Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-10-06
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TO THE WINGS OF MARYLAND.

+ Inc undersigned attended by your appoint
ment The Wing National Convention. al iarris.
nnrg, on the 4ih of December, 1889, to nominate
wing Candidates for the Offices of Presidcn,
aud Vice President OF the United States. In
performance of that duty, they presented
TO you the names Of the lamenled patriot
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON and JouN Ty,rR.
ana with these inscribed on YOUR banner. Won
achieved the memorable political victory of
loio. How has it happened that immediately
upon the heels of such a victory. with an Fv-
ecutive OF your own nomination and your own
cholce-"Iih majority in both branches of
IConsress--and every department of political
power surrendered into your hands. you should
sun DC defeated and discounted party !?
no" mas II come to pass, that an event, attend
ed and followed by all the incidents, signs
the adverse hosts-,lla route an, ,i;Ss vi
OF the eneny--lhe triumph of the vctors and
the submission Of the vanQuished, should turn
ont to be no victory at all? Nay, how could
1t happen, that after precisely such contest,
neither OF the contending parties should be
conquerors, but that both should be defeated !?
ltis strange phenomenon, and no less strange
than true! That treachery most foul and e.
normous must have existed somew here, is GER
tam, and the undersigned are deeply interested
Ill demonstrating that it cannot be laid at their
door.
The circumstances alluded to would alone
warrant the explanation which the undersign-
ed are about to make of their proceedings at
Harrisburg, had they not strong additional
motive for 1t, in the fact, that they are asked
the question at every turn, how they ever came
| to give their assent to the nomination of such
| man as John Tyler, for the important Office
OF Vice President. They have remarked,
moreover, that the Democratic press and poll
'icIans, throughout the Union, persist in de-
nominating Mr.. Tyler Wing President, and
in pointing to the silly abor,ions of his brain,
as the vaunted fruits Of Wing promises, and
the mighty results of the Wing triumph. The
undersigned deem it fit, therefore, seeing that
their own conduct is thus mpugned by their
own constituents, that they should speak for
themselves. 1t is equally fit and proper that
they should both in your names and their
own, disclaim all responsibility for the course
OF an Executive, constituted as is tie present:
Who is it that Mr.. Tyler processes to rep
resent, or whether in his own magnificent con-
ceptions of himself, he ever descentls even in
imagination to the representative character at
all, the undersigned 90 not know, and there
fore cannot say. 1t is, however, their duty.
as 1t Is their right, 10 declare, and they do
hereby most earnestly and vehemen,ly aver
and protest, that he is no Whg-that he has
no attribute of the character, and no right 10
be called or known by the name of Wing.
The motives which induced the undersigned
to acqmesce i'll the nomination of Mr.. TYLER
will be best understood from brief reference
to events within the knowledge of the country
Since the year 1882 the line Of separation be
tween the two great political parties of the L.
nIed States has been broadly and distinct,
drawn. A National Bank so constituted as 4,
regulate eifciently the currency and exchange
oil the country-a tarifffor protection as wei
as for revenue, where protection NAV be fount
necessary to guard American labor against thu
ruin OF foreign competiion,-ihc distribute,
Of the proceeds of the public lands among TIN
States, the rightful owners of the public do
maln-a limitation Of all future Presidents TO
service OF one term, as essential TO an homes
administration of the Governments pur6ca
ton OF the practice Of the Executive in appoint
mcnts TO Office, and a subsection Of every de
par!ment and funciionary of delegated powe
to the control Of the public wiIl-have bee
the measures and principles which the Wing
have deemed essential to national prosperity
whilst the party now calling itself democrats.
has been distinguished in its actual administra
ton of the Government, by a systematic oppo
siiion to theseve measures. During the en-
tire period referred TO, each Of these great pa,
ties has been eager and unfolding i'm tn
maintenance of its own peculiar doctrine.
which have been discussed and debated in eve
ry variety Of form, and with zeal to whic
time and labor have but impaired new aujms
ton. IN the public press--in the legslativ
halls, State and Federal from tie insiings-