Richmond Palladium

WHITCOMB ON THE STUMP.

It is announced in the Rockville Olive Branch, that Mr. Whitcomb, the loco candidate for Governor, would open the canvass in that place on Monday last. His object is doubtless to pacify the warm friends of "our Howard," whom it is said he basely betrayed in the Senatorial election. We should be pleased to loan Mr. Whitcomb a copy of the Journal of the Senate, for the session of '35 and '36, if he needs one in his campaign before the people, for the purpose of defining his position in regard to the system of internal improvement. How many men signed the bill of instructions, behind which he cowardly skulks? Were there ten, or fifteen, or twenty, from a district composed of three large counties? It is said Mr. Whitcomb made speeches in opposition to internal improvements. We should like to lay our hands on a copy of such a speech. Can our loco friends furnish us a copy. We guess not.

Shortly after the election of Gen. Harrison, Whitcomb travelled all the way from Washington City to North Bend, to visit the illustrious statesman, he so foully calumniated in the address published by the locos in 1836, and which was written by this same James Whitcomb. Did he visit North Bend to convince Gen. Harrison that he was a Whig, or at least a "no party-man?" Did he go there to play the sycophant and humble himself, demagogue as he is, to retain his place? or did he go there to reiterate the false charge of federalism against the man who ever was a democrat? The people will form their own opinions of the motives which led him to seek at so great an expense and so much trouble, the retirement of him who had power and place to confer.