New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-17

seeing bow badly the Wing party had been
distracted and paral, zed by Tyler's treach-
e-,. he determined to Try again at the en-
suing election, il August, 1913. Again the
State was thoroughly stumPed by the rival
candidates, and again Gov. Jones vas the
victor. the vote being now 5000 heavier,
and Col. Polk beatea BY 3,83S majority.
Gov. Jones declined being third time
candidate. and has since held no Office TIL
now. save that he was Delegate to the
Who National Convention of 1913. Though
hurled under two colleagues who did nota!-
low him TO cast vote, he was firm for Harry
CLAW to the last He is Wing from
earnest conviction that the principles cher
ished and measures advocated by the Wing
na,ty are eminently calculated to advance
and secure the National welI-beiDg. He
does not fancy Protection local or sectional
benefit, but esteems it as important for Ten
nessee as for Rhode Island, and would as
soon think o. threatening to dlsband the
Army and burn the Navy as to vote against
Protection as a punishment TO Massachu-
sets for hating Human Slavery. AT the
Election succeeding bis last canvass, the
Wings OF Tennessee ran Ephraim K. Fos-
ter, who had just been dabbling in Annexa-
ton, for his successor. They calculated on
takirc the wind cut of the Loco-Foco sails
by this vancouver, and succeeded in catch
iag Jogging, as they deserved. Mr.. Eos
ter has since cultivated retirement. Gov.
Jones takes the place in the Senate of Hop
bins l.. Turney, very bitter and narrow
minded Loco-Foco.
-RoBEgr TooMBs is a horse Of another
color He has been a Wing ever since
the old State Rights or Crawford party
of Georgia bolted from Jacksonism, was
Member of the Legislature at twenty-five
years of age, and has been Member of
Congress since Dec. lS45-siX years. We
met him too at Philadelphia in lSiS, but
in very different mood from that of Gov.
Jones. He was one of the fifty or sixty
Members who came on TO dragoon the Con-
veDton into Taylorism, and repeatedly pro-
claimed that if Mr. Clay should be nomi-
mated, he and his confederates would run
Gen. Taylor as 4 stump candidate, and that
the South would vote for him. They sue
ceeded, as audacity generally does. Hence
forth we are against any Wing National
Convention without distinc! understand
ing that all who participate in its delibera-
tons are to support its candidates. This
game of the more you put down the less
you take up has been played out.
Mr.. Toombs was rather an influential
Member of the XXXth Congress, but
neither so potent nor so infuentially placed
on Committees as he thought himself en-
titled to be. He was consequently IN rather
an acid mood during the last session of it,
and especially out of humor with Speaker
Winthrop, who did not pet him ashe thought
he deserved. Mr.. rs manners are by no
means of the blandest, and he is capable of
personating bear with considerable fidelity
when things do not 90 to suit him. At the
opening Of the last (XXXIsO Congress, he
determined to defeat Mr.. Winthrop reelec-
ton to the Speakership, and had influence
enough to carry with him his colleagues,
Stephens ia far ADLER and stronger man, and
O,,on ~ ;tb Mo,tor Of T;rC;r;o (u-bo hos
Just been paid off by his constituents and
Cabell of Florida; and these sufhced, by
throwing away their votes, to defeat Mr..
Winthrop, and ultimately elect Mr.. Cobb,
the Opposition candidate. Here was the
first germ of the Union party which has
since chosen Mr. Cobb Governor, and now
made Mr.. Toombs Senator.
Well this is not all bad. Whether Mr..
T. will ever be Wing again, we cannot
guess probably not But he takes the
place of Mr.. Berrien, who in public life
had outlived his usefulness, and is naturally
inclined to twaddling, while TOombs is gen
Ell lily rough, frank and straightforward
He is not only opposed in the abstract to
any outrageous plundering of the Treasury,
but he do mt care whom he ollends in say
ing so. AS habitual advocate of Econo-
my and Retrenchment, he was greatly need
ed in the Senate, and cannot fail to do good
there. He is still quite young man, rath-
er under the medium size, with fresh, flor
id cOuLtenance, bespeaking a hitherto sue
cessiul struggle with the cares of life.
MISSISSIPPI is now TO be soon heard
from in the matter of the election Of u. S.
Senators. Both seats are or soon will be