Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-21
THE LATE-CANVASS.
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10 he Edsfor Of tie Spectator.
MIR. Editor,-After arduous and momentous
struggle it has now become but too certain tina,
the Wings have been defeated and the nation dis
graced. To prevent this calamity the Wings
have most honorably and nobly contended. They
nave offered for the presidency one of the wsest,
most experienced and able statesmen and purest
patriots OF Inc age, one whose great services to
his country will adorn the pages of its history SO
long as time shall last. They came before the
people upon principles not new, but we'll tried
and found by experience to be sound and salutary.
10 explain and support these and TO persuade
the people not to disregard the voice of experience
and launch madly into the ocean of theory and
experiment, they sent forth noble band of pa-
triots and statesmen, who have fairly and honor
ably and zealousy discharged their duty Thew
nave come before the nation with no misdeeds
upon their heads, but on the contrary after hav-
ing rescued it from the very VERGE of ruip. its
government bankrupt, and without the credit to
borrow on FAR terms one dollar at home or abroad
It's manufactures to great extent abandoned
thousands OF its mechanics and other WORKING
men without employment-that confidence 80 ne.
cessary to the transaction of the business of life
greatly impaired ;-irom such wreiched condi-
ton did the Wing party i'm spite of the most stre
nuous opposition OF those (the very party now
preferred) whose unwise and wicked measures
had produced ii, restore the government tn the
highest state OF credt-our manufactures to pros
Pe1''y--0ur Iaoorlng men In every department TO
.o!i employment and Its appropriate reward, and
to the community confidence And the onnosite
party how has 1t come before the people? Why,
proposing to place in the seat of the immortal
ashlhgton d man not at all distinguished for
abilities, and who has done no single act to ent-
.e MN 10 tne gratitude or confidence of his coun-
uymen' ana upon no system of policy whatever
In fact with almost no man and upon no prin-
ciple; and moreover fairly chargeable with an e.
normous amount OF evil to the country, both me-
raj and Pecunary. And yet this party has sue
ceeded How this success has been obtained il
may be profitable to enquire How then has il,
happened 'hat a great nation has been brought to
be guilty OF the base ngrati.ude and suicidal fol-
iy OF repudiating the claims OF her greatest states
man and benefactor-thus at once taking awav
one oil the strongest incentives TO NOBLE pener-
Gus and patriotic actions and committing lis des-
TIMES to the hands of those whose former deeds
leave no room to expect from them any thing but
evil! Let us endeavor 10 shew in part, how this
direful result has been produced. 10 accomplish
1t, we have seen one of the strangest coalitions
that ever the world witnessed. We have seen
banded together, under the falsely assumed name
of democratic republican, men in favor of imme-
diate annexation of Texas and those opposed TO
annexation at any time--rnen who believe slavery
blessing. and extreme abolitionists; men adyo.
eating free trade and those for protecting home
industry; dlsunlonists and unonists, nuiliiers,
regulators. Douites. aggrarians-al these and
more, calling TO their aid foreigners-IrishmeD as
Irishmen, Germans as Germans, Frenchmen as
FTeDchmeD, and worse than ALL religious sect.
it is believed, justly suspected of having been
aided by foreign potenates, jealous of the exist
ence Of the, to them. dangerous example, of
great republic, in flocking to our country by tens
Of thousands, with a view to obtaining political
as well as religious ascendancy, and whose Jesuit
priesthood are to be found every where over the
country erecting churches and establishing
schools and seminaries of learning, chiefly byy
means Of foreign capital. We have seen foreipn-
ers by thousands, headed by demagoeues, rush.
ing with eager haste from the decks Of the ships