Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-03-28
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
CITY Collector Pro.eripfion /.
TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 20. is4o

CITY Collector Prescription
We do approve OF the suggestions OF "rouchsone
in all respects We would place Mr. Bosher the
dtOn Of having his party order his
place. We will to subject that species Of
torture, or 10 the alternative OF seemova from office
the suspicion OF sacrificing truth to interest.
There far direct effective, and sailing way
than the "Touchstone" proposes.
The Wing party have prescribed and have always
resisted prescription. When in power they removed no.
body for opinion sake. In this very case of Mr. Bosher al
though bgoed Locofoco, and having claims higher
than those OF many other men, the Wings OF Richmond
in spirit of unparalleled beraity put him into
the best office in the State
How have they been rewarded for i'll How has their
hboraity been met Exactly the Wings ought have
known 1t would be-as 1t has always been met.
They have been laughed at, almost scorned for their
simplicity They have weakened their own cause by say
ing 10 their whole party of you fit hold this
valuable office, and we therefore give violent Loco
Foco They have farther weakened it, BY placing the
patronage, which belongs them, in the hands of their
opponents Their IVhg President Tyler, gives all their
Justly theirs Loco Focos and good city
Richmond copies his example! Wings get nothing. They
prescribed by their opponents and they give
all offices to them This Is not magnanimy is not
hberaity 1t is stupidity. No Party expect main
tain itself by such No party deserves
ITSELF who discard all Its advantages and make voluntary
surrender OF them to their opponents We hate cordially
the vile doctrine that 1.-THE spols belong TO the Nictors
but confess have equal contempt for the false
magnanimy which makes it rule prefer opponents
friends If Wing principles right they entitled to
all fair and proper support from those who maintain them
and all know that in this country, immense influence
is necessarily exercised by its Offices
But how say again, has Wing liberaliy been metz
Let John VI. Gregory and John Wight tell. Call Col Hen.
~ L. Hopkins witness, That magnanimous man, who
being himself monument of Wing generosity, exhibited
his OF gratitude by heading the prescription OF 50
csmahlc, irreproachable! But need ask Does not
every know that in all Offices, and all places Loco
Focoism spares no Wing
What then does reason suggos; the right remedy for
the redress OF 50 Pernicious practice RETALIATE:
there other. Let the Democratic party themselves
practically feel their doctrine Let the Wing party
where they have the power the offices of the Coun-
try in their own hands they have right do. Let them
cease TO practice beay which returned for
which they not thanked, which breaks down
themselves, and strengthens their opponents. Let them
prescribe until their opponents taught moderation
and liberahty.
Believing implicitly the correctness Of these views and
that by these only prescription be prescribed and
right indicated, call upon the Wings OF Richmond to
carry them effect the charter elections Let the name
Of WIGHT be inscribed the ticket OF every Wing who
concu in these sentiments and majority, let the
derst0od instruction the Common Council TO put
him in the office Of City Collector
Should il even,uate, doubt it will, let Mr.. Busher
thank Colonel Henry l.. Hopkins-Lot him blame the
Wings, but Colonel Henry l.. Hopkins! The Wings have
been slow slow checking this vile game Of proscrp
ton But it is time surrender good which has
become cupable and cruel. l, be Just to
themselves and the country l, is time TO renquish their
pulling, sicky sentineniaity.