The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-02-27
RELIEF TO Mr.. RITCHIB.

ain the view Of some men, and especially those
| tinctured with the odOr Of abolition, no person
can do US common justice without dishonesty and
| discredit With them, simple justice to Thomas
Richie is bribery and fraud. Members of Con-
press cannot be patriotic and faithful without
prosecuting and striving to ruin us at the expense
| of the honor and liberality Of the nation. The
laborer is worthy of his hire everywhere, unless
it be Thomas Richie laboring for the public
then to ask for sheer justice is either beggary or
knavery"- Union Of Sunday.
The RepitJlc sneers at the idea that Mr. Richie
has the slightest claim on the justice or generosity
of Congress, but is in favor of granting him bo-
nus, on account Of his conduct on the Slavery
Question Hear it:
"Though we have not forgotten the bitter and
| remorseless warfare which in the days of his
power he has waged against all the men whom we
| have been accustomed to reverence, and all the
| principles which we have been taught to cherish
though he has played the sycophant to power and
the tyrant to weakness ever since we have known
| ANYTHING of public affairs-we have been dis
posed to regard his course for the last twelve
month as in some measure redeeming the faults
of his past life, and to look with commiseration
upon the circumstances in which, by most unsc-
! countabe folly and faulty, he has suffered him
self to be placed. While he has done more than
any other man in the country in his day-except-
| ing perhaps Mr.. Duff Green in has editorial Ca
reer-to engender the internal spirit Of sectional
dscord and animosty-we believe that during
the last year or two he has become sincerely
alarmed at the consequences of his own wicked
ness, and has been disposed to render what amends
he might to his injured country"
This is precious exhibition of charity! MIR.
Richie, according to the Republic, has no claim
on the justice of Congress, its generosity, or its
magnanimity he has assailed all the principles
and men held dear by the editor of that paper
he has played the "sycophant" and "tyrant !"
he has done more than any man, except Duff
Green, to breed an internal sectional animosity
but, because for year past he has sustained
the Compromise measures which repudisted the
Ordinance Of 1887, invited the formation Of slave
States, involved fraudulent grant to Texas Of
ssrsrvr1 oorrurs, rsIIf ucenptef 10 convert
the Northern People into the catchpoles Of slave
holders, therefore, he is entitled to a snug little
fortune out of the National Treasury. The
closing paragraph of the article in the R,puJlic
completes this picture of Christian charity.
"This appeal on the part of Mr. Richie is
simply to the magnanimity and generosity of the
| Wings, to save him from being ruined by a bad
bargain, which he most improvidenty and I'M
wisely made. That is the whole Of it. The Abo-
litionists and Fre-eaters in the Democratic party
have combined against him, and are willing to see
him impoverished. The reasons which have rem
dered him odious to these two factions have very
much assuaged our own political feelings in re-
gard to him, and we are inclined to see him bene-
fit by the Christian charity which we are taught
to extend towards oil repentant sinnersn
The "Christian charity" Of the RepubHc re-
solves itself into this 1t is desirable to maintain
an organ here, professedly representing the DEM
ocratic party, which shall wage remOrseless war
against all Democrats at the North who believe
Slavery wrong, and all Democrats at the South
who opposed the Compromises of the last session
and therefore, the Republic, the organ Of Mr., Fill
more, wishes the Wings Of Congress to join with
Mr. Ritchie's friends in voting some thirty or
forty thousand dollars out Of the National Treas
ury, to enable him to keep up his paper. The
Republic is as Christian in its charity as in its
principles. We are glad, however, that it has
80 clearly defined the reasons for which the Peo-
pies money is to be voted by Silver Gray Wings
to the Democratic organ.