Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-08-31
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST n. Isas
The Public Opinion Factory.

The Public Opinion Factory.
The second edition of the Petersburg Repub
leans reply To the Richmond Enquirer will
! be found below. We could not do less thar
publish the whole of il; il is invaluable to tn,
politician oi a certain party, i'm rs much rs
enables him 10 see, through proper medium
the operation of manufacturing public sentiment
which is n mystery 10 many. Ii is instructive
even, 10 the Wing; because it Strengthens his be
lief IN the ultimate triumph oftruth, through means
unsuspectcd to those who would suppress it. The
merchant should have il on his counter; the CLERK
on his desk. The lawyer should lay aside "Cokt
upon Lucton," for a while. and take up Screen
how upon Richie" All individuals, and all classes
should have it. To each and ALL it is alike inva.
luablc.
And why is it invaluable! Because it speaks a
truth. which should be known ''uno all men,, and
which we have been, in vain, endcavouring to inn
press upon certain portion othc public, for years.
| The fact, that public sentiment has been manufac-
. tured here, for years, To suit the purposes of a
| clique whose members aspire to be rulers in the
land, is rs notorious to every Wing, the sun at
noon-day. We have made and repeated the charge
i'll thousand shapes, and until became tired
of the task 1t was sufficient with some that the
accusation was made by Wing press it set
down "Whig lc,' and without any farther
attempt TO disprovc it, the matter left in statu
quo. 1t is "a Wing lie" was answer enough to
any charge, however grave.
We now call portion of the Democracy itself
into Court, and insist upon their evidence as fully
and triumphantly establishing every ord we have
uttered upon the subject. The late attempt of the
Richmond Enquirer, tn dictate to portion of the
| party, seems to have struck some of them with
astonishment. To it is a matter Of no surprise.
Ii is what has been olen nay always, done by that
print it is what the Calhoun wing might have ex-
peced, when they presumed to separate from Ritch-
/ e. and his veterans with the classical names.
! The Republican may open the eyes of its own
/ adherents-it may show the monster in all its hi.
deous deformitv TO Them but there its influence
must necessarily stop. We tell the editor of that
Journal, if he is not already appraised of the fact,
| that large portion of the community with no
other eyes, and hear with other cars than those
the Enquirer is pleased TO lend them. The loud
est voice dies away before it reach Them the
most brilliant flood of light that ever Illuminated
/ the moral world is distorted into thousand unna-
tural shades before il penetrate the opaque
medium of the Enquirer, through which, alone, it
is permitted to reach them. We have long been
accustomed to regard this Cimmerian darkness as
impenetrabe. We have essayed every means to
pierce through IT. but efforts have been vain.
Ii is the object of that print to keep his adheren;s
in the dark. He knows that light would be de-
structve TO his kingdom, Pluto apprchended il
would be 10 that of the Internal regions when
! Neptune near laying them open TO the light
of day. In support of this assertion, we need
only advert to the fact, that, though the Republ.
can has published his article he has not returned
the courtesy. and he never will. As soon may Mr..
/ Greenhow expect the Holy Fathers of the Inqui-
sition, to allow full Spanish translation of the
Scriptures 10 be circulated tor the benefit of the
| people OF that benighted country. Both would
have effect equally perncious to the ''Reign OF
| Darkness" The true. old-tmes Enquirer man
will regard the expose Of the Republican, with as
much horror a. the old Castilian contemplates the
works OF divine, he has been taught TO look upon
as the preacher of damnable hercsy.
We would not have the public think, that we
view this bion mp with any other feeling than that
OF the utmost indifference. Satisfied as we are
that it can have effect upon the approaching
contest, view II as would any other strug
gle in which We are moi interested; with amusc
mcnt only, mingled, perhaps, with some feeling,
ofsympahy iorthe younger and more gallant cham
pion of the Calhoun wing of the party.
The Republican will now find ont who is the
public, according TO Richie, if it has not already
ascertaned that important fact. The Old Rich
mond Junto is the public. The men who have
kept Virginia in the traces for the last forty years
who have thrown every impedinent in her way
as she has endeayored 10 keep up with the marcl
OF the age who have reduced her from the first, {,
the fourth rank in the Union whose interest it is {,
keep her children in the dark, and who pursue tha
species Of policy with pcrtinacity that never tires
these are the men, that constitute the Public il
the eyes of the Enquirer. Their name is not Ic
gion, aud thcir principles easily understood
They like everything to go before the people bu
they take care to constitute themselves the People
They are great sticklcrs for "rotation in Office
with the understanding, however, that the princi
pie is not TO be applied to them. They are grca
friends Of The People that is, they have no oblcc
ton TO the Peoples money when they can la
hold of it. Above all they are unwaycring, an
iniicxible advocates Of Marin Van Buren,, has
ing ali sworn 10 "sin, or swim" with that grca
political Navigator. The very title they Civ
him, 'the Peoples Candidate" indicates their de
votion for what does The expression mean, if
is not 10 be understood as conveying the idea tina
he IS the Candidate Of those who call themsclyc