Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-07-03
From the Baltimore American.
AND ENGLISH FEELING.

hMEruVaN AMI GNGLlSA FEELING.
The National lntelligencer alludes to the habi,
into which the. Administration presses have fallen
OF iibelling The Wing party Of the country by
calling them 0nft-.3merfcaa; and wonders what
possible interest the Administration can have in
Illus counting the eamity of the majority of the
Tree people OF the United States.
rot our own part we wonder that the Intelli-
gencer should wonder about anything which tue
leaders OF that party see fit to do in the way Of
popularity and maintaining their con-
troll over tho masses--To denounce the Wings
as British party is now their staple; without
mat they would have no capital. Free Trade.
the Sub lreasury-out of these elements Of or
'hodoXy, so stale, so fiat, nothing more is to be
dry husks are sapess and withered;
not particle OF enthusiasm could be distilled out
OF the whole mass.
Courllng the enmity Of so large and subsian-
tiai portion of the free citizens Of he United
States! When was the fabric Of the influence Of
"deMocratic" leaders founded upon any other ba-
sis than the vindictive and jealous feelings of one
portion OF the community against the rest! At
one time the Wings are assailed as arisioc rats;
again they are denounced as moneyed monopo-
lists they are charged with being in heart oppos-
ed 10 Tree institutions, enemies Of the people and
their rights. What ear has not been weared
with these oft-repeated ISLANDERS : Has there
been political contest for the last fifteen years
In which they have not been familiar as house,
hold words
1t has become so much matter of course that
this sort of dialect is the political vernacular in
which democratic presses speak; and many of
them will charge the Wings with being traitors
to their country with as much indifference as
they would publish paragraph abou, the wealth.
er-at the very time too when no utterer of the
calumny would dare pronounce it personally to
the face OF any one Of the honorable men whom
as party he SO habitualiy ISLANDERS.
For party purposes, men, who would not on
any account in private life depart from the cour
iesles OF society, are found practising upon the
maxim that all is fair in politics; aud as politi-
clans they will not hesitate TO stir up the worst
passions of men, and to direct them with vindlc-
tive excitement upon their political opponents.
is 1t to be supposed that leading organ of the
Administration can charge the Wing party with
being anti-American without knowing that the
charge is false-utterly false! Oh-but lis said
In political way; it is newspaper phraseology ;
1t is meant to be believed only by those who do
not know any better.
! Yes. with such miserable eouivocation and
subterfuge as this, column after column of yi,u-
peration is poured out upon the best the nobest.
the most patriotic party that ever struggled 10
save people from their own decisions, or stood
by the side Of constitutional freedom TO beat off
the threatened approaches of anarchy-a party,
in name and in principles, the successor of that
which achieved the independence of the country,
The particular occasion which called forth the
National Intelligencer'S comment was a repre.
senlaton that the Wing presses saw nothing OBJ
Jectonable In Mr. PoLK's language in the Inau-
gural Address relative to the Orepon until the
British journals and Government spoke out, and
that the tone of the Wings then became the echo
of the foreign cry.
| Now in point of fact there was no real impor-
lance attached to Mr.. ?oLK's language on tba,
subject by either party in this country until il
was seen that the British Cabinet was disposed
10 regard II as official. 1t was the language of
Parilzan, intended for home use; and if the Whigs
, were to find fault with such language on every
occasion OF lis utterance by high dignltaries who
cannot forget that they are party leaders, there
would be no end TO fault finding. 1t is the vice
OF the times. To defy and denounce Great Bril-
tain has been found ready means of popularity ::
hence the orators of Congress, with much bio
talking, pushed OH the Oregon bill, and hence
Mr.. Polk declared that Oregon was ours, the
whole OF 1t; yet neither the orators in Congress-
nor Mr.. POLK cast thought upon the means and
appliances by which our claim to that country
may have to be made good. They could get the
popularity, at least for the present. without that.
without any trouble of calculating consequences
or OF preparing for them, and what more need
they care for
But MIR. Folks unqualified declaration was
commented on by the Wing press. One of those
viSItatIons OF imputed anli-Americanism which
nave been so frequent of late, came upon our
own heads, for speaking in BETTING terms of that
declaration under the circumstances of utter want
OF preparation to sustain it--and this before the
response of the British press was heard on this
side of the Atlantic.