Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-12-20
POLITICAL.
From the Wushingion Spectator.

9
a.: Conversation on Pennsylvania Avenue
betpeen tie Editor and Whag member
Of Congress-. 80, ~ ,,-i,rs
Member.-WeIl, Mr.. Heart, see that
you Calhoun men are regularly tried up,
and swallowed by Van Buren's people
Are you dead or alive!
( Editor.-Why hope alive, although
swalIowed-and may be like another Jo
nah, will appear again one Of these days.
But drop your poetry. aud come TO plain
prose. What do you mean?
Member.-Meau! why that Van Buren,
by his superior tactics, has managed the
whole of you. The principle of the Res
lora,ion is complete, in the organization
of the House. All the old candidates OF
The party-Jones for Speaker, Blair for
Printer, Dow for Doorkoeper--andr even
Garland for Clerk. but that the West
would mol stand so rapacious monopoly
of Offices by the Old Dominion, and all
thorough pledged Van Buren, meG. /
understand you tried 10 push in Calhoun
man from Georgia as Clerk. but it would
not do; aud poor Kendall was thrust
out Toe, because he did not realize the
two grand purposes-a Van Buren tri-
umph. aud Restoration. This is capital
for us; for j! shows wha, we are to expect
by Van Buren's re. .election;. and it is to
you Calhoun men, a regular msmento nOri,
as to your position in the Democratic par
~. Yuu are to be prescribed. and, when
polite murdered. Doyou understand!
Editor.-Oh, certainly; but l think
You do not understand yourself, so far as
Mr. Calhoun's: friends are concerned.-
Your facts are all right-belter than your
inlerences; and had | been friend OF
Mr.. Van Buren's and could have prevent
ed it, YOU should not have been able to
make them. Cancellation. in his position,
is far better for him than any seeming tri-
umph in The organization of The House.
Every triumph over any portion of the
Democratic party, TO him, is loss. And
The principle Of Restoration, although
capital for the old office. holders, will,
think, do him. in. the North especially,
but little good. But, as to Calhsun's
friends, understand they acted on this
principle: 10 make The officers ofthe House,
not the choice of portion of the party,
but; of The party They proposed IN the
| Democratic cancus-to accomplish this
obiect-that.. .ifor nomination, two-thirds
of the members present should be requir.
cd. This rendered it impossible for. Mr..
Van Buren's friends alone to make the
officers, This course was adopted. They
then made no struggle for the officers, al
lowing the wisdom and jastice of the ma.
jorily TO control. y ;,
Member.-Wisdom aud justice! Well!
this is capital By Jove,if you Calhoun
men are not the most remarkable gulls!
| was very nearly assimialing you TO
anolber bird, which once saved the Roman
capital. Wisdom and justice! .,e H.
Editor.-My good sir, will you be so
kind as 10 tell me whal MIR. C's friends
have lost, by the organization Of the
House? II / understand you, you think,
decidedly, that Mr., Van Buren, will be
injured by The proscriplive and Reslora-
lion policy it announces. ..,a,: -.
Msmber.-Certalnly; that's clear. a:l.:.
| Editor. Well, then, if Mr.. Van Buren
and MI. Calhoun are rivals, whatever
iniures him, aiis Mr.. Calhoun. Et.gc
! Membsr.-That is, if Mr.. Cnlhoun is