Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-22


there. generally felt, has been completely disap
pointed. allow comes this1"--is the general
question.
Without knowing at all Intimately the details Of
domestic politics, the tricks of local delusion
which may have had much par, in the result, we
=. see, aud have all along apprehendcd, some larger
causes, which probably explain suaic ently OF them
selves, what now appears 20 have happened.
The grea; contest in the State, which has ragged
all the Summer and Fall. has been tho daneerou,
issue, made by the whix members OF the L.sisla.
ture, in resgnn: their seais in body, defeat an
Ubiquitous act Of Party Legislation, meant arthci-
ally to prolcns failing party assendancy, orign
ally cot by accident, and thus Ear upheld, in part,
by previous fraud of the same sort.
The Wing party OF the Ohio Legislature saw,
with alarm, the grossest possible political outrage
abou, TO be inflicted, und.r the solemn forms of a
high legislative act, upon the greater part of the
voters Of theie State. by a wicked, nay, ala ndoned
party .apporionment of the Congressional Repre-
senta,on, deliberately conrived to diveN the actual
majority, the Wing counties OF the Stats, OF every
thGg like fair voice in tho cec;ions-a detes,able
injustice which, once enacted, would b, in force for
10 years.
This daring iniquity Of party ever clamoring
about popular rights and ever ready to trampla
upon them for their own benefit, the Whic m ember
resisted, through every form Of legislative combat;
but in The very Injustice, the gross inequ
ty, the actual disqualification and ouilawry which
they proved that i, iscted upon the larger body of
the people were, TO the unpriucpe1 authors OF tn.
thing hut arguments for doing it. To demonstrate
TO them that it was Law agans; party, for the
benefit Of the o,her-a law to coalnuo their own
minority in power-was certainly not the lik,liesi
way to persuade them on, OF what they had devised
for that very purpose.
Driven, then. into tn, bad alternative Of seeing
this lessizsd political fraud put in force against
their people, or Of quitting their seats, To desa, it
for the time, by appeal to the constituency, they
thought the latter tn. best, for public Liberty
if for their indvid la interests politicians;
. and they resigned 50 as no. to leave legislative
quorum.
Since then, the most active and ugiia,ing canvas,
OF their course has occupied the State. Thev the
friends OF Order and OF submission to the Law,
have had to stand before the people in the fals, 20
( sition OF its enemies and subveders. They hive
had 10 justify themselves, to Wings, for Loeofoco
}, proceeding; and the murmurs Of Wing reverence
for whatever has the sanction OF Legality have been
n sweled by an universal chorus OF reprolch from
Il that entire party, in whose sigh, before did
o any overthrow OF abandonment OF what as Lawful,
;. Tail to fad grace, because none ever befo..
A committed out by themselves, and for purposes Of
re ruin, not redress or safety.
From the first, we were greatly startled by The
"a course which friends, urged by extreme circun
n stances, adopted as wauantable We recoilel from
III any such violation OF settled auh )ri,y, matter
!. What the provocaton, the necessity the
y We knew tina, it was done 10 save tn, popular
n rights from a most nefarious blow; but we knew
that the consequences might be most DISASTROUS 10
e the party in Ohio, and any thing but suspicious
= the reputation OF the Cool Cause ITSELF throus
e the Union.
c II is safer for the LocolDcos to trample for any
purpose no matter how bad, upon any Law or oil
laws than for Wing to violate the smallest ons,
even for the rshte., ends. They en- dshonos the
Broad Seal OF State, to pack Congress 81 that
they may be able TO elect Speaker and Clerk :
they can, under the shalIos-st and novel pee
fences. defeat legislative majority on joint ballot
and keep State from being represented in the U.
States Senate they Tspuliits in Mississippi,
repeal eharitrs in Pennsylvani,, set up grng in
suuections OF foreigners in Rhode Island, muster
forces in New York and Connecticut to aid in burn
wells Island to carry city election and any thing
else they please. With theni any bad end jusiihes
the employment Of the most atrocious means.
Not so, however with the Wings. From them,
the country and their friends expec, seady public
morality, reverenti, afTe ton for the laws, pei,
pe,ual care Of things more sacred AMI ess tempo
rsry than party pstsonal tactics. And
If they swerve from wha, i, orderly and right 20
| fhau- ia Io b-ft
4, is upon them that hangs all hop, al possibility
Of preserving TO tn, country, against mad innova-
ton and Dissemination, any thing that IS stable
VI vinuous or safe. Ifhey slide into any Loeof1co
examples, they gone, and our Institutions with
them.
We speak thus plainly, not 10 chs, any unkind
esnsure upon those whose conduc, has been ac.la-
ted, we know, by very high public motives, and
whom the unprineiple1 course Of their adyersa,ies
I had placed in dilemma the mos, trying. Nor 10
VIC make Of their defeat needless occasion OF eK
al,ing our own wisdom, by reading them poi-al
homly. A like state Of things m,y be approaching
in Virginia itself n party equally unscrupulous
has here possession Of the Legislature, and is
about 10 opportion the Congress onal Rspresen-
talion. OF their acting with any fairness or
even deeency, we esnno, be insineefe enough
10 say that We have much hofe. LIT them.
however, abuse their temporary power they my.
&c trust 10 zee the Wings stand true to their own
principles. No wild resort to the methods Of lhcif
sdversaries can ever help their eiuse. L., them
uphold the law, however, for the time m s'mije.-
There is a rsuibuiion 10 the doors Of all public
wrong. lfthey make grossly Unfair Districts. ia,
very fact will, after one TEAM, aid u, 10 revolution.
izng them. Just nov, hey haze he advantage Of
US they are pushing public tTiirs DOZEN hM an5
We are trying oroll them up BY snj by, how
ever, about 54I We shall &c, things W % the lev
ell ground; snd then, with the dssliy'y no more
gains, US, their W5rsbips will hnI ren,cl YES o
good deal weaker ;han they think they are.
/. The AnDiean TariG.
The Foreign news, W the BdAnuis, displays. o.
excited in England by the passage Of our new Re
venue Law, very considerable degree ofresenimsni
IA resentment. We confess, Of which ~s cannot
see the exhibition without being rather amused and
- pleasel than any ihipg olse.
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