Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-04-17
A WORD To THE wings OF RICHMOND.

VIC hear u as runor, the truth Of which there
reason to doubt as the took place public
meeting OF several hundred people, that MIR. OAKLAND the
Democratic candidate for the Of Petersburg being
asked by his competitor, Mr. Symc how he would vote IL
elected the question OF u. 5. Senator replied he
might for Wing That he nghi vote for Mr. James
Lyons.
The Wings can make their commentary. Mr.. Gar
lands willingness support Mr. Lyons cannot Of course
nnoAs MIR. Lyons; but when zealou, and uncouptom
is'ng Democrat Mr. Garland Processes willingness
support Mr. Lyons, at least proves that Mr. GARLAND
considers him pretty well unwLgged already. Or II
already unwhgged, that there is fine prospect for
Nor is Mr.. Garland alone in his diagnosis The Enqur
err the lynchbury Republican, the Portsmouth Old Dcm
nion the Fredericksburg Recorder the Demo
cratic papers OF the State all bcay the
| the success Of Mr.. Lyons Why should theyl wiitbc
said account Of Texasi Why. do they not say them
selves that the Texas question onded' No. They have
hopes Of different nature-hopes which Texas cannot
account for-hopes which they burst avow-hopcs in
our humble opinion derogatoy and insulting Mr. Lyons
hopes which, justice himself he ought exnguish
by procaiming that il elected. he will with the Wing
Of the Legislature upon the elections Of Senator
enor, Councillor. and for whomsocver the minority that
party prefer well upon political questions generally
WILL Mr.. Lyons give the People OF Richmond this
pedge7
There no better Wing than Mr.. Lyons on the old
Wing ssucs-Clay, the Bank, the Tariff. and Distribution:
Ills personal and social relations unhappily warped him
embrace Texas in any form in which could be acquir
cd and separate from the great body of tho Wings ON
that question Of vital importance. Destroyed Whig
party confcssedy by that execrabe question: thrust
the country the crisis OF the canvass by the traitor
Tyler for his benefit and by the bond scrip and land
mongers for theirs, their brilliant and assured hopes
and prospects converted into and disastrous de-
cat,-Mr Lyons cannot wonder if there thousands Of
Wings who would just soon, smsrug they under
Loco a Joint Resolution Texss Wing! The feeling,
IL it is wrong wrong it IL, natural. Human in
trinity is entitled TO allowance and indulgence.
And in explanation OF what have said and what il is
rumorcd we have said, add-that we never said be-
believed. that Mr. Lyons betrayed the Wing
party in the Of 1874. On the contrary we believe
and indeed know that he executed the trust confded TO
him by the Convention, honorsby faithfully and SO far
tho Wing issues concerned, ably. but do be-
iove Notwithstanding, that he dead injury 10 The
Wing cause. He made good impressions wherever he
spoke. that is in IL Ii places But these favorable i'm
preSions upon the few audiences which heard him. did no,
and could not, counterac the incacuabc injury which he
the Grand Wing Eloctor OF Eastern Virginia. inflicted by
his support of Texas immediate the very po
cal which overthrow the Wing party Of the JJn,od
States How could 1t be otherwise Our adversaries made
Texas the grand and absorbing issuc spite o oil the
Wings could do: they persuaded the Ices informed classes
OF the people, that that The question, and upon this
controlling question. Mr.. Lyons, Wing Grand EIector
was quoted throughout the and fall in the ENQUIRER
and all the Democratic papers Of the State. well ~ by
Democratic Orators ile stump, eondemning his own
party and sustaining the Loco Foeos. Could any thing he
calculated more efcciually TO demoh tho Whigs. Is
not probable that John X. Edmunds not far wrong
when he said Mr. Lyons had been good them for 1000
VOTES! How ia II when witness comes into court, and
gives evidence against his interests friends and nm
yl Why the Jury believe tina, witness and the LAWYERS
cannot by possibility, assail his credit successfully.
In msleyolen spirit do we make ,be.e
staiemens but entirely with view support truth and
right.