Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-05-21
CUT AND THRUST.

/, Mr.. FORSYTH, in the Senate on the 9th in
slant, said
The Senator from South Carolina has called
the attention of his adversaries to the late gene
raj application of the term Wing to the discord-
ant fragments of all parties opposed to the adj
ministration. He seemed to imagine it arose
from the peculiar applicability of the term. The
general application of the name did not prove
any fitness to the thing to which it was applied.
1t proceeded not from the harmony between the
name and the thing but from concert between
those who were DESTROYS of giving new and
popular name to old and unpopular things
There was an organized and associated press,
directed if not by one impulse here, at least di-
rected to one end by different impulses. The
press, through all its ramiications, taking up
the watch-wOrd "Whign from its pure source
in New York, sounded it through the country,
and the Secretary of the Hartford Convention,
and the Osgoods and Parishes of the Pulpits Of
the East, and all like spirits Of the West, and
South, and Middle States joined in the concert
ed cry. Mr. F. did not believe in the possibility
of deluding the People to embrace condemned
doctrines and politicians, by the simultaneous
application to them of respectable and vene-
rated name. He was sorry TO see the attempt,
because the effect would be to degrade name,
associated with our glorious recollections of eX
allied patriotism and disnterested suffering; of
great public services, and holy devotion to free
dom.
MIR. F. asked if the name Wing would not be
degraded if applied Unfortunately to persons
who had disregarded, in the days of the coun"
try's peril, the obligations Of duty and patriot
ism. Ask the northern section of the opposi-
ton, if the Nullifiers are Whigs-twelve months
since they were rebels Ask the southern sec
ton if the Hartford Conventionists are Wings
Ia few years since they were disgrace to the
country were then the open enemies of the Con-
AcL fho Mott alc N he do
tionists--the high tariff and internal improve
ment men-the States rightmen, par excellence,
if they are each and all Wings in the English or
American acceptation of the woodland the an
swer may be; Oh, yes! now, but not short time
since, and they will not be some short time
hence if things go the hope is that things will
90. Mr. +. felt how difficult it was To find an
appropriate name for the union of such discord-
ant materials; but he thought he could furnish
one sufficiently descriptive. Unlike the party
to which he would apply it, it was the name of
a compound good in ITSELF and made of mate
rails all of which were good in their way. Sup
pose we call it the Punch party. Punch is the
union Of inspid water-the deluded men who
are the chief material of the party, the acid from
the lime of the southern growth, it is produced
in the open air in Mississippi sweetness, the tariff
sugar from LOuisiana-the spirit rum of New
England--home made arrack from South Ca
rolina-whiskey from the west, Monongahela or
DR.. McNeven TO catch the Irish-an Irishman
loves the smell ofturf smoke-the smack of I'M
lawful distation. Casting an eye to futurity
and supposing that unlike prophetic forebodings
of war, pestilence and famine, and of the coffin
hand billS-the prophecy of a day or two since,
that the last nail was driven into the coffin of
Jacksonism, was realzed-what rousing wake
we should have, punch being the order of the
night, when the veteran was carefully rolled in
his shell to be restored to the great mother of us
ALL The genius of diSCord might interrupt the
harmony of the scene. If question should
arise about the division of the "spoils of victo-
ry." A glorious scratch would follow to deter
mine who should be administrator ''de bonis
non" of Uncle Sam. The inspd would stand
no chance. Whoever heard of a good cold wa
ter administration. The acid is quite the thing
to give flavor to the compound, but by itself it
serves only to set the teeth of edge. The sugar
must be satisfied with the preservation of the
1-2 cts per ID. duty. The struggle must rest
among the spirits of arrack, there is not enough
for broad bottomed administration. The po-
teen is of foreign BIRTH and therefore excluded
by the constitution. Nothing, then, is left, but
the New England Rum and Western Whiskey.
How stands the account between them? Rum
is made of domestic materials in New England
the region of Faneuil Hall-the cradle of Anne
rican liberty Yes, says Whiskey-but it is not
olacaqs made of Southern molasSes-and then
there is the Hartford Convention-and>th the era
die would have been made the grave of liberty,
had not the child grown too great to be smo
thered in the shell in which its infant limbs were
rocked. Whiskey is made of home materials
always-it is exclusively agricultural in its orr
gin, but not in its tendency, says Rum-and then
recollect the Whskey Insurrection, when this
rebellious liquid had almott stopped the wheels
of the Government The balance of merit es-
pecially as it regarded the American System,
being nearly even the fate of empire would
have to be decided by wager of battle or the
neighing of horse.
Mr.. Preston, reply to Mr. FORSYTH, sad
The gentleman from Georgia protests against
the Opposition taking the name of Wings, and
recommends to them to-adopt the name of the
Punch party | am not very anxious to take the
name of Wing, but no power on earth can take
from me the Wing principles. Whenever a name
has been seized on, and the denomination has
struck all who are opposed to the Administra-
ton with such instant and universal sympathy
when the gentleman from Georgia has seen
the same chord vibrating through the bosoms of
those who stood in the contest against power in
former times and now, and working up every
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