Washington telegraph., 1849-10-17
How Things Ought to be Done.

How Things Ought to be Done.
1t is evidently the opinion of the sole
organ, that the American people have
done very foolish thing in making Gen.
Taylor their President, instead of Mr..
Ritchie's candidate, Nothing will ac-
count for it but the idea that the people
have beer ''humbugged." When Bob
Acres, in the play, was explaining to hls
friend how badly he had been treated by
young lady who had been disposed of
to another gentleman. Sir Lucius O'Trig-
ger observes to hm-"A rival in the case
is there? and you think he has supplanted
you unfairly?" To which the gallant
Acres repIies-fUn Unfairly, to be sure he
has. He neucr could haze done 1t fairly
MIR. Acres Thoughts the girl was hum
bugged So Mr.. Richie thinks of the
American people.
If the Union is right. it is clear enough
that the people would have done much
better thing if they had made Mr., Richie
himself President. Then they would
have had every thing right; now they
have every thing wrong if we can credit
the ex-oficial organ. The Union tells
the people, every day, in effect, that they
have stnltifeI themselves by making a
Chief Magistrate of man who has not
single qualification for his position. He
has not made movement which The sole
organ has not condemned-telling the
people that they could not expect any
thing but blunders, when they made a
President of such an "imbecile" If he
makes speech, MIR. Richie tell us that
it is very bad speech, with the implca-
ton that the critic could make much
better speech himself. If he writes let
ter. we have Old Mentor at him again;
leaving us to infer, how much better
letter he could have written. Mr.. Rltchie
would not have agreed to the capitulation
at Monterey-not he; it was great mill
tary blunder. Mr.. Ritchie would not
have put the war-steamer United States
under bonds-not he; it was great po-
litical blunder;. MIR. Richie would not
have recommended a fast, nor issued
proclamation of neutraiity-not he; he
would have done something or other
great deal better than either, though he
does not know exactly what. So with
the Florida war-he would have mana
ged that ten thousand times better than
this "blunderlng. incompetent, and imbe-
cile' President. In the same way is it
with The affair of NJ. Poussin--if MIR.
Ritchie had only had the nagement of
it, this thing would have gone off Uery
differently. As often as NJ Poussin wrote
a note, using offensive language, he would
have sent for him. and politely requested
him to withdraw it. Wonderful old man!
Not only sold man eloquent but old
man wise, old man military, old man
grammatical, moral, political, literary, Dip
| lomatic; old-man every thing.
Clearly enough, the author of the
Shockoe resoutions-the assassin Of "that
sweet little fellow, Martin Van Buren,"
the organ of the Sweat-house, the ex-
printer of Virginia, the ex-organ of the
ex-administration-i laboring under sort
of monomania. He is disguised with the
people, because they took man for Pres-
| dent who 'knows nothing of politics" 7"
| and passed by a man like himself, who,
fer sixty years, has doue nothing under
heaYen but-peg away, peg away on
matters political, till he is convinced no.
thing can 60 right unless it goes precisely
according to his say-so. If the people
only appreciated MIR, Ritchie's capacities,
his accomplishments, and his deserts, to
the same extent that he does himself it is
obvious that they would call in COM
mittee of the whole on "Old Zach, and
request him to resign in his favor. Then
things would be conducted on the square;
then the Richmond elite would flourish,
to be sure-With Mason in the Navy,
Osborne in the Treasury. DENLY in the
War Department, Stevenson Attorney
General, and all the midshipmen's war
rants and all the clerkships in the hands
of Virginians as ardent as southern sun
could make them.-then what fine fun
we would have with Cuba. Then there
would be cakes and ale, and nuts to crack
foryour Round Island boys. Then should
French minister write what he might
please to Secretary of State-provided
he had gone in for Sd 40 in the time of it,
though MIR. Polk was glad enough to
settle on 49, Then the iron masters
might look out; and if they made any wry
faces-whack should the duties go down
to nothing, to punish them! We shall
never have political millennium till
there is restoration of the peculating
Bourbons. Washington Republic.
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The property burned and destroyed in
Toronto and Montreal, since the political
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