The American monthly magazine - v. 4 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: become of the Right Op Instrdction—that prominent doctrine of the illustrious Legislature of Virginia, so strenuously advocated by the friends of the Administrat... more »ion t The Evening Post must secede from this mighty position, or submit to the ejectment of the senators from Maine by the majority in the now Whig Legislature of the state. On the first movement of this kind in Maine, we shall see the Washington Globe swearing by bell, book, and candle, that the doctrine of the right of instruction was " most tolerable, and not to be endured ;" and that it had never been maintained by Mr. Benton or Mr. F. P. Blair—which two worthies seem to form a sort of political automaton trumpet-player, the former being the wooden figure with distended cheeks blowing into an apparent trumpet, while the latter is the real musical machinery within! The Bank game will be played over again, and whatever card is turned up, the trump will be chosen by the Administration. Opposition to the Banks and to the Right of Instruction will be claimed as an emanation from the wise brain of the present President! That the president has the merit of having originated one or two good things, we are not disposed to deny. Thus have we seen luminous sparks proceed from a decayed piece of wood in a darksome night. The position now occupied by the friends of the Government, they have been forced upon. Their retreat, from all their old and feebly-fortified points, has been loudly sounded. But they must accelerate their movements. The fortune of the war has changed. This divorce of Bank and State is a wooden horse, which has been fearlessly brought within the wrils of their political Troy. The time is not far distant when it will send out an army of foes to throw down the strongholds of its too confident sustainers. To C...« less