Southern telegraph., 1838-08-29
POSITION AND PROSPECT OF THE
WHIGS.

| HI1lGS.
We have observed that the two great d.
visions Of party in this country are and
must continue TO be WIG and TORY,--bul
that OF either party there were squads and
subdivisions, rallying under different ban.
ners. We are of opinion, however, that the
contest will be ultimately between two can.
dIdates, MIR. Van Buren, or Mr.. Calhoun, as
the representatives of the Tories, and Mr.
Webster, Mr.. Clay or General Harrison, as
the representatives ofthe Wings. The dis
clpllne of the administration party is such,
that one Of its candidates will doubtless
withdraw, in season to leave an open field
to his successful rival. That such will be
the case with the Wing candidates, we can
not permit ourselves to doubt; for with such
vast interests at stake, with such glorious
hopes for the country and the Constitution
dependant on the issue of the struggle, we
cannot even fear that any portion of the
Wing party will be so false to the cause, as
to suffer predictions for men to triumph
over the attachments to the Republic.
The present position ofthe Wings is one
OF undoubted, and ifproperly maintained, of
invincible strength. They are in a major
ity, sufficiently demonstrated, of 10000
voters. Three-fourths of the Governors and
and Legislatures of the States are Wing.
With the exception of New Hampshire,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Missou-
ri and South Carolina, they are every where
IN strong majority--a majority that moth
ing but folly and madness on their part can
shake. On all great questions now agitat-
ing the country, they are on the popular
side. They are the Democracy of Num-
bers. Their principles and their party are
the democratic principles and the demo-
cratic party of the day. The men in pow
er have grown insolent and arbitrary from
the long possession Of office; and for the re-
tentlon OF their il-worn and abused author
ity have been driven into the obstinate ad-
vocacy of the most odious measures. They
have gone to the people with those meas
ures, and urged them with all the seduction
'of patronage, and all the intimation of pow
er, but the people have every where re-
jected them. Still with that fatal madness
which clilgs to those whom the gods would
destroy, they have adj hered to their thrice
repudlated, and thrice-condemned doctrines,
and have menaced the people and their rep
resentatiVes that in Sin spite of all lam IN
tatlons," these doctrines shall regulate the
policy ofthe Government, and on them shall
be based the law ofthe land.
The Tories have lost power from their
detected hypocrisy and exposed frauds
With the promise Of economy, they have
trebled our annual expenditures. With the
profession of Democracy, they have shorn
the people of all power, have degraded and
dehed their representatives, and have ven
tured upon proposition, for its audacity and
Profilgacy without parallel in our history,
to do away with all legislative guardianship
OF the public money, and to place our entire
revenue at the absolute, unrestricted, un-
controlled disposal Of the President. When
General Jackson seized upon the public
treasure, and held il without legal authority,
he had the grace to pretend reluctance to
wear the responsibility, and besought the
Legislature to re-assumo their legitimate
control of the Neasury. What he had done
had been in a jealous regard of popular lib
erty, and he was afterwards only solicitous
to restore the money to such depositaries as
might be selected and regulated by law
But not so with Mr.. Van Buren,. He soIi-
cits the responsibility which General Jack
son pretended to deprecate. He is for le-
galized union ofthe purse and the sword
an union that no free people ever permitted,
and that no people ever can admit without
becoming the slaves Of arbitrary power
New York Courier and Enquirer.