Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-10
From fhs BslfinOrs .fssriean.
TO THE WINGS or MARYLAND.

The undersigned attended by your appointment
the Wing National Convention, Mt Harrisburg, on
the 4h OF December, 1889, to nominate whis cam
didsts for the Offices of President and Wee Prcsi-
den; Of the United States. In the Performance Of
thst duty, they presented to you the names Of the
lamentod patriot WILLIAM HEsKr HAnRIsos, and
JoaS TrLtR, and with these inscribed your
bnner you achieved the memorable political victory
OF 1870. How has it happened that imme dately
upon the heels OF such victory, with an Executive
or your own nomination aud your own ehoice-wilh
mai ,n,y in both branches Of Congrcss-and eve.
~ department Of political power surrendered into
your hsnds. you should still be defeated and a
discounted par,y1 How hos il come to pass thst
all event, s.nded and followed by all the Incidents
signs and appearances OF yietory-,he meeting OF
the adverse bosts-the route and dispersion OF the
enemy-tbe triumph OF the vie,ors and the subms
si'n Of the vanquished, should turn out TO be no
victory at all2 Nay, how could it happen, that
after precisely such contest, neither OF the con-
tending parties should be conqueTors, but that both
should be defea,ed7 It is strange phenomenon,
and no less strange than truei That ueachery
mos, foul and enormous must have existed some.
where, is certain, and tho undersigned deeply
interested in demonstrating that it cannot be laid
OF their door.
The circumstances alluded 10 would alone war.
ran, the explanation which the undersigned are
about to make Of their proceedings 1T Harrisburg,
had they not strong additional motive for IT, in the
fact that they asked the question ut every turn,
how they ever came TO give their assentto the nom
nation Of such as John Tyler, for the impor.
tant Office cf Vice Presideut7 They have remarked
moreover, that the Democratic press and politicians
Throughout, the Union, persist IN denom'na'ins MIR
Tyler q Wing Presiden,, and in pointing 10 the
silly abortions OF his BRAIN the vaunted fruits CT
Wing promises and the mighty results oil the Wing
triumph. The undersigned deem It hi, therefore,
seeing that their conduct is thus inpugned by
their own constituents that they should speak Tor
themselves. 1t is equally ct ard proper that they
shou d. both in your names and their own diselaiu,
AL responsibility for the course Of an Executive,
constituted as is the present.
Who II is that Mr. Tyler processes TO represent,
whether in his own magnificent Conceptions OF
himself he ever doscends even IN Imagination to the
representative character at oil, the undersigned do
not know, and therefore cannot say. IL is however
their duty, is their right, 20 declare, and they
do hereby most earnestly ana vehemsntly aver and
protest, that he is no Wing: that he has no Etiri
butte of the character, and no right 10 be called or
known by the name OF Wing.
The motives which induced the undersigned to
neouesce in the nomination Of MIR Tyler, will he
best understood from brief reference to events with
in the knowledge Of the country. Since the year
1882 the line of separation between the two great
political parties OF tie United States, has been
broadly and distinctly drawn. A National Bank so
constituted as to regulate efficiently the currency
and exchanges of the couutry-a tariff for prstec
tion well for revenue where protection may be
found necessary &c guard American labor against
the ruin OF foreign competilion-the distribution Of
the proceeds Of the public lands among the States
the rishtful owners OF the public domaln-a i'rita
ton Of all future Presidents 10 service OF one tern
essential to an honest administration Of the Go
vernmcnt-a publication of the practice OF the tx
ecliive IN appointments 10 office, and subsection
OF every department and iunc,ionary OF delegated
power, 10 the contest Of the public wil-have been
the measures and principles which the Whigr have
deemed essential 10 national prosperity; whilst the
patty calling itself democratic, his been die
tinsushed in its actual administration OF the Go
vernment, by systematic opposition TO these very
measures. During the entire period referred TO,
each Of these great parties has been eager and un
Yie ing in the maintenance Of its own peculiar
doctrines which have been discussed and debated
in every variety OF form, and with zeal TO which
time and labor have but impa ID new animation.
In the public prcss-in the legislative halls, State
and Fe1era-irom the husiings-on the highways
and in every hamle, and log cabin throughout the
Union, the contest has been maintained without
causing. Father has been arrayed against son, and
brother agains. brOlher-the man was no where TO
be found who tad not tsksn sides, and who
prepared TO support by all The il his power,
the side he mad taken.
Ia this strife of parties the Wings especially, had
never compromised their principles for The sake of
men. Ito any one maxim moro than TO all Others
they constant, il was 10 that Of measures
men" Defeated in an hundred battles, they
always ready the day after every defeat TO renew
the contest. Dsgusted with what they deemed TO
be the rank and daring political corruptOns of those
who had possessed Themselves OF the Government,
there had been period since the of 1882, that
,hsY ."ld have srreoled p9,Iiicll victory, at the
In this temper Of ihe public mind, the National
Wing Convection assembled at Harrisburg, md 10
the result OF its deliberations, the Wings of the
Union looked with en- interest tic more intense that
II the grand rally Of their party. In the Ian.
gulge oil the eloquent and now amsnted Barbour,
on taking the Chair, it was an assemblage Of ''the
grey heads OF the land, most OF whom might justly
be called the con,cript fathers Of the republic-a
by long and illustriOus nike in
the State and Federal Councils" Il was by men
sueh as these, that the leaders Of the Wing party
we're to be appoiniei-iis forces marshalled and
all its energies concentrated for great comics! OF
principle, and Of principle alone And TO the duty
they had undertaken, they addressed themselves,
with q socude and a sosmnity, becoming the
nnd the occasion which called them together. A
mioor ibAIences-nl. Sc isl views merged in
The great ohjee; Of National regeneration.
In this Convention the undersigned met John
Ty er, Wing delegate from the Commonwealth
ii Virginia. II was not for them TO question the
tile Of any accredited member OF that body, 10 the
name and the character Of a true Wing. They
could not doubt his sincerity by the same rule that
they would not permit Others TO doubt their own.
The history OF the man however not unknown
10 them. lie had been honored by his own distin
gpishsd State with the Office of her Governor, and
was subsequently elected by the Wings OF Virgil
Tia represented in her Legislature, 10 the Senate
of the United States. They could no; fail TO 70
member that in December, 1885, he had been no
r,neied ~ Maryland Wing Convention, for the
ON e oil ice PGesIdent OF lie Unied STATES WGIch
nominn,iln confirmed by tho Legislature in
hatch, 1886, and tie same ratified by The people
of Mary end IN November Of the same year, by
clear majority Of three thousand SIX hundred voes.
That MIR Tyler could have supposed, that in
fendeung himself for admssiOn into this COnvCn
t3r, no wns giving his assent TO principles which he
had rot well consdered or 10 which the Whig par
~ could in any bo Indifferent; or that IN re-
laOn to these doctrines and principles which con-
stuted the political creed OF the Wing party ths!e
could be any doubt or uncertainty; or thet the
Wings OF the Union were then Organizing them
selves to spend their strength great contest for
tho mere present Advancement Of any man, much
l,ss John Tyler Of Charles City County in the
Commonwealth Of Virginia, 10 what 20 rational
mind con believe FOR moment. Equally impots
b.5 wos that ony honorable could sccsl 4 the
nomination OF such party, in pursuit o. objects so
yi,a'y mp0rian! in their estimation aad so Ia y
known to him, under any reservation rs 10 his osn
opinions, or disguise Of his real prime pies. Eescr
v,tOn difguisc ~ such c1sc, imply fraud Of 20
base character, that honorable mind would
shrink from is contemplation with instructive nor
IOr
In the concerns OF tho world, even the institutions
Of positive law are less binding than the implied
pledges Of honor and many Of its most important
sles involving 70 vast extent the peace aud well
being Of society, must be taken practically upon
tfus.. IL " Of the conditions of the existence OF
Government amongst men, that reliance must be