Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-02-29

wen me ortitahcy as Tie Importance OF public |
services, Of which tho whole country has, for a
period of more than thirty years, remained in
profound ignorance.
Conspicuous among The foremost of the friends
of Freedom at home, few are more distinguished
than MIR. Clay in the ranks OF those who have
contributed by their efforts TO the spread Of the
great Cause Of Civil Liberty throughout the
world. Through him were conveyed the cheer
ing and sustaining sympathies this great and
free people, to animate the Greek and the South
American in their noble struggle to throw of their
oppressors, and his name is indissoluby linked
with those Of Sydney and La Faye,,e, in the
heart Of every votary of Liberty, and will be |
spoken oil, with theirs, through all time, with
admiration and gratitude.
We might ask when AT home or abroad has the
name of Mr.. Van Buren, been heard In connection
with any distinguished service to the prea, cause
of civil Liberty! BY what deed or word, is he
lifted, in this regard, above the common level 81
None whatever. These services, as those he has
rendered to the cause of Peace, and in time OF
War, remain yet to be recorded as they are yet
10 be performed.
Such are the men, such their measures, their
services and their principles, between whom the
country will soon be called on to decide-be,ween
whom, we should rather say, the country will
soon be called on to pronounce its decision-for
that decision, we entertain no doubt, is finally
aud unchangeably made up. The irresistible
Wing PhalanX, OF 1910, we firmly believe, with
few exceptions too inconsiderable for notice,
exists now, unbroken and unmpaired, --Sieadfast,
undsmayed and invincble. Their hopes crush.
ed, their ardor damped, their spirits broken, by
the grievous disappointment they experienced in
the hour OF their late signal victory, numbers of
them retired, for time, from contests where sue
cess could bring relief, nor defeat aggravate
any grievance. Accordingly,a comparison of the
votes given in elections of every grade, and
throughout the country, up to a recent period,
with the Presidential vote of 1910, shows, almost
in every instance, that the Modern Democratic
party prevailed by no increased strength Of theirs
but by the falling off Of the Wing vote. And
there exists scarcely an instance, where a full
vote was polled, in which the Wings did not tr-
umph. But as graver questions began to be in
volved and the probability of Mr. Van Buren's
receiving the nomination OF the Democratic party
became more and more manifest; as the period
approached when the Presidential and all other
elections receive the impress of that national po-
| Icy which the Sovereign Will of the Nation
shall prescribe as duty to its Repre- to
carry out, the spirit of PATRIOTISM was again
! TO rouse itself at the call of the Country, and all
The former zeal of the Wings to kinde with its
wonted fires. Hence the elections of the year
! just passed assumed another characier Tennes-
see gallantly led the way-casting of Indignantly
the aiihess and disloyal counsellors, who for a
time paralyzed her action, and re-assertng her
former distinguished position in the Wing ranks
while North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland
, in quick succession were seen again to rally un.
der the Wing Banner. And in all the recent in
stances OF elections, referred back TO new trial
before the people, the Wing Candidates, it is be-
ieved, have invariably succeeded, or showed a
constant increase of strength.
Hence we repeat the expression Of our firm
conviction that the old Wing Phalanx remains,
now, as in 1910, undminshed and invincible,
and is able, by its own Independent strength 10
parallel in 1914 the victory of 1910.
! But Indications from every Uuarter nOur in uDOn
Us, to shew great and rapid increase OF the
Wing strength, and to satisfy that in the hour
of battle, our ranks will be swelled by thousands
OF our fallow-citlZens who, not with us on all
points, have heretofore stood aIoof, seemed to
be against u.s. but who yet recoil from the thought,
! by contributing to the restoration of Mr.. Van Blu
rem, of replunging the country into the sbames
and corrup,ions, the evils and disasters of his ill
starred and most calamilous rule.
| 1t was indeed, plain from the beginning, to all
but those who would not see, that the mere indi-
cation OF decided preference for another, Mr..
Van Buren, being candidate, imported, under
the circumstances, not merely preference Tor that
other, but objection hostility to him ; and we
see nothing in the manner in which Mr. Van
Buren's rivals have been adroitly manGuvered out
OF his way, 10 remove those objections or Soohe
that hoslility-or to weaken our confidence tina;
thousands Of the friends of the disappointed as
prants will stand aloof, in angry discomfort, from
every attempt to compromise their principles; or
hopeless of seeing their favorte measures honest
! y carried out by MIR. Van Buren,. give their votes
finally to one whom, if they believe wrong, they
know TO be honest, if they believe mistaken, they
know to be patriotic.
And though Political Managers may cry out
Peace, Peace'-there is peace-and though
! party leaders may to secure "the welfare and
success of the party" overlook Iy their acts,
differences" which "involve and based
upon important principles of truth and Justice"
and, which, they themselves declare tcan neither
be overlooked nor disregarded consistently with
the solemn obligations of honor AMI PATRIOTISM
and protesting full and thorough accord with
the sentiments and principles of Mr.. Calhoun's
4 late lettr, may give equal proof Of consistency
and craftsmanship by rendering their cooperation
! to a party, the larger part of which" do not, by
their own showing, accord with those sentiments
and principles, III the illusory hope, that g from
their intrinsic force and JUSTICE they must" al
some future time, " become portion of the Com
mon Creed )" and under tie further delUson, that
the action on g several occasions of portion OF
/ their Northern friends, " inconsistent with their
| opinions" on topics deemed by them 6 peculiarly
vital to the South, the Tariff and Abolition ques-
tions," shall hereafter be fully &" rcciified and re-
deemed 1.-THE members Of that party will mel
! ther be bewildered by their transcendenalsm,
nor betrayed by their political Ethics, into the
support OF man, who, whatever his professions,
has, through all his life, been directly opposed to
! them by his votes, on those very questions--the
| Tariff and Abolition-which these leaders them
selves declare peculiarly vital to the South"
We express to you then, after calm r9vieiv Of
! the whole ground, our firm and gratifying conyic.
ton that were the contest TO take place Tomorrow
/ it would result in the triumphant election Of
( Henry Clay ;-and that causes in operation,
calculated in opinion, the longer il is post
I poned, but TO swell and magnify the triumph.
/ We have no fears then for the general result
! but we feel the deepest solicitude for the part