The North-Carolina standard., 1850-06-26
THE HlGs PLATFORM.

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In 1914 tAa sshigS ef His Slsaa cane out, in
Cohssntion. ttE = Protective Tssif and ! Nasioml
Bank II Js46 ihsf tsh4 ont .eain fora Protective
Tariffs seainst he independent Treasury; n'Is4s
they came out for the game Of mam and nopartyism
generally and now they condescendingly allow that
the people may have Equal Suffrage, if they desire it.
and they 60 for independence and = slberty'' and
Zachary Taylor. This is the Whig platform about
this time. 1t is true, the Slavery question they
commit themselves to the Senate's plan of sAdjust
met" with amendments in one breath, and approve
Gen. Taylor's plan in the next by endorsing his
:" ability -; but their platform has NO Tariff nor Bank
plank in it. 1t not prudent that ;s portion Of
their principles should be permitted, at this time,
come before the public eye; but we admonsh read
that these Wing leaders the same old coons'
they were in 1914 and 1916, and that they are as
much for National Bank and high Tariff at this
moment as they were then. Those measures are not
popular now, and that is the reason why they have
been kept in the back ground.
The Register of Wednesday last, thus sums up
and presents the Whig creed:
" Resistance to Executive eencroachments--the cur
tailment of its excessive and dangerous patronage
and p0wer-opposition to the wanton and injurious
exercise of the veto power-hostiliy for
quest-a love Of peace-the extension of the foster
ing care of our government to own industry, ag
rcultural, mechanical and manufacturing, and devo-
ton to the Constitution and the Union."
If that be, indeed, the Whig doctrine, that party
might as well disband and join the Democrats. We
subscribe to every word in the above, and consider it
good enough Democracy for US; but the Register
does not mean what it says. means that Democratic
' Executive encroachments" to be resisted-that
Democratic vetoes are to be denounced-that Demo
cratic to be branded unust'' and 'dam-
nable, - and then I" Preambhed, to render them as
odous as possi6ie-that the Fostering care of
government is to be extended to the agricultural,
mechanical, and manufacturing interests of the coun
try, by taxing all other interests for the benefit Of the
manufacturers that the Constitution is to be,
whatever a sectional majority, with Gen. Taylor's
sanction, shall declare it to be-while the Union is
be lauded and hymned, though it be used by our
enemies as an engine to crush and destroy us. That
is what the Register means, but it would not have
been prudent to have said it. We have lived long
enough this planet, and trust readers have,
to judge people by what they nsean and not by what
they say.
As the Editor of the Register has very generously
consented, with others Of the Wing leaders, that all
of US may have Free Suffrage, and Judges by the
people, &C., and he somewhat put to in his
efforts to get his platform together, we have thought
it our duty to present him with the following:
WIG PLATFORM FOR 1850. Old Zack-Locofoco
Sodom-old Zack and his plan, and Mr.. Clay and
his plan-Sodom- independence and " liberty "
and not word about the Galphins-Nashville Con-
vention /" traitors ''-Whig Nashville Convention
Z" traitors" very good fellows-Sodom-it takes old
Zack to make 'em hop-Palo Alto-Sorry the people
want Equal Suaiage-opposed it two years since on
principle, hut 60 for it now, apparently, matter Of
ezpedie"ey and opularity-Manly end Kerr and Kerr
and Manly-hurrah for Manly and old Zack !-how
enthusiastic we are !-' glorious " Wing party -
-" true " Wings" ao-party party odd lack
the Freesoilers the svhole of California,
and no Missouri ne-a good position" for the earth
in space, and " armament, with restless notion
to keep it "healthy '-Sodom-no such word as
/" Clique I" in the English tongue-old Zack-Man-
ly-kerr and the Constitution-and old Zack and
victory!
The Editor of the Register is welcome to the above,
if he thinks it will do him any good.