The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-09-11
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WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPT. II. 1874

WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. IL, 1874
THE EXPIRING AGONY OF THE JANUS
FACED PARTY.
In the nomination of Silas Wright for Cover.
nor of the State of New York, we have presented
to our view another of those striking ncongruities
which have marked the rise and career, and will
soon distinguish the fall, of that party, which,
whilst violating all law disdaining all settled and
substantial condition of society, opposing any po-
sitive government that is rigid and discpnarian
in its code, and moral and reforming in its purposes
sanctoning popular outbreaks, and encouraging
spirit of wild license and mob, advocating sys-
TEN of dangerous agrarianism, calculated to level
honest industry, skill, enterprise, and virtue, with
vice, dissipation, and intolerance !; in fine, that
party whose doctrines strike at the root of our
whole moral, political, and social compact, and
then attempts to shroud its enormities by appeals
to vulgar prejudice and corrupt passion, and by
the canting shout of Democracy, or any other
outcry that sounds smoothly to the public ear, or
tickles the public palate. We have, in this nom
inaton, the best evidence of the Procrustan pres
sure Of the party screw-how man can be made
to belle himself to suit party project-and how
essential it is in the harmonious Democracy )"
for one to be exactly opposed to the only prnci-
pie or tenet that gives it vitality, in order to have
its best honors forced upon him. or to be blessed
with niche in the temple of its canonized crowd
We refer to this selection of Mr.. Wright, not
because of any effect that it is to or have up
ho
vote of New York to be as firmly settled as that
of Kentucky. We know that the organization is
entire, perfect, and sound, and we believe that
the majority for Mr.. Clay will exceed that given
for any other President since the adoption of the
Constitution in fact, the extent of the majority is
the only thing that has given US any concern since
the opening Of the contest. We can now count
noses enough from the poll books, fairly tested by
knowledge and not fancy, that will leave T" little
Jenny Polk" some twenty five thousand voters
in the rear, and we have very strong expectations
of increasing it to fifty thousand before the ides
of November. So that, as far as the result in
New York is concerned, Mr.. Wright gives us no
more trouble than any other candidate that might
have been named, for he will be beaten just about
as badly, if not a hule uorse.
There are some facts, however, connected with
this nomination Of Mr.. Wright which merit atten-
ton, and are worthy the reflection of our own
friends, and of those who have been deluded by
false professions into the support of the severes
party edicts. These views deserve the more to
be considered and poDdered upon, because they
present an eristing array of evidence, which
shows that this party "Democ ~acy" is mere
juggle TO cheat the ignorant and blind the weak,
that it has no fixed habitation or character,
is all things to all men, means annexation and
abolition, free trade and high tariff, pet banks and
sub-treasury, internal improvements, distribution
Of the land proceeds, and their antipodes, JUS.
what each particular latitude requires, and what
ever is most likely to gain the ascendancy or to
get hold Of the spoils.
1t VIII be remembered, that, at that motley
gathering called the Democratic Convention"
which met on the 9th of May last, Mr. Van
Buren,, who had been selected as the candi.
date by majority of his party in the different
States, at the primary meetings, and who had
very coDsiderablemajority in the Convention
itself, and was entitled to the nomination nv
all former precedent in the party, and surely BY
all Democratic practice, was defeated solely upon
the plea Of being opposed to the annexation Of
Texas What other causes operated to produce
his overthrow, is not for us to say but there is
reason, yet left untold to the country, which
we esteem it our duty to chronicle, viz, that South.
ern members, to the number Of seventy-sr, organ.
lied themselves and determined to secede in bo
dy and publicly from the Convention, unless the
two-thirdI rule was adopted. Every body know,
that the intention of that rule was to choke Of
Mr. Van Buren, and to substitute the choice of
cabal for the declared will of the people in othe
words, in Convention protesting to be demo
cratic" to strike down the first and cardna