Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-11-15
"wednesday Morning. Novemhcr B. 1 81
TIFF GRoANs OF TIE BRIToNs!

The world will do US justice for having zeal
ously slrived both in private and in public, L
supnress the smallest sign Of exulta.ion over tht
defeated Wings. We felt it not in our hearts IL
triumph oy,r them. They had risked their every
hone on The election oil Mr.. Clay, "the great EN-
bodilnent of Whisgery"-and when me PEOPLE
solemnly pronounced The doom OF reueraIislh w
knew tina; their griets would be keen enough, with
Out being aggravated by the jeeTs and rejoicing:
OF The Democrats. To show the state OF mind o
the Wings of this Metropolis we quote The fol
lowing pathetic lamentation from Monday
Wing:
DefcGt of Mr. Cidp and election Of -Hr PoE
This result. 80 contrary 10 all human expecla
ton, and so revolving 10 all sense OF proprley, has
clothed this community in mourning. The badge
is NOT worn on the hat or the left arn--it is mo-
exhibited in vain forms. II is told in the coun,e'
nances OF The people, in the gloom which over
spreads nearly every coun!enance which Is ll9ht-
ed UP by intelligence! Our Rome mourns as ole
Rome did, when the battle of Gamma was lost
Tie troaien are IN tears as for great calamity; a.
ii Hannibal was at the gates; AND THE VERY
CHILDREN LOOK DESoI.ATE AND FoRtoRS.
How then could any Democrat crow over such
Respondent, deeply mortified party? We again
proclaim 10 the word, 10 the immortal honor d
borne themselves. with the most exemplary digni-
Is and propriey There has been no rejoicing
public or private. They felt JOY enough in har-
ing elevated 10 the highest office in their gift two
men of fine talents, high moral tone, and tho
roughly mbued with the good old Jei'crSonian
Republican" principles of '9S and '99-and in
defeating Tor a Mird time the aspirations ot Mr.
Clay, the most dangerous man in the nation, and
the full Representative OF Federal princi pies
which, il put into thorough play, would either
have dissolved the Union into fragments, OF have
made The Constitution wisp OF straw, 10 promote
The unworthy views OF selfish and ambitious spI-
rits and in redistribution othe rights guaranteed
TO the States. All this was ample cause Of JOY
among the Democrats-but they have properly
confined thethrlling emotions OF pleasure 10 their
own bosoms They have not for one moment,
obiruded themselves on their disheanencd bretn-
rem Of This Gibraltar of Whigscty"- now,
we ask our readers, both Wing and Democratic,
suppose The picture had been reversed; suppose
New York t;d voted tor Mr.. Clay and his cleo
ton had thus been secured in The opinion OF the
Wings, 0hoigh We do uot believe ill., how would
the Wings have acted Would h,p have spared
our feeliGc>: though Te never would have been
So cast down and pros!rai"i, as the Wig organ
represents lis 1~n par;y 10 tc p! Would not they
have exalted OYER rs in the most cytrava@ant and
insulting lo,uis! Would We not have seen
every kini OF public demonstration ot joy; torch
es, illum;naliC;> firing oil cannon, banners, coon
songs. shouts and huzz@s? We understand that
the mo>l extensive preparations haG been made
for a tremendous Wing jublee-and Vel, because
We have mo- thought properio follow lheireXamp'e,
as We would have been justified IL doing hy
fair construction Of the bt taioais; because We
have 10, danced and sung and hnrfahed and
rockets and discharged guns. big and small aud
illuminate our bJGse,: because. when We meet
Wing, We have too much feeling aud good man
ners 10 lanch in his face and iniiame his agony:
and iinall;. hccau,e the rueiul coun,enaEces OF
our opponents cause sympathetic feeling IN our
hearts ior the cruel sulierinss OF the Wings,
and throw into our baaning locks dieEitied
pity for their own wobegone appearance Tor all
Tins charity and sympathy our only reward is
10 be tauned b. these same liberal and iar-see-
ing Wings, ana 10 be told, By their organ, (Mon-
days Wing, that The Democrats were oshamed
re rerily beiisre OF The candidate lhcy had elected,
and the e0us which owed all its success TO as ex-
tended and unblushing and persevcring scieme
II faLsehoo9 as ever diSgraced any Ggc 81 crli-
ea,ionr'
We have, from the frs, determined, and shall
still persevere in our resolution not 10 csat over
PROSTATE foe-D56eGre saycr5as, paJeerc lJectiS
was Inc motto Of III, gallant Knights in the an
Glen. Tournaments, ard has been, and IS CIR en-
blcm. Ne hare hee.sn darn lie arrorant f,c-le'
as nolc trsc. cii for5esra.oc and ehcrRy tie ran.
yuisied and afflicted.
Bu, il is one thing 10 treat with respect end
good feeling oGr.oppoae.!s, whom we have fairly
overcome-i, is ana,1er thing to submit. tamev
and with craven spirit, 10 the rabid assaults
from an organ Of uose opponents, upon our
noble candidate end cur glorious cause. Would
we deserve success, il we could pass By unno-
iced the libel OF the Wing, ,ha; we had succeeded
entirely BY as extended and unhlnshing and per-
""ering schene Of 'alsehood =: ever diSgraced
n, age Of civilization r. We repe the charge
With Indignation and taough il is far from pleasant
70 US now that the battle is over and the victory in
)nr possession, 10 rip up the exciting scenes OF
he late canvass we feeiit 10 be our duty, in self
lcfence, 10 refer briefly 10 what has occurred in
our own Stale, under cur own eyes. Has the
Wing, in 50 fiercely charging The Democratic
Party, forgotten the "Roorback" about "Col
Folks forty negroes being branded with ]. X. p.
on their bare shoulders" and about "Ihe Two mil
lions Of British Gold and the British Free Trade
Tracts" all based upon forged article from the
London Times, and indus,riously circulated in
handbills throughout the State Has the Wing
forgotten the stupid humbu. Of "ihe black sour
rye-brcaj, which the people would have 10 cat if
Polk should be elected" or The Islander upon the
Democratic Parry, rropaga,cd on the morning
of The election, that they had circulated spurious
Electoral Tickets, 10 lake in the nnwary Wings"
Has The Wing bloued out from is memory
the disingenuous arguments Of lis quoadam lead
ers, ,ha, "a Bank aud Protective Tariff were
RepuJlican measures; that "high duties make
low prices: that "A Bank would make money
plenty and equalize exchanges; that "if Mr.. Clay
should be elected, Virginia would receive from
half Ia ono million Of dollars OF the Land Fund;
and that Mr. Van Buren, left debt of over 80
milions'7 Is ii not strange, that the Wing can
forget all these sins and msdemcanors Of lis own
leaders, and al the same time in the modification
OF defeat vent lis bitter Recommendations against the
Democracy II ina gnary ofi noes? The Demo-
cracy of Virginia proudly challenge the Wing 10
show, on tier part, The least deviation from truth
n Justice, the least encouragement OF the tricks
and receptions similar 10 what we have above cy-
posed as the Chief artillery NJ the Virginia Wing
leaders, (for we have TOO much Justice 10 make a
sweeping charge OF this kind against the body of
The Wing party in our Stalc.)
We shall not attempt notice Of the ep!thefs
which the whig lavishes upon Col. Polk, such
as /" lnle man, something like a third rate law
yer from Tennessee--aborc meGiocriiy in TO
sense-scarcely up % il in any-so undistinguish-
ed-so unhistorical-so incapable oil becoming
historical" &c, &c
His best defence is TO be found in the "bistori-
CAL fact, that he has received the high compli-
ment OF the triumphan, vote Of Virginia, the
mother OF States, OF the Empire State, OF the Kew
stone State, of the Granite Stale, of gallant
Georgia, OF chivalrous South Carolina, and of a
hos, OF other sisters Of the Contederacv, Of whom
any man, even the 'esa!led" Henry Clay, might
we'll be proud If Col. Polk be not now "hislori-
cal" as far as the United States are concerned
he is rather more 80 than Mr. Clay whose name
is no! yet written on their tloqrens Electoral ar
chives.
We como now TO The most extraordinary and
ridiculous portion OF the Wings rhodomoniades.
He next pronounces Mr.. Clay as next 10 Wash
us,on and Franklin" and says 'rhc Presidency
was not at all necessary 10 Mr.. Clay's glory-ft
could not have added cubt 10 his historical sta
tue" though in the very same article he had pre-