Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-09-02
Correspondence Of the Wing.

WAsHrseros, August 81, 1912.
DEAR STA: better momen, seems 10 have
dawncd at last. On the anal passage, day before
yesterday, oi the Revenue Bill, with the Senate,s
amendments, feeling Of gladness seemed to dfTuse
Itself over nearly the whole body Of the whigs.
In this, they who had opposed il individually on
the point OF honor, appeared, almost without OK
cepton. to share. They felt that great good had
at least been attained for the couniry-ihnt the
capital measure, necessary to liz this Government
from the dir! where Loco Foeoism aud Tylersm
have laid 1.-THE measure in which all parties ana
all peuoas should have ioined-has been a, length
accomplished, by The Wings alonc against the ef
ofis and the Vaccinations of all others. II the
machine has not absolutely stopped and gone to
pieces, (or how could it have gone on y whose act
is II The course of the Executive was this-to
compel. by the aid Of his Democratic allies, u sur
render of certain main Wing measures, and to push
the game so far, that they should have no nlterna.
tive but either TO yield his will or sec the Gov
eminent actually dissolved.
IL that catastrophe has not Acknowledgement and
If TO have avered it without any signal forfeiture
of the public honour, is thing TO be rejoiced about
the country will not fail to be grateful to this Wing
Congress, which has, after ALL exricatej itself and
the Government OF once, from this peril Of their
honor and its safety.
The matter has, after oil, worked mott happily.
n kind Providence has certainly watched over The
event and shaped it TO what human prudence could
haTd!y have designed. Out of the discords and The
frauds OF party, out OF every thing that the strife
OF friends and the srahgem OF foes could do 10 cnn
brotl question Of itself. most perplexed, a mea-
sure has ut last risen, which the Tariff party assent
TO, with which those desiring only 10 give an ade-
Ouate RCypuue mr. IN LII L.
dent himselt-committed he was agains. such n
ouI-daIed not object; and which the Calhouni,es
alone oppose
We'll might your able and true Representative
exclaim, as he did on Monday, that Mr. Tyler has.
OF last, been utterly headed" He vetoed ,be
little Tariff" lie has signed the Big Tariff He
has assented 10 bill which his great ally MIR Call
houn, tenounces as the most Protective of TARIFF
lie has vetoed a Land bill TO which be had no Com
stItutlona objection, and he has signed n Revenue
BILL which overthrows the Compromise and all those
Constitutional principles TO which he has ever boast.
cd Of ndhering. in regard TO Tire Tariff Beyond all
question, Mr. Calhoun is right so FIR as this-that
the exemption OF Tea and Coffee from taxation so
as 10 throw a necessity for increased duties on ma
nuiaetured articles does constitute this TO the ex.
tent of near millions the duty on Tea and Cot
lea Tariff Of Protection only-oG pure, unmix
ed protection.
But the crowning grace of the session CAME yes
terday, IN that glorious ultimate folly the Protest
There, the President Is good enough TO make spec-
tacle OF himself, aud call up the deri.ve recoec-
ion oil the Whole county, Of the part which he him
sei enacted, 10 1884, against pre- cisely similar pro-
test. Did he think that the expunged resolutions
were already forgotten7 But no matter: let such
course involve HIM and expose him as il m CHIT il
served the purposes Of Mr. Wise, and gave the Fa.
rortie an opportunity Of making Royalty itself the
mc piece of his animosiiy against MIR Adams.
You will have seen how perfectly he WIS met in
all this. by Mr. Bolts, with the Overwhelming pre-.
cedent OF those proceedings of 1884. md with the
that occasion.
These larger events, you will have sees every
where; and every Congressional passer- Ivy will give
you hem. in the nmpest details. Amidst matiers
OF such high consequence, will not attempt TO en-
terrain you OF petty things ard speculation is hard
~ within the power of ones thoughts, in the hurry
and confusion OF these closing days.
shall have the pleasure, in few days, OF giving
you sketch OF the reception which Philadelphia is
rendering TO this patriotic Congress, day after to-
morrow. Ii will he a GLAD tffiir, a pomp worth
witnessing, and attended with eoquence worth
hearing. Yours, ].