Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-05-25

| uncommon Joy" over the result. Hear il:
at is a matter worthy OF speculation how in
District with 1900 Wing majority, tina, The re-
gular nominee of the PARTY with The high quail.
iications, he is generally conceded 10 possess
should thus be SO ingloriously defeated. Tier.
is but one cause Mr.. Pendelon has not only ad-
vocated The consitulionality Of The Wilmot Pro-
viso, but advocated il, We are informed, il a most
etsnstvs manner. Upon all occasions, and IN
der all circumstances he has stood forth boldly,
and 10 say The Least, most indiscfeetly, The deen-
der OF the consilulionaity Of this hateful, this
damnable heresy He deserved to be bed'en. John
). Pendlelon has not in this Sae more enthlsi-
0stic admirer of his brilliant talents Than We are
We believe him inferior 10 iew--very few men
in this Commonwealth, in all the Intellectual es-
senIials OF a great man. We know there are
some OF his own, and many Of the opposite par.
ty, who would sneer al such a declaration. They
believe him eloquent mol profound, snowy, but
| shallow. In this we differ He has not the pow
er OF lab0rious investigation that some have
not that profound research which is necessary 10
high distincIion-bu he has genius which illu-
mines every subject il touches and touches moth.
ing il does not adorn. Bul, with our high admra-
] lion OF The man roe could not hare p0ted TOR him
In The early part OF the canvass we invoked
Wing support, but we did mol then know his
Il
him TO be sterling Wing, and the nominee OF
The parIy-personally We preferred him 10 any
man in The Dislrict-tor these reasons We de-
sired his election. But the man who directly or
| indirectly, takes a position, upon The slavery
| question in any OF The phases aduerse to The
South, could mol, though he were a father COM
mand our vote for the hnmbest office in the gift
Of the people. For this reason Mr.. PendIelon
has been defeated in District in which he could,
under other circumstances, have been elected by
$780,"
The Wing dismisscs The subject in the follow.
paragraphs, which are cool enough in all con.
science, as lar as MIR. Morton is concerned and
in The highest degree supplementary to The De-
mocracy. The present "Lone Slar," Mr.. Nor.
ton, 1t does not welcome very cordially into the
Halls OF Congress turns him over 10 the
"Locofocos" 10 rejoice over. The Wing sorely
laments that the "Locos" controlled svsry Con-
gressiona District in the Stale. Both "the terri
bic Bots" and the formidable PendleIon" are
laid low by that mischieyous party:
"Yet while we protest against the injustice. we
do not complain OF The eXullaiion OF our Dem
cratic adversaries. II is natural, indeed, that
they should rejoice over The fall OF an enemy SO
formidable. II is OF the Waigs, who combined Nth
his Loeefaso adversanes 10 defeat him, tina
we complain. A canvass, as we learn, OF the
most active nature, was conducted by two oil the
most prominent Democrats in The District the
object OF which was The overthrow OF Mr.. Pendle-
ton, and The result of which was the defeat NJ SCOT,
Green and Ncrin, along with that gentleman
vote OF seven-eishlhs oflhe Wings who voted al
all was not sufficient To save Mr.. Pendleon
from the remaining eighth, combined with the iul
LoCotOco vote.
against Mr. Morton we have nothing 10 say.
He is gentleman, so all concur in saying, and
M doub.a Vaig Under any other circumstances
We should have been glad TO have seen him IN
Congress"
The Union has it ION unquesionable aulhori-
~, lha, Wing, recently an editor in the West,
declared, day or TWO since, in Washington, that
he had come 10 see General Taylor, Blu, should
leave The CITY perfectly disguised with what he
had seen here; that he found the President utter.
ly disqualified for his Office; and thai il vas i'm
possible, with snch head, for The Wing party 10
stand together"
When Wings speak thus Of their own Presi-
dent, with what justice can the Democratic press
be blamed for pointing TO the proceedings al
Washington as in every respect lustlying the
objections made during the canvass 10 the cleo
lion OF This "miilary chielIain," this "mere SOL
dier7" The Democratic speakers and journals
then said that the fair spoken professions oil "nO
parlyism" would, in the language Of Wiiloush-
by Newton, turn 10 dust and ashes"-that inc
promised political millennium was an utopia,
started bv the "avaiable"" political gamblers" 10
catch votes, and would result in the iDdiscrlmi-
nae election of faithful Democrats, and The re-
yarding OF Wing parizans. The tablets hung
up on the Capitol verify This picture They fur
thef said, thai General Taylor, while brave
generous and faithful soldier, was utterly incapa.
ci,a,ed by his previous education and habiIs'
for the difficult and responsible duties OF Chief
Magistrate of the greatest nation which The sun
shines upon; and that be would be mere King
Log, an instrument in the hands OF selfish and
cunning cabal. Have not these predictions been
verified 10 the Ieller, in most notifying man.
ner Do we not see it admied by leading
TAYLOR presses, that Old FAC has nothing 10 do
with appointments, and that The Cabinet alone
are responsible2 As The Union says:
"If il be the policy of the Wing party TO
elect to the Presidency man whose previous
occupations and habits of life unfit him for its
high duties, and thus compel him to surrender
at discretion 10 set of officers created BY hll,
self, and mol directly accountable 10 the people,
thereby establishing an irresponsible cabal to
rule as they say, in the name of the Presi'
dent, is the patriotic press of the country to be
prohibited from exposing this state of things,
and calling upon the people TO rescue their po-
Iiticll institutions from the perils which enyl-
ron them. If this is to be the new order OF
things under an ostensible military dynasty,
how long will it be before this Republic VIII
be subjected TO despoism as absolute, IRE
sponsbe, and relentless as that OF the Dfesm ~,
yri of Rome, or the thirty tyrants oil Alnehsf
LOUISIANA.
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