Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-02-02
The Richmond Whig.

The rs.cble youth who conducts the Richmond Wing.
excessively annoyed by recent inquiry, why is IL
that the Virginia State Council ordered their proceedings
to be published in the Richmond American and not in the
Richmond Whgy Forgetting perhaps having rad
the proverb ale that is slow to anger is better than
the mighty and be that tucth his spirit than he
that taketh city, the Young gentleman cus from his
vocabulary OF polite of its choicest gems in
elegant prose, and hus them at US His arrows fall
short OF their mark Either his bow his is want
ing IN power But hear his responsive reasoning he
says;
1t the State Council ordered their proceedings to be
published in the National American OF their
regarding IL sound exponent oi Amcricansm' il was
entirely consistent in them order them be pub
shed in the Richmond Wing any other Virginia
paper"
Now. admit that this is sensible answer aud We
had supposed it the WHY the State Coun-
ell selected the American its medium, instead OF the
Wing We observed that of the editors of the Amer
can bore conspicuous part in the proceedings of the
State Council, and observing the OF the Young
gentleman OF the Wing in those proceedings, think
uiercnce that the American the proper medium
warranted by the fact alone and besides cho well
qualified to decide this question the State Council which
selected their medium through which publish the
proceedings = Washington Organ.
Now, as the National in.cricdn endorses the in
situation of the Washington organ and writer i'm
the National dmcricGa of Thursday, that the pro
ceedingS of the State Council were ordered To bc
published in the National .iaercdR and not in the
Uhig, because the Council approved the course of
the former and condemned the course of the latter
we must needs expose the unqualified trickery aud
mcanueSS Of the National american bv stating
the actual facts OF the To be sure it is very
small matter but that consideration of itself places
the conduct of the National 4aericdn in a sill
more diSreputabe light AZ for ourselves, we
should not have been in the least disturbed if the
Council had Ignored the Whig in the matter
of publishing il proceedings but as it did not.
and a> the trick of the imericdR is an intensely
low and scurvy one we feel it due to ourselves and
the Council To make the necessary correction
We are informed by the worthy mover Of the re
solution in relation to the publication OF the proceed
ing. that the resolution hc orr gually proposed it
was to 10 this effect, to Wit.
Hesotced, That all the papers in the State friend
~ To the American party, be requested to publish
the proceedings Of the Council
We >ay that this was the resolution in substance
originally offered by Mr. Wood Af(er proposing
It, and before it was acted on, he gave way to Mr.
Turner OF fauquier, who wished to submit a mo
ti"n substituting the Of Mr. Taylor in place of
his own as one of the Vice Presidents Of the Council
During MIR. Turner's occupancy Of the floor, NIr
Wood was approached and appealed TO by one of the
editors Of the IHerirdH to this etfcct-that the
editors of the Iwtrtct, being present as members
OF the Council it might be construed into dscoure-
~ and disr,>peC them il the Council omitted 10
mention the National ID,ericH specially and by
name in the resolution Whyreupon, his courtesy
being appealed to by Of the editors Of the Amer
lean in behalf OF the Amer,csa itself Mr. Wood
properly and promptly asscntcd to the very deli
cate suggestion which had been made him And
that is the sole reason why the National Imerican
was mentioned particularly the resolution and
the Whig and other American pserS not.
We have given the circumstances Of the case from
memory but il We have committed any error. we
shall be prompt to correct it. upon attention he
ins called to it. We may state further that We
should never have alluded to 80 small matter but
for the I",ricU., with full knowledge Of all the
facts, endorsing and giving circulation to the ut
terly false iusinuatonS of the Washington Orgli, a,
Is does in the publication OF article from that pa
per in It's yesterdays issue