The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-04
To the Editor of the National Whig.]
WINGS OF WASHINGTON

There are some remarks in the letter from
Washington to the North American and us.
Gazette of the Both ult. published in the
Wing Of Friday, that demand notice. The
writer speaks Of the Wings Of this city with
unqualified censure, many Of whom he says
are " bankrupts in fortune, somewhat so in
reputation, and have lived upon the bounty
Of our few successes, obtained by the labor
Of others''- " decayed gentlemen, Of conve-
nient politics, who are wings as occasion re-
quires put them all together, and they have
not influence enough to control dozen
votes" &c. /" There are proper and highly
qualified men in all the States" he con-
tinues, for the vacancies that are now about
to occur in Washington, and they should
surely bepreferred to the louaging hangers-on
that have infested this capital for genera
ton and more past" If the writer means
to embrace all the Wings Of this city in this
denuncation, unhesitatingly pronounce it
base caumny and a gross falsehood. !
venture to assert that in no portion of the
United States can there be found an equal
number Of men who have been more sincere
and ardent in their devotion to the Wing
Eeausa,. more per-eeuted and trampled upon
by the opposite party, or more reckless Of
expense and Indifferent to consequences than
the Wings Of w Washington. Without the po-
litical rights common to their fellow-citizens,
with every inducement to be silent and IN
active-proscribed, oppressed, and abused
for years, they have stood firm and immova-
Bile, the first to rush to the Wing standard
when the first chance of success presented
itself, and spending their money lavishly,
and devoting their time, talents, and ener
gies to the cause throughout the long and
disastrous reign Of Locofocoism If this SLAM
derer does not, many Of the Wings in Con-
gress know what they have done to benefit
the Wing party in all quarters Of the Union
and most Of the party successes which have
been witnessed, during the present year, in
the different States, may be, in a degree,
attributed to their disinterested exertions
here. ! have said disinterested, because
nine-tenths Of them had no other motive for
what they did than love of truth, and a
I desire to promote the best interests of their
country. 1t is rather too much, therefore,
after all they have done and suffered, to be
thus denounced and slandered by one who,
if he rendered any service to the party at
all was either paid for it, or expected to be
paid. have no doubt there are men in all
the States, as he says, properly qualified to
! fill the vacancies about to occur in the House
Of Representatives, but they could not, as
suredly, be preferred to those who have been
struggling for years here, to promote the
Wing cause, and who are, to say the least,
equally qualified to- perform the duties Of the
places in question. It has been matter of
surprise that, with knowledge of the fact
that but few citizens Of Washington are ever
appointed to office, they should have remain
ed so ardent and persevering in the cause
for so long period. Nothing more plainly
demonstrates their dsinterestedness and their
consequent claims upon the Wing party
The writer of this seeks no office but as
Wing (of much older standing, Isuspect, than
the correspondent Of the North American)
and citizen of Washington, knowing the
true character of his Wing brethren here, l
cannot quietly suffer them to be so grossly
and shamefully slandered as they have been
by this penny-s-liner. 1t is not only gross
but wanton SANDER, and dsgraceful to any
EpAMSiNoNDAs.
That part Of the letter Of "Independent"
to which Epaminondas takes such Just ex-
ception crept into the National Wing entire
ly through lnadvertence, and we have writ
ten some remarks excusatory Of the over
sight, but we throw them aside for those of
our valued correspondent, whose positions in
regard to the course of the Wings of WASH |
ington we endorse to the letter. Why "In-
dependent" should have suffered his pen to
indite such undeserved structures upon his
Wing brethren Of Washington, il is not for
us to say, but we assure our friends, against
whom the offensive paragraphs are directed,
that their appearance in the National Wing
was ENTIRELY inadvertent.
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o. The New York True Sun says that
Mr. CLAY onnoead fha xuar of 1910 nuarv