF this most pro,ract-
ed session. is caused by Mr Tyler's veto Of the
mos, important Bills!. ID, the people know that
those whom they have elected TO pass laws annot
carry out single object OF their own without being
arrested in their deliberate purposes, on questions
OF expedleney, by the voice OF ono who listens only
to the advice OF those who Gawn around him, and
who tell him he is the elected instrument oil Deity
10 effect the great ends OF Democracy
ask you, ask the Press, do the People know
the exact state of their political condition. con,
fsss that, il they do. hive mistaken their eharac.
ier-and while may admire their patience, can't
admit that their fosbearance to speak out. is any
longer virtue. A principle lies a, the bottom OF
the whole, more sacred than u question OF mere 70
venue or distribution OF the proceeds OF the pub
lie Lands-i, is the principle of freedom itself.
F. o. w.
CT si1 re- the PoST viii take care to district ne sias
" not have many Representatives"
So speaks the New York Union in regard to the
action Of the ~ Y. Legislature, now in session for
the purpose of laying of the State into Congress
siona Districts. The confession is certainly frank,
as to the intentions of the self styled Democracy.
Justice and the rights OF the people are not to be
consulted at all-but party considerations alone are
10 influence the result. The State-to subserve
party cnds-is to be so gerry. wandered that a mi
nori,y OF the people may elect majority of the
Representatives. This is modern Democracy in con
tradistincion to the old Democracy of the Revolu
tion-which taught it as a fundamental truth, that
huS me JothJ OuSub anu SnOulu govern. hcttng IN
the spirit, imputed TO them by Mordeeai Manasseh,
The Locoioco Committee have already prepar ed
BILL by which the counties, which gave I2 900 ma.
Jority TO Harrison in 1910, cannot elect more than
or 6 Representatives; while the Locofoeo minority
may elect 25 or 80. This result is effected by ma
king the Wing Districts very large and putting
many Wing counties together. For instance, most
OF the Wing Districts will contain a population of
rom SIS to 81, o00-while 10000 is the number in
many OF the Locofoco Districts. The ratio dssig.
mated by act of Congress is 70,6s0.
This is Unjust CO so gross and monstrous that I'M
less the spirit Of liberty be utterly exnguished by
spirit Of faction, j, is not possible for the people to
submit TO it. 1t strikes at the very root Of Repre-.
sentative Government-for representation is a mock.
cry when il ceases to reflect the wishes of a ma
jority.
Indeed there seems to be settled design on the
part of this faction to subvert the great principle
which we all supposed 10 bs established by the Re-
volution. In Pennsylvania the same iniqui,ous
game has been played off-and there, because some
haf dozen Districts were yielded by the Legisla-
ture to the Wings, the Loco Foco Governor refused
his signature to the bill, in the hope that the next
Legislature under his dic,ation, would deprive them
VI shb'e oHe. III Onlo, TOO inc same uetestaolo
spirit has been at work-There, 10 rob the majority
OF their due weight in the legislation of tho country
it was proposed to make some Wing Districts $50
miles long, and containing 100 900 inhabitants
These are the first States in which any action has
been had. We presume the same system will he
pursued in others, where the same party have the
ascendaney. The true voice OF the people is to be
stfsd by manifest departure from the letter and
spir; of the law-and in derogation Of the mos,
cherished principle of free institutions. And this
too, in the name of Democracy! VIVA, q moekery
II Faction has gained such on ascendency in our
country tina: such gross wrongs may be perpetrated
with impunity, we unfit for freedom, and tie
sooner we lay aside the semb!ance and the forms of
liberty, the better.