Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-12-05
JEFFERSON WARD MEETING.

The Wings of Jefferson Ward had a rally Of
the right sort Wednesday evening, at the Militia
ry Hall. Col. Meredith, R. 7. Daniel and Thos.
J. Evans made capital speeches.
Hector Davis, Esq, came forward and announ-
ced that he was no longer a candidate for the Sc
nate, as he was unwilling to.stand in the way Of
the success of the Wing party.
He took the occasion to address his fellow
Wings some advice against the error Of falling
into Federal principles There is little danger of
that so long as we have such leaders as Willard
Fillmore for the Union and George W. Summers
for the State. The Wings have only been charg-
ed by their adversaries with Federalism, be-
cause they advocate the system Of protection
to domestic manufactures, and claim for the
Southern States equal participationin the appro-
priations for Internal Improvements. If this be
Federalism, James Madison, James Monroe, Jno
G. Calhoun, VIM. H. Crawford, and most of the
Republican party, during the administrations of
Madison and Monroe, were guilty OF it. Practi-
cal Federalism we hold to consist in such usurpa-
tions of power as were practised by Gen. Jack
son in the removal of the Deposites and the Spe-
Gle Circular; by Martin Van Buren, with his STAN
ding army; by John Tyler with his dctatoral
and by James K. Polk, in taking armed posses
sion of a disputed Territory in order to overawe
the Mexican Government and force anegotiation,
in commencing an independent war without any
sanction from Congress by Fremont's Bear
Flag Revolution, got up under Instructions, in
setting up civil governments in Santa Fe and
California, and in endeavoring to convert the ar
my into vast machine for making political cap
ital by proposition to supersede the Generals
with a crafty politician, and by putting other
mere politicians in the highest offices, that they
night stir up feuds in the army and tarnish the
glory Of our ilustrious commanders.
sBy their fruits ye shall know them," is a
maxim as applicable to parties as to men; and
we appeal with confidence to the administrations
of Jackson, Van Buren,, Tyler and Polk, on one
SIDE to that of Taylor and Fillmore on the other,
to determine which of the two parties approxi-
mates more closely to the Federal doctrines of
1900. Gould George Washington and James
Madison, and James Monroe rise from their graves
and look upon the conduct of President Fillmore
from the day he took the oath of inauguration to
the present hour, we would willingly abide their
decision upon his Republican orthodoxy. The
Wing party claims to stand upon the prn-
C1pl6S I0dC governed GuC COuISo VI w dSuluStOu,
Madison and Monroe; they repudiate the false re-
publicanism of Jackson, Van Buren,, Polk and
Calhoun
At the close of the meeting at Military Hall,
an enthusiastic son of Erin, who said he was still
a British subject, made a short speech to little
circle around him, and avowed himself a true De-
mocrat because he said the Wings were for re-
curing foreigner to live twenty-one years in
the country before he shall be allowed to VOTE
1t is by the encouragement of such gross errors
as this, that the Democratic party has succeeded
in persuading so many of our foreign born citizens
to Join it. Can it be necessary to state, that the
Wing party never, in its whole history, proposed
such restriction upon naturalization as that we
have Just mentioned. The g Native American )"
party had its origin in the Democratic party Of
New York city, and, though it may retain fee
Bile existence in Philadelphia, is elsewhere ex-
tinct. The Wing party of the Union has never
adopted its principles; and it has never had a
foothold in Virginia. Geo. W. Summers voted,
in the Convention, for the provision of the Con-
stitution, which requires citizenship of only
two years to qualify every man to vote in Vir-
ginia.