The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-10-11
PEOPLES PRESS.
MiddIebury, Oct. IL, 1913.
THE WING VICTORY OF 1874.

for victory, and calculating as coolly about |
the division the spoils, as if the wing party |
had already capitulated- Veni, vidi, uici,
was the laconic report of Cezar whenever |
he came in contact with the I'm disciplined
boards of Gaul, and the locos have taken !
the fattering JUNCTION to their souls, that
like the Roman conqueror, they have only
to appear on the presidential course to put
all their opponents to flight. But the glo-
rious whig victories which have recently
been achieved in North Carolina and Ten
nessee have awakened them from their
beatific dreams. The daily aggravating
dissentions among themselves, and the en-
tire union of the wing party upon single
individual, are opening to them door
Of knowledge which is anything but agree
able, or animating to their hopes. But six
months since the prospects of Martin Van
Buren, at the north were scarcely obscured
by cloud; but they are now fast being E.
clipsed by the increasing brilliancy of the
southern nulli6er. Indeed it has now be-
come manifest that, stripped of the lustre
which General Jackson shed upon him, he
is but dingy satellite. The party fear
that the verdict of condemnation of $50
thousand majority passed upon him in 1910
can never be reversed. Multitudes Of those
who have hitherto been his apparent admir-
ers, now acknowledge his restitution of all
those qualifications which constitute
statesman. They begin now to see how
nearly allied he is to the fox and weasel
family, and dispse the miserable jugglery
by which he has hitherto placed himself in
ascendency. Even New York itself is dis
solving the spell in which she has been
bound by the willy arts of her "farorite
son." In the mean time Calhoun is
rapidly gaining ground with the locofocra-
ey throughout the Union. The strong
Macedonian phalanx which he will bring
into the field from the sunny South will at
tract to his standard the elite of the party
at the West and the North The breach
in the ranks is rapidly widening. The
contemplated convention will be scene Of
irreconcilable dissention, and the party bro
ken into fragments will jostle against each
other with feeling of mutual hatred, like
all family broils vastly more intense than
that for the common enemy. Such halt
ing heart burning and mutinous force must
be overcome by compact body. Then /
behold the wing party united to a man
upon a single candidate No power on
earth can break up the ligaments which
bind them to Henry Clay. The national
wing convention can only confirm the NOM
ination already made by acclamation.-l
Even Daniel Webster, potent as he is, is
powerless before the mighty tide of popu-
larity which is bursting through the Union
in favor of Harry of the West He is
patriot whose long public life has been as
true to the country as the needle to the
pole. He is a statesman whose wise and
enlightened policy will raise the nation to
the CHEST pinnacle of prosperity. He is
noble champion, who has the bravery and
courage to accomplish his patriotic purpos-
es. His banner is carried aloofby band
of followers chivilric enthusiastic and
determined to place their ilustrious leader
at the head Of this nation. Every week
brings out new evidence of the buoyant
spirit the wing party throughout the Union.
Although betrayed they are undismayed by
the temporary success which the treachery
of John Tyler has conferred upon their OPP
ponents. Fully determined to carry out
the principles of 1910, for which they ev-
er will contend, and prevent the return of
those vandals to power who for twelve long
years have polluted the political morality and
laid waste the prosperity of the country,
the wings are painting for the contest of
1914. They come forward with bold
and undivided front against party already
weakened by dissentions which cannot be
healed land supporting leaders for whom not
a spark of enthusiasm can be enkindled.
1t is cheering to witness the spirit of activ-
ity and organization which is spreading
from state to state. Clay clubs are form
ing and correspondence establishing from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi The
strength of the wing party for few years
has been dormant but undiminished. Its o.,
slumbering energies are fast arousing, and
in 1874 the notes of victory will be raised
by as great majority as in lao. This
second great political battle will be as gal G
lantly fought as the first, and we trust will
so firmly plant the principles of national
poIirv hv urbirh alone tho J;t,~x;,- - :