Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-09-07


ever, ia certain, that those Southern Democrats,
who for 30 many years, toled long and hard
under burning southern sun TO elevate him
10 place and power, against strong local pre-
Ijudices, aud under the taunts and sneers Of the
great and sagacious Carolina Statesman--'t
look out well for the tricks of the New York
Magician--to take care tha, the little Dutchman
did no. cheat them al leass''-must feel NOR
LITIGATION and disgust which will lily prepare
them for playing over the sarne political game
under Lewis Cass! The democratic game of
" Northern men with Southern principles,
has been played out at the South. Southern
men, OF all parties, have learned that honesty
frankness, and manly independence Of charac
ter, in Presidential Candidate no matter
where he resides-consiitute the safest reliance
for the support Of every section Of the Union.
That any true Wing IN any State Of this
Union, will give his vote TO restore to the
Presidency Martin Van Buren, who now op-
posed the democratic nomination. because the
Democratic party refused IN 1874 TO break it,
self down by ralying any longer under his
tattered banner, is absolutely impossible. No
true Wing, who in the great contest Of 1910.
aided IN breaking down the administration Of
Martin Van Buren, under which and py reason
Of whose acts, erery State Bank in the whole
country was compelled to suspend specie pay
Hents, and the business and the labor Of the
whole people was so entirely prostrated, that
nothing but Slavery and the Spirit of Evil,
seemed to flourish, can surely wish the ad-
min s,rat!on Of that man restored He does
not now pretend 10 harmonize with the Wings
on single other question OF measure ofpublic
policy. The man who shall at this election,
fly TO the support of Martin Van Buren, under
the apprehension that General Taylor, though
an ayowed Wing, is not an ultra Wing"
enough for him, should certainly consumate
his consistency by supporting Senator Foote Of
Mississippi for Vice President, for fear that
Mlllard Fillmore may not oppose the introduc-
iion of slavery into territory now free Such
a man, in the language of Watkins Leigh of
virginia, on another occasion, would-had
he lived At that day have cried FIRE
amidst the general deluge."
We say, then 10 those who seem disposed
to follow the lead Of Martin Van Bulen,-lo
forget all the political principles for which they
have been against him con,ending during the
last twenty years, in the deceptive pursuit Of
Free Sol" that il is treason to the Wing
cause and folly in the extreme--for any Wing
10 look elsewhere than TO the National Wing
organization, for remedy for those evils hich
appear to him to so greatly affect, or endanger
the future prosperity of, the country. by Civ
ing his vote and his influence to the building
up ofa mere geographical, sectional, fractional
party, he to the extent, Of the effect his vote
and Of his influence, but weakens and DESTROYS
that great agency which has done more than
all else during the last twenty years, in Con-
gress and out, against Slavery-against the
despotism ofthe Veto Power-and in favor of
protecting the Free Labor Of the free Suites
Let any man who doubts this, look at the re-
corded votes upon these subjects given by the
Wings Of Congress during all that time, and
then deny its truth if he can. Can ii be that
any Wing would wish to aid in breaking down
such party, for the purpose of building up a
ne,c, better and purcr political organization,
started by, and based upon, the Corrupt Old
Regency Dynasty of New York Can it he
that any VINO, can be SO infatuated as to be-
willing to sever forever those political ties
strengthened by satisfactory intercourse aud
traternal association of twenty years-which
have united him IN principle, feeling and effort
with that noble and gallant band of true, high
minded, and patriotic men-ihe Southern
Whigs-who have, under the most adverse,
circumstances and against strong local predju.
dces, stood firmly by the Wing cause, and
have, in sunshine and storm-under defeat as
well as in success, manfully and bravely main.
tained Wing prlnciples-to strike hands now
with Martin Van Buren--who, during that
long period, having been the most efficient Foe,
in the whole country, TO that Cause and those
Principles, now-not at the noon-doy Of his
strength aud manhood-but late in the Evening
of his political life, and with political repu,a-
ton tattcrcd and torn, worn out and debquched, II
beyond the purifying power Of Magdalen re-
demphon, in the service Of his Slave Mas,ers-I
prc,ends to have discovered New Light
- Above the light of The Sum-" of Wing prin-
had the least particle Of Whg principle in his |
head or the faiu,es, spark Of Whip feeling in
his heart, can fail TO respond TO the beautiful
sentiment of the great Constitutional Wing of
New England-Just and True as it is beaut- l
i'ul--tha, "ln the dark and troubled night, which
ls upon rs, | see no star above the horizon,
promising light to guide us, bnt the intelligent,
patriotic united Wing party of,he United
States"
Political parties, which arc limited BY geo
graphical lines, and which are confined in their
action to only section of the country, while |
they are certain 10 inname sectional prejudices
and jealousies, and cannot fail to excite section
al animostles and SOW the seeds Of national
discord-no matter whether organized on one
side or the other Of Mason and Dixon line
no matter upon wha, whe,her upon
the question of,he Tariff, internal improvements
or the more infammatory subject Of Southern
SlaveIy--can never produce any good results
either political or moral but may be the cause
Of evils greater by far than those which they l
profcssedy design to cure. Such parties and /
such sectional political action, no sensible man
can doubt, is calculated to weaken the attach
ment OF the people of all sections to the UsioS
of these States. And when we see men, " no .
have filed the highest offices under our govern
ment, ho have, their whole lives long, held |
that just such sectional political action as tha,
which they now propose to the people Of the |
free States, would inevitably occasion the dis
solution Of our happy union"-seizing in the
Spirit, If not with the strength, of Sampson.
the pillars Of our glorious Union, we should
turn instlnctively to those lessons of patriotic
duty which in his Farewell Address the Fa-
ther Of his country, left as his diving warning
to his countryman, ,-0T to distrust the pa.
irlotlsm Of those, who, in any quarter, may
endeavor to weaken the bands of our union,
and I" to Indignantly irown upon the first dawn