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ACIrATaONs.
- 5. S.,,,el k,svs he Rfehmcnd RepnbsF /
49,, ~ eossse orthe Wing party. inrelaiien 7
100 hisserv df the asisasing qaestions Re,
$1,000 xiIl re&ernd ;c iisinmcrtai homer /
49,, ~, .t.s !, 4 No, tays very iortanaep
n rapStis /, has been thrown 70 the
..-a +, ,nauv Presidential scramble; but +
q, 4 Aesiye Ire Ill strength from every fall,
4, e.,.e IN Il the scratch again al every ne "
s.s.a NJ. uns,n,rlsked plnck and bottom A
go 80 ne, leips knockrsa down once-pr twice;
1900. y, ss sntsv,A Il, wilh steady fr1nt must
,.,rae va.ar. And W Wilh apat,y. .Iflhn Wings
for sil-tbry III spoils The party woalg
,.,,.l.agn ,ssad Ala barred long ago Fprt Be L
$500 ,1ssy have Rg sac,. no science 10 pplscss
,,..,.,., IL afsepiue. oil Dill tobe compared witis
~, n HI et,l,y arrive compact Democracy =;
sp,y asrc i, .usd ireding like their oPpaf
en,. fbc D-tn.,cf sts have lived long a, tie publ
s,rr rsFsurs. avs n fsa as Esi II fa I55F r.: =:
TheF sTeTno, aeeasi1Ened y g1yfFnhsg' RAP am:
-osielsl PSgidge. WhA' then lIasIafs II 9afF'
alive IA vigofoas Or f.gp9nesis peIi II fsiS
fuf q88ftef ~ eeEfasY our sistoss hak teef !.
HISTORY sfssais s rs las Wi lssiisk 4-xara
tsn anaff# sfsG 3lhe aiess eeif. alsjsas
pelsee4llisfs and eia1Ftiaa "a asge a9..i w.
2 wsre s,reng snoagA iwaifopih# D8r,o8fhie most
awia1y ia 1910 asa HHain ia5sis TheFd mas
bel strong vital fftafife IN this party; III enaei-
aiYpf life n fsmsrkabHs We believe notwthstand-
Ing The vai6insiishs ffiis enemies win live yet
10 preach the mineral mon of Democracy
This pfineipIe, thus enduring and unconqherabIe
is devotinn . the codhley rather han 10 me Ito the
spells 81 patty. This j. which enables Whigs 10
endure defeat with eqnaoiniiy; and in The midst
Of disasters which wohld cause Tie DISCRIMINATION
Of any other party, Stand hrn ard ding ont their
waf-worn banner tb INV breeze with as fearless
AeaFs-as If i had never known augh bul victory /
The Democfey, by heit long course Of lriumphs, T
have performed for lhe Whigs one essential service
They have caught il their own gilded cages of .
place and power those summer birds who cannot I
stand The cold breath 9f adversely. They have en-
listed most of the Dasald Dalgettys who fight for
pay and pFovant The operation, II. like drastic
purge il lessens The baIk Of party adds incopceiy
ahY to- lis purity activity and chances OF long life
The attitude Of The Wing party at this time is
most noble and gratifying. Had that party any
thing q do with originating the terrible and perlous
conflicts through ~hifh the country has just pass
ed No one pretends such an absurdity. On the
contrary, she avorite charge Of the Democracy has
been that the Wings opposed annexation. The war,
and The acquisition of new territory, Vet. ii was
as all admit, precisely II these great features of
Democratic policy That all our iaie troubles origi-
mattel Mr. clay's famous Texas letter of 1914. /
reads now rather like ahistory than prophecy
lie prediele1 the war with Mexico, the Struggle
between se&tions 20 obtain new territory, 70 that
one should balance thc other. which would follow
ihe annexation Of Tsxas Wasjhe not right -
We're notihe Wings Of Il, right Id that position
18th. Iaa
Its equilibrium in this gaue Of see-saw by CRYING
out Tor Oregon as well as Texas, until we were
we'll nigh involved III destructive war with the |
mos. powerful empire ofmoderH times 'T I9en
Mexico giving birth ID those CONCLUSIONS which 1
have nearly rent the Union in a thousand irag- |
ments This was ,hs resal, Of Democratic policy
And il lhc North has come out victor in the grab
game Of ierritoryt(as he Southerns nhraist al
lcge,9 and has nsurPed al California, whois re-
sponsible bat The Democracy and who 81 tbe De- I
lnocrscy more responsible than the Calhoun wing |
whose great chief sloo5 godfather be Texaswhen
she was admitted 10 tAe Union They are the last
men on lie face Of the earth WHO ought 10 com
plain IL thr present State OF thiugf. II they had
lslenedlo Wing advice, andesehewed the forbidden /
frui; 81 fafeign territory they would not have seen
The South excluded dom Oregon b. formal Will T
mot Proyiso tsigned BIZ a southern Presidentl and
shut out from Galitofnia, New Mexico and Utah,
by what they are pehsed TO cali d r7rkeqi previso
However, the mischief was~dope, The Demo
GRATIS s<icy Of anne kaion has brought in its tran
an hose insuts 10 The South and those civil com
motions the memory ef which is ye treshin every
mind Prominent among these was The Texas
Boundary Line whiFh seemed ia be the selected
instrhmeu, FOL ,hs retribuoa of ouruatiqual tapa-