Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-10-05
AN WING.

AN AMERlCAN WING.
An American Wing is an honest man, an
honest lover of his country. and an hones,
lover of every thing that assists in sustaining
his country's greatness. He is a believer
in the bold and broad doctrine, that the peo-
Pile are The legitimate source Of all govern
mcnt powcr-and he, therefore, is one who
can never kindly consent to see the will Of
the many set AT naught by the ignorance Of
the duplicity of the few. An American
Wing is a pure Republican. The happiness
Of mankind is the only political end he aims
at. He bows not at the ~footstool of arbitrary
power-he is never seen TO cringe beneath
the sceptre of a despot. The American
Wing believes not in the divine Right Of
Kings" neither does he believe that either
Napoleon Bonapart, General Jackson, nor
any other man was born TO command
The American Wing admits Of no moral or
political superiority, saving and excepting
the superiority Of virtue and talent. An
American Wing is no time-servel, no hatter-
er. hwner, no bower of the knee to royalty.
He acknowledges but one monarch. and
that is his own reason. He thinks for him
self, and he acts as he thinksl He reflects
at every step he takes: If a false step.
he is ready to acknowledge it, and ever the
first in retrieving its error. The American
Wing is a philanthropis!, a genuine lover
of his species, one who does not believe that
the rest Of mankind are his interiors, and
less entitled TO happiness than himself. He
is always ready to promote the advancement
OF civilization, because he believes il TO BE-
fuETpieasanier state Of human society than
that Of barbarism. He is q friend 10 the
credit system, because he knows that credit
and confidence are i~nseparable from a state
OF civilization. The spirit Of Loco Foco
ism he abhors, from the simple fact that hi;
reason warns him that its practical result
mus, be- violence, anarchy, and degradation
Ii matters not where an American Whis
is born. Like our glorious Washington b,
} lives for mankind, and is the property o
the human family. Geographical limits
affect him not Whether the spirit tina
warns his being has thrilled the bosom O
/. an Alfred, an Emmei, an Adams, a Bolivar
or q Tell, it is all the same. The American
Wing is the same all oveer the Globe
{ Painting at the equator or shivering at tn
poles-luxuriating on the rich shores Of tn,
Nile. or delving the stubborn earth on th,
bleak declivilies of the Alps-reposing il
incidence on the pampas OF Peru, or breas
, ting the winter whirlwind on the coast o
Zembla-whenever, in any human breast
/ exist the soul. the FIRE. the benevolent i'm
pulses, that inspired the Fathers of our Rev
%olulion. there exists an American Wing
1 An American is never frightened. Tyran,
cannot scare him from the pathway of hi
I duty, no more than the Establishments G
power can corrupt him into servility. Al
American Wing is always fixed in his puI
pose-whether ramming his cartridge Of
Bunker Hill, or despositing his vote in tn
Ballol-box. He looks neither 70 the RICH
nor the left. He fires his musket plum
1 in the face of his country's foe, and be vote
down the demagogue of his neighborhood
though that demagogue be his father or hi
brother. The American Wing never TEN
r porizes with political %turpiiude. He will
t war 10 the death. under the banner Of hi
E country, but he askes no other price for hi
d patriotism than the augmentation OF his couu
try's prosperity and the perpetuity of hi
: conntry's glory. Such is an American
Wing, and such are all American Wings
! whether they come from Caucasus or tn
1 Allegheny. The brotherhood of America
Whigism is as enduring as adamant, as eS
| ~tensive as the universe, and potent as eterna
: truth. 1t has existed ever since languag
: gave a name 10 Virtue. and it will %continu
TO exist as long as the name of Virtu
stands inscribed upon the vocabulary @
5 mankind.