Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-11

Wings. In lSiS they lost everything, excepting
the Governor, and he was saved bya few votes
not 4OO-and by extraordinary efforts. Yet, direct
" afterwards, TAYLOR carried the State by about
900. The issues and the men were different.
In the State election, the Wings had not the.
benefit of the great national issues-the taiif in
ternal improvements and distribution of the pro-
ceeds of the publclands. Let not the Wings, then,
in Virginia or elsewhere, be discouraged in the
slightest degree by adverse result, in Pennsyl-
vania, next Tuesday. Now, in every Wing pro-
cession, in Pennsylvania, we see wagons full OF
ssstraightouts from CAss to ScorT." Even in Old
Virginia. the mother PRESIDENTS, there are signs
that she will cast her vote for her own glorious and
noble son, WIsFIELp Scorr, in preference to an
obscure and unknown New Hampshire attorney.
In one county, he had noticed, he believed, that
81 Pierce "Vgilance Committee" men had come
out and declared for ScoTr. In IA, the Democratic
majority, in Virginia, was about 6,ooo;ln '4o' ~
was reduced to about 1,400. One more such effort
for old WI.FIELD and the field will be won. Will
YOU make it? The universal response was: We
,cilIn A large number will then vote Tor the Pre-
sdent for the first tune; they were not yet bound
by the shackles of party, and can any VIrgInlan,
can any man not so bound, but free to follow the
impulses of gratitude and patriotism, fail to prefer
WINFIELD Scorr, who has devoted his life, shed his
blood and covered his country all over with untad-
ing glory and renown. Could any but the yeriest
slave of party fail to prefer such man to FRANK
LIN PIERcE-without services, without qualifica-
tions, without claims of any kind upon his coun-
irymen. Was such a thing possible? mo, no!l
The supposition would be insult to the intelli-
gence and patriotism of the Old Dominion. Repu-
blics are not ungrateful This was proved in the
cases of JACKSON HARRIsoS and TAYLOR, and Will
be confirmed, with still grealer emphasis, in the
case of ScoTr.
Mr.. S. went on at length to discuss the political
issues. He said there were but three living issues
now dividing the two great parties, in and out OF
Congress. The Tariff, Internal improvements and
Distribution. Jefferson, the father and apostle of
Democracy, was the firm and decided advocate OF
all these measures. He went, not only for high,
but for prohiJitary Tariff and tn. surplus reve-
nue., he said, divide among the States, "for Inter
nal Improvement and Education" These were
Jeferson's sentiments, repeated over and over in
his reports when Senator and in his messages when
President. Were they not true, he called upon any
Democrat present todeny it. Hepaused, but there
was no response. Then, what was the position
OF the two parties on these questionsi The
Wings were with Jefferson and the Democrats were
opposed to him on all these measures. Who dare
deny it! The Wings were the real Jeffersonian
Democrats. They had the principles and their op-
ponents the name. and nothing but the name, and
with it they scduced all the unthnkng foreigners
INTO their ranks. "You have fed" they say
"from oppression, we invite you into our ranks,
we are for popular rights; the Wings, our oppo-
nents opposed to them; they are the aristocra-
cy." Thus, by falselood and fraud, these honest
and confding Irishmen, are Seduced into u party
advocating the British doctrine of Free Trade,
which impoverished and drove them from Ireland,
and will impoverish and ruin them here. Nothing
but the famine OF AT and the California gold SINCE
has saved the country from ruin under the Tariff
of '46. The British press throughout the King
dom, is out boldly for Pierce and Free Trade. In
London, Liverpool, Manchester, every where.-
owe prefer Pierce,' says the Liverpool Times,
"not because he is the better man-far otherwise,
but because he is the nominee Of the party in the
Union who desire to push the principles of Free
Trade to its utmost limits.' There it is: not be-
cause he is the better man, far otherwise, but be-
cause he is on their side" The British know Gen.
SCOlt-yeSy anu lcdi uilu too. VII liiio SiSat aHu
all absorbing question of Protection there were but
two sides, the British side and the American side.
1t was contest between British labor and Ameri-
can labor for the American market, and the ques-
ton is which side will you take-the British side,
or the American side! In the Revolution there
was similar contest. The British attempted to
stop manufacturing i'll the Colonies and to force
their goL DIS upon us, TWAS resisted then by the
Wings. andi is resisted noD by the Wings There
another party then, as now, who took the Brit
ish side, we all know what they were then called
They are now called Democrats" he called them
Locofocos.
Mr.. Stewart then went OH TO explain the opera
tons of the Tariff OF '46. 1t had doubled, and
more than doubled the imports of Foreign goods
From 100 millions, it had increased to 212 millions
of dollars and that too under the fraudulent vaua-
ton, the actual amount being muc h greater. This
was the result of the ad valorem system, which
Disseminated not for but against Protection. 1t
operated the reverse of the British sliding scale;
it went up and down with the price. 1t gave high
Protection when the Foreign prices was high, and
no Protection was wanted, and took away all Pro-
lection when the price was low, and when Protec-
ton was alone required.
Mr.. S. here adverted to the piles of British Rail
Road Iron he had seen lying at the r. r. Depot in
our city, to be laid down over the richest mines OF
Iron ore and Coal in the world, and in the midst
of the ruins of delapidated Iron Works, Furnaces,
FORCES and Rolling Mills, in Virginia and Mary
land, the erection of which cost millions, under the
Wing Protective policy, and had dirused millions
of money among our honest and industrious farm
ers and laborers, had enhanced the wages of labor
and the value of our land and its productions
Now, he asked, why are all these fires extnguish-
ed this American labor thrown out, and their rich
resources of native wealth and independence des-
troyedl 1t was the effect of the Tariff Of '46, and
who is benefited by it, The British, and nobody