The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-04-29
( NUMBER 81.
From the Richmond Wing.
TOUGH QUESTIONS TO ONE OF MR..
CALHOUN'S "TAIL."

rating, and showing off the shameless in
constituencies of Mr.. Calhoun's tender OF
the Mercury. The substance Of its com.
ments is condensed in the following leading
questions, which might be extended TO Mr..
Calhoun himself; ard TO Dir. Goode and
the few other struggling strands Of the
honest Nuliifer's T" neither appendage in
this State:
! l. Were not both the senior and iunior
editors once Whigs1
| 2. Were they not both anti Van Buren,
Whigsl
3. Were they not Clay Whigsl
4. Were they not WHITE Wings
.. Were they not HARRISON Wings!
6. If Whiggery and Abolitionism lie
las they allege) closely affiliated, were
they not once leetie touched with abol.
tionsm themselves, especially when they
stood shoulder TO shoulder with Adams aud
Slade, fighting against Van Buren,, the
friend and constitutional champion Of the
South
! Z. Were they not Bark Whigs?
g. Were they not u. S. Bank Wings
0. Were they not suspended Bank
Whigs-abusing the Government for re-
fusing to receive the notes of suspended
banks!
10. Were they not an,i-Sub- Treasury
Wings?
II. Were they not anti Humbug, or an.
ti-Hard Money Wings
12. We're they not couple of the most
outrageous Wings in the land--as outra-
geous as they are now Democrats?
"Sir. | wish you to understand the true prn.
| ciples Of the Government. / wish them carried
out. gsk nothing more."-Ldst words Of Gen.
HaTYlson.
These were the last words of our ven.
cradle Chief Magistrate, and supposed TO
be intended for his successor, MIR. Tyler.
As the morning and noon of his life
were dedicated TO the service of his coun-
try, SO were the last hours Of his earthly
existence, characterized by patriotic So
licitude for that country's welfare and hap
piness.
Such was a fit sequel TO such life
What must be the reflections Of those
slandercrs, the occupation of whose time
was to defamo and vilify this pure patriot,
when they read his dying words How
must they loathe the vile arts which they
employed to embitter his life, and degrade
him in the eye of that country for whose
happiness and prosperity he breathed his
latest prayer? VIII they make atone
ment now VIII they do that justice to
bis memory which they refused to accord
to his life g We shall see"
On the Wing party is deyolved the sa-
cred duty of carrying out the true prin-
ciples Of the Government" and executing
the last wish of the venerable man whom
they elevated to the highest office in the
gift Of the country. Let them be firm; let
them be united let them look with an eye
single to their country's good, and the spi-
rits of Just men made perfect" who, hav-
ing finished their patriotic labours on earth,
are now enjoying the rewards of Heaven,
will smile upon and bless their cause.-Pe.
tersburg Ia,eihgencer.
"The Guillotine has been partially sus-
pended, on account Of the sickness Of the
President, and the absence of the Secreta-
nv Of State. But the blood will begin to-
flow more freely again, when they can of.
tend to the duty of decapltation. As soon
as the April Elections are over in Virgin
ia, VIC too shall have more Martyrs to reg
lister.
Br-the-bve, the Richmond Wing, as
usual, does US the grossest injustice. We
were never the friends of this lndiscrimln-
atirg Prescription. Our opposition to ma.
ny removals, during Gen. Jackson's Ad-
minisiraticn, gave some dissatisfaction to
some Of our friends.
But what shall we say of this Wing par
ty, who went into power with professions
Of federation, and are now cutting of heads
without mercy These men have sinned
upon their own principles. They have
trampled their own professions under foot.
Their course is characterized, not oaly By
cupidity, but by hypocrisy. "-Enquirer.
The Wings have protested, and what is
more, they are practising liberation. But
they never did profess, that the hundreds
of brawing partisans and moral bankrupts,
who were quartered upon the Treasury, by
the expelled dynasty, we're to be retained.
This would be tantamount to endorsing
their characters, and approaching the ex-
ecrable prescription by which they were
indicted into office. This the Wings have
never designed to do. To reform these
worthless characters out of the public crib,
was one of the leading objects Of the Wing
party. They pledged themselves to do it,
and they will prove true to their pledge.
We hope the Enquirer may" have more
Martyrs to register $50 long as there
are fit subjects for Martyrdom. Surely
the Editor of that paper, who now for the
first time informs the public that he "was
not the friend of the indiscrimlnate Pro-
scription" of the Jackson en-will not
complain, if Gen. Harrison proscrlbes that
indiscriminate prescription, and rights the
wrong, by putting things as they were -
Richmond Wig.