Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-03-11
THE CHANGES OF THE WHICS.

The Wing party are proverbial for presenting
different faces Of different characters, likely 10
produce effect on the voters in The quarter where
they present them as the principles Of their par
ty; 10 wit To the East they show g face as
the party Of protection To the West, they
are the champions of the Improvements of Rivers
and Harbors To the North, they show Free
Soil features: To the South, they present the
aspect OF good Shareholders. And yet all the
while their principles are locked up in q great
box, and OF course they can answer no questions
when an election is pending. But, Sir, break
upon their box and let Mum speak, and Coon.
skins, cider barrels, Harrison Almanacks, and
Roorback books CT travel will come tumbling out,
with other miscellaneous articles, Used by them
in political warfare, and in this miscellany of
humbug and deception, amids the odds and ends
OF all parties and cteeds, isto be found the only
spirit Of tbs Wing party ever discovered, and
the whole assortment of Wing principles.-My.
Frazer in the Nev York Legislature.
TIL DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION, held in
Dover, Delaware, last Friday, was one of the
largest Conventions ever held in that State. 1t
adopted resolutions in favor of reforming tho
State constitution so as to provide for the cleo
ton of our public officers by a direct popular
vote, to dispense with he necessity of the pay
nent OF a tax, as a prerequisite 10 the right of
suffrage and TO abrogate the property qhalifca-
tons for political offices. 1t proposes to nomi-
nate persons Tor the Legislature who will submit
the question OF Convention Or no Convention to
the people at a popular election. The Conven.
ton also passed resolutions declaring that =
large majority Of the citizens of Delaware are
opposed 10 any interference with the institution
Of slavery on the part Of Congress, Or the appli-
cation Of the Wilmot proviso to territorial goyetn-
ment. That California having adopted a consti.
tuition, should be admitted to the Union at the
earlieat practicable moment, without regard 10
any provision which its constitution may contain
in regard to slavery Or such other local matter
as may concern her own people alone.
II TRUE Defence OF NATIoNs.-The bull
wark of America is not the army and navy of
the United States, with all the men at public
cost Instructed i'll the art of war it is not the
swords and muskets idly bristling in our armo-
RES ; 1t is not the cannon and powder carefully
laid by no, nor is it yet the forts, which ffown
In all their grim barbarity OF stone along the
coast, defacing the landscape else go fair. these
might all be destroyed tonight, and the nation
be as sale as now. The more efectual bu,jxark
Of America is her schools. The cheap spelling
book, or the yane on her school house i. a better
symbol OF the nation than "the star-spangled
banner p the Printing Press does more than the
cannon, the Press is mightier than the sword.
The army that is to keep DIR liberties-tou are
part OF that, ye noble army of Teachers. 1t is
you who are to make a nation greater. even
wise and good, the next generation better than
their sires.--S1i. AmeYtcan.