Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-09-15
COL. WYNKOOP ON TIE STUMP-IVHY
HE RENOUNCED WHIGGERY.

On the 9Th instant there was tremendous
Democratic meeting at Doyestown, Pa. Gen.
Patterson, Coils. Wynkoop and Black, Capt
Davis, Gate of Mass. Vols Robert Tyler, A.
H. Reeder and G. C. Collins, Esqs were the
speakers. Col. Wynkoop delivered, indeed,
powerful speech, from which we take the
following extracts which brands the federal
party as it deserves TO be branded
AT my counry's call, marcEel as pri-
vate soldier 10 sustain her honor went out
a Wing, with my musket on my shoulder and
my knapsack on my hack. | thought my
country wanted me. | come back to you, fell
low-citizens, Democrat! A full blooded
Democrat (Cheers.) And as the Wings in
derision say, red-mouthed venomous Demo
Crat. Great applause) And | thank the
Mexican war Tor my conversion. | learned
there the difference of heart, the differ
ence of feeling-of soul, that existed between
the two parties. | learned there a lesson
that cannot be rejected. In the moment of
peril and danger, while in the arduous ser
vice OF my country, my mind wondered back
to my far distant native land, and mingled
with the cheering recollecions Of Il Wing !
held on to the faith. But learned that while
the army of the republic was engaged in its
defence, my own Wing party, influenced by
expectancy, had engaged in encouraging those
who were destroying the army which had
been sent abroad to represent them in the field
OF battle. | saw party in the United States
busily engaged in cOndemning the war, when
] knew and felt it to be lust [ knew thai
blood-good, true, red American bood-had
been shed upon American soil, and it was
that feeling that induced me TO take up my
musket. | have never doubted the business
Of this war; [Cbeersl And yielding TO the
influence and force of motives | could not re-
sist, gave in my adhesion to the Democratic
party, with heart and soul CHEERS
81 can trace back TO the Wing party most Of
the carnage that redeemed the plains OF hIexi.
CO! | can point 10 them as the cause of the
guerrilla system, with all its enormty and
blood thirstiness. heard the arguments the
Wing orators addressed to the popnlacc. and
knew their influence in melting the Mexi-
cans to an obstinate and desperate resistance
knew, too, their influence upon my poor
men, some of whose bones are now bleaching
upon the plains of Mexico. | point to the
Mexican party in the United States, will
Henry Clay at their head, as the cause of al
this evil
"Taking the hint from him and his party
Salas, the originator of the guerrilla system
urged that they should hunt them down, wor
ry them out, and proIong the war. You can
overcome them,' he said, when you NEE
them face 10 face, and thousand TO thousand
The Democratic party he said, would in
sist upon prosecution OF the war, and woul
have an indemnity; but if the Wing part,
comes into power, we will have a peace with
ont any sacrifice of territory How this plaI
of Salas', suggested by the Wing party in tn
the United States, succeeded, let the bones O
the Americans now in Mexico testify; let tb
gallant spirits who were manned, AMI are nov
lying in the hospitals, speak out; and let tn
dead officers who fell along the National Roa
utter their voices.
"And these men were there struggling fo
their cogntry's honor-not for one State, bu
the whole Union. And what was their pos
tion' Surrounded by an enemy, numerou
enough to crush them, and eat them-tbe
found party at home where they should loo
for succor, moulding the ball, preparing tn