New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-17
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From The Lexington (Ky.) O5Seruer and Reyorter.
1.-The question is fully answered in the Wing newspapers
the ayorite policy be mantiaei tie dshonoTed name
TO 9e cat Is 9dlous from ITS being identified with
already adopted the paiy disgaced
S2W pnd hereafter Wig gives place 70 AMERICAN RE-
We had hoped that when the immediate re.
cess!ty for lying had passed-that is when the
Presidential contest hsd been determined and no
immediate purpose was to be subserved by vii
full and deliberate departure from truth-that The
Loco. Foco press Of The country, which, for some
months has so shamefully abandoned itself to the
West excuses of falschood and calumny, would
at least assume virtue, fit had not" and pay
some slight regard TO truth and honesty. IL this,
however, it seems we ere to be disappointed. In.
ured TO the habit BY long, continued indulgence,
it has, doubtless, in many cases, become second
nature, recovery from which will be almost
hopeless. The cases We appychend will be found
more numerous in which the original appetite has
been only pampered by over indulgence until now,
it can scarcely find objects whcrewith to satisfy
its insatiate longiDgs Amongst the latter class
the press from which the paragraph which heads
this article is taken, mast be ranked. From
whence has it drawn the wonderful discovery Of
The fact that the Wing patty is disbanded-that
its name is even 10 be cast away, amongst the
rubbish of things forgotten, and That the hon
oIed name of Wig is to give place 10 the
title OF American Republican, The editor Of
the Enquirer may have sources of information
which we less fortunate are deoared frora, for
this is ali news to US. But rssing this, we take
the liberty otelling him that hci stating false
hood. The 'Whig' party, or any portion of the
Wing party have never thought of casting off
the name, or abandoning the principles, under
which. and for which, they have so long fought.
We are all, it is trnc, Americans and Repub-
licans,' but this has never been applied to the
Wing party as a distinctive appe!lation.
Wea are content with the name under which
our fathers achieved success in the Revolutionary
struggle-under which VIC four years since glofi-
ously tfiumphed over Loco-Foco msruie and cor
ruption and have again obtained fairly and justly
the true voice of the American people-aibei, We
have n both instances been robbed of the fruits OF
victory, first by treachery and then by fraud
and under which, as we firmly believe, VIC are yet
destined to achieve victory which shall secure
permanent prosperity to our beloved country.
We are aware, however. to what the Enquirer
alludes-the organized efforts making to procure
AN alteration oil our Naturalization Laws. 1t is
true that some papers heretofore devoted u The
Wbie cause. and who still wish lis success, are
lending their aid to this object but does it follow
from this that the whole Wing party is 10 be dis
banded-that the great measures of National pol
lev for which that party has been toiling and
struggling, and to secure which they have passed
through two of the scvercst contests which mark
the history of cur Republic, are TO be now aban-
doned-to give place to one isolated question
which, however important it may be IN itself, IN,
wolves mainly the purity of the ballot box, and
cannot, of itself alone, and independent OF every
thing else, maintain and preserve tine puolic pros,
perity2 BY no means.
y-sss The estimated loss by the Cumberland vai-
Ter Railroad Company in the destruction OF their
bridge is about $4,000.