Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-09-10
RICHMOND WING.
ATUnDAY MORNING. SEPT. 10.

Ola .Mssmsr founders desperately to get out OF
the mud, but every struggle serves only TO sink him
deeper IN the mre. He conesses. some one does for
him, that he was beautifully hoaSed-but even that
most laughable exposure Of his dwelling credulity
has been unable to "throw off the fluid" and discn-
chant him. He devo,es some three or four columns
to ;ome new and astonishing phcnomena-the bare
recital of which proves that he is hopelsssly gone.
He is bent on being duped aud staying dured-and
we consequently resign him to the dominion of the
devils. who have possession Of him. lwiih their as.
sstance, he can throw enough fluid to efiace the
rdeule, which the sigh, of him will forever excite
and a, the same time persuade the yea, Democratic
Family that person can see as well with his fingers
as his eyes-well and good--we leave the pleasing
task to him. The community of sensation" being
established in the Locoioco world at least and very
little thought being requisite, he will doubtless sue
coed 10 his hearts content.
We regret 10 observe, that although he has passed
through oil the sublimaed stages of mesmerisni he
has failed 10 purge of the many gross impurities OF
his character. II he insists on being a dure, and
perseveres in maintaining doctrine. which, if esta-
blshed, would invite TO every immortality and sup
ply the ready means for its easy execution, we had
hoped that he would acquire TO some extent
the attributes OF fairness and candor. But not So
the fluid possesses no capacity for impar.ns
those virtues. He comes forth rocking from the
vat of imposture, the subject Of universal laushte
and under the force Of habit, stronger than
ture, returns forthwith TO his old vocation o.
perverson and Misrepresentation. In this spirit
he publishes the atroeous plot" and after
perverting the principles upon which it was
based, and the objects it contemplated, with wonled
righteousness, he charges it upon the whole Wing
party. and calls upon the People to crush Party
which would kidnap their lawfully elected Chief
Magistrate There is a meanness in this, which we
forbear 10 charac,erize-and which he is welcome to
profit by. Indeed, he may make oil he can out OF
the Pho, ITSELF His Tory instincts may shudder at
the idea OF refusing submission TO Presden. forced
on the country by a minority, through fraud
He may preach up non resistance and passive obe-
dence, and he may Throlc on a Title more If the
FlUid"-bui he will never bring the people Of this
country TO agree with him, that they have no right
70 resist usurpaton and overthrow tyrans. Ii is Of
the very essence Of their principles-the motto of
this glorious Old Commonw procaims i,-that
It Is not merely the privilege, but the duty Of every
freeman TO resist tyranny;-and when the occasion
arises, when usurper is thrust upon US either by
force or fraud, the Republicans Of this land will not
stop at abduction, nor be very scrupuOus about the
means they resort to, TO vindcate their libertes-
They have the right, of which they cannot be d.
vested, to resis. usurpaiion, Wheeler of fraud or
force, and they will exert it, whenever the emer-
sency calls for it, in spite of Locof1coism, or Mes
merism, or any other ism, which Toryism may as
sumo, as cloak to its undying enmity to freedom.
These doctrines may be new, and startling, and
astonishing TO Old Mesmer-e in his sleeping or
waking Woodland he may make the most OF them
but they are the doctrines Of all true Republicans,
who love libony and deiest slavery.