Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-03-21
I NO. 27.

could ouIy be done by Bank of the u
nted States: and that they have been
ba fled in Hti1 hopes Of q Distribution of
the Public Lands their hew project (of
which ROT ore ord is found in their Adj
dress.of $40. J for effectine internal I'M
provements by the fundamentally Of the
General Government. Anti Tariff, an-
IT, Bank. and anti Internal Improvement
in 1889 and i40-in favor Of protective
Tariff. National Bank and Of y strbu-
ton IN 1898 and "A; the change or their
assumed position is obvious and COM
plete. 1t more were needed, we would
point to the confessions Of their principal
organ in this State. the Richmond Wig,
IN its late extraordinary structures ON
the still more extraordinary disclosures
Of one Of their Wing Electors of $780,
Bat we repeat, the change of their as
sumed position stands confessed. If the
declarations Of tier principles and opin-
IONS IN 1910. were indeed sincere. then,
nthe space Of three years, these FEEDER
al leaders have utterly inverted their
whole system of politics; FOR, they now
recommend to you as constitutional and
wise almost every practical measure of
Government WHICH they then opposed as
unconstitutional or unwse. Surely,
such an exhibition of a political samer-
set. by all the leaders of party at once,
and in so short a time. was never before
exhibited in the history ofpolltics. and
could only find its parallel, if any where,
in The sill sautting of whole equestri-
an cnrps. In the must favorable light in
Which il can be viewed. it argues such Il
want Of foresight and sasacitv, of pru.
tience and wisdom, as should at once de-
ptiye them OF all claim 10 confidence in
their ability. and Of every pretension to
craftsmanship. Would you, fellow-citi-
zens, be willing to follow the lead Of pol
iticians. conlessedIy SO weak and SO va
cillating?
But were the declarations of their
principles aud opinions in 1870 sincere?
This question is forced upon US, not orlv
by the extraordinary disclosures recently
made by one of their Wing Electors at
that time, and now one OF their ablest
champions on the floor OF Congress, but
also by their own strange avowals in
tteir late address. To say that they
lrere sincere. would bc,as we have shown,
to pay but very poor compliment to
their talents and abilities, ard we should
ourselves be wanting in candor. to inn
pute 70 them so great deficiency in Ell
ther. But it would be more. 1t would
be 10 contradict the assertions of Mr..
Newtan, their Eiector and Representa-
live. whom we know toozsrelI to doubt
and who has borne testimony TO the fact,
that 'the disasters which have befallen
the Wing Party. and cast blight .over
The prosperity Of Tie country, has resulted
III great measure. from the want of cam
! dor and firmness. in avowng and mair-
tanning their principles. especially in
Virginia. and who adjured their late
Convention not to repeat these .errors OF
1910, which have been the fruitful source
Of all their woes But it would be still
more. 1t would be to dsbelieve their
own present avowals. For, how could
the Tariff of 40 be sthe principal fruit
of the victory achieved by them in $40,
if they and General Harrison, whom they
J made President, were then opposed to =
Tariff, as they professed to be: Or,
/ how could they have been foiled in estab-
llshiug National Bank, ii they and their
President believed it Unconstitutional
and were opposed to its establishment.
as was then asserted Or how could
I Their hopes of distribution of The public
lands have been baffled, wi en- they do
not then seem even to have dreamed of
/ such thing. or if thew had such hopes
! then, they did not venture to mention
them, even in whisper They would
| thus seem themselves to admit their own
want of sincerity in 1910, at least in de-
/ cIaring that they were opposed to Bank
I and Tariff. We must either discredit
'ethem now, when they say that their VIC
! tory was achieved for the Tariff, of d.,
and Chat they had been foiIed in their
design to establish National Bank-or
we must slisbelieyc them formerly, when
they commended General Harrison to
You. because he wac opposed to beth
Bank and Tariff, aud to the first atleast
ION constitutional grounds. For. how
could that be fruit OF their. victory.
which they had coRtended agairst?-Or
how could they have been iolled In ac-
Ecompiishing what they were utterly op,
posed to? Which OF these represents
tons, that of 1910. OF that Of 1874, both
made BY themselves. is the correct ones
When driven to decide between them.
recol'ecting the TACT, that IL the Extra
Sessiun Of 1S4 they lent their aid IN
/ pressing through Congress, in hot haste,
1 the very measures to which they repre-
I Senteti themselves as DDposet in 184O
we cannot hesitate to sav,that their de-
ciarations Of 40, solcmniy made to you
10 their appeal on hehal of their Elec-
tors. were uncandd, insincere, and dis
Elngenuous.
We seeno escape for our political OPP
ponents from the tlilemma,,in which they
nave thus placed themselves. 1t is not
J Mr.. Newton's letter only;-their own
Inconsistent acts and declarations charge
fLa.r e.fJ,- this par4Tiaffpu and iiUAhte