Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-21
RICHMOND WING.
THURSDAY MoRnINo. July IN.

fDs Since the Tariff bill passed the House o
Repre- s~eniatives all eyes are turned to the Senate
The uncertainty ola few Senators invest the pro
ceedings ofthe body with interest. Blu, letters iron
Washington say. that the Senate will respond to tn
immediate Representatives Of the People, and firmly
resist the attempted usurpa,ion OF the Executive
If disposed to yield. the recollection Of having famet
two bills to meet the wishes OF the Executive, and
still catching a veto, will urge members on this oc-
casion to consul, their own wishes without regard 70
the weak and vacillating creature ut tho White
House. The pas, assures them, that they may pass
a bill prepared by MIR Tyler himself, without dot
ting an / or crossing a {, and yet il may he crushed
by the veto.
whether the bill, when passed. by both Houses, will
be vetoed or not, We DO not know, and truth to say
We do no, care. The veto has been threatened
hut that amounts to nothing. APPROVAL has hereto
fore been promised. and then approval has been
wi,hheld-So, judging from the past, We should in
fer n signature when a veto was promised. But
there is so little steadiness in the Executive ineum-
bent, that no calculations can be formed respecting
his future conduct. He is like a horse with bad
eyes, constantly lodging and shyinx at shadows
aud a bladder with beans in il, tied to the tail Of the
aforesaid animal, would not alarm him more, than q
whisper from Wise: The Ways ave trying to head
yOu'-would the gallant Captain. These terrific
words make him bolt outrisht-and cause him to
abandon any pledge, however sclemnly given. I,
is vain and idle therefore for Congress any longer ia
waste time in attempting to frame laws to humour
the whims of this political weather cock. They
have but to snae, the b est laws they can, ind leave
| shc r,pecruanrea 10 hiu, Itfa n chance busineaa
whether he approves or not-but possibly he may
sign, allho'he dis. approves.
We repeat, that we are Indifferent to the fate Of
the bill. In passing it, Congress will aave perform.
ed its duty TO the countTy-and in refusing to sub.
mi, to Executive die.ation in respect to the Distri-
button bill, will prove its devotion to the public Ii
berty and its firm adherence to the wishes of it's
constituents. Demagosues may assail the Wing
majority and charge them with faction in ndhering
to the Distribution, but the enlightened sentiment
OF the country will sustain them. They were elect
ed pledged expressly to carry out this mensure-as
was also the acting President. Because this latter
parsonage has fslsihe his professions and failed to
redeem his Redge, will that excuse or justify the
Wings in following his ~example-ard that too, a,
the sacrifice OF another high and holy Whig princi.
| ple-EGSltt1lCc 10 E1CCuIlFc OlCluNOui NO inc
wings owe it 10 the people who elected them, to
cling 10 this wise and benefcent measure. Their
faith is pledged to i,-nnd they canno, abandon it
without dishonor. BY adhering TO it through good
and through evil report, they may continue TO ex
cite the disp,eisure OF such immaculate and disin
terested patriots as Richie and MeMullen, Bayly
and Todd. and Shinn and Extra Billy-genilemen
so keenIy alive TO the approaches OF corruption, that
they talk Of abolishing money altogeiher-the peo-
pie are 60 prone to bribery and roguery, This
will be truly a grea, affection 10 the naughty
Whigs-but they may survive i'll
But if the question were one of mere expediency
If the Wings were not ~solemnly ommiue to
their constituents to sustain Distribution, they could
not now abandon it, unler the dic,aiion of the Ex
%ecutve. This gross usurpation invests the subjec,
with a gravsr interest, and brings directly in issue
the great question, whether the Executive or the
People, through their Representatives, shall enact
laws-whe,her the President shall exercise the tax
ing power-as h- is now trying TO do, or whether
this power, Of which no free people ever Invested
themselves, shall remain with them. These ques-
tons, which were in issue in our Revolutionary
then, i, nigh, cost los, in dollars and een,s09gnBs
MT 10 arOittaty rdej our ancestors taught us that
il was tho nobier and tho manlier part to resis, ty-
ranny at any cost and from whatever quarter il
might asSail US. The Tories OF that day thought
the Wings wicked, ~factious and rebellious--but
these last needed no. their hard thoughts, but moved
on without quailing to the great ends they had il
view. The Wings Of this day have the felicity Of
being equally hated by the Tories Of the present
time-and they will take care, with the blessing of
Providence, TO render Tory hate as Abortive now as
it was in '76.
The Harrisburg tPa) Intelligence, which hoist
ed the Tyler flag for a while, has drawn it down.
and thrown out the broad banner oil Harry Of the
West. The Editor, i. is supposed, had a cOnsidera-
ton from the Capt.-but his Subscribers no, being
equally lucky, began TO haul of, and no sold his
paper to a Wing, while yet il was worth selling.