Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-20
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BY LAST EYENKSG'S MATL
Correspondenee Of the WIKI.
WASHINGTON, August IL. 1

nh very much after the manner OF tina, battle in the
''ad Tor The dead body Of Pa,roclus. As then. We
'he ufeeks want TO render funeral honors AZ lens,
10 'ne iaen; perhaps, TOO, TO sacrifice 10 its names
certain animals OF the Dsmocracy-n number Of I.o
eo'ocos who pretend TO their constituents that thew
are ia'ih men, and yet will against this bill.
! WIN OF witnout Distribution. On the other side
these perfdious Trcjins OF the Van Buren, p,rty
want 10 pretend that they were really grea, admir-
ers oil PI;rocus, that they only oded TO kill him
because he was dressed in the armour OF Acbil-
les-that Is, Mr. Clay's Land Distribution; and. in
short that they were the dearest friends he had upon
EARN. 90 they try 10 get his remains too and this
(tho the illustration is somewhat lons) is nerbans
the shortes, way can take to give all who bav.
read Homer-ihat is, oil who are not entirely ;II;,.
raie-nn idea Of the furious, the confused the shift
ing, the fatal and useless combat OF the mon.n,
over measure which is, think, as dead as PaIs.
c'us himself, or n salt herring.
The marruvering OF 10 .day has ev;I,n,,,, h..,
on The Wing side. 10 thrust at the Democrats n
ouehs'one vote-on the Tariff itself opar, from IN.
Land clause. Many Of them have all along pte
tended that their sole repusnanee was 10 the Dis
tTibuton- siswel, therefore, that the thing should
be placed before them in such form as will permit
the exhibition Of tn. darling quality Of a Van Blu
reni'e-his sincerity. They have to>day been able
70 shrk the quesiion-a suspension OF the rules be-
ing necessary 10 the introduction of n Resolution.
Blu, on Monday (Resolution day) tina, will no, be
necessary, and the matter will then, no doubt, &c
brought forward in manner that will allow no
lodging.
The several Reports from the Special Committee
on the Presidents objections to the Revenue Bill
were read yesterday, and will have reached YOU TO
day. Your readers will have found thu, Of MIR
Adams a very able document, most worthy Of the
occasion in argument and faci and wanting only in
those brave, high, eloquent words, in which such
manly reasons and such intolerabe facts should
have ereathed themselves out to the ready trans
ports Of public indignation. l am no, much in the
habit OF admirins Mr. Adams productions: bu, hi.
IS simple, direct, and vigorous in a high degree. II,
is the very spirit Of Old Massachusetts. always
| when you rouse her 10 actual and final ogestion
OF practical FREEDOM, as full ofsense and pluck as
any people on earth. l hold this report of Mr.
Adams to be hers, rather than Lis-not the man's
but the Good Old Bay States
II such a paper-so fall of things the mos, clear
and decisive of great question exposing, on the
Presidents part, assumptions, abuses and conduct
swered by the petty allegations and distinctions Of
Mr. Gilmsr, or the Jesuitieal pleAsartres of MIR
lngsrsoll, can only say that the people Of this
country no longer fl, to sit in iudgmen, on the
acts Of those in power and that any thing, no mat
ter how base foolish, may be, henceforth success
fully justified.
Talking OF these two defenders of Arbitrary
power it is fit not to let the public pass unno,eed
a fact as 20 each:
This is the Mr. Charles Jared ingersol who, in
the more feryid and less willy part of his political
Career, before he had turned Democrat, publicly
declared, that if he had lived in the Revolution he
should have been a Tory" Mr. Ingersell is still
true to his early love Of tyrannical power-sti, as
between popular rights and regal arrogance, sides
with Roya!ty-setIes the whole solemn debate with
eouT!ly phrases and an episram or two; and carries
OIL the question, il not in nut SHE'LL at least in ga
band box" OF which he himself looks as much ike
an nhaoitant as any thing you ever saw
The other worthy is that MIR Thomas Wake,
Gilmer, who Walksd OIL, with such hop, from the
: Wings, at the Extra Session. Til then he was
every inch whig.r fwhigeery was not some
thing exceedingly exempt from flults, MIR Gilmtr
must surely then have had wonderfully little
: conscience; and now that very conscience makes
him Ty!erite and Locofoco. Pray read me this
riddle OF such conscience; how he, who was every
inch Wing, could, in two months, find no inch OF
Whisgism TO which he could conlorm7 how he
too nice TO have even twelve cubic lines OF Whis
sism IN him. could, Of n sudden, turn Locofoco p
Had that party become "every inch wings 7" II
they had not, where was his conscience7 'Ob, but
J he had turned Tyler man :" beg pardon: he sup.
ports MIR Tyler, practically and personally: bu. he
is then perfectly well known to do it as Loco f,eo
But what then7 Ho finds, and has found, NJ
difficulty in supporting whatever Mr. Tyler wishes
His conscience is too nice to let him stay with III.
Wing and as soon az he joins the Presidents par.
~, you discover no longer a scrupe IN him!
But meant to point out a very gross aud udi
erous present incongruity. You may remember
how, carly in the session, MIR. c., among others
refused to serve on the committee Of Foreign R,a.
tons with Mr.. Adams alleging his Abolition no
tons, and that he could not reconcile /, to himse
to be associated with him, even when the psculiar
rights OF the South were concerned. Now IL seems
Mr. Gilmer can bear, in order to guard the Pfesi
dent, wha, he would not, TO secure and watch over
{ Southern safety.
You will see what was done to-day. Marshall
made speech Of some dcclama,ory effect, ngains,
Mr. Adams's Resolution. |, amounted TO hut this
that the Constitution was too perfect ever 10 o.,
, changed tina, Mr. Tyler very grossly abused the
powers it gave him but that this very power might.
at another time, in batter hands, save the country
Now, this is not the question. There is no dcs.
Potic power which, IN wise and good hands, may
not often confer great benefits. This power, If j,
can be used, without correction, as il has been by
Jackson and Tyler, Is practical tyranny, permit.
ted by the forms Of the Constitution, but not intend
cd 10y is spirit Ifilis to exs, in this shape. il had
better not exist al all.
VIVA. is the plain truth, which party jusslery or
personal subservieney attempts bu, will q hops)
attempt in vain TO hidel That, from. the beginning,
Mr. Tyler has bent every thing Of public policy and
interest to his own personal views Of the Presidency,
and has thought Of nothing else. That has been
the only IDEA in his brain; where there is not room
for two IDEAS at time.
The Senate vas to day occupied in score, sss
sion the British Treaty. Nothing further Of The
New Cabinet. ME- wsSslers retirement IS spoken
Of with great confidence, as certain to happen and
not to happen. The Benton party alone seem now
10 oppose TIC Treaty. j.
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ICTs The pueke, ship South America, from Ii
verpool 2is,-tWo days aisr-but not an i.cm Of
news.