The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-13
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MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 10, 1s43
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.

81 INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.
Give us Wing or Locofoco, but let us
have no Independent candidates as they are
styled. Independent Of what are they-the peo-
pie ?-they cannot be elected without them; OF
party ?-they must go with one side or the other.
Virginia is generally prolific Of these charac-
tiers men of such wonderful powers OF abstrac-
ton that they never examine things with the
vision Of ordinary mortals, but trace them so far
to their source, or follow them so far in their de-
velopment, that they entirely lose sight Of their
existent condition; men who dive deep, but
never find bottom men who are filled with Wis
dom themselves, but can never lmpart 1t to
others. OF this hybrid class Of politicians there
are two species, the far-sighted, and the short
sighted the first is composed Of men whose
conceptions are too lofty to be brought down to
any received Standard other persons are too
fast, or too slow; they alone, in their own con-
ceit, find the 1uste mlieu. The second, or short
sighted species, never see anything beyond them
selves, but resolve all questions that arise by
applying to them the test OF personal interest.
These hybrids, both species, fight on their own
hook, and like to keep in convenient position
for shifting from side to side as the balance Of
power inclines. They will never allow them
selves to be sorted and quoted with others, but
always hang like loose commodities that have
not received any fixed value in the market. If
counted with the lot and laid one side or the other
they would cease to be conspicuous and conse-
quential-they must be alone; thus when the
Senate is said to consist of twenty-eight Wings,
twenty three Locofocos, and one Independent, no
body inquiries who all these Wings and Locofocos
are but this one Independent |, who says
Mr.. Rives These men are camp-followers and
seek necessarily for plumber In the State Lee
gislatures they are quieted with small consdera-
tons, but in Congress they expect bureaus and
foreign missions as the reward Of their sole dis
interested services in behalf of a bleeding coun-
try torn by two great contending factions.
GEN. BERTRAND arrived in this city on Satur-
day evening To-day he visited the several De-
partments, and received calls from the citizens
at the Mayors dwelling, This evening he visits
the family Of the President, and leaves town to-
morrow for the north.
On the 18th instant, at Charleston, the ceremo-
took place. A procession was formed, which
marched to a church, where eulogy was pro-
nounced by the Hon. William c. Preston. The
Charleston Courier characterizes the address as
a mastery effort; chaste and simple in style,
yet glowing with fine imagery and pervaded by
touching pathos and winning tenderness; in its
narrative, full of the charm Of biography, and in
its more reflective portions, replete with all the
higher requisites Of the funeral grafton; at once
just, generous in its estimate and delineatlon Of
the character of the deceased, and elegant and
discriminating in its criticism of his productions
and performances as writer and a speaker;
worthy tribute to the illustrious Legare, as
scholar, jurist, an orator, and a statesman, and
to his character as man of gentle virtues and
pure and noble nature.
TOHN IIMRTJT H.