The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-12-19

ed from a difference OF opinion as 10 Ifs value
if the ascendancy of one set of statesmen
had been contested against the effort TO ele-
vate another set; if it had been in any point,
a war of conflicting principles, the popular
Judgment might and would have challenged
Difference and respect, and all ~asperiiy would
have subsidized with the subsiding ardor of
contention. But this has not been the char
aeter of the fight. Our opponents have
found motive to exasperate the public mind
against the Wings by sharper devices than
arguments. They have assailed, as | have
said, with unparalleled malignity, the honor
and virtue of that great name whom we had
chosen to represent our cause; they have
made it their chief labor TO convert thatname
into the foulest reproach which can be heap
ed upon the most infamous; they have es-
sayed TO strike down that precious fame
which, earned in a long life of devotion 10
his country, has become rather the property
of the nation than of its personal subject
The insult we resent and must ever resent.
1t is a rare compliment to the virtue of Hen
ry Clay that they who are so expert in the
use of the weapons of SANDER should find it
neee ssary to supply their magazine with SO
much f~reshly-distilled venom, and to tax their
skill to such unusual efforts, as they have
employed in this contest. In less degree,
the whole Wing party have been made the
object of similar assaults. They, too, have
been thickly assailed with SANDERS as poig-
nant sas the arrow that fieth by day. and az
ms idious 'as the pestilence that walketh in
darkness Open war has been waged against
every su b%stantial interest inthe nation with
which the Wings could in any manner be
connected. Poverty, one would infer from
the many resolutions of this party, to be the
only Democratic test of Republicanism; the
moment the poor man becomes prosperous
by industry, he would seem, in their philoso-
ply, 10 be converted into an enemy of the
State. Successful thrift was a civic crime;
capital was the badge of aristocracy; the pa
triotism that would cherish the labor of the
American artisan was stamped with the OBJ
loquy of mere monopoly and extortion; de-
votion to the policy of Madison was The r ank-
est extreme of ancient Federalism-that
term comprising, in the opinion oftbose who
uttered il, the superIative of deepest infamy;
Wing merchants, struggling against the SUI
premacy of English opinions of trade, were
denounced as the agents of British corrup-
ton; those who Invested money in bank
stocks, if they did not favor the Locofoco
ticket, were derided as rag barons and purse
proud upstairs; Wing manufacturers were
held up to public odium as lords of the loom
and the furnace; mechanics who voted with
the Wings were tainted as slaves TO a mas
ter; Wing Catholics who were too manly to
surrender their opinions to vulgar clamor
were scofed at as the allies and comrades of
church-burners. Whenever men ofsubstance,
of enterprise, OF industry, ofthfift, of respec
table aims, of honest and laudable ambition
to enrich and aggrandize the country, refus-
ed 10 bow 10 the great idol of this modern
new light, which calls itself the progressive
Democracy, they have been prescribed and
denounced as almost guilty of inciuism Zen
emies Of the public veal. The bonnet rouge
tit emblem of his iniolerant scheme of So
cial mastership, has been hung out, during
the whole canvass, from the head quarters of
the Democracy in this city, and it has been
borne in procession through our streets to
symbolic the opinions of the thousands of
American citizens who marched beneath it.
These are some characteristics of the con-
test through which we have just passed, and
in these slgnsSour adversaries have conquer
ed-have won the triumph h in which they now
exult as SO suspicious to the happiness of the
American people?
Still The Wings are not subdued. The
best and purest aud most patriotic party that
ever blessed a nation remains in all its integ-
rity-remalns as firm, as gallant, as true, and
| may say as hopeful as when it first entered
the field. The victor has nothing 10 boast of
An accident has gwen him New York
New York has given him the day. Even in
tine minority in that State he owes his sue
cess 10 the faulty of a political sect who
have been c~aJoleG MO a position which has
deprived the Wings of the majority and Civ
en- their opponents a base plurality. Almost
5 everywhere else Locofocoism has been run
to tho top of its speed-beaten even in the
! land of the Hermitage. Our defeat is moi
overwhelming. The President elect and his
! friends have but feeble guaranty of popular
support, even if the hypocrisy and dissimu-
iatlon OF he5cauv ass have not already pre-
! pared for them a Pandora's box of deadly dis
temPers. The Wings are not subdued.-
We have been defeated, not fairly, but by
political legerdemain, by slight oEhand and
Juggling disguise, we have been PIaquemin-
ed out of our election. We are vanquished,
, therefore. but ready for more work.
Isay TO the Whigs--raise again your flag.
I Stand firm IN your present array. Go not a.
> part into any other combination but stand
your ground as Wings. The recent election
has forced upon our adoption one addition to
our old formula of principles great and
momentus abuse calls for the aid of the
Wings 10 the reinforcement oil the purity OF
! the ballot box. Il is Fundamental in this