Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-14
TIsE RICHMOND TIMES.
THE WHIG sTATE CONYENTION.

THE WING STATE CONVENTION.
The action of the Wing State Convention that
will commence its session in this city to-day will
be fraught with influences of the most important
character not only upon the party in this Com
monwealth, but will likewise seriously affect the
party throughout the Union We trust that the ut
most harmony and good cling will prevail, and
that members will not suffer their predictions
for particular to lead them to heated collisions
The approaching election is undoubtedly one of
the greatest consequence to the country, for not
only will the line of policy TO be pursued in re-
spect to our internal affairs be then in measure
determined upon, but it will likewise have to be
decided ether we to depart il the manage
ment of our foreign relations from the wise prin-
cipes laid down in the earliest epochs of the gov
ernment by the venerated father of his country.
The painful truth can no longer be concealed
that there is growing war party IN this country,
party that is gathering its gigantic strength from
the influx of foreign voters. These voters come
among us heated with all the anmosities of Eu-
ropean politics, and ready to redress the wrongs
oftheir fatheriand even by war.
In addition to this collection of combustible
matter, we have even foreigner in our
midst, the ayowed object Of whose visit is to fos-
ter the spirit of foreign and the seductive strain
of whose eoquence has in many cases so in
famed the imaginations of our city population as
entirely to upset and confound all their previous
ideas: 1t is not necessary to adduce proof of the
extent to which this spirit has spread. Every
man knows that it has almost converted the masses
in the free States
Now we ask our readers topause here, and re-
member where the Democratic party stand on
this question. Their two most prominent candi-
dates are Judge Douglas and General Cass
both deeply committed to that dangerous
doctrine. Suppose that Judge Douglas shall be
chosen by the Baltimore Convention, and who can
say that he will not be chosen and in the canvass
the Wings shall succeed in fixing Intervention
upon him in the opinion of the peope-what will
his party do in that case When for the pur-
pose of destroying the popularity of their candi-
date the Democracy We're identified with the
principle of annexation, what did that party do
then! Why they seized upon it, defended it,
and by the election of Polk rendered it popular
with the country The will be Intercourse
in respect to Intervention. Our conclusion then is
this-that in order to destroy the monster Inter-
Ventlou III VIII oe necessary Iof the w mig party to
carry the next election. To preserve the ancient
policy OF the government, counteract the DANCE
rous ideas disseminated by Kossuth, and in that
case to our institutions from speedy destruc-
tion constitutes surely noble plize for the Wing
party to struggle for. In this great fight who are
we to select to bear our standard, now become the
standard of the country? Ourow preferences we
have repeatedly expressed But whoever the
candidate shall be, let him be opposed to Foreign
Iatertentlon, sound on the Compromise, and let
him hare popularity enough TO carry the masses
acitb him. Foreign Intervention is the cloud that
threatens our national ruin, and let our can
ddate be the rod to conduct off the dangerous cur
rent with which it is charged. We have heard
strong opinion in respect to Intervention ex-
pressed by not uninhuential Wing gentleman
who will be present in this Convention. He said
that the question was OF so alarming nature and
carried with it alternative so dreadful that he
expected the Wing party would be driven, in or
der to defeat it, to abandon its organization and
with the more moderate of the other party to rally
think that it will be great deal better than that,
to choose a safe and popular leader from our own
ranks, and give him an harmonious support The
first have no doubt that the Wing National
Convention will do, and we fondly hope that the
Wing party of Virginia will be ready to yield its
hearty cooperation.