Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-05-20
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 80, is,s.
PARTY Bitterness.

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| A correspondent Of yesterdays Enquirer says:
'Therc is political and personal bitterness now min
ged in the contests, which have their origin in the Wing
press far surprising the campaign Of lSiO-and fear the
mere shadow of coming the precursor what
are to witness in the Presidential campaign. The
| signs oi the times ominous."
Ii there is such bitterness, which may or may be-
IFhose fault n2 The fault of tins Press that
respondent aodges in another place We deny abso.
utey. Were angel say svoud say the angel
himself, being short OF niahy, mistaken. There
is confess growing and increasing bitterness of party
spirit, but proclaim from the house tops that the YAg
Party not to blame for it, They have been the de-
ensive for two Two ago, General arrisons
death and John Tycrs cachery, struck them down
bullet strikes down him whose heart pcnetraies They
have submitted. they could help themselves and pa.
uenty endured the calling and humiatng yoke which
was yet imposed upon rcementhe yoke of knavc,
imbecility, and treachery, combined.
There bitterness mingled the cup of Politics. bit.
terness exceeding usage precedent, But choso fault
isHl That is the question. Is i, the fault Of the Wing
Party, ask again VIII any candid man say 81 -
Will any gentleman say upon his word a gentleman
1t Is not possible! no geneman-no will say that the
Wing Party is to blame, human creatures be bam
cd Tor feeling the highest irritation the condition of things
Three they after ycarS of misrue and ruin
aud arduons conflict rescued the Government the bands
OF the rash and unsklu Domagoguos who had possessed
themselves OF alone the Battle OF New Or
leans, and the glory which had thence attached to the
successful leader.
That victory necessary the prosperity of the coun
try, was scarcely won, before Fate snatched from them
and consgning Gen. Harrison TO premature tomb bv
Constitutional necessity placed Mr. Tyler the exercise
OF the high powers that had been conferred by the Amer
People, Gen Harrison lie has So exercised them
10 moty, dsappont, and erhro the
who elected him. and the time, sustain s,reug
then and 10 render triumphant. the very political Party
Wh hgen shgd.
er the very men whom the people had deliberately and
AN immense majority, expelled from power,
Is there nothing IN this to utate and nilame the Wing
party Can member of that party contemplate the vile
and the and motives which
have led it, in Mr. Tyler and his Vet selfish adv
and councillors, without Indignation and the koenes re-
sentiment
Here enough for an inamed and most natural
of feeling the part OF the Wing party But in al
don his ample and sufficient IL Is what in Virginia
do they behold Why, Tyler counting Loco Focoisl for
its supposed power Of making him President agan-cour
ing it, with the abect inea and with all the patron
age of Government! And not tins only but Loco Foco
ism certain Influential quarters counting him for the pat
ronage fate has put at his disposal and Jobs They whe
despise him-whosc contempt of him, words cannot ey
press counting and aering the and the imbecic for
iueTe for the crumbs may please him, who oafcr and
sponger in the Presidents Chair, dispense To the hun
CRY dogs, who will the dirticst pudding from the most
filthy hands
Are not such actual and they fail to incense
every generous Spirit riate him to the most spasmodc
energy TO nd the country of foul disgrace and so
incfiabe stigma
That the Wing party Of Virginia is in high state of IT.
rtation we acknowledge. Betrayed and cheated by Ty
Ter and his crewdeceved by those they had most trusted
and whom they had from nothing, put the power Of
by mistaken confidence, barter their country for office
and for god-they but feel chaied rtaed and re-
sentu They would sink below the dignity OF men ii they
did not acuey feel these undeseryod merccnary and
ungraieul wrongs Were they be passive under hem
they would deserve the greatest degradation which could
beial ireemen-nen who had known and enjoyed Repub
lean berty-to sink under the yoke ol John Tyler who
whether he be greater fool knave philosopher has
yet satisfactorily demonstrated
Besides these sufficient of irritation and nlamma
ton, have the Wings been maeated 10y their Dunes
tic Legislature Have they been GerrymaRdered and
their equal voice suppressed in the Congress OF the United
States Have not, especially been donationaiz
cd and District framed expressly, stie the voice of
Richmond, Henrico and Hanoverl Are not the Towns
double Jared, because Mr.. Randolph, Mr. Leake and Col
Hopkins thought It would promote popularity and that
Of their cause, detsstabe cause which requires such
means to prop 1t!
II these are not causes enough, and true too To
explain and To eXenuae the yehemencc and determination
which now actuaie the Wing Party, We know not what
ought To be regarded.