Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-10-24
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PROSPECT BEFOREus

yet feel the strongest confidence that she will h.
10 the Wing cause, faithful among the fairhlessr
II IN this we are not deceived il will infuse new ;
into the Wing ranks-it will impau new life 10 tho.
who are now ready TO give up the contest as u,,.,.
hopeless. and whose "fear betrays like reasonr-;,
will re-assi,re the faint hearted and despond;,o 49,,
inspire with additional energy even those who Il,
the old French Guard. surrender, Will. ,h..
have an ann to WELD sword or a voio to Chez,
dropping comrades.
That the Sub-Treasury scheme has becon.
more popular, IN the common accep,ation of thu,
woro' mere can be no question. But that this ann
menied popularity is ascrbabe to careful ;ny.,,;
gallon OF us provisions, and consequently to an =,
proVa' OF ITS principles, We utterly deny. The .,,I
ly OF the party has been made by other me,n
Thousands. who shrank from this Governmen, Rail,
in disguise. when it was first presented to their con
sheraton. have been whipped b,ck into the ,,nt.
by the terrific sconree Of parry discipline-o,b.u
have been seducedi from their principles BY IN. n,
lnremenls OF Executive patronage-many, perb,n.
though neither understanding nor approving of this
adron scheme for eilecting onion. by Law, of I'M.
Purse and the Sword, which our iorefahers believed
they had forever dirorced by The cons,i,u,io,
have resolved to support it, from long cherished an.
tipathy TO the Banking System. founded gnoranc.
and prejudice, and ngthened by recent eyen,,-
while the parrot.c of certain quondam Conser,a
live leaders. whose courage not equal to the oc
cason, and who consequently abandoned their al.
lies just at the pinch Of the battle. when their
lions might have sirangled this Erecut;re Monster
that "they canrot desert an administration with
Which they only differ single measure" ha,
reconced hundreds of others to give il their sun.
port, both against the convictions of judgment and
the lashings Of conscience. They seem to have for.
gotten that in this gle measure" is involved in.
teres's Of more comprehensive and important char.
acter than were ever before embraced in question
Of public policy-that il st likes deatl-blow at in
situations and systems, which, coeval with the Re.
public, have grown with its growth and strengthen.
ed with It's strength imparling and deriving ener-
gy from the support which they have thus mutual.
iy gwen and received-and that il revolutonizes our
political well as our financial system, bv adding 10
the power Of The President, already too great fora
Republic" all that takes from he Banks which il
will overthrow, and from Congress from whose Gus
tody il snatches the public purse. The Presidents
will, therefore. is hereafter to be regarded rs tho
voice OF his Patty, and the voice of his Party, rem
the law Of the land for no Representative. however
he may be opposed TO the policy of the Executive,
will dare th~ his purposes hen he i, thus as
surea that his REGARD wi be the Remuneration of bis
constituency, even though the, concur with him in
opinion
Thus has 'lhe party" which elevated the presen,
Chief Magistrate TO power, and which was at one
time threatened with a serious division BY the bold
recommendation, by that officer, of a scheme, which,
he and his advisers had bu, short time before
denounced in the bitteresl TERMS been again cemen
ted like hand Of Roman ctors and their tempora.
ry detection seems to have inspned them with
double portion Of zeal.
But it is not to the re union of the Administration
party, so much rs to the divisions of the Wings,
that Their recent triumphs are to be ascribed. Their
increased strength is more apparent than real. l'B
no, that they have cast greater number Of votes but
that the Wings have cast fewer. that they have
swept over the country like triumphant army, laden
with the "spoils OF victory" 1t is because they
have not been opposed with spirit equal to their
own. 1t is because the Wings scattered by their
own discussions, instead of presenting an united
front 10 the adversary, have been employed in tho
suicidal work Of cutting each other down. The
Wings have no more aspirants in their ranks than tho
Government party but they resolve, each onetO
night under his own captain, not 10 fight at all.-v
From one quarter we hear that Mr.. Clays name p
thrown discord into our ranks while from anothef
we are told that Harrson's nomination will PROSTATE
the party Can the Wings, under such circumstan'
oes, eTpect TO triumph Do they deserreh! No
1t they go Tor men only, without regard TO primer
pies, or regarding them only as secondary objects
they are unfit repositories of power, because they
viii be prepared, in the event Of their success 10
follow the example ofthe party now in possession
the Government, in permitting the man Of Their
choice to dictate TO them the measures they are 10 /
support or to oppose. 1t is this very principle a.
gaInst which the Wings, party. most vehement
" Protest; and it therefore behooves them, parieu
larly TO discard all personal parlialiles and anra
tines, aud to engage with unanimi'y and zeal u "a
vor OF that man who shall be tile unequivocal ebolts
OF majority of the Wing party. IL they will not
do this, Then indeed we are engaged in hopes"
struggle, and the we adopt the advice Of 10
obscure paper in Philadelphia, whose despondns
counsel is exutnely transferred to the columns "
the Loco Foco journals aud " disband," the BET
ter
Bun we do mt believe that the Wings, in any pcr
ton OF the country. will permit their personal feeF
'"gs to interfere with heir obligations as pat,,o'
friends both Of Gen Harrison and Mr. Clay shou"
teeonect' that warm may be the admira'0p
WHICH they respectively emf ertain lor the characd