Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-07-10

power which hc had obtained by yiolrncc-
The ~suhiugotcd race OF native S,Nons were
gwen over To the tyranny ol a crowd of The
'"l'owera o' The conpucror. and lorlships. la
routes AMI ticiS, wccstcd from the ancient,
prorri"tors, We're bestowed UPON the Normans
who On the phrase uf the pycscut ,lay) had
" efficiently assisted in the bate gIufious til
umpli al that party which extended the ARA
oi Norman lmc,loin. Those old larl-hcadcd
warriors had a shrcwd notiou that Ia the VIC
tors belong the sroils. II was not the fashion
vi those days tn hi,c stump orators to defend
the acts of the ruling powers, RIGHT or wrong.
but King William hired thick skulls and strong
lanCcs instead. There We're no vrnal nrrsses i'm
those days To h. subsidized, hut there were
castles and tortrcss"s wherein the licse follow
cts oi the conqucriug Duke, bribed by a share
oi the spoils, defended his possessions and
their own. The lying tongue and the trcach
crous goosc-quill are inventions of modern
days, more %cilectual than lance or battlcmomt
Tor defending the spoilsof the %viCtors. II was
the finishing stroke OF the policy of " William
the Conqueror" to decree that no Saxon should
ever hold an office under his government
Thus the subject race were not only trodlcn
By the iron heel oi the mailed warrior, but
when they sought legal redress they found the
very courts of Justice filled with the pcnsioned
partilans oi the conqucror, AMI even their
complaint must h. uttered ina strange tongue
and the Judgment rendered and recorded ia ir
Ilanuuayc pf tho cnnnncr;nr ;n,,Jor- Al OIL
fees We've given to the Norman, b"''"'' ~
the victors b.lonS the spill. "" WV
true policy of Cunqur,t ID" u vas iV"""'
; all the inhobitant, of th' isidi'u slaves, except
tho {, ,on.J ]n,r,izir- Of the King. Such how
49, m, ufcIiigible dreaming and practical
I;Uysfrtuon of that maxim ol conquest and
tyranny that Ito the yictors belong the s%poils."
Ii meant then as it means in It's more mod
ern application, that the individuals who OBJ
tains, either by fraud or violence, the highest
place IN the government, is entitled tn exclude
all who have not aided efficiently in his clc-
vation from every Office of trust or honor
that he has a right to lavish on his partisaus.
as their share of the spells, the money which
is collected from the whole people; that he
has a right To treat one half the nation as a
subject and inferior race and to eject them
from posts which they have filled with fdcli-
ty, without a reason or a warning. although it
may leave them dependant on charity.
Nictors and spoils! Whittier are we tend
ing Is Democracy %intrcmdhirg itscil in the
government and Substituting defenders of It's
power against a people CALLED with oppression
or indignant at the mans of victory? Are
the Wings an organized army of rebels or be
si"Sers! Is the government of a free people
the mere booty for which contcnding bands of
m%crcenory troops are fighting? Do our Dem
ocratic rulers rcally set themselves UP as con
qucrors, that they so impudently claim the
spoils of victory! What moye would have
been done by Duke William of Normandy ~
We bcseech our fellow-citizens of all ynr-
ties to consider we'll the tendency of that de-
tes'sbie paXim "to the victors belong the
spoils.' Ii will soOn b. too late. II will soon
be implanted tco deeply in the politics of all
parties ever to be eradicated unless the people
arrest it at once. Already one great party,
familiar with the wages Of sin, ventures To
defend and boast of this doctrine. If the pco-
pie have not virtue enough to rcbuke it, how
soon will all parties seek to avail themselves
of this easy mode of corruption! Our"Dcm-
ocrats' ever plead the example of the Wings
for the practice. If we really believed tina
they. were prompted in the slightest degree by
that example or provocation-as we believe
IL Is d mer: prctcncc-wc should regret that
ever one OF the corrupt aud thievish crew of
Swartw@nts, and Boyds. and other Van Buren,
oiiIce-hOAhrrs was tuned out. Rather than
see this miNim firmly established in our poll
tics we would have had tire wIOlcOf them rob
blnG the treasury for four years longer even if
in sixty-scven western land officers under Van
Buren, there had been sixty-scvcn dclaultcrs
instead of sixty