The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-21
THE RICHMOND WING.

Whether the capital he has invested in the bust
ness shall rebound most 10 his advantage, or
that Of the concern, remains, as yet, to be seen.
We think it will be Mezentian operation, on
lv we doubt which is TO be the dead body, the
editors reputation or the newspaper.
This same individual once managed, or seem
ed to manage, an affair he called the Char
lottesvile Advocate; and, in its columns, would
insert arguments in favor Of those doctrines
Justly and proudly termed Virginian. No one
ought 10 doubt the sincerity OF the writer; for,
as he knew such doctrines would recommend
his paper wherever in the State il circulated,
what other motive could possibly influence
him, than conviction Of the truth Of the prin-
ciples he supported? And if he has since de-
serted these principles, and adopted opposite
ones, the consistency of his character should be
unquestioned, whatever may be said of its pu-
rity.
1t is true he now embraces, with as honest
ardor, the most dangerous doctrines of Federal
ism; particularly does he laud the new and
worst guise it has, as yet assumed, In the de-
clued opposition to the great conservative prin-
ciple of the Constitution; but then he is now
nominal editor of the Richmond Wing, and
must adopt his sentiments TO the meridian OF
his pay. Whatever of gross Federalism the
leader of that party now vomits, he swallows,
with all the seeming relish of hungry and lit
tie fastidious partisan; and, not satisfied with
doing dirty trick, he seeks the most public OPP
por,unity TO tell the world of his shame The
swine wallows, It's true, in the mud, with his
species, but goes not so far as to devour what
another has rejected from his stomach.
Since his induction into the office of chief
scullion, the Richmond Wing has accelerated
its pace towards extinction its daily decreas-
ing circulation, we are sorry TO learn, has driven
the temper of the editor to the extreme verge of
insanity. The wretched man, unless we mis-
conjecture, has been for some time a subject
for the miserable apprehensions Of his associ-
ates, who are, at present, in state of painful
suspense as 10 the ultimate restoration of his
senses.
He has been heard to utter disjointed SEN
fences. AT one time phrase, halt completed,
of incoherent blasphemy-an an audible curse
on his own folly for forsaking principles that, Of
old, gave him bread-rhapsodies in relation to
elections tackled on to unpaid accounts-heart-
rending appeals to coons, as if in conversation
with his political friends; and, a moment after,
observations TO the same persons, equally appl-
cable to coons. In his more sensible moments,
he laments thelo Of subscrbers, and weeps over
his desertion Of former friends in his return.
ing arrangement, he babbles of his political
character and position; and then those around
heaven, and indirectly look upon his situation as
case of confirmed hopeless insanity
On Sunday last he was seized with such a
violent hit, in consequence of the simultaneous
receipt OF election returns, and of falling off
of numerous subscribers, that the persons hav-
ing care Of him advised close confinement, hour
ly doses of some sedative medicine, and tenn
porary transferance of the paper to man by
the name of Peasants.
This is the same Peasants who was, at one
time, editor of the Richmond Wing while he
conducted its editorial department its columns
evinced a little talent and some learning. The
talent was peculiar one, or rather Of peculiar ex-
cellence; and he has boasted with virtuous self
satisfaction of the effects it has produced So
happily did he blend different falsehoods together.
mixing them all up into one pungent dish, like
ola podrlda, that no one would take up his pa
paper without the confident feeling he would
meet with some lie SO outrageous he aoould be
bound to believe it! The extreme of false
hood In Peasants suggested some conviction of
truth, as intense frigidity renders the idea of
heat more palpabe. No one would believe a
fact mentioned elsewhere till he found it con-
tradicled in the Wing.
And his learning, too, is as profound as his Ia
lent is flexible. All he has acquired. he has
learnt practically; what he sees in print he
never believes, from the same cause that Satan
denies the existence of virtue. All his know
LEDGE therefore, comes by experience. He stu
died geography practically, and found by travel
ling over them, the existence and position of
counties. He went to South America by the
way OF London, that he might derive in one
voyage as much information as possible of what
Mrs. Mallaprop would call contagious coun-
tries." In physics he was disposed to hold with
Berkeley, and to deny the existence of matter
had he not hit upon a theory still more incredi-
bic, when applied TO himself, and maintained
the eristence of mind.
He has studied arithmetic, and likes it: bu
sees no necessity for its rules; thinks tina
figures are improperly used in the science, be
cause "6gures won't e."
Grammar he detests, and always denies it
use; and if you argue with him on the subject
he points triumphantly to his writings, and asks
90 If Won find anu grammar fhora ~