Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-12-19

ceaIments and lis discords, Loco Focoism
made no proclamation to the people of it.
designs. lis May Convention pfactised
the ruse OF appointing Committee e
prepare an address Of exposition OF pfin-
ciples, but November came wiihou, that
document. No committee had the har-
dihood to venture upon the ordeal OF such
proclama,ien. The lsbors OF the can.
vass were found TO be more profitably d.
recied to the coinage Of local tenets adapt.
ed to prevailing local opinions, and, still
more effectively, TO The task OF calumniat-
ing, by the basest compost of falsehoods,
the most illuslrIous man OF the Republic.
By such arts have we lost the day.
Glorious defeat, honorable disaster -
How much more proudly may we take
its burden upon us, than suffi r the bligh,
of victory which has won nothing but
the day
Happily, it is rot often our lot 10 wit
ness a political contest which leaves be.
hind il mure than remembrance OF its
excitements. II is the misfortune Of the
late struggle, above all others that our
country has ever engaged in, that the
victory leaves no space for the cancellation
Of the good will Of the vanquishei. II
the STRIFE had been TO establish a system
of administration which was opposed from
difference of opinion as TO its value if
the ascendancy Of one set of statesmen
had been contested against the effort TO
elevate another Sc; il ii had been, IN any
point, war Of conflicting principles, the
populer judgment might and would have
challenged difference and respect, and eli
asperity would have subsidized with the
suhsidiDg ardr of contention. But this
has not been the character OF The fight
Our opponents have found motive to exas
perate the public mind against the Wings
by sharper devices than Arguments
They have assailei, 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 il then chief labor to convert that
name into the foulest reproach which can
be heaped upon the most Infamous they
have essayed 10 strike down thar precious
IhiUt WIiIHi CdiHSu III iODS illC VI oCNo-
ton to his country, has become rather
the property Of the nation than Of its per-
sonal subject. This insult we resent and
must ever resent.
1t is a rare compliment to the virtue Of
iiensy Clay that they who are so expert
IN the use of the weapons of Islander
should find it necessary to supply their
magazine with so much freshly distilled
venom, and to tax their skill to such I'M
usual efforts, as they have employed in
this contest. In less degree, tie whole
Wing party have been made the object
Of similar assaults. They, too, have been
,hickly assailed with ISLANDERS as poignan.
''as the arrow that fcth by day." and as
iDsidious "as the pestlence that walketh
in darkness" Open war has been waged
against every substantial interest in the
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 b comes prosperous by industry, he
would seem, in their philosophy, to be
converted into an enemy to the State
Successful thrift was civic crime cap
ital was the badge o5 aristocracy the
patriotism that would cherish The labor Of
the American artisan was stamped with
the obloquy Of mere monopoly and extor-
ton: devotion to the policy Of Madison
was the rankest extreme OF ancient Fed,
eralism--tbat tenn comprising, in the
opinion of those who uttered it, the super.
lative OF deepest infamy Wing mer.
chants, struggling against the supremacy
of English opinions of trade, were de-
nounced as the agents of British corrup-
ton; those who invested money in Bank
stocks, if they did not favor the Loco 70
CO ticket, we're derided as Rag Barons
and purse proud upstairs; Wing manu-
lacturers were held up to public odium as
Lords of the Loom and the Furnace; me.
chanics who voted with the Wings were
taunled as slaves TO master Wing
Catholics who were too manly to surren-
der their opinions to vulgar clamor were
scofftd as the allies and comrades Of
church. burners. Whenever men of SUBJ
stance, of enterprise, of industry, Of thrift,
OF respectable aims, OF honest and auda-
bic ambition to enrich and aggrandize the
country, refused to bow to the great Idol
OF this modern New Light which calls it.
self the Progressive Democracy, they
have been prescribed and denounced
almost guilty Of inciutSm--enemies oil the
public veal. Thc bonnet rogue, fit EN-.
blem of this intolerate scheme of socia
has been hung out, during
the whole canvass, from the head quar-.
Iers 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
beneath it. These are some
Of the contest through
which we have just passed, and in these
signs our sdversares have conquered
have won the triumph in which they now
exul, as so auspicious TO The happiness OF
the American people
Still the Wings are not subdued. The
best and purest and most patiqtc party
that ever blessed nation remains in all
its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. as firm, as gallant,
as true, and ! NAV say as hopeful as when
il first entered the field. The victor has
nothing to b asst of. An acc dent has