Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-08-27

TIE NEXT PRESIDENCY.

The suhiec, of the Next Presidency we per
seiye is beginning to be discussed quite freely
in the public press of the country. This Wing
Press is beginning to entertain the subject with
seriousness since the adjournment OF Congress
booking as they do, to the grea, tribunal of
the people at the Polls, for vindica,ion and
restoration OF that magnificent American poll
scvunlcr which the government and people of
The country have prospersd, and which the
madness and folly of Loco Foco misrule, I'M
asked and unsolicited. have struck down and
destroyed. To the present Congress the peo-
pie may appeal in vain. What has been done
by them viii not be undone. Tho next Con-
gress may be. so constituted as to be enabled to
restore to the Industry of our country the sde-
qnate protection usder which it supported il
self under the Act Of '42; but even though
they should Repeal the Act of '46. it viii most
ssssuredly incur the Presidential Veto, and,
therefore, il is manifest that the only hope Of
III. country is involved in the next Presden-
ua Election, when Wing President and
Wing Congress may come into power, and
with them, restoration Of American princi-
PIES and American policy. Wenow consider
the Industry Of our country surrendered to
Great Britain. and our laborers under the feet
Of tho.paupers of Europe. We have an abb
ding confidence in the prople--yes, thank
God the stout hearts and hard hands Of the
Nation have the means Of vndcatlon nj the
Ballot Bor---tbey will record il there-,he un-
principled poliGcians--the followers after place
will never succeed again in pamIng upon
them that Polk is a better Tariff man than
CLAY, or that any Locofoco is a better Tariff
man than Wing IT'S true that here and
there Won may find member Of the Wing
party in the South ga little .tfdy," but the
ninety nine hunlredths of the Wing party in
this country, from the Aroostool to the Rio
Glande. and from Ire Atlantic to the Pacific,
are in favor Of protecting American Industry
and hereafter men and parties will be judged
by their past lives and actions. No obscure
or non-commital letters, like the KANE letter,
irunlped up IN the midst OF an excited canvass
by an otlice-seeker, (kANE has received his
reward-Mr Polk having appointed him L.
S. District Judge for ennsylyania.) will serve
TO gull the people again. The people of the
country now FULLY and clearly understand one
thing, and that's, il they wish to protect and
cherish the industry of their own country and
shield ifs prosperity from the blghting inhn-
ence of Foreign labor and Foreign products,
they must support WING men and Wing
measures.
In the month Of October 1915, Just after The
disastrousdefea;of,h Wing party in heMary-
land Congressional Elections, wa submitted ga
.telc reflections" 10 our readers, and expressed
the hope, that before another Congressional
election passed away, the Wings of the Colsl-
try would arouse themselves fully 10 the work.
and vote IN that election as though they were
engaged in the Presidential contest, for upon
llat Congress, under circumstances might de-
voye the great and imper ant duty Of choo
sing the next President, in case the election
was thrown into Congress This, indeed.
might be the ease, as II Is a most notorious fact,
that our Opponents are much divided and like /,
iy TO have several candidates in the field, Tor II
IS a. hard this moment 10 tell from "the def I.
mugs oithe Democrats IN Congress" what the |
democratic faith is. asst isto tell the color of the
chameleon. We have given some specimens
81 the differences TO our readers. in extracts
from the speeches of Mr.. NILES of Conn, MIR. /
lAycY Of Ala and others. The Wings are
nnted upon all Of the great questions Of do
meslic policy, now before the Country; and
lndecd, they are the only questions now likely
10 be contemplated, as there is now no qUes-
ions Of Foreign policy Of Importance, likely
tunaiely all OF the momentous questions lnvol- /,
yag peace or war have been brought TO close
Q. are in progress Of closing; whatever credit
our opponents are entitled to in these matters,
they ought ~ haze aud will receive at the I
hands OF all parties l5nt what we have now
10 look 20, is our own Counuy--iTs protection
against Foreign manufactures and Foreign labor
-ialuences more deadly and hostile than The
INVASION Of Foreign armies. Better by far that
we should have met Great Britain on The
Ocean and IN the field Of battle, and contested
cur territorial rights aud claims al the Cannon's !
mouth, than that the Industry of our Country
should have been sacrificed 10 her liking
Better for us 70 have seen orr Atlantic Cities
smoking in ruins. than that that American pol (
ley which alone can make US great. free and
happy psopc, should have been surrendered
and stricken down. Victory in the end would
have been otTs--our cities Ike the Phoenix.
would have risen again from their ashes-the
hearts Of our whole people would have been
csmented together in common struggle, but
il the fall Of our cherished institutions is once
consummated, our laborers cast down and
Their children sent about the streets CRYING for
employment, or forced into the crowded fields
of agriculture without inviting or remunera.
ting markets, then, and then indeed may we
say that we are sold ''to the British" and have
paid dearly for "he blessings Of peace" We
feel reioccd Nat the Oregon question is termi-
Mated bot we do not feel reoiced 10 think that
on opponents, who clamorcd for "a 40 took
~, and then gave away TO Great Britain the
industry oftheir own County, for her condos
ceaSi0i England is well satisfied---she has
gotten nors terrtory than she had any rightful
claim 10 or indeed cared about on the North
West Coast, and in addition, that which she
did Caie about, aud was most anxously solicit
tous 70 ebtaa, possession Of the whole United
.iates Market for her manufactures. This
batter possession we must contest and fight
for, upon our own soil and with our own
people. snd never strike our cooFs, until we
once nose see the banner of American indie
psnacuss and American Industry. floating
SIDE hy aide iYom Our National Capitol