The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-11-23
Wan From the Philadelphia Argus.
IRE na1esf OF the WING Party

MAt From the Philadelphia Angus
The Defeat Of tho WING Party
On the announcement OF the defeat OF General Ssot
and the wing party at the recent election, we Were dis
posed TO all illusions 10 the matter and let The
dead past bury lis dead, while walked 10 The fu
lure with all the momenioas questions with which 4
pregnant But this has not been the course pursued BY
the wing press OF The country Each day We have some
phantom conjured up TO account for the roat OF the
federal whg party and their candidate In the State Of
New York The Seward men complain OF the want OF ex-
erton, II not positive treason, OF the Union wings while
The latter in return put the whole edge OF the defeat on
the monslrous character that Seward and his friends have
in all the States OF the Union Ia State the reasons
adduced by the wings account for this disaster 10 their
hopes is not the less vague and contradictory, Inc
Union wing press here ascribes the defeat TO Johnston
and his friends; while the abolition portion OF the party
fling the accusation back in the faces OF the Fillmore men,
and talk OF the aid aud comfort that The friends OF the
President afforded to the locofocos Thus is the fight
kept fresh by the friends OF the defeated candidates. and
the public made acquaisted with The incongruous and
dlscordant material out OF which this great wing party is
composed
But the real reason why the wing journals do not hit
on the fountain from whence this stream OF their over
throw proceeded is that they seek too home for IT,
They lock at the history OF the few past years TO solve the
problem oil the late total extirpaon OF the federal whg
party, and hence their mistake. II was not The nomna-
ton OF General Scott by the Tame State convention that
renominaed Governor Johnston that lost this State TO the
old hero II was not that The present influence OF Sena-
Tor Seward. Of New York. for General Scott that
made the Empire State roll up her $4,000 majority for
General Pierce and the whole democratic party This I'M
been working for years The foundation OF the wing
organization had been mined. and this but the explo
sion When the leaders Of that party first listened to the
temper IN The shape OF aboiionlsm, and joined forces
with that faction in The northern States against the Just
and constitutional rights OF the other portions OF the
unlon then the doom Of that party was written in letters
that are now burning their foreheads in characters OF
fire For years each succeeding election in the northern
and eastern States has been joint effort OF the wing
and abolition parties TO crush the democracy and though
the national men OF the country were witnesses OF this,
still they chung to that party until they were Weakened from
their sleep by the murder at Chrisiana. and the farce OF
the Baltimore Convention, which resulted in the nomina-
ton OF General Scott by abolition influence alone.
II is to this feature in the history OF the federal wing
party that the people OF the country must look who really
wish to arrive al The true for the defeat Of Gen
Scott The country tired OF the agitation of this
sectional question: and fearful OF its consequences on the
peace and harmony Of the Union. They in the
inaton oil Gen. Scott triumph OF the who headed
this band OF dangerous fanatics in the nation, and they
wisely determined 10 PROSTATE forever both their hopes
and the party which encouraged them The whole
ges OF the lovers OF free form of government
directed to this point and though the wings saw some
extent the dangers that surrounded Them and sought to
avert them by the cry OF the tariff and river and harbor
improvements. still the eye of the country fixed
this one point and against this they hurled the whole
weight OF their forces, and made the defeat such
as is unheard OF in The history Of The nation States that
slnce their admission into the Union have kept their
place in the wing line without faltering, were swept
away By this feeling OF attachment the Union like
leaves before tornado. Rhode Island, and Delaware,
and New Jersey, all gave in their testimony the prn-
cpes OF the democracy while Kentucky and Tennessee,
with their thousands OF wing maorities have barely
capped the general wreck, and stand with bare pualt.es
in the Scott column.
Our wing friends should look this question OF fidelity
TO The Union IN the face when they seeking for the
causes OF their late defeat and then they will have the
problem solved Ii no use for them 10 make wty faces
over the dsaffeciioa of their forces. Il the danger
which met them al every successive step they took in
the track oil the abolition car that induced them TO halt
and examine the end OF the party doctrine they sup
porting and this once DONE tho result and de-
cded one To be sure they thong OF the tariff quss-
uon but then they quered what would be the Of
protective tariff If they had no country which il
could be exercised. They acknowledged that Seward
and Greeley and Johnston might be in favor of river and
harbor Improvements. but then they remembered they
held doctrines that il carried out would raise the red
oil ST. George the aud harbors and that bid
Them pause, and give them time for reflection. fhe
contest was of high and holy principles with the
democracy, and the result is but working out Of
those steTnal and immutable doctrines which the
government oil tbs country is founded Step by
step The wing party had wandered from the path Of
hdelIty 10 The Union, and became merged In the sbo
tion organizations OF the country, until, taking the
alarm IRON the bold adopted al their National
Convention al Baltimore, the patriotic in
their strength and crushed them Into nohingness This
IS the real reason OF the defeat OF the federal whg par
ya dsirust OF their honesty TO the Union and IN
their hands the present time, when the OF progress
is healdng 10 the glorious work OF extending the
area OF freedom and ung up the oppressed from the
night oil their bondage To this duty the OF the
country pushing onward with rapid strides, and they
not TO be Impeded By the influences OF that party
which was unailhful to the honor and dignity OF our
own countrY Y, and traitors 10 the cause OF liberty in other
parts OF the world. Look at the real causes OF your de-
feat neghbors, and do not be tilung at wndmills.