Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-11-21
From Me .A16ORy EUening Journal
WINGS! STAND FAST!

FTOns Me Albany EUenieg Josun0l.
WINGS! STAND FAST!
The recent defeat of the Wing Party in this
State has been made the occasion, with many, for
quitting the Wing ranks and enlisting under new
colors. Assuming that the contest in New York
has been decided against US by the embodied nat
uralized vote, numbers Of Wings, in this city and
elsewhere, have formally given in their adhesion
to the Native American Party, and are preaching
a crusade against all adopted citizens The Daily
Advertisement American Citizen, two Of the three
Whig newspapers published in this city, have al
ready hoisted the Native American flag The Cit.
izen finds a reason for this course in the alleged
fact that the Wing party is "broken up and that
ito members must pick and choose for themselves
between the parties that are left. The Argus, too,
advises its readers Of this Sc dissolution Of the
Wing party, and gives notice that it will long
reapPear under the name and in the garb Of :" Ma
tlyeism" %
We know not how it may De with others, but for
ourselves we are content with the WH;G name and
shall continue to abide by and advocate WING prin.
ciples Our faith in those principles is not whit
shakes by the overthrow we have encountered
We are beaten indeed in this State, but beaten by
the smallest majority, and upon the largest vote
ever given The aggregate vote will fall but little
reach five thousand, The Abolition vote will ex-
coed fifteen and may reach twenty thousand. There
is therefore majority Of ten thousand in the pop.
ular vte against the Polk, Texas and Slavery Par
ty. And yet the electoral suffrage Of New York
will be cast for Polk, because thousands Of Wings
acting under grievous error Of judgement, threw
away their votes upon James G. Birney.
The Wing party proper, in the late contest anus.
tered probably, ttco hsuadted and forty thousand
| UOfers Our opponents can count, perhaps, 1--WE
thousand more. The balance Of political power
was in the hands Of the Abotionists. and they saw
the Wings But b there any thing, in this circum-
stance, to induce Wings to abandon their distinc.
| tive political organization? True they are in
minority Of the popular vote; but 50 are their OPP
ponents, and have not reason to believe that the
principles put forth by the Wing party are so root
ed in the hearts of the People that their ultimate
| triumph can neither be remote nor doubted?
What are those principles! We stand up now,
as during the recent canvass for the Protection of
.ameTicGD Labor. This is prominent feature in
| the Wing creed. and if we had ever entertained
doubt as to the popularity Of the Protective doc
| trine, that doubt would have been removed by the
course taken by our opponents IN Pennsylvania and
elsewhere. They found it necessary to feign an
attachment which they did not feel to the policy
of Protection in order to secure votes for their can.
didates. I" Polk, Dallas, and the Tasif Of ls42,"
was the war cry of the party which nominated
| Polk az an anti. Tariff man and recommended him
to the support of South Carolina, Louisiana, Geor
| Si"' se'' % tASsA " 'IS c.SN
lot tnese iaise PROFESSIONS Q, tienosniP ZOE tne
wing iatln, tne Foik anu DaiIaS parry IN Esnn'
syvania woulo nave 1een oyerwnelmeo IN 1ele1..
WOW tnat .ney nave oota!neo power, IN. .ne LsoPIe
wiz soCn learn rom t.slI acts now nfe Ie.'anS :,s
speedily discover VINO are tne trae, sna VINO tine
Pre!enoe0 hienoS, OF tne rrotecuve foEcy.
among the several States Of the Union. The tri-
umpn Oh Locoiccoism' IN the Ieee9 contest, leaves
rc0e RoPs tnas owners 1t is but
too probable that what remains of the public lands
will be given to the new States in which they are
located, that the proceeds of the sales will be
squandered in ipglorious Florida wars and infamous
Indian treaties Of will be seized upon and carried
off by the brood Of hungry harpies who only await
| the intelligence Of Polks election to settle in
swarms upon the Capitol. Nevertheless, il 10 the
duty Of Wings to persevere in the effort to reclaim
this precious fund from the hands Of the spoilers,
and to restore It to the several States for the
Education.
we 30 against the Annexation Of Texas, and the
extension Of Human Slavery. These will be the
engrossing questions under the next administration
The South will strain every nerve to force Texas
into the Union, and thus extend the limits and en-
large the powers O. its .peculiar instituteR." In
tins effort they will DO aided by the Dough-aces Of
the North. IT will be for the WHIGs now, as ever,
the friends OF Liberty and the enemies OF oppres-
sion, to resist to the uttermost the advance and en-
croachments Of the Slave Power And who can
doubt that in this righteous cause the Wings will
secure the earnest cooperation ofthousands Of Nor.
thern freemen who have heretofore acted and vo-
ted with our opponents:
Such, then, are the prominent points in the Wing