Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-08-08
THE WIG SPIRIT IN HOWARD.

THE WIG SPIRIT IN HOW ARD.
We congratulate ourselves that Providence
has cast our destiny amongst such men as the
Wings Of Howard. As we have learned their
story, they have been battling for years--frst
against a majority Of more than four HUNDRED,
which they had continued to wear away to two
hundred and fraction at the election lwo years
ago e. whichnow rises but fraction over hun.
dred-if, indeed there be an c'ue majority OF
legal votes at all. Before we were citizen OF
the Statc--whe yet amongst earlier friends, in
the more sunny souh-we read the motto OF our
predecessor in the chair from which we write but
it remained for the present canvass TO disclose
and prore the identity Of feeling and of purpose
between that Editor and bis patrons in tho noble
res olive 10 Keep the flag rLYlNo-DlE, but
nerer SURRENDER"
Such is now the feeling Of every Wing in How.
ard-sare perchance, the two who were ,rork'nen
on the Bank, who few the track on Tuesday, and
the more noted, because somewhat older case Of
the attorney OF the Bank, soho took the same
chute.
| Toward the middle of the afternoon, on Tuesday
when the result sufficiently ascertained TO de-
moustrate that we had cut down the loco-foco ma
jorty Of last year to about half its previous d.
mansions, ian immense multitude which no man
could number" assembled in the ample court which
fronts the residence of COL BIRCH, and ad-
dressed in the most animated, impressive and eo-
quent manner, by Gen. Clark (who had reached
home from his canvass for GUvernUr,) and subse-
quently by A. Leonard Esqr., Col. 10. DAVIS, and,
in conclusion, being called for) by Col. Birch him
self.
The same spirit actuated both speakers end list
cners-and the pledges of the former were deeply
and impassionedly responded by the latter-tha;
they would LEAVE NO HONORABLE EFFORT UNEs.
sAYEp--hy tongue or pen or press-from that day
forward, until the sun went down the las, day of
the Presidential cection--to give the vote Of
Missouri, too, to the gallant old Republican who
sacrificed HIMSELF for HERs9Ee therefore
inrite Mr.. Benton to take the field in Boon's Lick
but to DO it honorably and openly this time-in
public SPEECHES, which can be answered and ex-
posed the spot--not by letters, as he did on his
former tour, which published in the party pa
pcrs, from which all reply purposely excluded.
! His friends have promised tina, he ,voua come-and
trin come--nnd give the people an opportunity OF
passing upon his greatness, and the wisdom and
consistency Of his whole public conduct--not upon
his own erpar.e speeches and letters, but with re-
farences to the records, and ampifcations botA
siieS<
But we are OBTAINING our readers from the finale
Of the contest on Tuesday. At the conclusion Of
The remarks of Col. Davis (who made his first APP
rearance political speaker on that occsson.) be
submitted the following preamble and resolutions,
which were adopted with an earnestness, an accla-
, nation and an unanmity, which told that the Wings
of Howard ''never surrender
Whereas in the election which is now closing in
This county. the~otcers of the Bank, the Land Of-
fee, and others in the employ of the Federal and
State Governments, have manifested the most pal
pube, contemptuous and indicate disregard of all
The maxims which have heretofore controlled the
conduct of citizens in similar situations
And Whereas, against all the odds and influences
which they notoriOusly exercised against the
uf the people, the banner of the Wings has received
= additional strength and additional lustre,-
0 Resolrsd That the contest now gorousy term-
mating, in the augmented strength Of the Wings Of
Howard, is On suspicious and uEerring indication
of the more ample and enduring triumph which
awaits similar exertions in the of tine people
e and the country in November next.
it Resolved, therefore, That we pledge ourselves to
each other and to the country, that will not
nit, but renep and reapply the honorable and manly
means by which the Wings of this County have
well nigh overcome the overshadowieg influences Of
e he State and Federal Governments.
= Resolved, That we can overcome these baeful
influences, by appealing to the PATRIOTISM, the
: LOVE OF COUNTRY, the INTELLIGENCE and the Unborn
INDEPENDENCE Gf our countymen-and
z RESOLVED THAT WE WILL!
e On motion or Gen. John B. Clark, it We,
u Resolred, That the untiring exertions of the
Wing candidates Of Howard county merit our
warmest approbation--that we much indebted
for those eXertions, and beg them to receive our
:, thanks, wtha pledge to cooperate with them, and
our Wing bretheren generally, 10 redeem our coun-
try from the miSrue which nfflicts and impover-
isles it.
On motion OF A. Leonard, Esq, it was
ReSOlued, That the next stated meeting of the
IiPpecanoe club Of Howard county, be held at the
Court House in Fayette on the 4th Monday in Au.
gust that citizens of all callings and all par
ties be respectfully invited TO attend.
Two things, atall events, nave been ACCOMPLISHED