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| been arrayed against son, and brother aenins
oro'her--'he man was no where to be fount
who mad not taken sides, and who was no
prepared TO support, by all the means in hi,
power, the side he had taken
In this strife ofparties the Wings. especial.
~, had never compromised their principles fol
the sake of men. IL to any one maxim more
than to all Others they were constant. il was
that of"neasurcs not men.n Defeated in an
hunGfai battles, they were always ready the
day ais. every defeat TO renew The coptes,
Disgus'ed with wha, they deemed to be the
RANK and daring political corrup,ons of those
who had possessed themselves ofthe Govern
ment, there had been no period since the or,
OF 1852, that they would have accepted a no
liucai victory, at the sacrifice Of any of their
principles.
IN th!s temper of The public mind, the Ma.
uonal Wing Convention assembled at Harris
ourg' and to The result of its deliberations. The
wings OF the Union looked with an intercs,
the more intense that it was the grand rally of
'helr party. In the language of the eloouen,
ana now .amented BARDouR, on taking the
Chair, 1t was an assemblage of sthe grey heads
OIL the land, most of whom might Justly he
called the conscript fathers of the rcpuhlic-a
lille won by long and llustrious services. alike
IN the State and Federal Councils.n IL was
oy men such as these, that the leaders OF the
wing party were to be appoin.ed-i,s forces
niarshalied-and all lis energies concentrated
Tor great contest of principle, and of Drinci
pie alone And 10 the duty thew had under
TAKEN, they addressed themselves. w,tha solic-
Uede and solemnity, becoming the men and
me occasion which had called them tooe,ber
All minor iniluences--al selfish views were
merged III the great object Of National receu-
Grafton. -
IN tins Convention the UNDERSIGNED me,
John Tyler, a Wing delegate from the Com
nonwetilsh OF Virginia. II was NOT for Thorn
to question the title of any accreditedmember
oil that body, 10 the name and the character oil
a true Wing They could no, doubt his Sim
ierlty, by the same rule that they would not
permit others TO doubt their own. The his
ory oil the man, however, was not unknown
% them Heha;i been honored hy his own
distinguished State with the Office Of her Gov
'rior, and vas subsequently, elected by the |
)! iiIgS OF Virginia, as represented i'm her Le-
sisiat,ire, 70 the Senate Of the United States
hey conid not fail to remember that in De-
,emoer, 1855, he had been nominated by a |
maryland Wing Convention, for the office of ,
NC PRESIDENT Of the United States. which |
n MarciI, 1000, ana me sdme rarIncu Dy the I
'eople OF Maryland in November of the same
year, by clear majority Of three thousand six |
hundred votes
That MI Tyler could have supposed, that
II rendering himself for admission into this
Convention, he was giving his Assem-. to prin-
;lples which he had not well considered or
% which the Wing party could in any event
BE indifferent; or that in relation to these doe
rines and principles, which constituted the
political creed of the Wing party, there could
De any doubt or uncertainty or that the !
Wigs OF the Union were then organizing
themselves, to spend their strength in great |
contest for the mere present advancement of
any man, much less John Tyler, OF Charles |
City County In the Commonwealth of Virgin |
la, is what no rational mind can believe for
moment Equally impossible was it that any
honorable man could accept the nomination of
such party, IN pursui: of objects so vitaily |
important Ill their estimation, and SO fully
known to him, under any reservation as to his |
own opinions, or disguise of his real principles !
reservation or disguise in such case, imply |
a fraud Of so base character, that an honora- !
bic mind would shrink from its CONTEMPLATION
with instructive horror.
In the concerns of the world, even the insti-
the implied pledges of honor, and many of It's !
most important issues, involving to vast ex-
tent the peace and well being of society, must
be taken practically upon trust 1t is one of
the conditions Of the existence of Government
amongst men, that reliance must be placed up
on the good faith of those who are called TO
administer it, The necessity of this reliance.
and the mpossibility Of avoiding it, under any
form of civil policy ever we. devised, is con
1essed by the trainers of the constitution, in the
TACT that they have provided, as they could
PROVIDE, no remedy for misrepresentation by
the public agent, of the public will lie is
bound to carry out the wishes of those who
eject HIM, by the pledges of homor-by the
ooligations that compel all honest man to per-
form his promises, and if he prove insenslLe
to those, the people are without redress.
Hence the bond of fidelity implied in the mere
acceptance of Office, and the more especially
when that acceptance is for known and ell
understood object, is the more sacred, that it
is the only guarantee upon which the electors
nave 10 depend. Destroy this guarantee, and
the great principle of representation and even
OF republican government itself, becomes an
Idle dream.
when, therefore, the name Of John TYLER
was proposed to the Convention as the can
dida,e OF the Wing party for the office of Vice
PRESIDENT, the undersigned asked no questions
--hey required no xplanatlons-they de-
manded no pledges. 1t was enough for them
mat they found him in their own calnp-bc.
hind the entrenchments-in possession Of the
-sign-wearing the uniform, and bear
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