Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-04-25
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
THE RICHMOND WRIG.

THE RICHMOND WHlG.
An absence for day or in the country prevented
from SEEING until yesterday, the following article in Mon
days Whig:
How WHEN WHERE 7-If our neghbor, the Enquirer,
has vet become conscious the existence Of paper
the Richmond Whig must beg leave 10 ask It, in all c
Witty few questions. For entirely let pass
which 1t the other day made speaking Of its
lately repudated allies Southern Congress party Re-
ng the South Carolina Secessionisls and their presses
it said ::
1.-THE ridculss the late action Of Virginia which ook
branch Of the soulhcS Pes and by members the Whs
whose ascendency indebted for troubles
m p1mO .' dls task Of heapns on the sa' o. inc
Now respectfully enquire hop our neighbor has
members of the Wing party % We ourselves cited in our
last an article from that paper aimed at VIM o. Preston
who is noted Whig and mputing the existence OF Clay
ism in the South Carolina College" crime. What say
such facts these to the Enquircr's charge
Blu. the Enquirer apparently infers the "hissm Of
Press If we are not greatly mistaken, the Telegraph
established long before the Southern Press This being
So We beg be informed how either by chronological or
physical possibility the elder be the offspring OF tho
younger.
Were such however, the order Of Nature and fathers ac-
customed be younger than their children 1t would De not
very sure logic infer that the hiai iaher must DC
Whig because his paternal son has ono: been wing 90
far is from being Se mat man % must % ebn or
Henry A. Wise, of Caleb Cushing or OF Judge bayiy or
William o. Goode, would have by that rule, 10 be- at the
an ex,erme Dsmocra-u thing the feasibility of which we
must as at present advised, doubt.
There s in Short certain bridge, called Caihouns mat
a,rsddes the stream wide and deep, which divides Whg
principles from those Of what the aforesaid Caronlan MINI
self cu:led ",he spois and when we see man VINO mas
been Wing get upon it, know that he means to 60 over
He never back the shore he has quilted he may
nger upon the passage; oer between the banHs measure
with his eyes the intervening deep speculate curious up
On the side he hus left upon that where he Is TO !and and
backward wsu gances upon the honor anu ne
the public duty which he desertng for that other
more profitable soil but Whigsm will see him more
| titan Mahomeddnl5m
Mahomedanism fall into Psgansm bur never viii me rene.
gade Christian again. why said OF OLD an Epcuean
10 Soic "do Of your sect converted to ours
any of converted yours Ihe reason is
plain" answered the other you may make COCKS INTO ca
then one Of the editors of the Southern Press was ever
Whg having ceased he will never be 30 again nor keep
the Columbia Telegraph of faith which he has himself
abandoned.
The worst however, is come the Enquirer says that
the ascendency Of the Whlg party that we owe the
This is What may be called classical language of the
| day. "gong 1t strong"
Pray wha, has the Wing party do with the movements
in South Carona where there hardly be said to be any
Whg party at ALI :,
Or how is the Whig party responsible for the Nashville
Convention which few Southern men but lthigs opposed
But if ascend 10 causes, what but the Nl'not
Proviso started by Democrats FreeSoism begun oy ne
Van Buens; and the p!under Of Mexican territories oy r
tain bring about the existing strife led TO me present
roubes2 Are these things what the Enquirer calls "Whg
ascendency very fatal ascendency has there been but
10 prove Wing ascendency will require ween rather
learning and ingenuity than our neighbor possesses
We publish the Whe's article entire only shew the
peculiar style and ratiocnaton of the Editor, but to
ready properly 10 meet and recpocate
any "civy" the part Of cotemporaries especially
from those who are politically opposed To the open
ing remark of the article which would infer dlscourtesy
side have but short So far from not
being "conscous of the existence Of such paper as the
Richmond Whg" announced the fact as il ap-
peared in the Whig that the Editor 10 take charge
Of it. When his saluatory appeared we did not refer TO IL
true-because we had already stated that nc would as
the helm Of the paper and we could no, have mention
ed its without criticism OF certain portions TO
which disagreed and did not wish to enter into
controversy with the Editor the moment he planted himself
on Editorial soil of Richmond We need give no assu-
rance to those who us that while freely discussing
public men and measures idea of the great duty OF the
press practise courtesy among its conductors and to
live at peace with oil men-and that shall be among the
ast recpocate any civy that shall be extended to
| us by our brethren of the quill.
So much for pelminaries few words now, on the SUBJ
ect ma,er Whgs article We stated that The Columbia
Telegraph edited BY members Of tho Wing party because
we were of the ndsputable fact that one OF the eo
tors of the Southern Press Is Whg and such, vas to-
ken from the Columbia Telegraph Presuming that his asso
cates OF the political faith, we avoweo our
impressions to that effect We now, however, stand cor
rscted. The editors of the Columbia Telegraph we
will freely admit are neither Wings nor Democrats
but simple dsunionists-and the Southern Press Is
the central organ Of ction contend that we were
strictly correct in styling Columbia Telegraph as "a
branch of the former Without going an elaborate &C.
theological discussion with the Whg we leave 1t to the COM
sense of the people say whether the minor may not
well be called branch of the major; whether distant len
not branch of the central sun and oracle OF the eis
unonss The Wing may be good at playing upon WORDS
hyi ito hvDpr
| csm.
The distinguished Democrats whose consistency the wing
would npugn we sha attempt this late day. to deeno
They passed safely through the ordeal and may
well abide by the verdict of their constituents
But should them have been temporarily ranged
in the rankso the Wings they Wings OF such
school, to bring them the standard OF the Richmond
Whig. They Wings according the platform OF the
Virginia Wing address of l8io which itself uvowed The Re-
publican doctrines OF Democratic construction They
were honest in their avowas rs shown afterwards 10
the memorable instance when John Tyler refused violate
his and his conscience and acting in strict
with his past life and avowed doctrines crushed with his
the monster of National Bank which would have subject
ed the country the desposm of moneyed power Such
Wings were Of the modern school of "hga They
Democrats al heart who different agents carry
their principles Finding that they were deceived in the
of their associates they left them permanently and
themselves
found honestly jealous and able carry ont into practice
cbosen principes This the why many able
nd nrominent men, who for short limo acted with the
wbg party have firmly to their new associations
they saw that they would thereby secure the
Ing ou, of their principles and achieve the great good Of the
country.
But the Wing talks great deal Of disunion-
smu &C. In this connection In another article In inc Same
number Of the paper snserng at Mr. buchanans ie he
editor of the Whg rdicules Madsons Report ana Inc eso
u,ions Of 9s and 49, We must admit our 70
ho ouch assaults upon the Calhoun party from the new ed
,- of the Whc So critical upon the supposed inconss-
epcies Of others, appears have forgotten hat ne h
sf wa. one of the devoted admirers OF MI Cahoun
md If nulll6caon We know nothing of the facts out the
Southeru Press Of whose editors is from Co'uhoo
brings up some curious "reminiscences OF the ne" eoo
the Whig as follows:
Now In The same spirit which this declaration %as Pe