The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-09-25

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FLUvANNA COUNTY, VA,
September Is, 1874.
DEAR SIR. II is with no small de-
gree of pleasure that | now have the best of
grounds for informing you that the Wings in this
part of the State are rising in the majesty and
might" of freemen to assert their princip es--the
principles bequeathed them by their fathers, (which
they mean to maintain and stand by the first
Monday in November next, as the best legacy
handed down by the noble patriots OF '76.
In 1910, the people of the county of Fluvanna,
in despite of Ritches menaces and abuses, did
themselves the honor of giving the lamented Har-
rison majority of Isl votes. The county now
contains about 500 votes, all to d. and we conf
IDENTITY expect to 60 stones throw beyond 200
majority for Henry Clay, of old Kentucky.
In the county of Goochland, which is conterm-
nous, we have, without Locooco cavil or dispute,
made an accession of rs or 80 to our party, and
we have, likewise, in the adjoining county Of
Cumberland, increased our strength to a consider
aide degree.
You will have no doubt learned long ere this.
that the grand it hardly merits the epthet) De-
mocratic State Convention, which came off at
Charlottesville on the 10Th, 18th, and 18th inst,
was most wretched and miserable failure, com
prising $50 delegates, and about the same number
of Wing and Locofoco spectators-Mr. Richie
being nearly the whole soul and body Of the eau
Gus, and actually representing, in his own person,
about twenty-five different counties in the State.
This concern was to have been the great and
popular rally of the Virginia Democracy, and the
true and legitimate offspring of similar ccnven-
ton held at the same place in 1910, to which the
Locos attributed Vans success in this State then,
o,~I 4 h., lo, Dat &Lt e
convention, you may rest assured, sir, will ne
yer perform like miracle for Mr.. James X.
Polk, of Tennessee. The sceptre has already de-
parted from the hand of Judah.
The Democrats in this region are much sick
ened at the nomination of Sias Wright in New
York. They don't seem TO understand SO well
how the party can run an anti Texas man on the
same ticket with their newly cherished idol,
James X. Polk. This regulation of principles by
the degrees of latitude and longitude and this &C
commodation of political tenets to climate, is in
comprehensive to the folloaoerS and staggers
some of Tie ,oould-be leaders of this chameleon
faction. But sincerely hope and trust, as every
good Wing no doubt does, that the scales will
soon drop from the eyes of the honest portion of
our blinded and deluded countrymen. 1t is to be
hoped that the greater part of them will soon
throw off the shackles of party, renounce its allie
glance, tear themselves from the entcing snares
OF interested demagogues, cease to be fascinated
by the glare of party names, listen only to the die
ta'es of reason and sound judgment, and become
united in one great effort to sustain the honor,
glory, and renoWn of our common country. If
Wing principles were universal in the North
American States, who doubts but that our coun-
try would soon stand among the nations of the
earth as "Mont Blanc among the other noun
tains 7"
p. S. The Wings Of Albemarle say they will
carry their county by 800! Last Spring the
Wing majority was 1872.