Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-11-30
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 20. is4s

The New York Tribune gives extracts from its
private correspondence from Indiana. Pennsyva.
mia, New Jersey, the interior of New York. Mas
sachusetts and other States. which tell slo-
rious tale for Whiggery. Some write for so
or 100 copies of the weekly paper, some for 200
copies of the Life of Clay" and Others for
iooo-and all concur in representing the tone and
temper of the people as most cheering. The
party is evidently seriously at work. getting to
be. all over the continent. These signs cannot be
mistaken They augur popular interest in the
approaching contest unprecedented in our annals.
The canvass of 10 produced a deep commo,ion in
the land;-but it of no consequence compar-
ed TO that which is at hand. Men, who never be-
fore took an active part in politics. will now enter
the field, with sword drawn and the scabbard
thrown away. All the great issues which existed
IN 40, and which SO powerfully appealed TO the
patriotism othe land, will exist now in addition TO
new ones, which will impart TO the old ones ten
fold force. The fragrant mismanagcmcnt OF pub
lie affairs by the Van Buren, dynasty-their plum
der oithe public tisc-heir selfish heartless and un-
feeling systems-which looked only to the good of
the otfice.holders and the oppression of the peo-
pIe-theiE detestabe doctrine, that it WAS the duty
OF Government to take care only Of itself and
their hypocritical professions of love for the
dear people, and their gross violations of every
principle OF genuine Rcpublicanisnn. will he
again submitted to the decision of the people
And then the great question of the Restoration of
an evicted dynasty, will come up. The people
will have TO say whether they were the briheI
creatures. which the elected oicehollcrs call them
or the wreched dolts, who did not know W hat they
were doing when they passed condemnation upon
Martin Van Buren,. They will have Ia choose
whether they will confess to their own baseness
and stuhy themselves, and submit their backs TO
the "Scowgc" (as they have been threatened by
the expelled dynasty TOR having dared 10 exercise
their sovereign pleasure. We have had no exam
pie in our Republic Of an elected dynasty restor.
ed 10 power. But knowledge of human nature, !
and the two important instances which modern
history supplies-;hat Of the Stuarts in England,
and that OF the Bourbons in France, sufficient !
admonSh Of the effects Of such a measure
The banished party return to power-haying
grown no wiser by adversely, with their passions |
nfamcd and intent only upon wreakng ven
geance upon the people for the wrongs of which !
they imagine themselves to have been the victims !
The public interests form part of their thoughts
their grieyanceS-in having been temporarily de.
Prived Of public ofhce-occupy their souls To
redress these, and he revenged on the people, who
inflicted them, constitute the sole objects OF their
ambition.
So it was in England, though the Stuars had
been banished for Is years and the passions had |
had time to cool. So It was in France, where the |
Bourbons were exed for 20 years, and almost an |
entire new generation had come upon the stage.
And it will be here, with Van Buren, :, Co.. !
and 20 greater extent, as less time will have clap
sed and the passions Of lie evicted will be in full /
glow. Ii the people OF this country, were so TO
stult.iy and degrave themselves as to restore Van |
Buren, TO power, his first impulse will be to restore
the horde Of punderers, who displaced with
him. His reelection will be construed into an
acknowledgment Of former wrong done by the
people, to him and his men, who, smarting under
their late disgrace, viii take supreme delight in
harrassing the peoPe,and wasting their substance.
They will regard the country as a conquered one, .
and all that contains subject their arbitrary
disposal.
The people must be lost to all sense OF sef.re- !
specl; all their high notions Of liberty must have |
fled them, before they voluntarily bring themselves .
to this condition Of political seryitudc and disgrace.