The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-12-01

Fifteenth District OF Virginia
The Wheeling Gazette of the 29th No
vember transfers to its editorial columns
the following article in reply to the extra
ordinary onslaught of the Union upon the
people of the 18th District, for electing
Colonel RAYMOND to represent them in
Congress. It really seems as if the yete-
ran of the Richmond elite is determined to
carry every thing before him, with friends
and enemies, by fire and sword. He really
undertakes to lay down the law and the
political gospel for the Senators and Rep
resentatives of some thirty States, very
much as he has been in the habit of school
| ing Virginia for the last forty years. We
apprehend that he will find that 'the scep-
tire has departed"
The Washington Union, the senior editor of which
has long affected to rule Virginia he thinks pro-
per, speaks in the following terms of the result of
| the late election in this district
| 1.-THE Whig then cites the article which have
already publishcd.]
! If the Emperor Nicholas should think proper to
issue a proclamation, condemning the course of a
province which had rebelled against his authority,
he could hardly have used language more mperous
or more insulting to those 10 whom it was addressed
The reader of course, understa nds the meaning of
illustrations, in the sense in which it is here used
| IL was ceremony employed by the Romans to
purge city, or people, or an army, which had
committed any deadly crime, after which they were
to be regarded as having been restored to their
original position. And the editor of the foreign
gan applies this term district composed Of free
men, for other offence than that of choosing their
own representative! But this is not all; he calls
upon them to repent in sackcloth and ashes! Why
did he not go still farther, and require them to ap-
pear before the bar of the foreign organ bare footed
bare headed, and with ropes around their necks in
token of abject submisson2
The assault upon MIR. Raymond is entirely gra.
tuitous, and as uncalled for as it is unfounded.
Who ever told the editor that this gentleman was,
to use his own elegant phraseology, seductive and
sly" These two phrases are entirely descriptive
ofhs own character that he must have been sitting
Tor ms portrait But what authorizes him to pass
off his own likeness for that of Mr.. Raymond?
There is something in this assault upon the 18th
district so insolent, revolving, that cannot
conceive how any body of hghminded men
submit TO It. Who made the senior editor Of the
foreign organ the supreme dictator Of these people,
who gave him right to speak in such terms as the
above TO the free voters OF district in which, in all
probability, he never set his foot in his life?
We are pleased TO such furious dcnuncations
as this in the foreign organ; for if any thing upon
earth can open the eyes of the people of Virginia TO
the true character Of those who have so long used
them for their own benefit, il must be such Ian
guage as that above. The degradation of such a
yoke must become insupportable to persons who
think and feel. The country has certainly come
TO fine pass, when voters cannot exercise their
privilege-the privilege secured to them by the
Constitution-without being reprimanded by a
man who has been living on their money two thirds
Of his life since manhood-Richmond Vhig.