Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-07-25
Party Names and Party Principles.

as name broad enough and popular enough for our
need expressing it does forciby than any other
word in the language the party Of liberty and patriot
ism, OF law and the constitution In England they were
the first to resist kngly usurpaton and oppression 10
this country they wrote the Declaration OF Indepcnd
ence, and then wrought out its sentiments in the battles
Of the Revolution.
A garbled extract from the above resolution Of
the late Windham County Wing Convention, fur
nishes text for few hourshes in the Demo
crat' of last week. Our neighbor hopes he sees
signs Of trembling, and disposition to change
our name, &c. Platter not yourselves with such
iances, Mr. Democrat. It is true, as you say,
that the party that sustained wAsHSsToss ad-
ministratoa called Wings 1t is true, also,
that the party who resisted British oppression
were called Whgs-.it is true that those who
fought our battles in the Revolution were called
Whigs--t is true that ninety mine in hundred of
the survivors of those fought battles are now,
not only called Wings. but arc true, genuine Wings
and utterly opposed to the whole system of Loco
focosm II is also that a vast majority oG the
descendants of our Revolutionary sires are Wings
and that modern democracy obtains power BY a
base system of fraud played upon foreigners, by
ringing into their ears before they are here long
enough TO become acquainted with system of
government, or the policies that distinguish the
leading parties in the country, the senseess cry of
democracy We say 'senseless cry not because
the word democracy has no legitimate meaning
when properly understood, but because the Loco
Foco party use it TO disguise political system,
which for profiigacy and real antidemocratic ten
dency we challenge the whole history Of party war
fare 10 furnish IFS equal No, Mr. Democrat, the
Wings have no necessity disposition to change
either their name their principles. Their princi.
plies, like their name, time honored We admit
that, at times, portion Of the Wing party, know
ing the base and corrupt use made Of the term de-
mocratic by the Locotoco party, and that the only
true democratic principles those of the Wings,
have adopted the term Democratic Wings
term not at all inconsistent with that Of 'Whic'-
They might call themselves true Wings sAmeri-
can Wings Republican Wings, or simply
wings still the prominent and most expressive
word is 'Hhig.' We have no disposition 10 prate
about 'brawney armed democracy-to assume a
thousand unmeaning terms Of cant, as But-end-
ers-'Old Hunkers'-' Barn burners -'hard-fisted
democrats, that have sprung up among the hGrmo-
niOus Loco Focos-but in the language Of the reso-
luton, we rejoice in the name Of Hhig, as a term
connected with the principles OF our Revolutionary
fathers as covering under IFS broad panoply all that
is dear to Republican virtue, TO liberty protected by
law, and as embracing every thing that is hostile 10
the Wild lawless spirit Of heartless Loco Focoism
that would cover its hypocrisy and its contempt of
every thing really democratic by an unmeanDg
cant about democracy The name Wing is broad
enough and popular enough for our need Other
terms there are, which would express the truly
democratic principles of the Wing party. But no.
thing can be more simple and expressive than Hhig
And when see the old soldiers Of Bunker Hill,
of Bennington, and Yorktown rise up in our midst
and proclaim themselves Wings now, aud shake
their grey, venerable lOcks,a frown with indgni-
ty at the miserable mOckery of the sham democra.
cy of Loco Focoism, it is enough 10 make any one
but Loco Foco demagogue blush for very shame.
No, MIR Democrat, there is not one, we venture TO
say, among the thirteen hundred thousand Wings
OF the Union, who has the least disposition to aban
don the name or the principles under which they
have so manfully commended, and under which they
will continue TO contend until they the glorious
Wing flag floating over the Capitol, and a Wing
government giving life and energy TO all the great
industrial interests Of the Union-until every pa
triot shall rejoice not only in the name OF Wing,
but in the triumph of those principles which alone
can render us prosperous and happy a nation.
Come, MIR Democrat, take your carping friends
along, and will just glance over the political
field and see how the two leading parties stand in
relation to this matter about which you are so much
disposed to cavil. You the great leader of your
party, the editor of the official newspaper at WASH
| ington-one who has been leader in the political
field more than forty years, rejecting the term
| Democrat, and using invariably that Of Republican
Look farther South and the leaders of your par
~ in South Carolina rejoicing in the name and prn-
ciples of -NuiiifeatiOn-denouncing the protective
POlicy-denouncing New England and lamenling
the growth and prosperity OF the New England
tropolis, and rejoicing that of an English
uiaciurng town Look over the whole territory
south of Mason & Dixon's line, and you will see
the leaders of your party denouneing the Tariff,
denouncng the NORTH the institutions of the North,
and al that has made the North SO prosperous and
powerful. Go TO Louisiana, and you will there see
your party denouneing the Tariff, cursing the YAM
KEGS, and advocating duty Of two hundred per
J cent. on sugar-all in aud the same breath In
Pennsy vania, your party leaders carried that State
by pirating the Wing flag, and rallied under the
cry of Polk and the Tariff of 1912 In New
York, your party played a still deeper game of du-
/ plicity. Afier MIR Van Buren, had been thrown
overheard by the Texan Loco Focos Of the South.
amer MIR Wright had rejected the nomination as
candidate for Vice President, on the ground of CO.
NEEDING with Mr. Van Buren, in his opposition to
the annexation of Texas, your party in that State
] nominated MIR Wright for Governor and virtually
hOisted the an,-Texian flag. Having trumphed
. under such auspices, what is the next step taken
iby the Loco Foco leaders in New York; Gov