North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-15
THE GREAT" WING PARTY.

1t is notorious fact that the Wings, or Federal
lists, have but five Governors of States out of thirty
and that they in decided minorities in both
the Senate and House of Representatives. And yet
the leaders among these Wings, Federalists,
withsanding this lean and almost laughable showing
in the States and in Congress, themselves
the right and the power to Sc save the Union,' and
promise most Justify to do it, now, henceforth, and
indefinitely.
We saw it suggested, the other day, that the De-
mocrats would have loan them Governor ere long,
merely matter of courtesy and to keep them
somewhat in countenance; and indeed, these Wing
leaders have already gone into the business of borro,v
ing candidates. in of the Southern States, for
public station. Will some Wing Editor tell US what
has become of the great w hig party of Alabama,
Mississippi, and Georgia. Is Cobb good Wing !
Is Foote! And tthey have elected the former of
fee, and will no doubt do the tor the latter.
The truth is in those States and in others that might
be mentioned, the Wings have taken down their old
sign, changed their names advertised that effect
in the papers, and doing business on bory
ed Democratic capital What next!
Who says any thing, at this time, against the In
dependent Treasury! Who wants National Bank !
Who wishes to change the Tariff of 1864 Who
is in favor of the distribution of the proceeds of the
sales of the public lands! Not the Wings, and
tanly the Democrats for their measures and prin-
ciples now the laws of the land. We are, then,
all together; and if so, why this factious opposition
by certain Wing leaders to Democratic organization
and Democratic actionl Who disputes the correct
ness Of the good old Democratic principle of no-;n-
terferance by Congress the Slavery question i? No
Wing in the South, that we know of; but, on the
contrary, every Of that party in this region is
now on that question, lust where Gen. Cass and his
supporters were in 1913.
But these Wing leaders, it seems, constitute the
" Union party" The Union party! Why, what
can they do towards saving and perpetuating the
Union, with only Eve Governors of the thiy-one,
and in clear minority, as they are, in both branches
of Congress! The idea is ridiculous. They talk of
their ability to power which belongs to others,
and which the people, in such crisis this, have
been very careful NOT to commit to them. They as
sumo virtue when they have it not.''
The truth is, the only reliable hope for the saliva
ton and perpetuation of the Union is in strict
struction of the Constitution and in the oldashioned
Jeffersonian and Jackson Democratic party of the
country This is the party which, under favor of the
people, has administered the government for three
fourths of its existence-which has upheld its flag
in blaze of glory in all wars-and whose policy,
while has uniformly dispensed the greatest good
the greatest number, has enlarged our boundaries
from thirteen thiry-one States and secured for the
Republic the respect and admiration of the whole
world. --.=t
The " great" Wing party-the 6 Union party " !!
party which has TO 6orrov its candidates for public
station from political opponents, and which under
takes, in hopeless minority, 20 administer the af.
fairs of the country and save the Union -!