Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-05-21

his motion il tells us, early 1897 that that
principle adopted by the Senate Of the United
States. And so Pierce. Douglas h Co, ouly stole
Old Bucks thunder, Thus 60. How will the
anti Buchsnanites get out of this difficulty into
which the Examiner has so cruelty plunged them
Ii is ugly scrspe but suspect they will find
some way OF getting out Of IT, Let them hurry. up
their horses. IL they do not Old Buck will surely
carry the day. The EnImiHer's discovery is per
iect God-scnd TO him; he evidently hard
pressed by his competitors before.
The Enquirer is nightly exercised in regard to
the Old Line Wings II begs in breath and scolds
in the next; it threatens AMI entrcats it promises to
expand them into responsibility, and feast them on
the of Office, if they will only bow down and
worship Locoiocosm. What it be that makes
the worthy Editor anxious on ,he subject lie
says their not at all essential to the
dancy of the party in the State. Why, then, this
sudden and intense affection for the traitor Wigs
Why this boun,ul ft--this sudden and irrepreSsi-
bic eagcrneSS TO force office upon them, aud TO
der them respectable Hav'nt you loaicrs and re
nega,les enough already for all the offices at Your
disposal and whose regulations would bc none the
worse from Increased emolumentS and augmented ne
spectabity In former times, il was n characters
IT, trait of your party rather tn diminish than
large the number Of those who might be privileged
to ENJOY profitable distinctions. Then YOU were of
Henry the 5th's way of thinking-the fewer the men
the greater share of glory. Now you can't get men
enough tn partake with you of the Spos What can
be the secret of this strange revolution of sentiment
Where 50 much love is substituted for much hate
without any visible cause, is there not ground to
suspect that sinister motives prompt the gratuous
professions of affection. Ii you not all of YOU
immensely respectable, and did not hold all offices in
much scorn it might justify the suspicion that you
were more anxious TO increase your responsibility
than that OF the Wings, by being privileged to boast
of having them associates This view is somewhat
confirmed by the extravsgant laudatonS and high
honorS which you lavish upon the renegadeS now
with YOU though all the rest Of the Democracy
were only tit for mental tasks \ further suspicion
might also be justified that you are looking forward
to a day. not very distant when the dividend will
consist more of burdens than honors and then it
would be very convenient TO have Wings at hand to
bear undue proportion of the load 1t cannot be
that the people of Virginia can for many years long
81, bear the sway of party, under whose auspices
the taxes have been doubled to pay interest on mo-
ney already wasted-the hardest sort of money to
pay, security money not excepted-and who, as long
as they raise money by the sale of State stocks
will continue to spend. For We have the authority
OF the Democratic Finance Committee of the last Lee
gslature that it is easier to raise money than take
care of it, This state of things sooner or later
bring about a day of reckoning, and with it day OF
wrath 1t will be very comfortable for the party
leaders have goody number of respectable Wings
behind whom they may take shelter, and on whose
heads they may throw all the responsibility, when
that day Of reckoning comes, and when the people
are treading the wine press of wrath