Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-10-09
WING CONVENTION.

upon the most suitable person TO De placed IN
nomination as the Wing candidate for Con-
gress, for the I'd Congressional District, was
organized by a unanimous call of Gen. Phile-
mon Thomas to the chair, as president, and
Judge L. Favrot of West Baton Rouge, and
DIR X, w. Walker of East Felicana, as vice
presidents !; T. d. Conrad and ". Dupuy,
were unanimously appointed secretaries of
the convention.
Upon motion, the delegation of the respec-
tive parishes represented, were requested to
give in the names of the delegates, where
upon it appeared that only the four parishes
of East Fe .%iciana, East Baton Rouge, West
Baton Rouge, and lberville, were represented.
Judge Ci.inn then offered the following
| resolution.
Whereas, but. four out of the ten parishes
of this congressional district being represent
ed in this convention, it is deemed inexpe-
dent to nominate a candidate for Congress at
this time.
Be it therefore resolved, That this meeting
earnestly recommend to the Wings OF each
and every parish in this congressional district,
to hold public meetings immediately, and ap-
point delegates to meet in the town Of Baton
Rouge on the first Monday in January 1912,
for the purpose of selecting a Wing candidate
for Congress for said district.
Mr.. Conrad then addressed the convention,
suggesting the propriety of the convention
embodying and adopting resolutions express
s.ve of the feelings and sentiments of the
Wing party in this district relative to the late
exercise of the veto power by the President,
and other topics connected with that subject,
and the question of a National Bank-and
moved that a committee be appointed to pre-
pare and decide upon resolutions, and to re-
port the same to the convention. Said motion
being unanimously adopted. r. D. Conrad,
Judge Chinn, Judge Favrot and R. w. Walker,
were appointed of said committee. The said
committee having retired, after a recess,
through. their chairman reported the preamble
and resolutions which follow: p
This convention, although delegated and as
sembled for a specific purpose, do not deem
their sentiments and feelings in relation to the
astounding occurrences which have lately
transpired at Washington in the executive ad-
ministration of the government-coming d.
rectly and freshly from their constituents
witnesses of the disappointment depicted upon
every countenance, and the grief which per-
vades every heart at contemplating the sud
den and disastrous change of sentiments and
bold abuse OF power which have characterised
the late acts of the President of the u. States,
the members of this convention feel consci-
Gus that resolutions embodying the opinions
of those who sent them here, in relation to
matters SO mornentous and F, peculiarly
amenable to their judgment, will not ony be
acceptable to their constituents, but be view
ed as the discharge of a duty which circum-
stances imposed upon them.
Therefore be it resolved, That the Wings
of Louisiana in maintaining their share of the
patriotic struggle, a part of whose results was
the elevating' of John Tyler to the d~ignified
position of Vice President, Thought they were
eleyating a Wing TO that high station-who,
for the happiness and prosperity of his coun-
try, would battle for the maintenance Of Wing
principles, principles that have been SO tho
roughly discassed-so separated from, and
contrasted with, The destructive principles OPP
posed to them, that the simplest mind might
comprehend, and the most Indifferent appre-
ciate them.
Resolved, That from the vast Importance of
the subject in itself, together with the magni-
tude attributed to it by the whole Wing party,
d Ddllh " Liz CDltcu otdLCS "dS d lcddlLSs
predominant article in the creed and faith of
every Whig-that it is impossible, therefore,
to suppose that Mr.. Tyler was ignorant OF that
which the humblest. individual the least con-
nected with politics, perfectly understood, to
wit that a Bank of the United States was a
fundamental article of the Wing creed-that
knowing this, if Mr.. Ty'er dissented from the
views OF the party on this essential and indis-
pensable point, it was his duty as an hfnora-
bic and conscientious man, openly and ex-
pressly to avow it. That a different course
was deceptive and unworthy of a distinguish
ed public man, bound by the ties of gratitude
and honor to a magnanimous and patriotic
party-and certainly no argument founded in
good sense, in candor, and in morality, can
maintain for an instant that it was not the be-
lief Of both the party and their candidate
that a part from his express pledges, all the
circumstances attending the canvass bespoke
a tacit but not less inriolable pledge that he
had resolved to sacrifice any previous and
shadowy ~scrupies to the evident necessity
and settled constitutioaallty OF a National
Bank.
Resolved, That it would, however, be doing
MIR. Tyler an injustice to deny that he was q
sincere Wing and an advocate of an United
States Bank from the time he became a can
didate, until subsequent to his first message
us President of the United States-for dis
tinct from the tacit pledges above adverted'to
SO pregnant With undoubted assurance to his
party-so binding upon a Conscientious and
honorable mind-we have the further, but not
more binding assurance of his express decla-
ratlons-when addressed by a few doubting
NJIt,,.- hoo .-,Elo-,o ,,,, zLoI.., L.
knowledge of his former distractions. His an
swers quieted all their fears-he would be
guided on this subject by the fathers of the
constitutlon--by this he was supposed to re-
fer principally to Mr.. Madison this he knew
to be the in Interpretation of his meaning by
his silence ne approved it; and according to
honest and honorable construction, was as as-
suredly his meaning as If he had SO expressed
it ; and iii further assurance that such was
his meaning, he declared to individuals, that
he had sur rendered his scrupies in relation to
en- u. S. Bank, and on that subject he was of
the Madisonan school. Again, he declared
at a public meeting, that he considered a hard
money currency as a fallacy, that he had no
confidence in any other currency but that
which would be supplied by the paper of an
u. States Bank always redeemabie in specie.
10 what do all these declarations lead ! do
they not lead to the inevitable conclusion that
Mr.. Tyler had abandoned his constitutional
scrupies in relation to al. U. 5. Bank! Then
what are we to deduce from his first presi-
dental m~essage!-lf that document was not
intended to mislead and mistlfy, was it not
designed to intimate that the PRESIDENT would
harmonic with a Wing Congress in re alton
tn thar 20 yorifa pnaoctrral--and IN IN tho va,y
last day CT his very last message, did lie not
hold that his only scruples were in regard to
discounts and the name o. the Bank!-lid he
not heartily approve OF a bill drawn up and
submitted ny MS cabinet! What then is The
inference
Resolved, That the inference is that the