Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-10-24
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER "a. ls4a.
90 Sec srst page.

The Editor of the Wing, after an absence of n
few weeks, is again at his post. Business. and
other matters, requiring his personal attention,
which have been neglected, will be speedily
attended TO.
We cannot, in taking pen in hand, forbear to
congratulate the Wings of the State upon the bril-
liant and decided triumphs, which have graced our
cause, within the last few weeks. The iniuen-
tal and important States of North Carolina and
Tennessee opened the campaign, with the most
cheering victories. Georgia and Maryland follow
cd up the successes there achieved, by triumphs
still more brilliant. Pennsylvania and Ohio
those great and commanding Commonwealth
each of which, i'll population and wealth, and all
that constitutes nation is great empire, have
followed the glorious lead of their sister States,
and recorded their suffrages for the true principles
of liberty, and national and individual prosperity.
These results the more animating they were
foretod as coming from causes for sometime opc-
rating, and which are destined to produce other
and similar results, of still greater and more extern
sive consequence. When revcrses every where
beiel the Wing cause, consequent on the treache-
~ of the acting President; there were those, who
did not despair;-who foresaw that those reverses
at no distant day, by decisive and enduring tri-
umphs. The reaction has commenced, and is in
rapid progress of completion, before the predictions
have reached the remote confines of the Republic.
The victories in Ohio and Pennsylvania, as par
" triumphs, not less wonderful, than they are
celebrating. In both Of those States. the Demo-
cratic party have been in the ascendancy for the
last few years, and in both, to sporting phrase.
they stocked the cards" upon their adversaries.
"Gcrrymanders" were constructed in both. OF
gigantic proportions, and powers deemed ade-
quate TO suppress the Wing voice, and pcrpetu-
ate the domination of the prevailing faction. How
futile the best laid schemes of selfish and
designing Demagogues, is to be seen in the results
of the late elections in these two States.
Truly gratifying must be these triumphs TO
every Wing to the Virginia Wing. the Wing
successes in the Southern States are of a charac-
ter still more cheering. foreshadowing like results
in this good old Commonwealth TO the close OBJ
server it must have been manifest, that public
sentiment in the Southern and middle States has
been gradually undergoing change. for several
years in respect TO certain great measures ofpub-
lie policy. The Bank and the Tariff were. in the
beginning, so far as they assumed sectional char.
TO be sure was the creation of the Federalists and
it was opposed by the Republicans, under the
lead of Mr.. Jefferson, mainly because it was urg-
cd 10y Hamon--who, however, preferred the En-
chequer system, which has recently become
great fayourite with certain par excellent Repuh-
licans The second Bank was established by Re-
publicans--Southern Rcpublicans-indor the re-
commentator of James Madison. The Tariff of
10 was strenuously opposed by the Northern
States, and as warmly advocated by the Southern
and middle States. IS 2 sound currcnry. and 4 I
substantial tariff, then, and are now, calcu.
lated 10 benefit the Southern and middle States,
and as peoples opinions naturally conform in a
great degree to their interests; these two mea.
suFes, for many years denounced, have become
more and more popular, until they have come to
find their warmcst advocates in that section, where
they both first found countcnancc and support.
This change ofopinion will continue to increase.
until the two great measures of national indcpend
cnce and prosperity shall, in the election Of Henry
Clay, become the established policy of the Go.
vcrnment