The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-10
ITO nc Editor q he Mationa Wais.l

Party Treachery.l
am not ut all surprised at the course pursued dur
ing the late election Of Speaker Of the House OF Rep
resentatives by Mesrs Gddings, Tuck, Palfry Ct i'd
genus onne Their minds so utterly obiuscatec
by the madness of aboliiionism that they neither
see nor feel what is due to themselves or the party e
which they profess to belong but of which they arr
the mere putrd excrescences. They must surely
know that they possess neither that political stand
ing nor intellectual calibre that would justify them
in nrrogantly opposing the will of LOG men Of pro
founder intellect higher reputation and more ardent
patriotism II they have an abolition twist In theil
brains their constituents should see the propriey OF
keeping them at home, and Of thus preventing them
from ncting their folly on the House, or endanger
ing the interests of their party by such fantastic
tricks as they are apt to indulge in. These, II Is
true would be quite harmless and only caicu-
lated excite derision and contempt II those who
played them did not profess TO belong to party that
must regard them and their folles with disgust. As
Whig utterly repudiate such men as political nui-
| sances.
Nor am more surprised ut the conduct OF J. z,
Adams in voting for Mr. French as Clerk. of the
House, because the old man has some very strong
vagaries occasionally and can pretend to say
what he will or will not do, when the whim strikes
him. But had supposed that he had not lost oil
of gratitude and that the knowledge OF the fact
that his friends and former supporters have for the
last eighteen years. been prescribed prosecuted and
crushed TO the EARTH by the very men he Is now yot
ing for and supporting. Ingratude is emphatically
| "a marblehearte fend" and no intellectual power
OF requirement lessen its intrinsic deformty and
turpitude. Mr. Adams may attempt to console him
self with the reflection that he has acted independ-
emily in voting he has done, but the memory of
those who have been sacrificed for their friendship to
him must If he has the least sensblity dash the cup
| of consolation from his lips. But let him pass.
| cannot permit Messrs. Houston, of Delaware,
Thbodeaux and Pendleton, topass without calling
the attention of the Wing party TO their very extra
ordary conduct The first named individual was the
very last man should have supposed capable Of de-
serng his party and voting for rabd political enc
my, especially after caucus had made nomina-
ton, by which, after going into it, he should have
| felt himself morally bound. How he will be able TO
reconcile such recreancy TO his constituency can
NOT divine; but If they do not leave him at home
hereafter, they will not be true to themselves the
party. Mr. Thbodeaux has the character of being
mere political cypher even in his own district and
were 1t not for his French connections and name,
| would certainly never be dreamed of as proper
person to occupy seat In the National Legislature.
That he should desert his political friends such
an occasion is, therefore, not TO be wondered at for
understand, he never puts himself the least out Of
the way to do them a favor at any time. But what
shall say Of the last named parsonage? His con-
duct merits peculiar animadversion, and deserves the
excavation of every true Wing in the country, and
will trust, receive it.. He goes into the caucus
with tremendous flourish of trumpets, talks gran
dlloquentB Of the necessity of cohesion, of adherng
to political friends, Of the danger and disgrace OF
division, and Is ready to denounce any man who will
| prove recreant to the cause
All this was sound and fury used for the pur-
pose of deception, or with view of demonstrating
the difference between mere buster and action. Mr..
Pendleton not only violates his pledge by not
supporting prescribed friend of the Wing party for
one of the most important political Offices in the
House of Representatives but defeats his election by
gross deception which he practices on an inexpe-
rienced member who, he knew, intended to vote for
MIR. Mccormick as Postmaster, and whom he drags
| out Of the House TO prevent him from casting his
vote for him. under the false pretences of pairing off,
He had the folly suppose that he could escape cen
sure by not voting for either of the candidates. but
was so anxious to have the Locooco elected instead
of the political friend who had been prescribed ant
bcggared by the opposite party that he freacherous
led out a member whose vote he knew would elect
him. This man, think, has pratcd good deal
about the treason of John Tyler the party that put
him in the Presidential chair; but this is equally II
not more, execrable. How he can reconcile this con-
duct to his conscience am unable to say but tht
party should repudiate such Wings II Wings they
can be called, this man and his co-workers ir
trenchery. 1t is possible that Mr.. Mccormick, be
, inga citizen of Washington, was thought of no con
sideraon, and that 1t would be better to elect rabit
Rrginid LocQtoco than him. These gentlemen shou,
have the mark stamped upon them
. EpAMINoNDAs.