Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-03-16
WING MEETING.

AT meeting Of the Wings Of Berkeley
County held at the United States Hotel, on
Monday the 9Th Of Morcl, 1852, TILLOT-
SON FRYATT was called to The Chair, and
JEuu s. BrRSs appointed Secretary
The object of the meeting was explained
by Edmund Pendleton. who offered the fol-
lowing resolutions, which were adopted:
Reso1red, That the Wings Of Berkeley
cordially respond to the proposition 70 bold a
State Convention Of the party At Riehmond,
on the 14th Of April
RESOLVED, That the Chairman ofthis meet
ing, with twenty Eve others, to be appointed
by him, constitute the delegation from the
County Of Berkeley, to the said Convention.
Resolued, That Central Executive Com
mittee. consisting Of five be appointed to take
all proper action. in relation to the interests
Of the party in the County.
Resolred. That the present Administration
has entitled itself to the confidence of the
country, by strictly combining itself within the
sphere Of the duties imposed upon the Ma
tional Executive, by the promptitude and
rigor of its efforts to preserve III good faith
our relations Of amity abroad. and by its firm
determination to perform its Constitutional
obligations in executing the Laws at home.
Resolred, That among the measures con-
nccted with the Administrative policy of the
Government. the Tariff is Of paramount i'm
portance--that American labor is too widely
diffused and constitutes too essential an ele-
ment Of the National prosperity not to con-
mand the chief and constant attention Of the
American Statesman--that all the interests
Of labor in our country North, South. East
and West-vhethcr engaged in Agriculture.
Commerce. Navigation. Manufactures or the
Mechanics Arts call aloud for projection
against competition in cur own market.
against the products of the redundant popu
lation and the accumulated capital of Europe
: and that duties. which shall provide in the
aggregate, Revenue sufficient for the econom-
zeal administration Of tie Government, and
which shall discriminate, in detail, in favor Of
American Industry. can alone consummate
that prosperity, which the Why Party for
twenty years has struggled to secure
Resolred, That the pecuniary cmbarrass
merits which threatens to inYolvo all interests
under the operation OF the existing Tariff
demands speedy union Of Wings and Demo-
Gratis in any quarter who agree with them,
to place the policy of the Government upon
a footing, shat shall permanently secure the
country against those fluctuations and revul-
sions which in times past have spread ruin
over the land.
Delegation TO the Richmond Contention,
appointed BY the Chairman -Tillotson Fry
att, r Y Snodgrass, Israel Wood Bethuel
NJ Kitchen Alfred Ross. William Leigh,
Norman Miller. G NJ Shaffer, Owen I Hedges,
L z Hunter, George A Chrisman, Washing
ton Kroesen, Francis Peters, John Is IIoge,
David ii Conrad, VIM. 4 Snodgrass. Levi
Henshaw, Benjamin Comceys, John y Boyd.
John W Stewart, Jellu 5 Burns, Samuel
Cox. c j Faulkner, Adam Small. JAS W
Henshaw, Hiram McKown. George | Boltz,
p lyle, j NJ Newkirk, L d Del!inger, S
Garard and Edmund pendleton.
Execu'ire Committec-W ashinstor Kroe-
sen. John W Stewart, Jacob Viucehbeller,
! Z Lyle and James S Brown
On motion the meeting adjourned
TILLOTS0N FRYATT, Chm,
JEnu S. BURNS, Sec'y.