, 1845-01-04

confidence 10 Il brighter and safer
condition Of affairs. The defeat Of
Mr.. Clay is doubtless, deeply mortify.
Ing to his friends, but is that event IA
lone sufficient TO strike with terror
tie whole community, and 10 make
them miserable, in spite OF them,
selves, and in spite Of the eloquent
voice of reason and trulhl Away
then, with these political croakers!
The people have too much moral
courage, too much i@ntelIi. ence, 10 be
moved, Tor a moment, by the most
gloomy pictures that the creative
fancy oil whiggery can evoke.
But the Wing goes further. Not
content with describing the ''ship-
wreck which is to ensue," il goes into
wise speculation as TO the course
winch the wings should adopt. Hear
him:
"lf you have to employ Il lawyer,
there are whig lawyers in plenty and
ol the highest enIrence; a dOctO~,
nearly oil the physicians are wings:
Il carpenter, here are numbers, and
they the most distinguished in their
art: Il mechanic Of any kind, there
are, in ali rhe departments o fmechan-
les, wings distinguished for their skill:
a schoolmaster- an Cverseer-a cIelk
an agent Of any kind--1 HERE
ARE THOUSANDS OF WINGS,
honest, capable, faithful, and ANXIOUS
TO obtain employment. From IA yard
OF tape up to a Brussels carpet. and
down again TO a plpe-si,m, let wings
give tie preference to wings. unt!l
The cloud uhich threatens all las pass
ed. Not, we say again. To punish OPP
ponents, but to take care as tar as pos
sibIe of those who have nobiy exert
ed themselves to save the country.
.'If this he lrea ION, make tho most Of IL"
In other words, the Wings says to
this Wing community. Let a Gin
nese wal! be built up between wings
and the democrats OF this city, let no.
no wing buy of, nor sell TO, a demo
crat; let no whIg employ a democrat.
however true and faithful he NAV be.
Let all intercourse. both social and in
the way ii business, be at once cut
of; let all feeling between trothe'
ana brother forever Co.'S lei al lie
advantages OF mutU". na1,ng ard IN.
t~ercourse be forever 1T AZ I'll end
1t is tue, that the Wig Goes not
hint at this effect OF the course he re-
but can any reasonable
man doubt, that such Will he tie IN
evitab!e result Of the Willis os,ra
cIsm OF all democrats from whig EN-
Payments.
But we deny that the schemes OF
the Wings can be carried out, with
out producing complete revolution
IN our whole business affairs and So
cal relations? We know many re-
spectacle firms composed of both
wings and democrats. According 10
wing logic, these firms must be al once
broken up, the wings taking n new es-
adjustment, The democrats another.
many whIg fathers have demo-
Cratic sous, rICe rerSd: are the 'prndi
sal suns, 10 lie turned out Of doors.
10 realize the utopIan dreams of the
Mentor OF the Richmond Wing, A
gam, many OF our wing merchants
nave, for years, been in The habit OF
their wheat, tobacco. Sc. of
their democratic friends in the coun-'
try and the late election has shown
there are many more "iocofoco."I
than wing farmers IN Virginia: are
democratic farmers to give n
cold CUT" TO their merchants OF.
Richmond, and thus pour wealth into
laps OF the few and unfortunate
'ocoloco merchants. placed under the
ban oi this Gibraltar of whiggervr"
Is 4 wing merchant 10 refuse 10 fill a
ana profitable order of a demo-
because he is a democrat, and
10 lose the opportunity of making IN
advantageous purchase of an indi-
vldual because he is Il democrat? Is
4 wing not to advertise his goods in
he columns Of q newspaper of large
circulation among those who look
)ut for such notices of "bargains,n
&c, merely because that newspaper
S democratic! In a word. is the
whole community 10 be uplurned in
Is ordinary business relations; is n
nan TO sacrifice his self interest. and
the QulxotIc vagaries of Il Pc.
lticai journal, because Henry CLAW
5 defeated, and James X. Polk is e.
ectcd? And yet all these conse.
iuences will naturally flow from the
wise aud sound advice thrown out by
yesterdays Wing. We shall not
pursue the subject further. The good