Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-10-23
ave call mon Mr.. Kettle for helm y,

by the bait.
I've call upon Mr.. Kettle for help"
Such was the exclamation of our neighbor,
few weeks since, when he found, that in spite o
all the efforts of himself, and the foreign writers
of the Herald, to prevent it, the country rould pros
per; when he found that, though he had, by the
assistance, proved that the new Tariff would re
ducc us to beggary in year, trade was reviving
manufactures increasing, and life and vigol
impaired to business, in every department. "Help
(says he,) Kettle, give another batch OF figures
the last could not kill the prosperity of the coun
try. Help or we sink altogether! Kettle heard
the despairing cry, in his Sdnctin,, where he was
busy engaged in polishing the bright English so.
vereigns upon his knee, the reward of his crusade
against the business of our country. Say what
you will, about Kettle, he is true TO his friends, il
1t he to his interest TO be so. Well, Kettle helps
/ the old gentleman out; he kills off our commerce
| in single row of figures. But, like the Irish.
mans cat, somehow another, sit won't stav
kilt" II fourishes after its ninth or tenth demo.
litOn, more vigorously than ever. Alas for Rich.
lie and Kettle commerce, navigation, and manu-
features, pay no more attention To their figures
than if the not hired to make them, and
pei truths. "a pretty kettle of fish they are about
to make of it, after all. Richie and Kettle; what
firm that would be! Why, our neighbor ought
10 send for Kettle TO come here, and help him TO
convince the farmers, who are paying now about
one third what they used to pay, in days past for
nccesSaries, that they are ruined beyond redemp.
ton.
We were induced TO make the foregoing re.
marks, by the following editorial of the New Yorl,
Express. The sofness of our neghbor, who takes
all Kettles sayings for Gospel, is admirably set
forth. Blair and Crosswcll use his figures: but
they believe i'll them no more than we do. Our
ncighbor is a perfect innocent upon that subject
and thinks that Kettle can't ie
u The Editor of the Richmond Enquirer hae brought
down shower Of fun upon his head by calling upon "Mr
kettel' for "hclp" The Wing pelts him with some IN.
mcrclul truths for thus quoting from "Bennei the very worst
9 all the infamous characters, connected with the
famous press in the wod-who has lived by Sian.
dering the honest citizens OF New York-by finding
family secrets and taking brides publish them IN hi.
whiPpIngs &c" Nrgnian in New York whites too that
IN bushes hls state, when he reads in the co.
iunns at the Enquirer, edited by Thomas Richie Virgin.
ia gentleman call upon some body by the of keo
Of the New York Herald for 'besi can obtain
OF the receipt OF the Custom Houses well of the gen.
eal condition Of the OF the Treasury!" Can il be-
(he asks that he is ia MS second chiIdhondl In
regard TO the Tariff Question, (he adds,) it is well known
he (Benne will take any side of the question pay
peciay will he take the side that pays most. Foreigners
not wanting TO see us prosper their expense, prepared
TO pay large sums to break down the Tariff; aud dare saw
Bennett though denounced by OConne in the ap.
propriate Terms (nnd glad was he told the world he was
not an Americana has been driving profitable bargains
with foreigners engaged IN manuac jres during his ooun
in England and France.
Nh Richie "has statistics IN the Expess
equal to the money rticIes the Herald" NO indeed
he Wilt e ian Editor of the Express) does n,
display that bold and superior spirit which necessary
to unveil the mysteries of bloated paper credit and the
expressions OF the Tariff system" No indeed No Press
here equals the Herald in such thngs-for foreign gold
touches the fingers Of other Editors in New York The
Evening Post and the Journal of Commerce are high anti
Tariff, strong Free Trade but they forge figures
make facts utter lies does the Herald. Tho editors
are Americans. They have character lose. Their
remarks have weight with their friends They are ansuer
able men. Not So the Herald IN New York. No Press
here OF any party holds any connection with it, No body
cares sior what says. 1t has weight of metle moi
weight of opinion. IL touch interest in the street
or IN politics. il the Chdrirar Of the cy-such as oil
large cities have. Shrewd foreigners observing tina, nu
entail journals, like the Richmond Enquirer are duped BY
these money articles try all they can 10 keep them ND Suh
responds the Free Trade articles in the Journal of Com
Evening Post say nothing of the Herald and such
too IS the reason that no Free Trade Press here quotes
these articles.
Thus for five six days past, the money article Of the
Herald has been full Of figures all proving that the Tariffs
running the country that Commerce is going to ruin thai
the revenue ruinOusy falling of, &c. Now this all un
dHsDerdbie IN y. Y We have friend in the street
who would not laugh US, q gTdyely set about
contrGdctng H. We should appear ridiculous as # we
were TO go TO the Olympic Theatre and grayely write
heightened crifique Of hauese Of Macbeth as upon Mn
Greedy al the Park. Every body who the Herald see,
through this baUese II Is play got up Cor the Rtchics
the Croswes and the Boirs of the country to go to- IL
not intended for us behind the scenes. John Bull see,
that these gentlemen gup down these figures ne facts
or use them IN "Poitics"-a John gives them ne much
as they Mr. Richc, however takes them down n,
solemn truths! Creduous he WA IN Mcsmerism he
seems really 70 believe them ALI Not So however with
men Of the CrOswel school They never bring down n
shout Oi laughter upon their heads by publicly calling o
such help" They use the articles poficafy. but Mr.
Rtchie IN Court n Law II was therefore ,hat we
rebukod him for administering the sfUf got up 10 nnse
populnce 10 the agiculurasis Of Virginia We sec tb,
no Is disposed 10 continue the fraud now that he il m
formed of H. What crcdutJ thus becomes SOMETHING
more. Letthe Wing Press Of the South then keen mn
this fact that tho Richmond Enquirer passes by two resper
table Free Trade papers in New York lthe Evening Pos
end the Journal Of Commerce. fuoc from paper 90 low
n public estimation IN the city where il is printed that n,
respectable journalist Of any party (Frce Trade or Ant
Free Trade will have any thing do with IT, and that 6,
much beneath contempt the articles the ENQUIRER oos
in the city where they made, TINT neither Whig will m
thcm Loc1 Foco indorse them II they ore good
enough then 10 dupe Southern planters with let il be- nm
dcrstood they dupc nobody in New York.
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We ore requested say that Mr.. Bjus will commenc,
again, today take dispositions the City Hail. an,
it earnestly hoped that the few voters who have no
been up establish their votes will lose time in doin
20. The Committees Of the several Wards are called on Il
render such aid may be necessary bring them up am
the whole work can be completed in two or three davs