The daily union., 1846-09-01
WING PRosPEcTs-TRUTH STRANGELY
TOLD.

tue siBhinceht question, IN answer 10 which zeal
Gus and well-informed whig journal (ths New Bel.
ford Mercury discourses through whole column
of confession most singularly naps and candid
We have really very little To add to the portraturs
of the whig prospects drawn by the Mercury with
such strongl unmarked truthfulness and vgor, W,
will let that journal, therefore, speak Of its own
cause for ITSELF somewhat at length. Il opens Ii,
matter as follows;
"The whig party made an almost exhaus,ng e.
fort in 1874; and they should have come out of n,
contest victorious. No honest man can doubt IN.
Henry Clay was elected President in 1874 by ma.
ory Of the legal votes in the necessary number of
States But II is unnecessary at this time to refer
TO the false issues by which friends were every
where disheartened, except in this and one or tive
other States which stand boldly by principle undsr,
all circumstances. We propose TO glance at the
state OF the whig party at the present time and oI
inquire into It's prospects. The task is gloomy anu
unattractive; but il is well that the wings should
bear IN mind what Is to be accomplished il they
hope to regain the ascendaney."
This is well SO far as it goes. The whig effort in
1874 was exhausung; il should have resulted in viz.
tory; but, evil destiny would have il, it eventu.
ted in sore defeat; and the prospect for the "a.
ture is yet more more gloomy and unatlractiv.
The survey and the calculation Of this prospect pro
ceed as follows:
"How do we stand at the south Il seems to n,
that scarcely ray Of hope comes from that quarter
At the presidential election Georgia and Louisian
deserted US. Tennessee was saved by a handful a
votes, but has since gone against us. North Caro-
lima gave Henry Clay decided majority, but Ia,
since gloriousy reversed that majority. Maryand
voted for Clay, but at the last congressional election
leaned decidedly to the locofoco side. Delaware al
doubtful State at the best; and the only slayehod
ing State upon which the wings can now count with
confidence is Kentucky. When il is remembered
that Florida and Texas have come into the Union
since the presidential election and that both thos,
States are sure for the locofoco party, we may well
set down the slaveholding States in mass as dead
weight against US. A southern whig canddap
might carry Maryland, Delaware, North Carolins,
and possibly Georgia but a northern canddal,
would be likely to obtain the support Of Kentucky
alone out Of all the slave States The south, there
FORE is in any event nearly lost to US, and our whole
dependence is upon the north and west. And how
do we stand in these sections' II is fact that The
wing party OF the north, by refusing to tolerate h.
n1uity Of slavery in the annexation Of Texas hAy,l
lost the support Of the south But docking at ii.
matter as one Of mere policy aside from principls)
have they gained anything in the free States by ths
manly stand against the extension of slayeryi NOI
at all. The anti-Texas locofocos have not deserted
their party, but cling to it, right or wrong Thsl
wings have gained nothing from the locofoco paryk
mot the first vote Have they reconciled the paryF
whose sole distinctive doctrine s opposition to sa
very' Very far from it. The very bitterest oppe
nents OF the wing party were the liberty party lead
ers. They defeated Mr. Clay and the whg party.
Making allowance for the natural exaggeration oi|
the influence of the abotonist vote in the last pres
idenal election, it is impossible not to do justice
the clearness, the calmness and the force with which
these statistics of past present. and future whg dis
comhture are here summed up, Whatever want oil
candor we may have heretofore observed in the Mer
curry, we will willingly admit that it tells the truth
manfully for once. Ii deserves particular credit
for the ingenuousness with which il confesses that
all the courtship which the wings paid to the aboi
tionlsts in view Of the coming election, was, alas
but "love's labor lost.' From recent indications at
the north, however, are led to believe that tho
lesson drawn from this sad experience is but wasted
upon the whig leaders. To this topic however, ",
may have occasion to recur hereafter.
After having done this exemplary Justice to the
southern side of the whig picture the Mercury tuns
with undiminished energy to cast the whig horo-
scope in the northern sky. We quote again.
Such confession is quite too good to be lost:
".A the north, then, ho0 does the ohig party stand
The old whig States with us STILL for we cannot
regard the detection of Connecticut as locofoco tn
umph, but merely Of those accidents constant
ly brought about by the folly of the wings in mix
ing up exraneous matters with politics. The Stats
of New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode !
Island, and Vermont are whig States, and likely 50
to continue. New Hampshire VIC have no hope Of
split Maine is hopelessly locofoco. New York is /
such theatre of dissensions that it is hard to say
where she stands, but judging by her recent election
she is still a locofoco State. In that State whlg
fights whig, and locofoco fights locofoco. Jet
our whig friends in New York cling to their par
.yy, and occupy common platform SO far i"
they may. They are ,ceak enough united and can !
lily afford TO dipide the party.
The rhig party is 'oeak spery,ohers out Of Nw /
England At the ioest, gallant Ohio stands joined only
NTH kentnckyai the south they haze nert 10 nothing
.at the north they are in a minority"
We subscribe to the correctness of these views.
They well put, too, and it is hardly necessary
us to add word by way of impressing them upon
the minds of our readers By way of showing /
however, how thoroughly in earnest the Mercury
is, in all its statement, we will add the conclu.
ding paragraph of its article, in which, with zeal
that "hopes against hope" it proceeds to point out
the proper regimen and remedy for the desperate \
malady under which it feels its whole party to be
laboring;
"Shall this state Of things continue! or will the
whig party once more shake of It's leihugy, and
make glorious rally' The darkest moment always
precedes the dawn of day. Important issues are /
now clearly and distinctly before us. Let us hope
that the present rostration # the hgs is bud psuc'
TO great effort chich, in lS45, shall cro,on them Eh
uictoryn'
Alas! this "sthargy" must continue, or must take
the form of hopeless agitation, which, in far I"
1t rallies upon the tariff question, cannot for long
years, at least, (as we showed yesterday produce
any practical effect This "dark moment Of present
to the wings will grow yet darker,
the prospects of the country brighten, both at home
and abroad, under the influence of the benehcenE
democratic Legislation Of the 18th Congress.
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