Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-10-09
For The Wisconsin Herald.
when did Whiggery die?

now without principles, measures, and even
without a name that can promise success.
That they are sensible of this fact may be
seen by the expiring party, like drowning
man, catching at a straw
The above was undoubtedly written be-
fore the result of the late election was
known, or the glorious triumph of Wing
principles in Wisconsin, ever anticipated by
those who are now writing under an over
whelming defeat.
The death scene of the Wing party is
thus wildly portrayed by the writer. "Af-
ter the splendid victories of our army that
followed each other in quick succession,
notwithstanding the aid and comfort they
(the Wing party had rendered to the enc
Notwithstanding that few years ago
they would prefer acar, pestilence and fam
inc to the elevation of military chieftain
to the Presidency-behold the drowning
grasp of the sinking party, at the availability
of the leader of this band of robbers. Ii was
ISuppOotO lifAt LS NOuid easily
tured into hero; and, without why or
wherefore, the name Of ZACHARY TAYLOR
for President, was placed at the head of
the Wing columns generally. But what
ldamper it was when it was known that
Taylor would not hold them up! Then the
party sunk the last time, never to rise under
the name of Whig!"
Then you and |, and all of us went
down my friends.' Yes. Away on the
heights of Mexico, where Wing Generals
and Wing soldiers are toiling and sweating
and pouring out life, to prosecute Demo-
cratic war-not for the honor of the war,
nor its propagators-but for the honor of
common country-a flag, that, so long as it
has been borne by Wing hands, has never
been suffered to trail in the dust, the Wing
party, according to g A Farmer of Grant"
has fallen to rise no more.
If g A Farmer of Grant, will fix his
eyes steadily on our southwestern horizon,
he viii see there bright peculiar starr
slowly ascending the upper deep, gradually
illuminating to zenith. That star has al
ready shot some of its rays into Wisconsin,
North Carolina and several other States
In its light, the elements of that party
which now is, and ever has been, known
as the Wing party-are tremendously clus-
tering together And If GA Farmer of
Grant" has by any means lost the power of
vision, so that nc cannot see what is so
plainly to be seen, let MIN get little Wing
eye-salye and anoint his eyes, and then,
like the servant of the prophet of old, he
can see "that they who are with US, are
more than those against U.S.
Farmer of Gram" must certainly be
laboring under some hallucination of mind,
to turn the tables. This party he has seen
go down, g never TO rise,' is the veritable
so-called Democratic party itself. He is
not the first one who has "mourned his
own as another's woes!' Where is the
Democratic party as it was in the days of
Jackson's and Van Buren's administrations
Shoulder to shoulder, they stood then,
without a gap in their phalanx! Where
are those columns of & the faithful and UNI
terrified now? Who heard in those days
the hoarse mutterings of Tom Benton
against the Executive - the deep and
solemn protestations of John C. Calhoun'
iJsbora x,-ar., tb-,o ,,ro,. ,,at;,vo1 ,,,a..r,,,
around which they rallied, which easily dis
tinguished them from the Wing party
But what are the leading principles of that
party now! According to the resolutions
of the Convention held at Potosi, they are
''the peace and prosperity of the country
and amity with the nations of the earth ~
These are also eminently Wing principles;
holden to, and acted upon by the Wing
party, when the Democrats, if ever in sim
cerity they embraced them, proved traitor
to them. Wherever g A Farmer of Grant"
finds those three principles united in the
breast Of any man, and acted upon by that
man, because the practice of them cons'i-
tutes true patriotisn--he may be assured
that man Is a Wing!
One word more. Although the Wing
party was l,Om in troublous times-altho'
it, childhood was rocked in revolutionary
tempests-yet il desires peace. 1t viii new
er shrink, however, from conflict. And
some of those contentious which . 4 Far
mer of Grant, sees, prospectively, between
the Democracy on one side and 8 Whitney
Sc, including the Earrings s ROthchilds, "
on the other, the Wings (for they are not