Democratic banner., 1847-11-15

mischief during the day wh~snsshey may be
%lseen. A yOung one is put forward with
resolution recommending to the Townships
Ito hold primary meetings. and send dele
gates 70 a county c6epentiion. Now Msssrs
Editors you DOM, believe me butt is fact
THE Wings of Old Pike have adopted the
caucus system. They have villifed and
abused the democratic party for years, be.
cause they sometimes selected their candid:
ates according to the will of the people ex-
pressed through the medium Of fair and
honest conventions. But a few days since
this county rang with tho curses of the
Wing party against us for this same thing.
They have always opposed the nomination
of county officers they say upon principle.
Tie same principle governs all their ac-
'tions upon every occasion. Principle re-
solves itself into a matter of policy, and
adapting themselves to the fancies of to-day
and the whims Of tomorrow, their leaders
endeavor to drag them on through a tissue
of inconsistencies with no needle to guide,
save self-interest, and no star to direct but
that of an ~unbounded ambition.
But great credit is due to a single name
in the meeting; he battled hard to sustain
his reputation as a man of truth; he felt too
proud to belle ten thousand declarations
of former times. The great po,oer sat
calmly behind the throne and pushed for
ward strong and aged freemen who stopped
to act as lesser lights to dim and feeble
luminaries. Still the young mar whose
heart was honest, though his features were
hard, continued to preach in a style that
caused half suppressed cheers to rise from
many a Wing. The measure now seemed
lost, consistency was about to triumph,
when the s'lion of louisiana" ambitious
still, deserts the high ground he was won't
to occupy, and lends his aid. The measure
still sickly, and would probably have
dropped to rise no more, but he who never
fails in such cases, rushed to its relief with
'sthat potent syrup'' and snatched the ling
ering patient from the verge Of the grave.
A calm smile now flashed Ger his counte-
nance, and a secret joy played round his
that the master would say "well done,
thou good and faithful serrant."
The factotum then rose and explained in
high and gIandiloquent language, how very
it was that he could agree with
both parties. And really he did it to a nice
ty. He damned the caucus system through
out, and would have been unwilling to COM
init this wrong had it not been justified by
the wrong committed by the democrats, and
finally wound up by saying that c~aucuses
if you will, change their names to conven-
tons are certainly the most lovely things
in all creation. It is here, says he, that
the people can meet and consult for their
good. II is in these primary meetings that
the principles Of our free and republican.
institutions can be kept pure and unimpair-
ed. The vote was thentaken, and that poor
honest-hearted fellow was heard to break
silence by himself.
I am a believerin conventions and ever
have been, and I therefore like the manner
in which the democratic party of our coun-
ty have acted, but how much credit is due
the Wings for their adoption of this course?:
To refuse to adopt a good Ming until COM
peeled by stern necessity argues a degree
Of wickedness and depravity which the
Wing party will quickly disclaim, though it
may at this time very justly attach to them.