Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-04-25
THE pLEAsURE OF VICTORY!

Our Locofoco friends are well used 10 the
temporary pleasure which pefory which success impas
For % they have had uninterrupted
triumph only the brief check which they sustained
in 1910! Butt all that time they have known
think the superior pleasure which affords triumph
your brothers your frendsand by the inerposton
and active assistance OF opponents! True them
selves and their cause which, good bad they believed
be good, they have been coniented rely upon that and
fidelity to it, To secure the triumph which has geneis ally
rewarded their efforts.
As ,he whigs-the poor. honest. upright Wings.
whose great cause, is that Of Liberty and universal
with taking the always heavy chances OF de-
feat from adversary powerful in numbers, united
were under martial law, skful aud most formidable in
taericsthey will. they did yesterday, If victory
chances for be inaliby certain take the
pains TO throw ii away, TO from ihem by quarrel.
ing among themselves. They suffer aspants into
their ranks. covered too with the strongest suspicion
Ct former daecton aud OF ireschery aoio
and by the grosses and species OF personal cleo
honeerng carried in every conceivable form OF soft sod
der and lamperng seduce them their principles and
u them into fatal security II they ,osrned Of the
nsidous and infamous game that is plsying-warned by
who has never betrayed them, and who has known
how the fltery which would have suborncd aim
from his public prinoipes-,hey told. that panis
10 dictate, and what is Of all be deporcd they
listen the SILLY tale They their adversary as one
man, cooperating with secret rcachery, overthrow
them in the citadel Of their strength Even that has no
effect upon them The judgment Of God 10 be upon
them, and vain of course, human efforts avert the
conseguencesl
With the ample and the acknowledged power 10 have
given the Wing in this city and district, perfect
triumph these gentlemen the greater portion Of them hon
orabc and true Wings portion Of them kuavsh
traitors as ever ds2aced any and whose whole OBJ
ect have before stated has been from the flint, TO
defea, Mr.. Bolts and the Wing cause-s elsnse we say
OF mistaken honesty fshness, and reachery, pretending
to be all, many really good Whgs-have subjected
the Wings and their defeat, and given their
opponents decisive substantial triumph over them For
to the hissery Of Mr. Lyons after Mis-after owing
his election 10 the Enquirer and the Loco Focos-we pre-
sumo nobody enough 10 think noc whatever he
might have thought BEFORE that il in the least TO be re-
lied upon.
We consider this the heaviest blow which the Why par
" in Virginia has received. Defeat caused by eIer
nal they had ye, the happiness and the security
OF Knowing that it produced by temporary popular
delusion, and might be repaired another time. But now
they have tho chagrin and modification Of experiencing
that they are defeated by wholly apart from prnci
pie or popular deusion-by silly preference for men
over principles and by oachey anayed in Wing guise,-
And to extent too by Texas Lands Bond aud Scrip
In the present here in Richmond they have a nav
source Of triumph. Feeble and contemplate in num-
bers they have umphed by the force Of discipline and
concert in oil their views and wishes They decat-ther
fret and dearest wish-Jshn Miner Bons-they accom-
p!ish their dearest WISH the defeat Of the Wing party
Of the City, in the person OF Henry l.. Brooke More
than a-hoy fix upon the Wing party here, through its
stupidity and their close adherence party ORDER
split, WHICH promises well to Tanke like thorn In the esh
and To pervade the entire State
Loco Focosm is great! II is supremely worldly wiso
II IL Is not inspired from above Tor below Catch IL nap.
ping! Catch 1t nodding Catch it divided a crisis -
No such thing IL gocs TO sleeper IL does IL is
Ike cat-ony with one eye-he other remains wide
open.
We wish were, and could eonseientously be, De.
mocras We admire that party. There traitors in
It's ranks, and what ~ better still for them, for
VIC had rather have do with traitor than an ass
above all aconcetcd ass Yes 1--WE love and respect them
not for their ERRoRsbut for their manly and
bearing IN support Of whit they think naht Their firm.
and loyalty proudly with Wing vaciaton and
will, until Wings lcan lesson from them, continue
them the scepue