Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-10

remote one Of having been blinded ~ party spifi,
TO seQaeses IA les they never syprssss) The hseal
bundersns OF the sekson Ia prod acirx The ds>
| ness which peivad-s every quarter OF the state.
They have certainly been industrious and trass'
at any previous time, and have carried 10 matke,
large supplies from their iaeor. IL Is no ult OF
theirs that credit Is annihised. aud that the eiteu'
a'ins medium 10 totally Inadequate IN supply 10 The
wants Of the county, thereby oecasioning that col
lapse in prices and s,agnation in business which
affect all classes. CAaris.aaiss,. the tampeling oi
/ ignorant presumption With the delicate mechanism
OF toe Political Eeonomical System. Is the true cause
| OF national mourning; and II whaiever the cause,
the People ara en,it,d to all the relief the maady
will ADMIT Of their cla,m Is unansweeble and holy
when they h,ve Seen reduced to their condition by
/ causes beyond their control. Yours
REMARKS.
The preceding shall, for US. most eheerfully pas
With no large rejoinder.
Our Correspondent, il will be perceived, neither
wheels forth that ponderous artillery OF legal and
historical lore, with which. from his late in,mstions
about our ignorance, expected to be salu,sd nor
does he meet any of those practical aspects OF the
question, which we have considered; nor does he
make single effort to shew that the sort Of Relief
for which he cries aloud, will accomplish lis pur-
pose. He but paints. before, With very pow
erful hand, the general distrsss. To work upon
that feeling, he appears think argument enough,
history enough, law enough, and morality and pub
lie policy enough
He knows, apparently, bu,too we'll, the unhap.
py truth that there ofica come these viocnt condi
tons Of the public mind-6,s Of popular agony, or
perturbation, or resentment, when nothing but an
unreasoniug cry will be listened to, and when they
who peal that, as to affect the peoples nervcs
the most, the best Statesmen and the only Ora
tors. He remembers, perhaps, the day to which
our own thoughts never revert without pity ard
shame, when, in the midst OF the Southampton in.
surrecton, the insane terror Of that wreiehed and
pcrhdious old babber and coward, Thomas Richie.
had, with the single cry OF something MUST be
done!" almost uamanned ia a this brave PEG
pic. conjuEed all sense as vel. as all courage out
OF them. and plunged them, through mers panic,
into all the irredecnable horrors cf Immediate Abo
ltionl
That fact, and the memorable lesson which it
furnishes against falling, because public danger
suffering is upon US into this blind agony of fear,
our correspondent has, if We mistake not, good
cause to reeolIec, Is i, for like him. ,ha, have
,ausht the country many bold and many honour
able lessons, no~ to fall into this worsl than femi-
nine eStncy OF alain, and, ringing out the hideous
sounds that hItcst to freeze the heart and hso
uie oIuih, hpEedu Eiouc nusllan in.lv anu every
thing that is nldies, when the country has need OF
what alone can extrica,e nations from danger or
distress collected courage that grows with
danger, and virtuous constaney that rises wi.h the
distress?
Our readers will but Little recosnizs any thing
that we have said, in tho moeking a, the public
sriefs which our corre,poaden, imputcs to u.s. We
have but said what il were we'll that the country
had oitener heard or earlier listened to-"tha, it is
our conduct as ciizsds and individuals which casts
our fortunes, public AMI private: that pcrnieious
political measures, to which the majority in thi.
State have lent their jealous support, ths chief
causes OF al! We now suffer; and that the rest
(whethcr much or little) is the work Of individual
want OF thrift, over-eassrness for sudden gain.b
Addressed 10 the yet unchanged ascendancy OF
these same unhappy counsels, this was surely no
ill-,imed nor merely bitter truth; but high and
most salu,ary warning SHAT nothing could now be
more Histioas than that they, the p,ople. because
their misgovernment has brough, calamity upon
them, should now turn and urge that calamity their
own act) as the excuse for still wilder missovern-
meni and new and still moro fatal excuses OF the
same terrible principles, tina, have been the COATES
sed causes OF their msfor:unes"
Our correspondent, taxes Us, upon our known
individual opinion with insiacerity, because we
have no: more directly made this party question
and Tough. it by vehement, and general reproaches
against those whose public policy we regard as re-
sPonsible Tor the existing troubles. Now we have
by no mans concealed the persuasion which we
entertain on this point; and he should therefore
have easily OWNED that held il unjus, to so high
matter, involving every thing that both parties in
ate an
debate and endanger the decision, by awakening
party anmosies and hurting political fre.brands,
oy way OF putting out a new eonAagration.
The question is but this and beg TO recall our
correspondent to II, capable he is of discussing
lt-wheiher the existing mischief Is medicable by |
any 'e9isiaIon7 and, if it is whether that which he
proposes is fit to kill or curs7
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