The republic., 1851-04-09

| among your hospitablc people, and in the delight
full climate OF Norfolk, (the most delicious in the
world,) has done more to rejuvenatc him than
any thing else"
Editorial Salutatory.
The Richmond Whig of yesterday contains
the following inaugural address of the new edi-
tor of that paper, EDWARD WILLIAM JOHN
sToN, esq.,:
"Thc future editor of the JVhig has, after some
involuntary delay, arrived at his post and salutcs
with all Difference, its readers and the public at
large.
| "Upon kings, custom, some cruel necessity,
has fixed the penalty Of an annual speech from the
throne. 'Tis the hard condition which they
reign. In our happy republican usages like pop
ular resentment against the most regal authority
known to our laws has imposed on our Presidents
| the same exaction, with the added inhumanity OF
an inaugural address at every new term of four
years. Presidents, therefore, would be still
off than kings but for the constitutional mercy of
shorter reign. In common with other potent tates.
| and doubtless out of the same public animosty
agains all rulers, editors held to address at
their accession, but stand excused after hap
pier in this than either presidents kings.
"With. the usage in question will endeavor
| cheerfully to comply. There are few pains to
which one ought not to be able willingly to sub.
NIT, if the condition OF that submitting be an alb
| solute exemption from the like after. Nay, I
would gladly go further, in my repugnance to ad-
dresses, and fortify the exemption which hence
forth shall have won, by making in such sort the
political onfession of faith now expected of me,
that for The future nobody will have the wish. any
more than the right, Of claiming the like of me
| again.
81 cannot, il is true, say with that disin guished
Jacksonian, the lamentable Felix Grundy, that Il
| was born a veteran Dcmocrat;' yet again
! with him whom the Washington Union styles
| Pennsylvania's favorite son. Secretary Blu
| chanan, that If had any Democratic blood in my
veins would let it OUT Nor can !, with another
ornament Of the same party, Charles }. Ingersoll
that If had lived in the time Of the Revolution
| | would have been Tory On the contrary, the
traditions Of my family are all republican merely
and were, in me, strengthened by all that ancient
that English example doctrine could infuse of
enthusiasm for the principles of freedom of free
dom, however, founded religion and morals. and
which never proposed to confer, by some Jefferso-
nian recipe of words, public liberty-Gods noblest
and dearest reward to the social virtues of brave,
good, and sensible people-upon every servile, or
scottish, or licentous nation; upon fiddling Italy
goddess France, or ignorant Spanish America, or
San Domingo, or Jamaica, or Congo.
| "To Jacksonism have ever, since first entered
into politics and the press. twenty years ago, been
| irreconcilably opposed. have always regarded
its methods tyrannical, its spirit pernicous s
| principles false. In a word, am firm be-
| lever in the accomplishment of that remarkable
prophecy in which the venerable Mr.. Richie FORE
told, that, if elected to the Presidency, General
jackson would be curse to his country
al consider all that calls itself Democracy as a
thing which must speedily arrive at Locofoco-
ism. As political system, it lie meant to fat
ter and by attering to govern the public; to dark
en- its judgment and play upon its passions, in
der that bad and incompetent men may mount to
honor and lord it uncontrolled above their betters
OF its leaders, Mr. Calhoun spoke but too justly
when just before he went to them, he declared
that they were combination banded and kept
together only by the cohesive power of public
plunder.'
"Such are the main antipathics which must
| avow as forced upon me by an experience much
more than usually varied and instructive. I may
add to the enumeration a general adherence of
demagogucry-whether Locofoco or Whig-as the
bane of our Government, the great disease (now
chronic and now infammatory) of our body poll
tic, and that which has alone heretofore been fatal
to pop pular freedom am admirer of any OF
those new found Inventions in political science, of
which philosophizcr Greeley is the cxpounder in
chcf-thc isms.
''This negative will convey distinctly my posi-
tive faith that of thorough National Whig.
The whole osteology Of my opinions might be e.
tablshed from this joint or two, just surely
| skiiul comparative anatomist can, from a single
bone of an unknown and even extinct animal, re-
construct it's entire conformation. On the qucs-
tons pending in the politics of the country at
large il needs not therefore, that should enter in
to detail, nor say more than that, the directing
editor of this press, I adopt and will, far
know how, fairly and loyalty enforce all the known
and national issues proper to the public system Of
the party to which ! belong. trust that my ad
versaries themselves know sufficiently to be-
lieve that, however sharply, and, if can, strongly
shall do this will yet do il becomingly, with
courtesy, and even an honest good will. am al
most totally without personal rancors, and shall
indulge mono but public resentments; among
which, as perfectly legitimate. shall claim some
scopc for the denunciation OF disunionism no mat
| ter whether II be that of the followers of Mr.
Charles Summer or of John G. Calhoun.
"In all that regards the internal policy Of the
State shall be the jealous advocate Of every thing
which can, by physical improvements and that
adoption of the mechanic arts which alone makes
modern societies flourish, rcinvigorate this ancient
Commonwealth, and retrieve the comparative de-
cay 70 which they have heretofore condemned her,
who cultivated no science but abstractions, art
but word catching no literature but jargon Of
State rights and thought that Virginia was mighty
and wisc, as long a. in manner entirely uprival-