Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-12-04
POLITICS OF THE DAY.
ExPosIrIoNs OF WING OPINION.
FROM THE ALEXANDRIA oAzErrE.

which the patriot acknowledges, and which he will
forego. Feeling himself the recttude Of his intention
and the strength Of his convictions he pursues his stead
course nothing daunted because he is not always fol
tunate.
There will be enough beth in foreign and domesti
relations for the next four years to call up the
publican and conservative feeling Of the country to tn
rescue The proud position which the Wings have
maintained will still continue to be held 1t is their du
to stand by the constitution cherish the Union OPP
pose fanaticism and sectonas to endeayor to incul
cate the principles of Washington and finally, to do al
they can for the peace prosperity and happiness Of thu
people.
FROM NEW YORK COURIER AND ENQUIRER.
| What is party? tits body of men united for pro-
noting by their joint endeayors the national interests
upon certain particular principles in which they all
agreed What is party defeat? 1t is defeat Of their
principles essentially it consists in nothing else Did
Wing principles ut the late Presidential election
tanned defeat? Incontrovertiby not They were not
seriously discussed considered they hardly came in
sight during the whole canvass The contest turned
upon quite other issues rather was decided by quite
other infuencesfor issues, in the true of the
word there 1t is needless to specify them
all know them all have seen and nearly all have felt
their operation.
In what essential respect, then has the Wing party
been beaten Wherefore should it array ITSELF as some
would have it, in sackcloth and ashes? Wherefore az
others counsel should it all hope and commit
selfdestruction Because certain men have not been
promoted to the high dgnites to which they aspred
party is not to perish because candidates pine Is II
because the multitude of Wings who now in Office
must make way for men who are not Wings? Party
spells have nothing to do with party principles Though
the former be lost the latter endure unchanged The
tears Of partisans for their expiring places afford no
reason why great party inspired by principle should
despond. We jE-He "a 81
The Wing party has not been touched in any vital part
has net even been seriously crippled 1t is absurd
mourn the weakness Of party containing more than
million and half of voters. Even on the late imperfect
and exceedingly dsadyantageous trial Of strength an
gregae average Of thirty thousand votes distributed
through twelve States believe has been truly calcua
ed would have secured the of the party
for the next four years. What do men mean then by
talking about the an,alaon Of the Wing party! It is
not dead nor sit in condition to die 1t cannot if
would sits quieus make with bare bodin Its life
and its strength consist IN its principles and its principles
form the only policy upon which this country can be Sc
curey and permanently prosperous is not necessary
that the Wing party should be in power in order to be
power Whether its friends be at the head of Govern
ment or not it is to be most efficient force in the
movement Government Often has the discontinue ofthe
Wing party the field Of battle been succeeded by the
peaceful triumph of its measures Signal instances Of
this in the last session of Congress- where in
the face of most powerful Democratic majority land
bill was passed in the House, and Rivers and Harbors
Appropriation bill through both branches which involved
some OF the most important principles for which the party
had commended for years ntmaons from high quarters
have already made it probable that revision the pre-
sent tariff to cut short the present frauds upon the
revenue and afford more adequate protection to certain
branches Of home industry, will be recommended by the
Presidcnteect and become Of the of his
party The Wing policy too regard the foreign
lations of the country supported as it is by the senti
mens Of the large Conservative portion Of the Democratic
party must anvil very much towards averting the new
evils with which the country is threatened 1t is
than dle them il is fagrany wrong say that the Wing
party has ceased to exist Its principles remain its in
fuence survives and though adyised counsels adj
verse circumstances may have brought injury upon for
season. it win itself and TO be the sures
stay of the country in the day Of need
PROM THE ALBANY STATE REGISTER
There never was purer, better or q nobler party
with higher purposes and objects than the old
Wing party of this country But in process Of time
tons Of it led more less astray after strange
gods and various isms were attempted, from time to
time to be nterpolated in the Wing creed such as Anti
rentism Aboltonism Land Reform Socialism and divers
other hereses The attempt made to read such mem
bers would not subscribe to the doctrines out Of
the Wing church, and among them such men even as
CLAY, WEBSTER and FILLMORE. All who would not sub
scribe set of ideas and notions radical and
destructive than any protested by the Democratic party
in its greatest Madness were ridiculed as fossil re-
Mains" g old fogies,D :" behind the intelligence and
progress of the age Of this departure from orig-
nal principles reaping the bitter fruits Had
the Wing party adhered steadily to its original principles
and in it's endeayors to attain the objects for
which it organized and let alone expedency would
have been in the ascendant this have become the
great leading party of this country, and its policy tr-
umphant No party succeed in this country which is
national in its aims and objects II must have com
principles and common purposes to bind it together
To these il must teadasty adhere and not be turned
aside and distracted BY every wind Of doctrine"
What then, is the duty Of Wings under the circum-
in which they now find hemselyesi The objects
Of their organization not yet 1psbed To attain
them there is the necessity for their combination
heretofore Their old and time honored principles arnthe
only upon which they ngnin unite their former
purposes the only they pursue together To
abandon them is to dsband the party and resolve it into
its original elements The plain duty Of all the Wings
then Is to rally round their old standard II is yet
too late for them to succeed The Lesson Just learned
viii be useful There is the same necessity as formerly
for checking the destructive tendencies of subterranean
Democracy, and nothing but organized Wing party is
| capable Of doing it.
FROM THE MEMPHIS (rESYRssERl EAGLE
. y y SO much for the tauses Of our defeat A
word TO what it indicates. If correct in
way Of looking at the matter there is amidst the gloom
which settles the Wing mind Of the country
spotthe knowledge that the sentiment of conservative
nationality, Of which Mr.. FnLNoREs administration has
been embodiment though misdrected and deluded for
the moment is still active and vigorous. The same cause
which contributed sopowerully to elevate viii assuredy
be equally potent in casting down the incoming
Administration If it fail to be conservative one While
robbed the Wing policy and the distinguishing Wing prin-