Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-08-21
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. IS, 1851
ADDRESS OF THE CENTRAL WING COM
MITTEE.

We are happy to publish this timely and ap-
proprate Address, as the first definite movement
towards an organization of the Wing party of the
State, to counteract and defeat the organization
which our Democratic opponents were prompt
TO set on foot.
1t will be perceive that the Central Commit
tee have fixed Thursday, the 18th OF September,
as the day, and Staunton as the place, for the
State Convention TO meet. An earlier day than
the LIST of October was considered expedient, for
the reason, that the various Courts held early in
October would prevent many from attending the
Convention as delegates, if it should assemble
about that time.
We hope there will be general concurrence
in the recommendation of the Committee, and
that Wing meetings will be held at all the coun-
ty courts, to appoint delegates. The Wings of
Nansemond county, we are glad to see, have
been the first to take action. AT the last court,
they met and recommended that State Conven-
ton be held, and appointed delegates to represent
them in it. They also adopted resolutions warm
ly approving the patriotic administration of Mr.
Fillmore. 1t strikes us that it would be highly
appropriate for the Wings of every county in the
State, in their meetings for the appointment O.
delegates, thus to declare their sentiments
in regard to the conduct of our admirable Presi.
dent. The Wing party of Virginia have
peculiar reason to be proud of the manner
in which Mr.. Fillmore has fulfilled their predic-
tons and expectations concerning him. In the
great canvass of 1848, ne was held up before the
people in every forbdding aspect which Demo.
cratic imaginatons could invent He was de-
noanced through the land as ranting Abolitonist
and Democratic orators thought they could made
no stronger appeal to Virginia prejudices, than to
warn t!er audiences that, if the Wing party should
prevail, 'thore aaouM be only one life betaoeen The
Presidency and lMiIard Fillmore" But the
Wings had the good sense to trust their own judg
ments, rather than these distorted representations
They took Mr.. Fillmore as the worthy associate
of Gen. Taylor, and, though he was Northern
man. they accepted him as a patriot. They did
not prevail far as to give him the electoral vote
of the State, but their efforts shook terribly the
strength of the Democratic majority, SO that it
was long doubtful how the State had really
gone The single life, that lay between Mr.
Fillmore and the Presidency, was, more than a
year ago, actually removed, according to the sin
lister forebodings of the Democratic augurs OF
1848. But what followed? Was it, as those
soothsayers toretold, the dark sway of Abolonism?
On the contrary, is not the fact undeniable, that
Willard Fillmore, from the day he took the oath
of his high office to the present hour, has more
than justified the good opinions of his supporters,
and absolutely disarmed all generous opponents
Is he not confessedly the man to whose patriotic
course, we owe the preservation of our Union, and
does not the whole country Cat least the reasona-
bic part of it, rely with perfect confidence on his
determination to maintain the Constitution? Let
us, then, Wings of Virginia, speak out our SEN
timents of Mr. Fillmore. We have sustained
him through undeserved obloquy, and now let us
proclaim our satisfaction that he has proved him.
self worthy