, 1840-08-22

deieSdtSS iron We .IedeTdt otdteS,d anu eUeCt "a
s~eparat: ~gopsnment for their common defence
and common interest, thus placing Themselves
in a condition TO make or receive proposals
from Great Britain. We have the d~ecIara-
ton made about the same time by John Quin-
CO Adams to Thomas Jefferson, shat he had
information OF the most unquestionable GER
taiaty, that certain citizens Of the Eastern
States uere in negotiation pih the agents of
the British Gorernmet." We have, in con-
firmation Of these statements privately made
in 1909, the actual calling Of a convention
of the federal States by the Legislature Of
Massachusetts. after the declaration of war,
preciselys according to the plan previously
delineated to the British Government by
Henry. We also have Mr.. Adams solemn
confirmation, twenty years afterwards, OF
the truth of his disclosure TO Mr.. Jefferson,
with the addition of an intimation that, at
some future day, a sense Of duty may induce
him to disclose evidence Of it Which he possess
eS.
These facts, which we nave selected from
innumerable others, are sufficient to estab-
lish the course and character of the feder-
al party down to the close of the last war;
These facts, and such as these, have render
ed the name Of ~federdlist odious to all true
frienJs 10 our country and its institutions.
1t is 10 avoid this odium that the members Of
that party, with %unequalled effrontery, now
assume the name of ,rhigs; and we call upon
the public to decide, whether a party which
at this moment includes every surviving ne
gotiator with John Henry, as well as every
surviving member of the Hartford Conven-
ton, if they be wings at all, can be any 9th
er than "British wings"
Nor is the propriety Of this appella,ion
less evident from the present position than
from the past history ofthe selfstyled wings.
For what are they now c~ontending! For a
ldtitudin0ridR construction of the ConStitu-
lion, such as was first adopted by Hamilton,
and opposed by Jefferson; for a national bank,
such as was proposed by Hamilton, and OPP
posed by Jefferson; for building up and sus-
tanning a host Of irresponsible corporations,
rs was advocated by Hamilton, and opposed
by Jefferson; for high duties drapn from the
MANY and distributed in bonuses TO The fer,
which was the policy Of Hamilton, opposed
by Jefferson; for bribing the States By an as
sumption of their obligations, and thus Gre
dting an enormous national debt,-a measure
CIV NCu u " uuuCl uluCu tifOlC
justliiatle circumstances than the present,
but opposed by Jefferson.
In short, the federal wings now occupy
the same position they did under their first
leader, Alexander Hamilton; they are where
they have ever been, and where, under eve
ry change of name, they. erer mean TO be; and
the democrats Of the present day are con-
tending against the same enemy for the same
principles that they were forty years ago.
The democrats now, rs then, rely upon the
correctness Of their principles and the force
Of their arguments. To their opponents now,
as then, will apply the description Of the
English wings Of Walpole's time, which we
have already quoted from the Edingburg Re-
view:-"THE STRENGTH or THE WINGS LAY
IN TIE GREAT A~RsroCRAcT, IN CORPORA
TIoNs, AID IN THE TRAruNG M MoNEYED NJ
TEREsrs." Is an thing wanting TO complete
The parallel between the modern and the
British wings! IL so, let it be remembered
that the first wings were so called from "a
kind Of liquor wtich they used to drink
Was that liquor produced from the fruit with
which the great prototype OF the British
wings seduced the progenitors Of our race?
Was II HARD CIDER!
Thus, in the most minute as well as in the
most important particulars, docs n perfect
triumphantly vindicate the right Of
opponents to the name, style, and title
OF "BRITISH WHIGS." Long may they
wear il! AN AMERICAN.