Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-05-18

| ought not to have even wished TO dispossess the
wings, until they had accomplished that Zoe which
30 grea, majority had placed item in power. The
democratic party knew well, that peIhdy, the
oaeNesi' that apostaey, the most unparalleled in the
worlds history that ingtattude. the vles' and sell
hshness the most INSCRIPTIONS, well IS the silli
est IN ITS dreams, had nesrosed to wrench from the
wings the seepue con6ded to their hands 10y the
voice oil the People, and It was IN them want both
OF patriotism and masuanimty. at such time, TO
screen traitors Ivy Induction and to arrest the exc
eouon OF the mandates OF the People. What, ailer
all their shoutings and their hosannas, is their Vm.
gina victory worth to theml Not the paper and
INK which record il. There arc Just as many wings
as IN $50, when they had 10000 votes to spare
as many save the very few whom the lust of the
spots has bribed to betray their country. Let no
man 6e weak enough to mistake the sullen repose
oil the great Wing party, either for despair or sub.
mission For the elections Of III and ~, they cared
not. They have Suffered them 10 go almost 10y de-
isuit. Absorbed m contemplation OF the IN
famous treachery 10y wheh their victories have been
rendered Ruthless and 10y the most despicable tool
whom the caprice OF fortune ever invested with the
power Of thwartng nations will, they have look
ference. Il is not apathy, but the very reverse
Their passions are highly wrought up. They are
too mad to for paltry State election, which
ours every year, and decides nothing. They are
"nursing their wrath to keep it warm" They have
voluntarily touched the earth, to rise refreshed like
Ani@us two years hence. The Lion as not dead.
but sleepelh" and siI will witness the most furi-
Gus exhibition Of popular feeling ever yet manifest.
Ell IN our country provided The ass. Tyler, can find
single State to host his flag. Had II been the
Standardization which they had TO oppose in the late
elections, the Wing party would have displayed
even phrenzied activity. But they knew that
Tyler was inevitably sadded upon them for three
years, and hence they were Indifferent 10 the rest.
The old luminosity, too, between the Wing and
Democratic parties, has greatly subsdcj. A com.
mon contempt for the renegades who hold the rens,
and common purpose TO chase "baek Dan" and
his con.ederates from power, has not only nlayed
ancient hostility, but bcso,ten secret sympathy
between the two parties, which will ere long pro-
duee immense and striking results. The Webster
and Tyler faction, with their corporal's squad have
so entirely monopozed Wing adherence, that they
have none to spare for the Democratic party, whom
they love when compared with the nest of traitors
who have sold their country for lease of power
confess that the stern constsncy with which Col.
Benton and his branch OF the party have resisted
the merericious advances of the corrupt aposia,es
who WELD power, and the dignity and frmness with
which they have stood 10y their creed, have worn
away much OF my anipaihy, and attracted my high
est respect; and wish with all my soul that we
had President possessed of some principle, even
ii mis- taken, rather than the poor dolt who has no,
the understanding to comprehend the import OF the
term. Yours, truly,
a VIRGINIAN,
IN washington.