Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-08-23

rel safely with every man IN Congress.
o. The Enquirer OF yesterday gives Calhoun
ism broadside, after the most approved style of
doing up friend--so long practised and well
understood AT the laboratory of our ingenious CO.
temporary. The article opens with an appear
ance of more than simple fairness, 10y quoting an
anti.Nan Buren, paragraph OF some ten lines.
| Then come two columns of anti Calhoun
extracts, with an editorial comment To match The
disproportion is very like that which existed be-
tween Falstati's world Of sack and his one penny
LOAF Of bread.
The Editor takes more open and decided ground
than he has Vet taken, in favor OF Mr. Van Buren,,
and in opposition to Mr.. Calhoun. He expresses
il rs his .'sncere and sacred conviction" that Mr..
Calhoun cannot he nominated and cannot be elect
cd. He sneers at the vigorous correspondents OF
the petersburg Republican" "All the efforts
Che says) Of the Hcnrys and the Pendetons and
the Rip Raps of the "Republcan" and "Od Do
minion" are unavailing 10 turn the tide of public
sentiment i'm favour of Mr.. Calhoun He goes
on To give the result of his information from var-
Gus parts of the Siate--thc of which is, that
there is not more than one, or two Calhoun men
in each county. He winds up by advising the
back ont and leave a clear field to Mr.. Van Buren,.
Some vague and indefinite promises of future sup
port are made, in consideration of their adopting
this course; and awful consequences are
threatened as the penalty for pursuing different
course.
We leave the harmonious gentlemen to settle
their matters. We merely chronicle the pass
ing incidents as they arise-as items of news.
We cannot, however, forbear rcmarking how
scandaous it is for brethren thus to dwell together.
not in amty, but in strife What a rcproach to
the great Democracy--to the loving and harmo-
NOUS Family! For shame, gentlemen, restrain
your foul, licentious tongues. You Calhoun men,
''who cannot carry single State North of
the Potomac" give over your brawling and liti-
giousnesS and submit yourselves TO fate and to the
guidance of the venerable Hunkers; and YOU Van
Buren, men, don't be so pain-spoken; don't sheer
at your friends and associates and ifthey are weak
don't hold them up to the world as fewer than they
really are. "One in ten" does not do them JUS
tcc and even, if that were the proportion, one
Of their men (as he can read and writc) is equal
to three or four of yours, taken by and large
Remember these things, and cherish fraterna feel
| lngs. And hear in mind, that if one of YOU has
faults, the other has too; and if YOU continue to
abuse each other, the world will believe YOU both.
There is not in the whole Compass of nature Il
more ungainly spectacle than tina, of a family
whose members are constantly wranglIng and
brawling, and clappcrclawing one another. TAX,
heed to that fact lest you to stink in the nos
trs of the whole people, and incur the Just con
domination Of the Pylian sage:
Cursed is the man, and void of law and right,
Unworthy property, unworthy light,
Unit for public rule, private care;
| That wretch, that monster, who delights in war"