Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-03-13

wing. Tor hc dill confess 90 b. A vhoIe
wing. Stll he was not here a. the ~esperis'.
defender either OF Mr. Clay or Gen TAYLOR
they needed no defence rom him. But he
"odid bke ms occasion To- say that il did
hol become the gentleman from Maryland,
NOV IT'S P'iI'ical friends, to exhibit 30 mnch
snNieiy 10 strike at tn. reputation OF Gen.
Taylor. The old warrior Mad b,ep bpg.,.I
about quite enough BY tn, Administrator il.
sell. not only have they endeayored To shut
ms mouth when he had dared To express his
oPin'oGs on the subject OF the war. (ss he dtl
ia his letter TO Gen Gaiues.) By r%evivins sn
o'u ahd absolute order OF the War Dsp4r-
mV"t' out they have studiouslv endea vored to
uepti'e MN oil has weli-csrned fame. Mr
rOlN d'd not want 10 hear what he had 10
say on the political policy Of the Govern
ment. The moment he undertook TO say
what, IN his judgement. it should be, il was
attempted to deprive him Of the privilege Of
Whiting a word TO any body but the officers ut
tue uovernment, who should expose To the
Puolic only that which the President chose
10 communicate to Congress. But that was
not tne true object OF the hostility Of the
PRESIDENT 10 Gen Taylor. He saw the posi-
pHlty that uen Taylor might become a IA vor-
lIe with The people, and this was quite enough
Tor hun to know. From that hour the veteran
soldier was destined TO be sacrificed If there
was strength enough in the Presidential arm
70 do 1t. Accordingly his force at Bnena
visa was reduced 10 a mere handful Of men;
nearly all the regular soldiers whom he bal
tined III the valley OF the D..io Grande AMI at
monterey were taken from him. He wasle left
ohly IN NINA oil untrIcd volunteers. who
had never heard the report of a hostile gun,
simos' IN the heart OF Mexico, surrounded
% embellishments on every side, with the
best appointed force. of Mexico in his front.
commsnded'by the general who had been sea,
to Mexico by Mr. Polk, and who then had a
force more than four times the number of his
own. This was but a part OF the policy of
this administrator towards Gen TAYLOR. But
thanks TO him and his brave little army. he
had ailke 'olled the puny efforts Of a jealous
executive, aud added new honors to his own
NAME, and fresh glory 10 his country.
lie had a few words to say, before he sat
down.. about the extreme anxiety which the
gentleman from Maryland had exhibited to
place the Wing party in the most awkward
Predicament OF being greatly divided Oh a
candidate Tor the Presidency. Ii was of very
little importance 10 this country how he or
the gentleman from Maryland intended to
vote on the question of the Presidency. He
would say 10 the honorable gentleman, no W.
ever, II he laid the fittering JUNCTION TO his
SOU That The wing party was 50 divided as
he hid represented he was vastly mistaken.
There were a great many men in that party
who were prepared, whenever the crisis might
call Tor the surrender OF individual preferences
and ieelings, 10 buckle on their arnor in the
common defence of the constitution. and the
rescue OF the country from the fearful evils
which beset IT. We, (said MIR IT, il is true.
Tor particular reasons have individual prefer
ences; but there is something in this great
controversy higher than. mcmillan the sle-
yation OF aay particular candidate TO the
Presidency The security, the salvation OF
Tue constitution, is the great question to be
tried. In a contest OF this sort we are pre-
pared TO rear the old banner under which we
have fought III former times, and do duty to
the glorious constitution OF our fathers; and
whether shdet the banner Of Mr. CLAY, who
has long stood foremost among themost dis
tirguis1ed statesmen OF our country, or wheth-
eT under that OF General Taylof, who has
fought our battles aud covered himself all over
with glory, who asks no favor and shripks
Eom no esponslbillty," or whether under the
banner OF some OF the other illustrious men
who are scattered all over this Union, we will
80 INTO The contest as If animated by one
spirit, and having bat one CON mon obiect-
the enduring prosperity and happiness OF our
country. Why, does the gentl-uaa suppose
we have got nobody else but General TAYLOR
and Sir Gay? Let hitn look all over this
uaion, and we can point 10 those under
whose banner the Wing party could rally with
hope aud confidence. Massachusetts can
boast her Webster, the able defender OF the
constitution: Delaware, her Clayton; Peunsyl-
vania, her Sergeant and Binney; New York.
her Fillmore; Ohio. her Mclean, Corwin,
and Ewing; Kentucky, her Crittenden; Fem
nessee, her Bell; North Carolina, her Mangum
aud Badger; South Carolina, her Preston
These were all men whom Wings delight 10
honor. And there were Others scattered all
over The country-not only in public lie, but
IN private hie-men far more distinguished
Tor intellect and patriotism than he who now
dispenses power at the other end Of the av-
enue.
But the gsn,leman's own political friends,
he understood, had a good many family quar-
rels, a good many family jars. which it might
be rather more difficult 10 reconcile. He had
understood that the gentleman who sat at the
other end oil the avenue, had himself Sc, up
pretensions Tor reelection, but that a large
portion oil his friends were unwilling TO make
him their candidate for two prominent rsa-
sons:-hrst, because he admitted Santa Anna
into Mexico; and second, because rumor
with her the thousand tongues says he
has circumvented his Ca binet BY giving secret
instructions TO Trist, when he had said pub.
lIcly that he had recalled him. Then he un-
derstood that a distinguished gentleman from
Pennsylvania was sometimes ID lked OF, bur he
was denounced here as having been an op.
poser OF the last war. Then there was a dis
tinguished Senator from Michigan who was
all aspifant, get il was ainted thai he had been
on both sides OF the Wilmot proviso. There
was also the honorable gentleman who was
,ow second in office Mr.. Folks in the
last canvass, but 1t was brought against him
I al he wrote the bill Tor the re-ctarter OF the
United States Bank. Whenever that party
should have settled their difference if they
should succeed in SO doiug-and have brought
out their man, and put their harness on, let
him tell them that every true and gallant
wing, whether under the banner Of MIR. Clay
or Gen. Taylor, would be onnd prepared TO do
his duty manfully for The defence OF the con-
s~litution aud the country. He was authori-
zed TO speak for none but himself, but the GEN.
tlemln properly interpreted him when he
ssid that he (Mr. IT, was d whole Wing"
This neea not be told TO his constituents or
10 those who knew him. From bis very boy
hood he had tried 10 DO service ia that glori-
Gus cause. Tie was proud to be called a Wing.
II was the highest title he wished 10 wear,
and he now tola the gentleman-without tel
ling HIM Tor whom he might go until the great
voice OF the party had spoken-,hst in this
contest the candidate OF The gentlemau's par
", whoeves he might be, would find a com
%petitor, with whom he might expect to
eater into no mean or childish contest.
Mr.. Stanton here interposed, and Nj. T.,
! Welding. sad he unipT.toDl The gentleman