The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-05
THE BENEFITS OF MR.. CLAWS NAME
From the Richmond Wing Of Monday.

From the Richmond Wing Of Monday
We continue such returns as have been received
since our last publication. The Wings have sus-
taned defeat in counties where neither they nor their
adversaries expected it, How far these reverses may
affect the result in the State cannot decide They
are not concusve-but they are certainly omlnous OF
Wing defeat. A few days will determine, ana we
will not do such violence to our feelings as TO ahlci
pate an unpleasant result. 1t will be bad enough
when it comes and until then we are content to en-
ioy all we can by living in the hope that we are not
80 badly beaten we might be- But, whether sict0-
rous or vanquished, we have an abiding conviction
that the majority of the People of Virginia are hgs
and will prove it whenever benefits adequate to the
labor of accomplishing it will result from it.
The above is from the Richmond Wing. Mr.
Moseley confesses to have been defeated where
neither the Wings nor the Loco Focos expected
it: does not Mr.. Moseley begin to perceive the
reason? Have we not again and again said
that the name Of Mr. Clay was ruin, sure, nev-
table, complete ruin to the Wings? Have they
not experienced such fate from such cause,
time after time2 Does not the result in the
counties of which the Richmond Wing was to
secure, plainly enough presage the result every
where2 And yet Mr. Moseley and others like HIM
will 90 on, as they always have done The
Wing cause is nothing to them. The country
is nothing. The People are nothing. Ihey
know, see, hear, feel nothing and nobody but
Mr. Clay. They care for nothing but his sue
cess A Wing victory, not enurlng to his be-
nefit is to them barren triumph-no BETTER
perhaps more unwelcome, than defeat. From
him. should he eventually attain the object o.
his wishes, they expect every thlng-ofhce,
honor. emoument-wh they know that so un-
scrupulous and proscriptve have they been to-
wards all others of the Wing candidates, that
they have little to expect either Of confidence or
preferment, should any but Mr.. Clay reach the
Presidency
With them, therefore, it is last desperate
push. They say, with Macbeth,
"Seyton, say this push
Will cheer me ever or defeat me now"
They therefore fight for Mr.. Clay and Mr.
Clay only. Cause, country, and principle are
naught the man is ALL
That the People view things differently IS
apparent, even from the language of the Wing.
eve have an abiding conviction" says the
Wing, ''that the majority of the people OF Vlr-
ginia are Wings and will prove it whenever
benefits adequate to the labor of accomplishing
it will result from it,"
Like enough; but it is pretty clear that the
Wings of Virginia do not think Mr.. Gays
election, or a Bank of the United States,
ssbeneit adequate to the labor of accomplishing
t." victory. we suppose-that is, the proof that
the Wings are a majority-but the Wings
English is none of the clearest.
We hope and believe that majority OF the
people of Virginia are true Republicans and true
Patriots, whether Wings or Democrats, and
that they will always be ready to prove IT. and
we shall consider them none the less to be such
as we have described them, because they prefer
their country and their principles to the eleva-
ton Of any one man.