INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
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To "give the devil his due,'' we do some- times find good thing in Whig paper The following is from new paper, styled "The Whig Standard" recently established at Washington City. We have, in previous number, said the same, in substance. It is. here, very forcibly expressed and, though written at distance, seems, to us, well adapt ed to this latitude-just at this time. We commend It to all our readers. fit be like ly to fall on any sore heads CT tender toes, we advise those who have such inconvenient and disgusting ailments, to heal themselves, or stand from under" Qui capit iIle facit.

 ED. ARK's BANNER

 "Glve us Whig or Locofoco, but let us have no Independent candidates as they are styled. Independent of what are they.the people '-they must go with one side or the other.

 Virginia IS generally prolific of those cha racters; men of such wonderful powers of abstraction that they never examine things with the vision of ordinary mortals, but trace them so far to their source, or follow them so far Tn their development, that they entirely lose sight of their existent condition; men who dive deep, but never find bottom; men who are filled with wisdom themselves. but can never impart 1t to others. Of this hy- brlb class of politicians there are too species. the lar sighted and the short-sighted; the first Is composed of men whose conceptions are too lofty to be brought down to any re- celved standard-other persons are too slow; they alone, in their own conceit, find the Jaste milieu The second, or short-sighted species never see anything beyond themselves, but resolve all questions that arise by apply ing to them the test of personal interest," These hybrids, both species, fight on their own hook, and like to keep in convenient position for shifting from side to side as the balance of power inclines They will never allow themselves to be sorted and quoted with others, but always hang like loose com modities that have not received any fixed value in the market. If counted with the lot, and laid one side or the other, they would cease to be conspicuous and consequential they must be alone; thus when the Senate is said to consist of twenty eight whigs, twenty three Locofocos, and one Independent, no- body inquires who all these Wings and Lo- cofocos are, but this one Independent-that's l, who says Mir. kives. These men are camp-followers and seek necessarily for plum der. In the State Legislatures they are qui- eted with small considerations, but in Con- gress they expect bureaus and foreign mis- sions as the reward of their sole disinterest- ed services in behalf of a bleeding country torn by two great contending lactions.n