Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-01-11
A Family PuSs,

1eSs
We have been rarely more astonisheJ than we
were yesterday by the receipt of DIR. Brooks, card
which is inserted in another column. W.. had been
taught from childhood to look upon the DIR nc n If
the main pillars of the Democratic temple but when
saw his bloody head in Gov. Joe's market basket
we were oyerPowered by horror and azement.
What as this world coming TO? If ANYTHING couId
add to the atrocity of the proceeding, it is the cold
olooded reason assigned for its preparation. Rota
ton in Office Manfully did the DR.. contend against
the application Of such a rule to his juguia.,. He
was a DeDiOcrdt. Shonld n Democrat rotate him >
Oh monstrous-unheard Of ~barbarity A thou
sand times worse than the rotation Of Regulus in the
Carthageninn ~hogshead. Rotation in Office Why.
that was a device of Democrats for the torture oT
Whigsl 10 subject Democrats 10 their own axe. as
auillotine was to his, o., Gov. Joe Gov. Joe. OH
when the first feelings Of surprise and horror had
somewhat subsidized, we became Wy degrees more phi.
tosophic, and began to ponder the matter in various
aspects. We unused a while on friendship, on Damon
and Pythias, and kitchen cabinets, and party Ties.
ana professional associations thought of the victim
ana MIN ior whom lac was yiclmiZed as members OF
Che fraternity of the ringt DeUr, or cigiati duu0tiri-
gotHoih inst the strangeness ola Democrat appealing
20 the Wig" to vindicate himself from the tyranny ~
MS party. On reflection, We were reminded that tbis is
. 80 strange a thing as II might appear, and is be.
coming oil more frequent occurrence every dav
what would the Democrats do hut for the It WI, ~
In their hours Of ease, when Prosperous oaL q do
blow, they are very much in the habit of damning ,bo
WING indefinitely but when the winds wbistIa and
enc tempests roar, when disasters oyertake them
when they are cruelty or unjustly tyrannized over bv
tue despots OF their own creation, they are very Glad
70 take shelter under the wing Of the WING IN,
tor the wing, what would have become oC Dr
oroocks indignant protest against the outrage perne.
trated upon an American Democrat in his own nor.
son How would the Democrats have known that
important democratic principle, 20 emphaticsllv os
asserted and practioed by Gov. Johnson tba, roi.,ior
in office, after 8 years, was a fundamental nrinointo
NO democratic paper could be found hardy enough
10 give publicity to the production. The wrong and
outrage would have been unknown. and tbe condo
Ience OF sympathizing millions have been Ina, corov
err and the z year-3G4-day ofice.holders mich,
have gone on browning to the very verge or Oh,
precipice in ignorance Of their fate. till prscipita,eJ
down the gaping gulf
AS the case in hand is a family affair. we forbea,
any comments. II seems settled that tho sol1iors :.
the armory and cOnycts at the peni,entiorv .re n,
subjects for medical experiment, and il mntters liir,
who makes the experiments, provided he is a Dem.
ocrat.
or y does himself tardy justice in explaining tn,
circumstances attending his appointment which cir
cumstances not being known heretofore may bay,
exposed him 10 misconstruction, at the hands of hi,
professional brethiea.
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