Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-06-26

means now in progress to unite the broken col !
umns of the "democracy," adds:
This attempt should teach wisdom to the Wings.
They are now strong in the possession of the pop
ular side on all the political issues. When Mr.
Rhett said in the Senate that the Democratic
party had all gone over to Mr. Clay, he merely
admitted that Mr. Clay and his friends had taken
the popular and democratic view Of the leading
political questions. This we believe to be the
fact. Take the River and Harbor question alone.
If the Wings could make an issue on h'sqaestion
unembarrassed by any other, they could carry
two thirds of the States So with the Tariff
Pennsylvania will never again be swindled by the
infamous arts which carried her against her true
purposes and interests in ISL. On both these
questions, as Mr. Rhett truly charged, the Demo-
cratic party have gone over to Mr. Clay, or in
other words, the Wings have the majority of the
nation with them.
In this view of the case there is nothing want
ing to insure the success of the Wings in the next
Presidential election but a little liberation and
mutual forhearance. Let us avoid all premature
committals that are liable TO create disrust and
ill-feeling, and come together in convention pre-
pared TO support the candidate whom we shall at
that time ascertain to be the choice of the party,
and most likely to be acceptable to that majority
whose vstes are indispensable to success.
The advice given above. is well worthy Of the
attentive consideration of Wings. In view of
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of those measures now so much called for by the
necessities of the country, it is equally important:
We may well ask ourselves how the benefits to
be derived from the REIMBURSEMENT of the tariff
and the passage Of the River and Harber bill are
to be secured except by the success Of the Wing
party; and how is the Wing party to be success
full, except BY the sacrifice of all personal prefer
ences, as well as sectional jealousy on the altar
of the common good.
As Wings there is something of far more i'm
portance TO engage our attention, than schemes Of
personal ambition or sectional aggrandisemcnt.-
While contcnding with all enemy, willy, sagacious
and watchful at every point, we should not waste
our time and energies in household quarrels, or
petty chickering's among ourselves.
The Wing party should 60 into the next Presi-
deutial election with an unbroken front II it
does, its prospects Of success are more than fat
tering. The Wing Administration and the leading
Wings in Congress have endeared themselves to
the people by their high-minded, national and
patriotic course. The country has been brought
safely out Of difficulties, from which the wisest
and most prudent Of our statesmen apprehended
the drest calamities. 1t is not necessary to in-
quire whether under other leaders the same hap
py results might not have been accomplished. 1t
is enough that the present Wing Administration,
for what it has done, is receiving the gratitude
of the whole country. For the noble stand taken
by it, it deserved success and it achieved it.
But if the prospects Of the Wing party were
never brighter than at present, it is equally true
that there never was time when it was more
necessary to the continued prosperity OF the
country, that the Wing ascendency should con-
tinue, and Wing principles be fully carried out.
How large portion Of the country demands
readjus,ment of the Tariff, SO as to afford ade-
quate protection and encouragement to American
labor and industry! How much larger portion
still demands the passage of the River and Har-
Dor bill! The adoption of these two measures,
so loudly demanded, modern democracy has per-
tinaciously and successfully opposed and defeat
ed. 1t stands pledged TO their continued defeat
| Let the whole country, interested in the adop-
ton Of these great measures, then learn that their
success depends upon the continued ascendancy
| of the Wings. Let the Wings learn how much
their ascendency depends upon union, harmony
and efficient cooperation Of all who are working
for the same end.