Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-07-03
A LEFT HANDED APoLoGY-Du

\ LEFT HANDED During
the 1b,gucc of Mr. Greedy. one of The assistant
editors Of the Tribune. called MIR. Richie am
"old icjcrolist. Nj Richic took grcat OF
ience at Interpretation OF the terms to him
self, and calltdUpon the editor Of the Tribune
TO rctrdct Mr.. Greeley of course apolosizcd
Tor the grccHRoSs of his assistant. but thus
SHOWS how he became mistaken in the terms
Nh. Rtl,hic must be delighted with the apol-
o9y. We -hould thinl that byashing the anol-
oSN ~ h'd Jumped out oil ,hc frying pan into
thv IRE" -
Although our assistant WAS ,efy naturally
led into his mistake by cou!oundng jackson
ism with Democracy or anti-Fcdcrlism. we
beg leave TO assure Mr. X. that that could not
have been uladc by "Nlr. Greeley bv any pos
sibiity. lie knows well that MIR. Ritchic has
always squared his politics by the most ligid
requirements of party democracy" and has
probably appealed to the Resolutions of rs"
as tic touctistonc of Political Orthodoxy, at
lcast ten thousand times. Whoever shall take
away his character for unspottcd Democracy
would leave him poor indeed"
We tetnCt, therefore. the imputation of our
mistaken assistant, aud pronounce MIR. Richie
the model, the paragon, the Chevalicr Bayad
| oi Democracy. When il was Democratic TO
aSSiil Gen. Jackson as utterly unfit Tor Ciill or
Political trust, no man assdilCd him more
licro.ly than Thomas Richie. But when,
lew years thereafter, it became Democratic to
commend Gen Jackson as the paragon of states
mansbip and trust-worthincss. no man laid il
OH thicker titan Thomas Richic. In lS2S it
Was Democratic to advocate One Term only
Tor President, and MIR. Richie was very ear
nest Tor that. In 1892 and 1910 il was Dem
ocfatic To support a President for Second term
and MIR, Richie did his utmost on that side
In ~ 81 1t was Democratic to advocate the
Nullliylng doctrines of Calhoun and Hayne.
and declare them the very counterpart of .thc
Resolutions of IS, and Mr. Richie did this
very thoroughly. I'm 1923 il was Demo
cratic to coHdema Notification as utterly in
consistent with oithbdox Democracy, and Mr..
Ritchc did This quite effectively. Iii 1915
1t was Democracy to praise the Pet Bank Sys-
tenn, and nobody didit more heartily than MIR.
Richie. I'm 1888 it had become Democratic
to so the whole hog for the Sub 1reasury and
dcnouucc the Pet Banks and though this was
! the hardest dose he had had vet MIR. Richie
guiphcd tln- down for Democracy : sake. No.
body was more ardent than Mr. r. in support
| ol Van Buren while Democracy" smiled on
HIM nobody did More to crush Mr.. V. B. when
Southern Democracy" turned against him.
Nay, more our paragon of Democrats can
be on both sides of vital question at the same
time when the interests of Democracy re-
quhclt-can advocate Dorrism for the North
and stand last by slavery in the Soutl,-Can
sympathizc with the victims of ''Algerine" ty-
ranny IN Rhode Island, but breathe not u wills
per oi dissatisfaction at the Constitution of
his own Virginia, which not only denies any
vote at all To a poor white man, while !, allows
las rich neighbor dozen, but actually vests
the Political Power of the State i'm about one
thlrd OF IT'S legal voters. We insist then
mat our veteran contemporary is the bean ideal
oi the switdle which passes for Democracy.
His case irrcsistibly reminds us of an anec-
dote IN friend Porter's new volume, ''The Big
Bsaroi Arkansas" &c. where "Jim.' threat.
ening to tell how he put "Chunkcyn asleep in
panther's nest, is asked, '.Was You not APP
prehensive they would kill him?" ''Apple hell
No! If they'd commenced bitin' Chmkev,
they'd been looed, as that's a game Chltnkev
inDcafoffi
We are not quite sure that Democracy is a
game that Nh. Richie invented, but we are
confident that the inventor must have near
relative, who has taught Mr., II. to play it most
adroitly aud entirely without scruple.