Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-23
RICHMOND WING.
SATURDAY MORNING.. july AZ.
FArrENING rOR THE kNIFEl

One who understands the strategy Of the scheuins
Editor OF The Enquirer must be amused in watching
the twisiinss and turnings TO which he resorts to
accomplish his ends. lie has an invineibe aversion
to 90 straight forward to his purpose a,ho' the di
rect path be the shortes, and surest. lie mus, bur
row or meander. This habit comes from fayorite
maxn OF his, ,ha. c,ndor and fair dealing in polite,
Is lit c short OF 4 crime. One not advised Of this
trait in his character will be often in fog az to his
real designs. But understood, all his sinuo,itie.
become straight lines. and his cunning uvstinss
to eireumven and deude intelisi be to the sim.
pies, capacity.
We observe he is now playing or hi, tricks upon
Mr. Calhoun and his friends. In a late number of
his paper the loftie,t cuoeiums were Iavished upon
MIR Hunter Of this Stale and MIR Dixon II. Lew is Of
Alabama. They had delivered, we are told, the
ablest speeches heard in Congress; "EIaborat.
cd with astonishing ability" "For comprehensive
ness and strength Of argument they have rarely, if
ever, been surpassed; aud in point, ciearness and
beauty Of style, they have never, during this and the
extra session, been exceeded. Indeed, when VIC con
slider the prooundness of their statesman like views,
the business and fairness of their premises and the
irresistible force OF their conclusions, the country
will long appreciate their wisdom" The careless
thinking and unintia,ed would infer from this, tina,
the venerable Editor would eheerruy stake life, IL
esrty and pursui, of happiness, in support ofMes.rs
dunier Lewis. But TO those who know thing or
two, 1t is in the language OF a canny bt,her, An
drew Fairservice "a vanities and voubihties.n lie
intends nothing 50 little to peril any thing for
these gentlemen or their M,gnus Apollo. So far
from IT, 1t isa way he has OF fat;cning his enemies
io' the knife. IL is true that Mr.. Lewis who weighs
some 500 ovoirdupois, might dispense with any adj
d'ion TO his obesity-beins already morsel dainty
and capacious enough for the most voracious Can
nibal, or even Vatheks Devil Of the Pit, who ate 50
youths at breakfast. But Richie, at the same
time, that he is more ravenous, is more fastidous
He s'ufr' his victims with praise) to bursting, be
fore he eats hem-jus, a butcher stalls his beeves
before subjeeting them TO the knife. To drop oil
hsure-you may take corporal oath that these
compliments bode Me- Calhoun no good. lie is a
terrible pest TO the Jun,o-They are committed to
him-and 10 disonthral themselves, they have re.
solved on his destruction. To accomplish THE, with
out de;riment 10 the party, requires great tact lie
has his friends, who nre bndy devoted to him, and
will, with great difficulty, be reconciled to any
rangement by which his claims to be postponed.
DNf NuOst 1icNuS VI necessary 10 Inc SUCCESS
Of any other Loco;-and therefore il is that Mr.
Calhoun must be killed off in manner no, to ex.
cite the dispsasure Of his supporters The Citiz,n
brings oil his cunning TO this difficult task. He be-
gins, by bespauering Mr. C.'s most ardent support
ers with praise. This is designed to achieve a two
fold object. The first is to throw these gentlemen off
their guard, and to persuade them that man is so
devoted to the object they have ., hear, as the Ed
Tor OF the Enquirer. The second is to prepare
them TO submit TO what he will call the necessity OF
Mr. Cahoun's yielding TO some more popular man
"A necessity which he will affect bitterly to de-
piore-and he will eddIce these psusgyrics as an
evidence Of the sincerity OF his grief. "S.e [hc will
sAyl what have been doing to advance our com.
mon wishes'-(and after the machinery OF a Con-
vention for decipita,ins Mr. C. has been prepared
Tho will add, with tears streaming down his aged
eheoks)-but we, as good Republicans, mus; submit
to fate. 1t is a grcvous disappointment, but we
will take that friend shall be the man next
time"
Messrs. Calhoun, Lewis, Pekens & Co. will be
coereed 10 feed on hope deferred for another four
yesrs-and resting upon the same props-for four.
score more