Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-03-07
ADDRESS
| OF THE
w HIG con VENTION
TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA:

our cou0trys interest, more deeply than
at any former period of our history, we
address you on the subject of the approach.
ing Presidential Election.
Permit US, fellow citizens, in the outset
to exhort you not 10 be mised by mere
party names, or to credit, upon bold asser.
ton only, fanciful and Fictitious party
geneologies. The advocates OF Ma,tin
Van Buren, will assume to themselves, ex
clusvely, the name Of REPUBLICAN, whilst
they will endeavor to cast odlum upon the
Wings by attaching to Us the name OF
FkDERALIsTi We ent rain no such dis
trust Of your intelligence or patriotism,
as to ie r that you will deci great
practical quest n, that OF c nfding the
dearest int rest Of yours-vts and your
children, to any party, upon the name
which they may assume, or that which
they may attempt to impose upon III ir
adversnr'' $; but trust rather To your good
sense to weigh well the principles and the
policy, but more especially the pas, pub.
he conduct OF each Of the two great par.
ties OF the coun.ry--and 10 your patriot
Ism 10 sustain that whose ascendancy YOU
shall honestly beil.ve the b. ST calculated
to Trpmote the public good.
The Wing Address Of the last year dis
closed fully and explicitly to the country,
the views Of the Wing Party on everv
leading M asure Of public policy, and the
reasons on which they were founded. -
Sustained by dlspassionate reasoning. and
fortified by all exper cnce, the opinions
advanced in that paper seem to have prov.
ed alike impreenab,e TO our atverssres,
and acceptable to The Wings and are be-
'rved no, only to Lave tended greatly TO
Strengthen and consolidate the Wing Par.
~, hut to have made n strong impression
on every candid inquirer alter truth
Rr' affirming the doctrines and principles
ofthat address, and the general reasonings
by which they are supported, rs the doc
trines and principles Of the Wing pariv,
we here refer and appeal 10 il, against VI
mIsconcePtlt n and all misrepresentation.
We shall confne ours, Ives, now, m in
ly t. such observations connect. d with
the topics there discussed, as ar. suggest
ed by the occurrences Of the p 'st year.
Charged with rxiravagaut expenditures
81 the public MONEY. We point, for answer,
to the decisive fact disclosed bv the an
nual reports Of thu Treasury department,
that the public expenditures lave grsatly
and constantly disninish-d since the Wings
blamed the ssc" ndancy 10 Congress
and that averaging as thew did. Trough
Mr.. Van BURNS term. upwards fTHIR-
TY FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
per annum, they have be reduced s'nc
that period to an average of LESS THAN
TWENTY-ONE MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS per annum-an average SAVING,
in the annual expenses Of the Government.
Of more than FOURTEEN MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS!
Bes'des this, the principal fruit Of the
victory Of 1910 IS the Tariff of d.
F"i'ed in our just expectations Of having
our Currency placed on its former foot.
Unqualified of our hope ITO US" the ap,
WORKS of Cen. Jacks NJ Of a "iust, safe
and iede' al" Distribution of the proceeds
OF the Public Lands-di disappointed OF that
Moral and Political Reform in the princi-
Piles of administering Executive power
and dispensing Executive patronage, to
effect which chiefly Iindled our zeal and
stimulated our exertions in that memora.
BILE strugele:-the Tariff, alone, of all the
great measures for which we achieved that
victory, has heen vouchsnfrd 10 our wish
es-Assembled with oil the characteristic
violence ofa discomf, d party, enrounter-
4 m ofF al 4 l.
mrn who sincerely believed its eff
would be pernicious, it was usher into
existence under thick clouds ofevil augu.
ry, and amid storm Of clamors. Its ef
tect, II was said, would be {, rrdure our
already insufficient revenues; to raise the
prices OF what We imported, at least, TO
the amount Of the increased duty; to crush
the already PROSTATE South. sni still fur.
Their TO cripple md impoverish The who e
country. Strong as was the confidence
Of its friends, not only that these r suits
would not .nsue, but that the reverse OF
such anicipations would be realiz-d, vet
was the measure. submitted to the test OF
experience with much solic,ude, "a soil
citude excited not only by the magnitude
of the direct effects of the measure its. If,
but also of other important incidental m
sequences involved, in all likelihood, in
its failure, or success. That experience
we have now enjoyed the speculative
has given place TO The practical--the cob
webs OF sophistry have been swept away
by the actual results of experience. and
we point with triumph and exultation
we shall neither attempt to suppress. nor
disguise, to results so decisive, that they
should set controversy at rest; so clear,
that they should satisfy every doubt; and
so full Of blessings to the county, that
they should disarm all opposition In.
stead of yleldiag orly some IL or IL mil
lions of Revenue. as predict d BY It's op.
ponents. not less than eighteen millions
have been poured bv il, during the past
year. INTO the public Ire 4sury-an
amount. it deserves to be remembered
according very nearly with the estimates
Of its friends, anl afl'ording, il not con.
vincing proof, at least a strong corobnra.
lion, both Of the accuracy Of their data
aud the soun1ness OF tn ir inductions. -
We have the authority Of the emnen,
Chairman OF the Senate Committee o.
Finance, for stating, that, instead of thc
predicted rise in price Of every article in
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