The Charlotte Journal

FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, JULY 8.

Affairs at Washington.—We trust our readers are not of that groaning, grumbling, despairing sort of Whigs who, whenever every thing does not go just as they wish, give all up as lost, and swear they never will vote again. For that class of patriots we can think of no fitting argument but a cudgel. They are the worst dead weight that ever hung heavily upon the rear of any party. When we are out of power, they go about croaking that it is of no use to try to get in—that the ignorant, stupid, besotted People are bent on going to perdition, and they don't care how soon. Well, in spite of their appalling groans, we fight the battle and win the victory. Where then do we find our camp-following prophets of evil? Foremost to dictate and arrange—decreeing that this shall and that shall not be done—that just such a bank and such other measures shall be carried; if not, they will quit the party, and let it go to destruction!!

For our own part, we have lost all patience with these everlasting croakers. We would as soon listen to the music of saw filing or a croaking grindstone as to their incessant predictions of evil. As firmly attached to the great measures generally advocated by the Whig party as the best of them, we yet do not believe that the country will be ruined or the Whig party annihilated if every thing does not go exactly to our liking.

In short, if the Whig party cannot govern the country usefully, we are ready to see it upset by its adversaries, but we do trust it will not be croaked, groaned, and prophesied down by its friends. The failure of no one measure can destroy it if its supporters have any coherence and force.