Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-10-12


Of the Heaven. A large globule OF quick.
silver has been strnck by spatua, and
10! innumerable smaller gIobules, eude the
touch and embarrass the vision. a hIsio-
ry OF It's rise, progress and triumph, is one
of the most instructive lessons OF ''phIlo-
sophy, teaching by example," that has ev-
er been presened-its catastrophe is addl-
tional weight TO the authority of the max
i'm, that honesty for political parties, as
well as for individuals, is eventually tho
only true policy.
The Wing party was as ingenious, and
perhaps as simple machine as was ever
invented by that class Of men, who have
more confidence in the results Of political
mannuvering than in the free and volun-
tary sutfrages Of the people-of men who
believe with DR.. Johnson, " that chance
will elect better mayor than a mob
1t was wholly destitute of what we, perhaps
bigotedly, regard as essential in party
organization-a basis Of common princl-
pie. 1t is ridiculous, in answer to these
charges, to point TO the staring capitals
which appeared at the head OF the leading
papers, or to the harangue of some proml-
nent partzan; inasmuch as they are OF
sufficient variety to suit apolitcal weather.
cock at any point of his revolution, as they
might be quoted upon all sides of any ques-
ton, and, moreover, organs merely OF dill
lerent sections Of the party, and not OF tho
party as whole. The charge is concu-
sively proved by the fact, that the Harris
burg Convention, the only authentic organ
Of the party, made no declaration OF prln-
ciples-by the fact, that resolution OF
fered before it, bya delegate from kentucky,
that an address should be issued 10 the peo-
pie Of the United States, embodying the
principles and measures Of the party, met
with such cold reception that ii was with
drawn. 1t is plain that the object was to
leave the question of principle in state OF
glorious uncertainty, TO unite men in oppo-
sition, whom it was hopeless TO attempt
to unite on any other point. No other po-
Icy would have held out the remotest hope
Of success. There were no common doc
trines which could be published, no COM
mon measures which would meet with
general approval, and no candidate in the
whole range of the party, whose faith If
at all known, would have been regarded rs
orthodox. 1t was VIGOROUSLY by means
Of the non-commitai principle, that men
from the zenith and men from the nadir,
bank and antl-bank, strict construcionist
and high tariff men, Jackson Tippecanoes
and "out-and-oWers," Fedcralists and De-
mocra,s, met and embraced each other.
1t would be easy to show that political
organization of this kind is corrupt and
dishonest--that no different rule applies TO
our conduct as partizans than as individu.
ais, to parties than to men. If it is dis
honest 10 obtain the goods of q man under
false pretences, if it is dishonest by the
arts Of trickery and deusion, to enveigIe
him OF his time, his labor, and his money,
it is equally dishonest to gain his political
corporation by the same means; 10 invei-
gle him Of his sympathy, his vote, his in-
fuence. 1t would be easy 10 show that
such an organization is the prolific parent
Of dishonor, fraud, hypocrisy, political cor
ruption, national Generalization.
The dsmemberment which an ordinary
sagacty could have foreseen, is now a
matter Of history, and it will require the
trumpet Of the archangel 10 call together
the scattered limbs of a body which was
lately rejoicing in the flush and boyancy
Of health. They have reaped the legiia-
mote fruit Of tho non-committal policy
Forgetting by what a frail tenure their first
candidate, already in the grand climacter-
ic, held his life, for the purpose Of cnnclI-
iatng hostile interests, they nominated for
the second Office in their gift, a person
whose views upon the great measures which
divided the nation, were directly hostile to
those Of the party who supported him
a man who would have been driven from
their ranks and curse averted from tie
nation if they had ventured upon frank
and open declaration of their principles.
The party triumphed-withn one month
the President was dead--Congress split
into thousand factions. and the party dis
persed to the four winds Of Heaven. Not
one Of their prominent measures has fully
succeeded--th Land bill was emasculated,
the Revenue bill shorn Of lis locks--thc
Bankrupt law has defects TO be cured and
the Fiscal Agent has become byeword
and a reproach. Truly honesty with par
ties as with individuals is eventually the
pest pollcy.
Another most striking fault of the Wing
was an utter want OF conf.
dence il the people. In an age of gener-
al intelligence, in country whose whole
social and political fabric rests solely upon
faith in the people, the party revived all the
worst devices of spiritual tyranny, all the
arts Of popular delusion, which have tri-
umphed in the worst ages. Like Pythago-
ras and the Jesuit, :hey have their enoteric
and their eSoteric school; one doctrine for
he initiated and another for the un n,ia,ed,
ore faith 10 be believed, another to be-
aught. They terminated system which
ay buried under the odium Of nges, en-