The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-10-14
From the Boston Atlas.
A Word to wings.

A Word to Wings.
The Wings, in little more lhnn three
weeks, will have to give in their votes for II
Iec,ors of President and Vice President OF th'
United S:ates,und it bchooves them 10 weigI
cautiously aud examine wisely the merits Of
the candidates who have been presented ioi
their suhiuges. NominnIly, there nre threc
candidates for President though practically
there are but two. There is no more probo'
bility of Martin Van Buren, receiving mn cleo
tornl vote than there WINS in 1914 of James
G. Birncy receiving any. Every Wing vote
therefore, cnst for him, will count ms half Il
vote for Lewis Cass. Wings might MS well
vote for the mnn in the moon M vote for him.
We have often been told, and by some Of
the very men who now advocate Martin Van
Buren,, that tho Dutch voters in the "tenth
legion" or Shenandoah valley, in Virginia,
continue tovote every year for General Jack
sou, not hnviug heard that he is dend, and
believing him still n candidate. 1t is also
said that some of the "Clny, first, last, and nil
the time" men, intend to vote for the distin-
guisIed Kentuckiun MS long MS lie lives, and
for his executors after he dies. All this
shows depth offeeing aud of personal re-
gard, which. though n FAULTS NJ least an am
liable one. The first instance exhibits igno-
rance, the second lack of sense; but neither
case exhibits broader nbsurdity than those
Wigs, who, M the present time, talk ofvo-
ting for Martin Van Buren,. For all Practical
purposes, it is just rs well to vote for tho de-
ceased hero ofNcw Orleans, or the eXecu-
tors of the statesman Of Kentucky, rs TO vote
for Van Buren,. 1t just us well for them to
vote for q dead mon.us it is TO vote for theSage
of LindenwaId, who is TO all iutents aud pur-
poses politically dead.
The choice then lies between General
Taylor and General Cass Que or the other
MUST AND WILL NJ ELECTED. One is u Wing,
the other the worst kind Off locofoco. The
one will give us n wise Wing administration,
will call around linn the ablcst Wings in the
country 10 form his cabinet, and during his
administration we may expect to have a Tar
lfr enacted which will protect the labor ofthe
country, aud give the market Of America TO
the workmen ofAmerica. We may eXpec:
n repeal Of the Sub Treasury. We may cX-
pect business TO revive, money to become
plenty. In word we shall have every Wing
measure carried into effect that we could
have any other Wing were elected We
shall have no wars of aggression upon weak
and dcienceless neighbors. The morbid APP
petite for more territory will be stayed, and
The question ofeXtonding slavery into new
territory will he left TO the decision ofthe rep
resentatives of the peoples will:
Now what may we expect from the elect
ion of Gen. Cass? No one need remain in
doubt in regard TO him. He is the man Of
all others whom the Wings ought to defeat.
lie is n weak ambitious, and unprincplcd
man, "an aristocratc Democrat" we think
our ncighbor ofthe Post, few years ago,
called him. He is a war man insonely so,
He thinks we might "swallow the whole of
Mexico without injury fle has borne the
name of the "inevitabIc war Cass." From
him The Wings can expect nothing but OPP
position, nothing bur defeat.
Now, then, is there Il Wing who can hest
tate which ofthcsc two men to vote for? viii
any one by his folly or negligence throw a.
way his vote, or withhold ii from General
Taylor? Consider the immense interests at
stake, weigh wisely and well the subiect,and
then ilyou can, with the wars and debts of
James X. Folks administration, his imperial
use of the veto, AID Thousand other outra-
yes upon right and reason before your eyes,
vote so as to put such n Servile imtator, such
and enemy ofevery Wing principle in the
Presidential chair, as Lewis Cass, do so, but
never after claim TO be Wing.