Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-01-21
TIIE, ENQUIRER.
MON VA.
wednesday Morning, January 10, ls4s.
POSITION OF THE WIGS.

| POSITION OF THE WINGS.
We remarked few days since that we were
prepared TO see The Wings take the ground mat
heir party voted under duress that The war eX'
ised by the act of Mexico. Since then we nave
seen The New York Tribune OF The 18th January,
in which that model Of Wing editor thus ex-
presses himself, in an article which contains any
thing but good taste and patriotism. Inc aric!e
is headed ",hc late Military Dinner at Washing
Ion City"
"O,her Republics have lost their Liberties only
after long course OF luxury, coiIuP!loH' a',a e
ecn,ive usnrpa,ion. Who could nave believed
,ha' i onrs Inc wors. iorebodines Of Patrick
Henry ami o.her patriots Of his day, as to EAecu.
live snnremacy, would have been So soon rea izeds
| Tb,, viii the sod is yet fresh npon his grave.
even Wing Senators would be found to repndia'c
their own responsibility, and SURRENDER al discic-
| lion the sword and The purse. for mere 'VIs1t
Gus prosecution OF the Wal" 10 President wig
plunged us into it by an act ol nsufpauoil ioi
which, if Patrick Henry we're alive, nc VIZ" sr1u
say he deserves 10 answer win ms neda'
! great misfortune wds, not IN any 'dch VI '"'us
or perception of The enormi'y OF EAeeu''e ":"'
nainn hnt in the t;n,idiiu OF Gicr Representatives,
The order 10 Gen. Taylor should nave oeefi al
rnce denounced as an act OF treason against Inc
Constitution, and upon The friends Of 'he usurpeI
| should have been thrown the responsibility ana
the guilt of shielding him from impeachment.
We think The Tribune does injustice 10 us
friends in CHARGING them with "timidity," as al
that lime they did not think that By sustaining
the interest. honor and rights of their country, II
| would conflict with ''lhe high behesi Of party
They now find, that if they are 10 stand upon the
Lexington PLATFORM" party requires them TO
abandon the in,ercs, honor and right OF their
country, and make open war upon theif own So
lenn act, in declaring that our country was ID
The right and Mexico in the wrong. Iheir ieaoy
compliance with The mandates OF parry ousn' 10
have saved Them from the hard hits ol Inc III
bune. Such conduct as has marked The course
of leading Wings, would have drawn upon them
the patriotic elcquence OF Patrick Henry, IN
terms more pointed than was visited IN his Gay
AGAINST those who could not clear their skirls u
treason. The ieuers oil party arc so closely
drawn upon the Wing leaders, that they dare not
denounce the reasonable conduct of Corwin and
those o her GLORIOUS Wings" who sustain his
outrageous positions.
We strongly incline TO the opinion, that The
"Lexington platform" does not contain enough Of
pat,io,ism to raly,he rank and file OF the Wings
TO its support We heard nothing al one time
from the Wings bu Mr.. Clay's great Lexington
speech, and The request went lorwa'd that none
should print ii until tine grea. orator himself wrole
il out for the PRESS. so that mol word shonld be
lost A, the same lime the greatness OF Mr.
Claws nosiiion was such, as he Wings commended,
that the message Of the President Of the Uoiied
States did no, create any interest compared with
wha, was tel for The forthcoming speech Of Mt
Cav. We would here ask, ho% has that speech
osen received by those VINO had claimed so much
for ia Notwithstanding The direct call for a re-
spouse 10 il, with the accompanying resolutions
throughout The whole country, The only RESPONSE
made 10 i, in this "Gibrallar Of Whgse!y" is, as
our friend Leake remarked, that General
Zachary Taylor was . very acceptable candi-
dare Tor the Presidency"
The full force Of this response vii! be fe!t.whcn
i, 10 recolec;ed thai General Taylor is a rival Of
Mr.. Clay for ,ha, Office.
We observe tia, Governor Owsley OF Ken.
lucky, in his message TO Inc Legislature, does net
;rus: himself upon The Lexington PLATFORM
The only notice or The war taken by him is, tha,
'ihis country is still afflicted with an unhappy
war with Mexico"
All wars are unhappy" but they are not all
unnecessary; and we may well challenge the his
tory Of The world to show an instance in which
any county tas ever been more in the right in
war, than ours in the unhappy war with Me1i-
CO."
We not only waited until our soil was nva.
ded by the enemy, with the declared intention Of
driving us from il, but until our officers, who
were riding about in the full assurance OF safely
in our own county, were shot down, and The
command Of Thornton cut Mi and no, until then
did our aImy make war on the enemy.