Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-11-10
From tn, Charlcstown (va.) Free Press.
WING DEFEATS.

.sSwcet are the uses Of adversity," i, is said.
and we shall try to realize tho truth Of the poets
remark IN this respect We shall show, by wha,
Is past, that which may reasonably DO expected
Iof the iuturc. What though we have been de-
ieated in most of the late elections-have we not
heretofore encountered similar disasters. and did
not these very rcverscs from the smell of
iethargy that had hitherto bound us2 Have no,
our advcrsaries also been the victims of defeat
sore, nort'ying, and, apparently, almost IRENE
1 W u.leat--ard did they not rally asain!-
When disaster AFTER disaster fell upon the Loco
Foco phaanx, and scattered them to the winds,
Notwithstanding their cohesive character, did not
their Chief apostle, Of the Enquirer, ask them to
'wait till next yeare' And when again over
thro" n did he not implore them, in agonizing ac-
cents, once more to "wait till next yearl" Hope
was never extinguished, even in bad cause and
why should 1t be in good one. They did wait,
and when the Wings became wearied with victo-
~, and tsgusted with treason in their ca,pp, the
Locos again buckled on their armor, and are once
more the conquerors. Maine, Maryland, Georpia.
pennsylvania, and lastly Ohio, all send their IT,
dinss OF joy-and the Wings for the moment are
a little chop.ialen, but by means dshearten-
ed. The bright day is little distant, to be sure,
but come 1t must. as certainly as that Time itself
contains in its chronicles of the future the year
1914.
Well, letus look at the state of the account:-
Vermont is true as steel, unchanged and ul.-
changcable.
Maine was not contested, being reserved for the
! great struggle OF 1914.
New Jersey is faithful, and again asserts the
dignity Of her "broad SEAL"
Connecticut, by her town elections, has shown
her Wing predictions, still further TO be devel-
| oped in the final trial of strength.
Maryland, by local divisions, has been sur
rendered for d season TO the adversary, aud we
lose, by the sheer folly of our own friends, U.
! ). Senator.
Nnr1b .S,t I,~~ r.
Wing Governor. carclessly gave up her Legisla-
ture, and thereby we lose another United States
! Senator.
| Indiana is in condition of dubiety, and like
| result may be realized there.
In Georgia, there has been something like de-.
| linquency in the Wing ranks, yet we have gain
ed 1000 upon our adversaries since last year.
We shall take q fresh hold upon them in good
! time.
| Pennsylvania, firm as she is for the principles
proclaimed by the Wings, has also been torn by
dissehtions between the Ant-Masons and Wings
proper, and we have lost tho chance ola IT, S.
Senator, in place of Mr.. Buchanan.
| In Ohio, the Abolitonsts, though they have
not exactly shown their preference for Loco Foco-
Ism, have given that pestilrnt hercsy the asceT-
dency for the time being, and there too we have
lost The chancc oi Senator in place OF the brawl-
er, Allen.
But, as the Enquirer says, swat till next year,
ana II that won't do, wait yet another yesr--and
Then ''we shall see what we shall see."
The Chambersburg Wing, referring to the in
i'.rent defects in Wing organization, well de-
scribes the reasons which '.render them, altho'
possessing the eiemenis Of superior Strength pow
erless to effect any substantial or permanent
good"
''fhey seem to be incapable of united and
vigorous effort, except by periodical spasms, or
the convulsions produced by the accumulated e.
wis OF governmental misrule and intolerable a.
buse. Their adversaries, the Loco Focos, on the
other hand, owe their frequent success-their up
risings from the most overwhelming defeats and
the power f again and again planting the standard
OF victory upon the very field of their previous
overthrow, to characteristics the very opposite of
those TO which we have alluded as distinguishing
| the Wings. 1t is this difference that gives them
their superiority, and so often rewards their la
bors with success-it is the manifestation of this
difference that SO often makes the heart sick and
the spirit faint, in the thorough Wing, at the I'M
potency Of his partisans for all practical purpo-
ses--it Is this, too, that would soon reduce the
party to by-word and reproach, if it were not j.
Identified with principles that can never be aban-
doned whilst there remains any thing in the as
sailed and endangered fabric Of our Republican
Institutions deserving and demanding the defence
and guardianship Of every true Patrot.''