Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-08-08
From Noah's en- 70 Weekly Messenger
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

From .Noah's On. - Weekly Messenger
! SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
The Wings certainly have some
clever men amongst them, men who
are practical and available, but are
not permitted to rule while the federal
wing of that party has health and
strength sufficient to grasp the reins.-
We never saw that wing so full of hap
piness and rejoicing as at the spring
election, when the ,Natives succeeded
through their vote and influence in
carrying the city; the uppermost
thought and primary consideration being
| the overthrow of Old Tammany.-
"Didn't we do the clean thing" said
one Of their leaders to US. "You GER
tainly did it, but as to it's being very
clean we have our doubts; we think it
will leave long streak, which you
never will be able to wash out" The
Wings have heretofore carried the city;
in nicely balanced fight with their
money and good management, they
could carry it again. When the Ma
tive American party started from the
Democratic ranks, proscriptive and vio-
lent, unstable and short lived, all that
the Wings had to do, was to keep up
the excitement as an auxiliary, not a
principal; to pay the expenses of this
new party; sustain their organization,
and compel them to make full Ma
tive American ticket of Democrats. -
The result would have been, that full
Wing ticket would have run in between
the Democrats and Native Americans.
But by runninga quasi Wing Mayor,
and appointing Wings to Office, that
party has linked itself in, and become
identified with, and responsible for the
acts of the Native Americans; the
Wing and Native American cards are
shuned up in the same pack. Now
who is to suffer in the sequel? Poor
Clay as usual; he is to be the victim
of the bad management of his federal
friends. All the mobs, riots, blood
shed and disasters in Philadelphia,
have their origin in this Native Amer
lean party, blown into life by the mon
ey and auxiliary aid of the Wings
Great parties dividing the country may
use factions as they spring up, but who
ever heard Of a party Incorporating it.
self with a faction? Mr.. Jefferson in
his inaugural speech said, eve are all
Federalists, we are all Democrats. p
Didhe intend to say that there were
no longer any party divisions or party
principles in the country Certainlynot
He meant to say, that we were all citi-
zens, and whatever may be our politi-
cal opinions, we all had all equal inter-
est in preserving the free institutions
of our country. So with the anomaly
called Natiue Americans; we have
no privileged classes in this country,
an adopted citizen under our laws has
the same rights as native citizen.-
If there is any thing wrong in this, it
is the fault of our laws; let those laws
be amended by Congress, not violated
at the ballot box. But the political
consequences-what are they' Not
single adopted citizen-Irish, Ger
man, or French, we think, will vote
the Wing ticket any where as a body;
the Catholics having deep and solemn
cause of complaint, will vote every
l =, 4L.a C+o+o ~, Dop,cvlxopio
in Maryland, in the great valley of the
Mississippi, for the Democratic ticket.
This results for the Wings as a party
Incorporating themselves with the Ma
tive Americans, and standing sponsors
for their acts; this is to carry out the
''penny wise and pound foolish doc
trine; this is to consider victory over
Tammany, a triumph for Clay, when
the result is directly the reverse. The
loss Of 100000 Catholic votes in New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and
the valley of Mississippi, is not trihe
in closely contested heat, and if it 10
ses Clay the Presidency he has to
thank as usual, the federal wing of
the Wing party. We ask the adj
vocates Of this Native American par
ty to read the following table of the
birth place of the immortal signers of
American Independence, and then re-
fleet upon the equity of their immedi-
ate and prospective policy,
Burton Gwinnett, Of Ga. native Of England
james Wilson, Of Pennsylvania, Scotland.
George Taylor, do Ireland
James Smith, do Ireland.
Robert Morris, do England
John Witherspoon, of New Jersey" Scotland
Francis Lewis, of New York, IS. Wales
Mathew Thornton, of N. Hampshire" Ireland
/ The fathers of
/ WIN. Whippe, of N. He. native OF Ipswich
Francis Hopkins, Of New Jersey, . England.
Edward Rutledge, Of S. Carolina, Ireland
William Hooper, of N. Carolina, Scotland.
Johuel Chase, of Ma 'yland. England
Thomas Mexican, of Delaware, 6 Ireland.
George elmer, of Pennsylvania, England.