The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-12-10
THE r EGISTER.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1cJl.
Can We elect a Wing President?

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The darkest hour is that which mex, pre-
ccdes the day. Scarcel, ever were the
pio-pec's Of The Wing party darker than
lust before the triumphant aud overwhem.
ny success which crowned their efforts in
The campaign of 1870. AT ihi. moment,,oo.
II must be coniessed our Ioiiical fortunes
seem again 10 be at their lowest ebb. Mas
saohnsrits 10 once more lost TO the enemy.
Maryland ard New Jersey appear, for the
Tune TO have aposiaized from the faith.
New York is" hanging in the wind = in.
Ginning now TO one side and now to the other.
WITH apparently, a pretty even balance
fennsy lyania has returned 10 her idols. Ohio
attempted to do her wotst-and has sue,
ceedrd Ca iiornia has disappointed our
expecta ions, and Connecticut and Rhode
Island have also Yielded before the al
verse storm. Kentucky, too, The hitle
lnvincible Kentucky, though strongly Whir
yet, We doubt no., has Democratic Gov.
ernor
We nre not surprised that some Whirs are
ready TO sigh thai all is lost" Yet. through
the " thick o the night" we look for dawn
we already soc what we tru,t is not alto>
eciher delusive hope. We are far from
being ready to surrender. We must see
much stronger probabilities of defeat before
we consent 10 give up the ship.
In the approaching campaign, everything
will derend ON the issues raised on DO h
sides, and the candidates nominated. This
is no lruisn, for the time has been, when
party drill determined the result - when
measures and men were discussed rs a mere
formally, and parlizan force and zeal were
the only reality when the Democracy A"
were inyncibly strong, and their candidate,
whoever he might be, won the day because
he WAS II Democrat" But III not so now.
| The Democrats must take care of their nom,
inaIion, il they would succeed and they
must take care of heir platform also. The
same is true Of the Whgs-and here, we
repeat, will be the turning point,
! In the present state of the country-a
great agitation inst passed. and ereater ngi.
ta'ions still threatened aheah-ws believe The
conservative platform aud the couseryal i've
candidate will succeed The party that a
1opis Cuban huccaneering, Mexican annex
alton, the partition Of California. The cxlen.
sion and Strengthening of slave Iower, m
/ terveuiion in the affairs of Europe and re,
| publican p'opaeanlism, secession, di-unon,
aud notification in all its forms ard aiiniies
/ will, if it dominates man suited to sand as
a representative Of such radical heresies be
sure of overwhelming defeat The parry
which takes a course the opposite of all This
will be sure TO win, even If its opponents only
coquetie with the measures just named, with
out openly adopting them.
Should it turn oul that the Democratic
party pursues the first named course-or
even shows an inclination for it--and the
Wing party takes the opposite firmly, de-
cidedly, we count uron success.
As to men, we have scrupulously avoided
expressing any preference, for the Wing
nomination. We should support even Gen
Scorr, if nominated, though with a certain
prospect of his defeat. We believe, howcy-
err that he stands no chance to get the nom
nation, unless as a sectional candidate. Mil.
LARD FILLMORE, DASIEL WEBSTER, OF
possibly, even vet, IlENHY CLAY, are states
men, whom the Opposition would find i,
more diflicalt to defeat than they seem ,c
suppose. Little DOUGLAS" strong al