Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-15

parent. Their grief under the bitter Bereavement
would DO little less uneon,rolable than Rachel
weeping Tor her children and would no. be com
torted.
Should his Honor, from high sense Of public
duty, repress the gushing affection OF his bosom and
tear himself away from his sorrowins ftiends-the
only consolation LEFT them, will be- that the people
OF Alabama and Louisiana will garner up the uea-
,ures OF wisdom, and virtue and learning. Of which
We are despoied.
The act does no, take efIsc. until next February
The Loess heading Themselves!
See the annexed letter, which tells pretty tale
Tor Locoloeoism. After all their Glamour about the
wings running the Government, and their own anx.
iety to furnish tho Government wi an adequate
revenue, if they could only get rid Of tho ojiOus
Distribution, behold the result! tariff bill Of
their own connecting, prepared in caucus. and
brought forward by one CT their leaders-is voted
down by themsclve,-jus, enough voting FOR i, to
show the unprineipled faeiiou.ness Of the whole
The entire conduct OF this party in regard to this
great question has been utterly irdeensbs and fac.
tious. When the little Tariff bill was introduced,
they offered-an amendment, through MIR Gwin,
which they assured the House and the country, il
auupbcu, Wouiu Couitiiauu bttu uSlu'eeee"NNs AhN
wings took them at the word, and engraftod the
amendment on the bill. The veto came, and they
applauded it, and to n man, voted against the pro-
position which they had originated.
The big Tariff bill was brought forward. They
could not touch that-because il took from the
Treasury a sum, which, in one breath, they said
would pay all the debts and restore the credit OF the
Government, and IN the next denounced too paltry
for consideration. But rid the bill OF this obnox
ous feature, and they were the men who would re-
penish an exhausted Treasury, and revive the proc
perity Of the country. Again they have been Ia.
ken at their woodland again they have falsifed
their pledges.
But while this despicablc game Of faction was
playing, We were told by some that the compro
mise, limiting duties to % per cent was sacred and
invioate-and il il were touched, II would give good
cause for civil war: And then these same mon pro.
tested that they were willing and anxious to ain
crease the duties to e5 per cent. or higher" and
that the compromise act was ,eOasiifEtisnaI!
What are We TO think Of such siatesmen2
Correspondence OF the WIKI.
WAsHiseros, August 18th, 1912.
Dear Sir-Nothins has transpired te- day, in re,
gard to the future the Tariff Bill. Mr.. c.
]. lngersoll moved to suspend the Rules to enable
him 10 introduce Tariff Bill providing for duties
according to the system under the act Of '33) az
they stood in 1888. BY this bill higher tariff, on
many articles, would have been levied than was pro-
vided for by tie bill which MIR Tyler lately vetoed
The Loeos, however, many OF them, voted to sus-
pend-oihers voted against it. II has produced
great dissatisfaction, the part of the Pennsyl-
yana Locos who denounce their Loco Foco breih.
ren as lai,hess, and declare that they cannot be
trusted. IL is said that Ingersols bill had the up
probation of Caucus, but when the tug came in
the House the party dropped TO pieces. The
House refused TO suspend Ivy vote OF near 40 10
40 The Locos need not say now they had not
chance to vote for bill OF one OF their own
friends TO raise Revenue, Invested Of the obnoxious
land clause. They need not tell the country tina,
they were bound TO vote ugans, the bills offered
them by the me jority-a measure Of their own,
eoeted in Caucus, offered by distinguished men,
Der Of their party has been refused the usual courtesy
Of leave TO be introduced. The Wings, as you will
perceive, could vote for it because it repealed the
Land Bil-ihe duties to be collected under it being
over 20 per cont.
hear that Mr. Cushing is to go into the Cabinet
as soon as Congress ndjourns-ihat Webster goes
out, and that MIR Stevenson Of your city takes his
place. Rumor says, too, that Forward and Spencer
so also by the board.
Lord Ashburton was in the House 10 day, look.
ing well, and seeming, as thought, from distan.
view, TO have been recently relieved Of many grave
matters Of State, and to have maintained in so 10
ing, the power OF his Queen, as well as 10 have re-
speeied the high character OF our own Government.
am, hastily,