Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-11-22
THE WING TRIUMPH.

! I'm announcing in our last number that the Pres
Dental contest had terminated in tile election o
General TAYLOR and his worthy adjunct MlLLARi
FILMoRE to the two highest offices of the Govern
ment, offered some reflections on the import
ance of the contest, and some congratulations to ou
readers the happy result of it. The subject Is
however full of interest to require apology for
briefly Tesuming ii. Indeed, II is hardly possible
for any rejecting person to estimate too highly the
importance of the issue which the people Of the
United States have just decided or the magnitude
of the interests which hung on that decision. Pro-
por;onate, therefore, must be the joy of all those
who enrolled themselves on The side Of tho Wing
candidate for the Chief Magstracy of this great
country. For ourselves, we confess that when we
look back at the long train of evil consequences
which have flowed from those elections which gave
ascendency TO the anti-nati0na principles, and the
aggressive, bclligeren, proscriptive, and jocobnc
career of The sef-styled Democratic party, and
contrast them with the pacific, Just patriotic, 'o'-
Grant, and conservative principles Of the Wing par
ty which have now 50 signaly triumphed, we re-
gard the result of the contest with feelings akin TO
those which must fill the bosom of men who have
just escaped from a city overwhelmed by an earth
quake. The antagonist principles good aud evil
were in desperate conflict. dark and portentous
future awaited the triumph of the one; bright and
cheering prospect is opened by the victory OF the
other. Let us, however, look more in detail at
what we have escaped on the one hand and what
General CAss, the Democratic candidate, was
the supporter OF the existing Administration, and
stood pledged to carry out the policy of all the Dem
ocratic Administrations from 1899 down. This
policy has consisted
In making war on the business of the country
donouncing the very foundation of commerce, and
invoking bankruptcy and ruin upon all who irede
credit, the vital element of all trade in free
Governments
In making the currency Of the country
by the establishing of the Subreasury--tiie sys-
TEN of the dark ages and of despotc Governments
only-and giving one kind of money for the Gov
eminent and another kind for tho People:
In making war on the industry of the country,
by refusing TO it all protection, and exposing II TO
the competition of the pauper labor Of Europe:
In denying to the Government any constitution
al authority 10 apply public money to public i'm
prOveIncnt; in denying TO 1t III fact almost every
attribute of good aud narrowing lis functions al
most 10 the sole powers of taxation and war:
In applying the Executive Veto 10 laws the most
sauary and assuming for the President the right
and duty of nega,iving bills upon mere motives OF
cXpcdiency, and arbitrarily setting up his single
opinion sufficient warrant for multiplying the
will of the People as expressed through their Rep
resentatives:
In bringing into existence the anti-social princi
pie of prescriptions converting the power of appoint
ment into cruel and tyrannical engine of 'rewards
and punishments," and administering the Govern
rneni on The ST. ";Sa doctrine that 'o the victcrs
belong the spells ~ all alike detestab'e and at wnr
with the genius of free Government.
In addition to these general principles of action
Of the Democratic Administrations, the reign of
party has been marked by disregard Of interna-
tional generosity. They first wresied from weak,
and, though erring, yet hardly responsible neigh
bor large district of her territory and then, on
the preteXt of coercing the payment of mass of
private claims, good or bad, made cruel and desc
atng war upon her to force from her yet larger
portion other country; thus bringing upon ourselves
the loss of thousands of valuable lives and millions
of treasure, which, had it been deemed constiu-
tional to apply it to the improvement Of coun-
try, would have made the desert blossom as the
Had General CAss succeeded to the Presidency;
he was not only bound to cary out the principles
avowed and pTactised by his Democratic predeces-
sors, but, animated by the same aggressive spirit
and thirst for territorial acquisition which have dis
ilngulshed them, he would, in all probability have
attempted some scheme Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT which
might have brought upon another foreign war,
and possibly have endangered the peace fall chris
tendon for. when begun no one can tell
whittier and how far war may extend.
All the interest of country, therefore, foreign
and domestc--its internal prosperity and its peace
with the rest Of the world-were involved in the
question whether the candidate of the Democracy.
or his opposite, should be placed in the Executive
chair. 1t was question whether these mschefs
Of msrulc should be sanctioned by the people and
perpetuated indefinitely, or that the whole series
Of runous and dishonoTing Democratic principles
and practices should be rebuked and disowned by
the country For the honor and true glory and
prosperity of nation, thank God this has
been done. The stake was the veal or wo of
vast country, with all the elements of greatness
within it if wisely developed. In the election OF
General TAYLOR believe that kind Provi-
dence has given to the best interests of our
country to the of peace, justice, and nation
al advancement ; and we regard the result not with
rude or bosterous exuaton our adversaries,
but with the chastened feelings reyerental graf
itude.-.National in.eHigencer