Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-12-24
VA, MORNING. DECEMBER a. 1871

| preventative from The Metropolitan disTicl!-
| The issue has been joined and The question must
be met The result, even before Wing au-
dience, we cannot doubt.
1t is in vain for Mr. Clay's organ, the Lexins-
ION Observer, 10 cry out 10 Congress.
"Lel there be no holding back-no fallering on
the part OF the peoples lirpresenlaIives-no I'M
manly Iimidity in regard to The people. We can
not say how far that last resort may be needed
The p0aoer Of The House orc7 he P'srsc.strngs Of The
peope-bui, il il shall be needed the country will
moi repine thai cpcn The supplies shall be p.hh'Id,
until something more definite is known with re.
gard 10 The objects and purposes for which this
war is prosecuted"
We cannot believe that Wing Honse, how.
ever anxious 10 close the war on any terms, will
have the nerve TO run In the teeth OF popular sen
timeni and abruptly end The war by The with
drawal of the troops. We shall let one OF their
own leading organs, the Y. Tribune, draw
the picture of many Of Them:
"The Wing members are general; right in
sentiment, and most sincerely anxious that this
horrible, waseful carnage should Re terminated
But (alas that the word should be neededD here
are several who have not yet learned that nothing
CAN be mo:e expcci'nl Than doing exactly right,
and doing il right off; and, while they would like
TO see The war ended, they hold hat the Wings
can only promote This by securing The election OF
Wing President, and To THIS END THEY WOULD
HAVE ALL ENERGIES DIRECTED The Wbi.s can
do nothing, they argue, until tally il power; any
resclue atlemp; 10 arrest The war nov could real
" accomplish nothing for pace, While it wonId
deprive us of the opportunity oil making peace
next year, by enabling our opponents 10 elect
President. Now ho"evc sound the mass ol he
Wing members may be- il takes hal three or
four of heEl, voting with The Loco Focos, TO de-
ieal all The main body OF the Wings; and, in The
knowledge of Ibis, many say: why divide and
be deeaied7 I.e, us hang together, and maintain
our ascendancy by attempting nothing that all
cannot be brought to concur in'-AND THUS AP-
PREPARATIONS WILL BIZ VOTED As II THE Adams
rRATloN HAD STILL MAJORITY, though IL VIII
hardly he so easy 10 alliI lying preamble to a
supply bill as il once was"
Here we have the gratifying admission OF
Wing organ, that through the "unmanly 'imdiy"
and parlizan objects Of portion Of lis parry, Con-
gress will not disgrace the natinn by surenderins
every Thing 10 Mexico. Public opinion, like the
sword of Damocles, hangs over them. forcing
them TO do what is really right but wha! they
themselves regard as an alrocious wrorg. As
the Philadelphia correspondent Of the New York
Mirror, Tayor organ, writes in regard 10 The
Presidents message:
"Those who are hound hard and fas. by The
chains of parry prejudice, are making feeble
effort 10 denounce it, while the more independent
Journalists, as well as the iree-lhnking masses,
arc wonderfully pleased with the Presidents pro-
gTamme OF future operations, and can see no BET
ter plan tor Obtaining peace, than that laid down
in the Message, Of prosecuting the war with re-
newed vigor, until Mexico shall be made IN cry,
"hold, enough" RICH! or wrong: this Is The ro-
puar side CT the question, and the county will
promptly sustain the administration in The mea-
sures proposed Tic appropriations Of ren and
money miR be made, and tie Eh,gs in Congress
wW be compelled 10 pay into he hands Of their pa
ltieal enemies. Those limid conservatives who
have thrown themselves across the track Of public
opinion, will have 10 get Gu, of the way or be
crushed by the engine Of popular enthusiasm"