Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-12-01

our fri IDS Of ne Locotoco parry, IN me puicnase
nj Whia, who had come 10 ths hfra ne!'ei .''d'
Wh,pce,y could never be in thc ascendant, Jusl
a. Jaca, 30 Il, NIB thought ma things were Solhs
an IN very bad way, wnen NJ ieSo.vee " '"Ih
Jnrn,.eo and 90 in Tor the spells. There Is no
lnuhl ,h,y conld have made The same number oi
nulc,; Is fer onc-ieulh part OF the promises
Money We presume is out oil The question now,
ant therefore we substitute The word promises
Judas, in this respect, had much the advantage on
many oi those who in these laler days, nave ID
ken him Ter a model and are sedulously folow'
ing in his ~, tsiapS. he actually louchea-he
handled The Teady-he made The agents STUMP up
the dust-bsiore he would consent 10 sutiehuet
mis- "immorte! Jewell" as Macbeth has II, 10 me
"enemy Of mankind" Our agents, however,
only gave their pIomissoIy notes, anu u Seems
10 Us they are 10 as iaii way 10 pc p'o'e W.
non-paymeni as a drau9nt on MT warner
Suh-Trcasury could well be expectea 10 oe.
"Every man" said Sir Robert Walpole, VINO
was something OF a cynic, "has his price" We
d,sou,e the n onosition in its most general sense
Had The Minister said, "many men have their
price there might have been sense as well AS
,rulh in ne cuunciaiipn. The priceoi our friends
who feared the "Whig party could never be IN
majority" and therefore LETT II 10 scuffe Tor itsei
was sIdduaei according 10 the capacity OF each.
In the White House ''there are many mansions,
and each one was determined IL take according
10 his ability to enjoy. One, very nodes, sold
his soul for Inc prospect of representing county,
auoiher, rather more ambitious, could not resist
the glare Of The district; others, ascending even
higher, :imei at foreign missions, or secretary
ships at home. II mus, he a sad thing for
one of these fellows 10 find, after he has driven
what ne supposed most advantageous bar
gain for an article so worthless as his con-
science, thal he has been negotiating up
on fgmenl all the lime-that there IS no
prospect OF payment that the purchaser has
been TIA ling under false colors-that ne not only
has not Traded upon false capital, but that ne has
Traded upon no capital al all. Be That as u may,
however, there can lac no doubt that the leaders
Of Locoi. cosm have taken certain number OF
Viii, Il yices-alI Ol whom, feeling their con-
science iiuie Ihread.bare, were dssiruus To DIS
pose vi lhem--up into an exceeding high noun
tain, and showed hem all tne pickines OF Locolo-
ism aa.. The riches thereof and said unto them,
all these 2il we give, II thou wilt tall down and
worship Us, and thai these unfortunate innocents,
after ha nag submitted 10 the abassment, have
been mercilessly dipped; and have found, 10 their
cost tina! Locoiocoism does no, own one dollars
worth oi lie many good things spread Out TO calch
them.
We should think the dupes had some remedy
10 law. If q man can sue for his charac ter,
why may he not sue for his conscience I In a
variety Of instances, the bargain can be proved;
not by deed indented and enrolled, but by other
substantial evidences, amounting almost TO re-
cord II the dupes want evidence from the
Wings they can get il TO the best OF their belief;
a kind Of oath familiar 10 the Hon. Henry A.
Wise, aud which il was supposed would have
proved much to his advantage IN certain con
tingency. The whole Wing party will swear
that they believe the dupes were offered "rea-
son" 10 some shape or other for their apostacy.
But they have a sill stronger ground even than
that; The ground OF probability, armed with which,
they may safely enlrust their case to jury. Is
it reasonable to suppose does any man be-
lieve that ANY Wing, we care no, who he may
be, ever turned Locofoco, except with an object
Who ever heard of butterfly turning 10 a
grub worm; This then is strong presumplive
ground, and no jury could give it against them,
when they took it into consideration.
If they do get satisfaction in this way, we do
not see how it can be done, for it seems to be
pretty certain that the Wings nave the offices,
and the emoluments thereof, Tor the next fifty
years.