The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-12-04
THE GALAXY.
MI1lDIDTa8II3W2W, WE.
Wednesday, Dec. a, 1874.
WINGS STAND FAST

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The Loco Foco party seem to be pluming
themselves in the hope that the Wings are
about to disband, or enlist under the banner
of Natiyeism, or Abolitionsm. However
agreeable to their wishes either alternative
might be, these gentlemen are reckoning
without their host. The Wings lament their
discomforture,y knowing that the best blood
and the great heart Of the American nation
are with them, they have never for moment
hesitated in renewing the battle. Never was
there party more powerful in defeat. Our
noble chief has fallen. But the walls of
Rome encompass more than one man. Polk
is minority President after all. So gross
have been TIE falsehocds, and SO villainous
the impOstors by which he has been elevated
that the public mind must be soon disabused
The two next sessions of Congress will indi-
cate with unerring certainty that the Wing
party is the sole reliance of protection, and
The only barrier against the Annexation of
Texas. The extraordinary spectacle WILL
then be exhibited of a people demanding pro-
lection, and yet confding their interests TO a
pa rty'who wage an unrelenting waragainst it,
in preference to that which has yielded
its constant and unhesitaling support-a
party which has achieved victory under the
flag ofprotection and then claiming the sane
ton of the people TO its overthrow-a party
who have disguised themselves in the habili-
ments of patriotism the more safely to trampIe
down the great interests of the country in
their desperate foray for the spells of office.
How preposterous, how discoEdst, how base
and hypocritcal. Who will not see there is
something rotten in Denmark, The people
cannot always be blinked, and they will at
last Indignantly spurn the cheaters and the
cheat.
Upon the two great principles of impartial
freedom and Protectionio American industry
which must be immutable, the Wing party
| will ever stand firm and united. Founded
on this basis upon which the liberties and
prosperity of the country depend, they will
call to their aid any other principles OF nation
al policy which will strengthen the position
they have taken. The correction of the err
enormous abuses attending the too easy natu-
ralization of foreigners must be an article in
the creed of party who seek the perpetuity
of our republican institutions. The sons of
the soil are the legitimate sovereigns of the
country. Its destinies must not be controll-
ed by the ignorant spawn Of the civil or &C.
clesiastical despotisms of Europe. Com
pettent rulers are not ofspontaneous growth.
Time and education alone can mould foreign
ers into freemen capable Of dividing the pow
er with native born Americans.
But however true it has been that our cleo
tons and even our whole form ofgoyernment
are mere mockery if they are not purified
from the influx ofso many foreign and illegal
votes, constituting a mere brute force at the
ballot boxes, yet heaven forbid. that Wings
should ever desert the glorious banner under
which they have so gloriously fought, for
that Of Native Americanism. No party with
single idea ever will, or ever has gained
triumph through the Union. The Third par
ty organization will soon sink from the mar
rowness offs basis. 1t is even now reduced
to wreiched dependence upon Loco Foco-
ism which is ready to throw it as a loathsome
weed away. Although the Wing party has
suffered reverse, Wing principles, especial
ly that of protection is daily growing in
strength, and multiply converts even to
majority in several ofthe States at the South.
In North Carolina Tennessee and Kentucky
the Wings have triumphed in advocating this
great principle. which has been uniformly
and vehemently resisted by their opponents.
Even in Georgia and Louisiana we should
have again triumphed in the Presidential as
we did in the State elections, had it not been
for the migrating Enumeration upon the pub
lie mind.
Then Wires, still look for victory upon
the banner on which is inscribed the great
principles of national policy under which you
SO successfully fought in 1910. Even your
opponents were obliged to counterfeit it 10
defeat you. Polk, Dallas and the Tariff of
1912, was the war cry of Loco-Focoism du-
ring the whole canvass in the States OF Penn
sylvania and New York; and had they not !
succeeded in deceiring the people into the