Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-27

| ule meaning Oh ine sentences with which the
Gazette concludes.
o-3- After writing the article in our col
umns headed The Late Election" we CON
clul'd 20 re-publsh the editorial of the Park
erSburS Gazette bearing the same title. We
do not know VII thor tn ntiments there cx-
pressed, If they are the sentiments of the Park
crsburs politicians. are most worthy of the
attention OF Wings or Democrats. of the
EaSt'rn or Western people. The reflections
ON the Wing party and on the people of East
Cm Virginia, strike the attention at once
But the friends OF Constitutional Reform 4"
should notice the attempt tn make that a mere
party question. Such course could only be
suggested b. iujudicious or an insincere adj
vocateo OF those cherished principles, the equal
| nation of representation, the extension of the
right ot suffrage, and of popular rights gcner-
ally. The attempt to shoulder the peculiar
interests of Parller,burgin this Railroad cues
ton or any other upon one of the great polit-
zeal parties. need not just now be more partit =
ularly alluded TO. Oar Democratic" fellow
citizens in this community are as ready as the
Wings TO protest against any attempt to min
Gle our local controversies with the contests
of the political parties. We all alike coniide.
for the security of our rights, in the honor,
intelligence and patriotism of Virginians,
whether OF the one party or the other. We
all alike protest, too, against the effort to APP
propriate the name of 90 The west" exclusive
| Iy TO tn. town of Parkcrsburg. The people
OF the West are not quite all coopcd up in so
narrow a circle. 1t is true, however, that
Parkersburg has heretofore enjoyed nearly all
the benefits which the State has granted to
s. the West" in the way of Improvements.
From P0rhersburg Gazette.
| THE LATE ELECTION.-Now that the
smoke has cleared away and the killed and
wounded have been counted, il may be well
| for the Wings of both the east and west. to re-
| ilect little on the causes of their notable de-
/ feat. Something must of course be allowed
for the reaction consequent on the excitement
attending the presidential elections but this
alone Is not sufficient to account forwhat some
may call the apathy, but what we cannot help
designating, IN our plain way of speaking, the
GOODNESS ol the Wings.
Ii Is not surprising that few Whgs could
perceive any useful purpose TO be answered by
elccung one or more of their number To the
House OF Rcpr, srntatives knowingas thew did
that their opponents would have a very large
majority IN that body, and knowing also that
Locoiocolsln has strange propensity TO fill the
legislative halls of the country with men, to
they EnoSWT 9 81 stafaalias sa writing" yet all
lure, and whose previous assocIati1s ssf sra ma
not 50 lar sophisticated their natural genius.
as to give any very decided turn for morals or
manners. Knowing these things, they could
not see what useful purposcwas 10 BE- answer
Ell by two or three, or even half dozen. more
Wings in the lower house.
An ordinary observer might however SIM
pose that in the election of representatives in
Inc state legislaturc-a body which has to do
WIN local and immediate interests-feelings
oil apathy or indifference could not well exist:
Dut those who look for the causes of things
must seek beneath the surlace.-The conduct
OF the last legislature with its Wing majority
was not without its effect in the west. = Our
straight minded people do suppose that Wing
gerry means sometiing-that ii embraces GER
tam principles OF a practical character, and is
concerned with other things than president
making. La the last national contest they had
made extraordinary exertions because the true
issues were practical and the views of MIR. CLAW
open and undisguised. and such as they cordial
y approved. They looked therefore, in the
even, OF his election. to see the government
administered upon those sound PRINCIPLES
winch became rules of conduct at.least as early
as the revolution. They looked for true con-
servatism, which while il hallowcd those nrin-
clplas, would sanction the extension of their
application. They saw that the Author ofall
being had stamped upon his creation-physica
mental aud mordl-progrcssive Improvement
as Tue iirst condition OF its prosperous and
healthy existence; and in their view such i'm
provement involved the only true idea of CON
servatisln i'll national affairs. They looked
therefore to a WING Legislature for some de-
ternlncd Efforts to preserve the Common
wealth from decay, TO arrest It's progress TO
degradation and ruin; nay more. To- give il an
impetus which would again place il i'm the
front rank OF its sisters OF the Union.-And
what dli these Wing legislators Did they
institute school system about the importance
OF which there can hardly be difference ofop-
lnion III a state which occupies the dad emin
ence' oil having more while citizens over 20
years OF age who cannot read aud write than
any other! Did they--but we will leave TO
another time some equally pertinent inquiries
to remark upon their conduct in regard TO be-
ncllcial measures actually before them.
The Wings, at least out of Eastern VIRGINIA
W i"'N pStil tilt earliest, ana 10 remain
the consistent, friends of state improvements.
They have not elsewhere been frightened, or
pretended to be, by the debts which Locofoco
iavori'ism and corruption created in Pcnnsyl-
yania, Illinois, &c. They have no affected
scTuplesabout asking posterity to pay part of
debt contracted for expenditures, OF which
lar the greatest part of the benefits will BE-
realized, and IN an increasing ratio from year
to year, long after this generation shall have
been gathered to its fathers; and which bar
no proportion TO the returns which ali ex peri
cnce demonstrates are sure 10 follow. The
wings OF tlIe West therefore expected. and had
aflght 10 expect, that when the country had re-
covered from the blighting effects of the sirocco
OF Jacksonism, which for its sins was permit
ted toPass over it, every opportunity wouldbe
eagerly avail,d of to lay the foundations of a
new and broad moral an IN ,tcrial prosperity
throughout the length and breadth of Virginia
the necessity of which, if proof was before
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