Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-08-02
"The Guiiiotine Streaming ,rih the Blood"

"The Guiiiotine Streaming nth the Blood
We dislike quoting the Editor of the Organ,
but when can find caption OF his so aPpli-
cable as =. The present case, we cannot refrain
from borrowing it.
II was during the Administration OF the lament.
ed Harrison, we believe, that the then Editor Of
tbs ENQUIRER, now Of the Union, headed one oi his
articles crying out agans, prescription. with the
ab,ye. We doubt whether he ever had reason TO
use j, more appositely than we have at this time.
Whatever NAV have been said of the proscrip-
ton heretofore carried on by the different admi-
nistrasions, we are yet to meet with case
more execrabie than the decapitation of Mr..
James.
His IS melancholy case indeed, and the IN
e.igators IN ms being guillotined, deserve the
scorn Of the whole human family. We know not
the subject of these remarks personally, nor do
we know what office he filed under the Govern
ment when alive but, IT is, that all who read
an account of his melancholy end, and the des-
trute condition of his orphans will agree with us
that ar Polk deserves, for prescribing Mr. James,
the o-nsure of every man, woman and child IN the
country.
If such misery and wre,chcdness are thus to be
brought on by the election OF any more Presidents
like Jal,ivs -. pols--God save the country
Here is the result of late act of the ''peoplc S
President" Let it speak for itself. We find the
following 10 the correspondence ofthe New York
Tribune If il be false, let the Organ speak forth;
but IL il be true. then lei the blood of those who
have been murdered, cry aloud for vengeance.
Mr. James, whose case have before referred to- died
on Thursday and buried yesterday. lie promi-
nent member of the Episcopal Church, good man. a
worthy CITIZEN and has !ef widow and SIX children
niless but irendiess He had been for
twenty years Clerk in the RegstH9's Otice and not
whisper OF complaint breahcd agaiGs him. Mr.
Ge with the appreciation OF the President, removed this
man from office Unqualified for any other employment,
he against the aci represented the helpless
condition of his family, roughly rePused, went home
and fell sick congestive fever and this, ag
pravaed BY distress OF mind, terminated in brain e
ver which resulted in his death In THIS against
whom have the widows curse and the orphans cry
gone I'D Heaven IL is not with the expectation that
sny wholesome change can be made in Mr. Polk that
give this tral incident the world. would think
OF cutting out an excrescence pebble with lancet
The himself be broken up and shivefed, mar
row, bones and all " for in the will be found the
which has caused the actual murder Of and
the virtual destruction OF many others, and may yet fatal
w injure we'll being of the Republic before the dis
figuring element be eadcated. But II is proper that
he should be known the People, not only in the more
OF his political hut also in his
nor party intolerance and heaTI!essness. By the
former they may Judge OF him statesman; by the
latter they will estimate him 1t Is brt sheer Jus
tce that the certificates of his contemporaries should be
recorded beforehand for the beneht Of the hstornn
der that when Mr.. Polk. The Of becomes
candidate for historic aue due conservato OF his fame
may not be without ample and versbe materials for the
truth. But for the light shed the charac,er Of General
Jackson during his what gross miscOnce
would moi posteTity have derived ulsome and
doalrous euogies lavished his grave. II Mr. Polk
has done good all since he came into power-if he
has cheered any widows heart filed say orphans eye
with grateful earshe have greater need Of the
consolation which he gather from the ac let his adv
Gates now produce the facts and the evidence"