Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-30
WING MEETING IN CHARLES CITY.

was dictated by selfish ambition.
WING MEETING IN CHARLES CITY.
At a meeting Of the Wings Of Charles City, held
at their Court House, on the 18th day of August,
is4s, court day. JAMES II. CHRISTIAN was called
to the Chair, and GkoRcK w. CLANCY chosen
Secretary:
On motion OF HILL CARTER, Esq.
A Committe Of ten was appointed for the pur
pose Of nominating a candidate for the rext Presi-
dency. The following gentlemen were appointed
the Committee:
Hill Carter, DR. Ed ward Wilcox. Col. John S
Stubbleheld. Nathaniel Nelson, Il II Wilcox, VIM
+ Walker, Col. James Nj Wilcox, R II Munf1rd,
VIM III Taylor, James L Morris. On motion, the
Chairman and Secretary were added to the Com
mlttee.
On motion, the following Preamble aud Resolu.
ton were adopted-ihs Preamble, after opposition
by Col J. VI. Wilcox, Mr. Pearee, and Col. John
Arms,ead, by q considerable majority and the re-
solution nominating Henry Clay, by a unanimous
vote:
On the occurrence o.. the great calamity which the
Nation sustained in the death of Genearl Harrison
we, the Wings OF Charles City, natives of the same
county with John Tyler, looked up to him with
pleasure, pride and confidence, TO carry out fully
tue gtebt w mig measures WDlCn ne, together with
tie Wing party, fought for and conquered. But
how sadly mortified we have been ut the course Of
the President, language can hardly express.
IL has now become manifest that John Tyler has
thrown himself into the arms of our opponents, the
Loco Foeos, and is doing every thing in his power
to PROSTATE the Wing cIuse;
BY his retaining in Office incompetent men, VIC.
lent Loco Foco partiZans, who had neglected their
duty and interfered in elections; by his appointing
similar men to Office. and even retaining in some
instances men in office who were rejected by the
Senate Ia palpable violation of the Constitution) A.;
10y his undIgnlhed and unprecedented course OF
abusing Congress IN his letters, and thereby bring
ins a CO Ordina'e branch OF the Government into
contempt with the people by his LIST veto of a
prominent Wing measure under the plea Of Consti
tutional scruples, for which some Of us, then
thinking him honest, were inclined TO excuse
hun; but since he has vetoed others without any
such rretexi, we cannot help believing that his sole
object is to ruin the Wing party, and thereby
crafty and curry favor with the Loco Foco party,
under the hope that he may be taken up as their
candidate for the next Presijency;-In fact, by his
repudiaIing oil his Wing principles-the One FERN
principle, of which he boosted of being the father:
the Distribution, for which he drew up The Virginia
Resolutions in 1889, and declared that the whole
proceeds which constitute that fund belong 10 the
States: a sound currency, for which he believed a
United States Bank was the only remedy, and
which no said 10 more than one person Immediately
after the death OF Gen. Harrison, and before he took
up the notion Of running for a second term, that he
Woulu sign any BANK bHl which the Representa-
tives, fresh from :he people, would pass: A dis
eliminating Tariff, incidentally protective Of our
home industry, which he recommends in his MESA
ges; In fact, all the Wing measures, which he ap.
pears TO take pleasure in thwarting.
Now, therefore, as he repudia,es Wings and Whig
measures, we, the Wings Of Charles City, do most
solemnly ~repudiate him and his political treachery
As Republicans and Wings, we consider "the right
to forbid the people. through their Representatives,
constItutionally and legally, to pass what laws they
please, is a right to deprive them of sell govern
ment"-a power which can never be trusted 10 one
man; and that the Veto as exercised by John Tyler
in an every day way, is a violation Of the spirit of
the Constitution, and most alarming TO public Ii
berry for, with the power and patronage, the Ex-
ecutive may always command over n third Of Con-
gTess, and be omnipotent.
As Republicans and Wings, we look TO the great
and leading measures ofthe great fathers Of our Re.
public, WASHING TON, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
olc. etc. as the only sound ones, and the proper ones
TO relieve Us Of our present difficulties. Washing
ing on and Madison with the Republicans ofthe pur.
or days OF the Republic, gave us a sound currency
in the same, and only way, through a United States
Bank. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe.
and the Republicans Of the puror days, advocated
and gave protection 10 our home industry, through n
Protective Tariff, but now forsoolh, IL is anti-repub,
lican and federal even for the Wings 10 propose a
Tariff which shall give adequate revenue for an eco.
nomical administration Of the Government, and rea-
sonable protection TO our manufactures. Washing.
ton and Madison, the fathers Of our Consultation,
uOt0 tuOu.nL tue NbAO IOWtE WhbOnly 70 De cygT
csed in great emergenees, rs proved by the Fedora.
list, and Washington's letter 70 Edmund Pendleton
And, Is il not the spirit OF our Constitution, that
the taxes should be levied by the Representatives
Of the People, and not by The Executive 2 n not,
is ours a Republiel or is it not an elective des.
potisml
II the taxing power is negatively vested in the
President, flor the two thirds power OF Congress is
mere humbug with the power and patronage Of the
Executive TO control a lhird,l have our ancestors
really handed down 70 us a Republic, or a worse
Government than W. had before the Revolution in
fact, a despotism1 What else does tho Executive
wan, TO become q dsspot but tho purse, having nj.
ready the fwOrdl
Believing, as We most sincerely do, that HENRY
CLAY is the only man for the times, and the man
who will unite tho groat voice Of the Wings through
out the Unred States, We most heartily Join with
our fellow Wings Of New York, Kentucky, North
Carolina, end other States, and our fellow citizens
Of Amhertt, ond other counties OF this State in tho
nomination OF him ne the Wing candidate for the
next Presidency. With a sound currency Of
uniform value throughout tho Union, with a Tariff
ahording adequate revenue and efficient protection
90 our agriculture, commerce and manufactures; with
tho withdrawal Of the land fund from the General
Government, which tempts IL into corruption, and
distribution among tha States, who arc sadly in
need oft, and 10 whom II justly belongs, and Hen
~ Clay as President, prosperity would be restored.
We call upon our Democratic brethren, and ask
thom in sober earnest, whether they will, for the
mke Of bre down the Wing party, also break
down the Constitution and Republican Government
handed down 10 us by our ancestors.
Res0l1ed, That, we second the %propFiety Of hold
! Jog a State Convention in Richmond, on 22d Feb.
uary, I5i3, and appoint the following persons "a
represent US, viz.
, son, Col. Stubleheld, Dr.. Ed. Wilcox.
NOTICE.