Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-11-22
POLITICAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The doctrine of the 'ransmgration oil souls"
was older than the days OF Pythagoras; and il is
destined 10 outlive ours. II receives every now
and then a renewed illustration in the history OF
the great Ani-Democratic party in this country,
calculated 10 keep il always fresh in the minds Of
men. Al this very moment, Tor instance, the
process can BE- seen going on almost senSlbly be-
fore The eye, of the passage of the soul out OF the
diving organization OF the old body, into the mas
cent infancy Off new one. The Wing party Is
now with ''Ilium and the mighty glory OF the
sons Of Dardanus The things that "have
been" But, though the old mortal coil has been
shuled OFT, and lies now a worse than useless
bur,hen on the ground little lamenied and less
honorcd i'll lis memory, and awaiting only the
performance Of decent rites Of inierInent, yet a
new birth, of the Native American" party, has
Simultaneously come forth, 10 afford fresh earth
" tenement 10 the disembodied ghost Conf
dent that such dissolution and accompanying
transmigraion was 10 follow Immediately on The
decision Of the late election. we had looked
abroad with some curiosity 10 divine what would
be the new form and name INTO which the "poor
dear departed" would pass The curiosity is al
ready satisfied Every hour brings fresh indica-
lions Of the fact; and the same bell that
tolls the knel of the Wing, already summons
10 the christening OF the Native American party.
cratic Party is. and in The long run must ncces-
sarily always be. the dominant power in this
Union for it is The party which, with all its oc-
casional faults aud errors, alone represents and
expresses the true genius of the country, and,
indeed, the one great positive force in our system
Anti-Democracv is the corresponding negative
force, and must always necessarily constitute the
regular and permanent opposition-iaking, from
time 10 time, its varying form and pressure from
the VARYING events and circumstances OF the day
This is the simple explanation of the fact that the
good old Democratic Republican" Party has al
ways rema ned ono and uniform, in name, organ
izaion spirit, and unbroken political SUGGESTIONS
while the opposition 10 it, always retaining The
old Federalism as its central nucleus and vital
principle, has shifted through long succession,
both OF forms and names.
1t IS indeed, somewhat remarkable, that they
should have retained that Of Wing so long as they
have 1t has been because there has been no in.
lerrupton 10 the long protracled contest in which
General Jackson's Bank Veto was the first great
blow. aud of which we have now passed through
the last closing struggle II was in reference &c
this ha, the name OF Wing was adopted, found
ed on the idea, or The piciencc, of resistance tc
Executive usurpation. That great struggle is
now al an cnd. Mr. Clay was, throughout, the
great leader OF his side of il; and after all lis pas
vicissitudcs il at last resolvcd itself down into this
one broad general issue, including all the parla
issues OF former periods Of the contest, and bring
ing up the whole for one last, final and decisive
settlement MIR. CLAY was the complete embodi-
menl and representative of all that the Wing par
" of tina, period has thought felt, done, meant
been lie was IL, and in his tate, its fate is settled
1t could not, possibly, in the nature OF things, sur
vive him. The only conceivable mode Of keep
ing the Wing party alive, with its old name and
organization, would be 10 keep Mr.. Clay in the
field still, as candidate again in 1913. Is such
thing possible Would any OF his own friends
dream of il I'm Y Morning Ne7rs