Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-10-06
From ne Baltimore Amertca".
To thc wings Of Maryland.


1870 IN nominate Wing Cand dates for
,ha of;ces Of President and Vice Presi.
dent Of the United States. In the per-
formance Of that duty, they presented TO
you the names OF the lamented patriot
WILLIAM HENRY IlARRIsoN and JoHN
TYLER, and with these inscribed on your
banner, you achieved the memorable po-
ltical victory of 1910. How has it hap
pened that Immediately upon the heels Of
such victory, with an Executive of your
own nomination and your own choice
with majority in both branches OF Con-
gress and every department OF political
power surrendered into your hnnds, you
should still be defeated aud discounted
pariy2 How has il come to pass, that
an event, attended and followed by all the
incidents, signs and appearances OF VIC
tory-the meeting of the adverse hosts
the route and dispersion of The enemy
the triumph of the vIctors and the sub
mission Of tie vnnquised, should turn out
to be no victory at all Nay, how could
it happen, that after precisely such con-
test, neither Of the contendug parties
should be the cobquerors, but that both
should be defeated 1t is strange phe-
nomenon, and no less strange than true !!
That TREACHERY most FOUL AND ENoR'
NOUS must have existed some where, is GER
tam, and the undersigned ale deeply inter-
es,ed in demonstrating that it Cannot be
laid at their door.
The circumstance alluded to, would
warrant the explanation which the under
signed are about to make OF their pro-
ceedings at Harrisburg, had they not a
strong add tional motive for it, in the fact,
that they are asked the question al every
turn, how they came to give their assent
1, the nomination OF such man as John
Tyler for the important office of Vice
President. They have remarked, more.
over, tina, the Democratic press and poll
ticians, throughout the Union, persist IN
discriminating Mr.. Tyler a Wing Presi-
deut, and in pointing to the silly abortions
OF his brain, as the Wanted fruits of Wing
promises, and the mighty results of the
Wing triumph. The undersigned deem
il fit, therefore, seeing that their own
conduct is thus imnugned by their own
constituents, that they should speak for
themselves. 1t is equally fl, and proper
that they should both in your names and
their own, disclaim all responsibility for
the course of an Executive, constituted us
is the present:
Who is il that Mr.. Tyler processes to
represent, or whether in his own magnlh.
cent conceptions Of himself, he ever de-
scends even in Imagination to the repre-.
sentative character at all, the undersl gned
do not know, and therefore cannot say.
Ii is, however, their duty as it is their
r,uht to declare, and they do hereby most
earnestly and vehement!y aver and pro-
test, that he is no Whg-that he has no
attribute ofrhe character, and no right to
be called or known by the name OF
Wing.
The motives which induced the under
signed to acquIesce 10 the nomination oi
Mr.. TYLER, will be best understood from
brief reference to events within the knowl'
edge of the country. Since the year
1892 the line Of separation between the
two great political parties OF the United
States, has been broadly and dI tincily
drawn. A National Bank so constituted
as to regulate efficiently the currency
and exchanges of the countLy-a tariff
for protection as well as for revenue
where protection may be found n cessary
10 guard American labor against the rum
of foreign compettion-the distribution
of the proceeds ofthe Public Lands among
the States, the rlghilul owners OF the pub
lie doman--s limitation Of all future Pre-
slients TO a service q. one term, as essen
tial to an honest administration of the
Government--a publication of the prac.
,ice of the Executive in appointments to
office, and n subsection of every depart
ment and functonary of delegated power
to the contest of The public wlll-havt
been the measures and principles which
the Wings have deemed essential to ma
,ional prosperity; whilst the party no"
calling itself democratic, has been dis
,inpuished in its actual administration o
The Government, by systematic oppos
ton TO these very measures. During tht
entire period referred to, each oil thts'
great parties has been eager and unyield
ing in the maintenance oil IFS own peculia
doctrines, which have been discussed anC
debated in every variety Of form, an(
with a zeal to which time aud labor have
but impaired new animation. In the pub
lie press-in the legislative halls, State
and Federal-from the hus,ings-on the
highways, and in every hamet and log
cabin throughout the Union, the contes
has been maintained without ceaslng.-
Father has been arrayed against son, anc
brother against brother--the man was nc
where to be found who had not taker
sides, and who was not prepared to sup
port by all the means in his power, the
side he had taken.
In this strife Of parties the Wings es.
peclaly, had never compromised their
principles for the sake of men. TO any
one maxim more than to oil others they
were constant, it was to tina, of measures
no, men," Defeated IN an hundred bat
ties, they we're always ready the day al.
ter every defeat, TO renew the contest. -
ID sgusied with what they deemed to be
the rank and daring political corruption'
of those who had possessed themselves o