The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-06-26
THE CECIL WING
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U}rlt is with great pleasure mat we give
place this week to The Song Of the Hours by
Mrs. lamar Davis. There is a chasteness and
beauty both of thought and style that are never
attained but by years Of labor and study. We
hope TO hear from the authoress again.
rThe escape of Meagher carries with it
all the thrilling effect of romance, and the incl
dent in relation to Bayard Taylor sends chill
of horror 10 the heart.
Gy-A great portion of our outside is taken up
this week with the proceedings of the Conven-
ton, and other political matter. To our Liter
aru Readers this will be of but little importance,
but let them not discard such things too hastily.
Many person has found in the scenes of excite
ment, which the world supplies, release from
the petty cares that now and then beset him
through life. Byron once advanced the idea,
that to some minds, quiet was a shell" Like
too many Of Byrons IDEAS this goes little too
far into extremes, yet, it cannot be denied, that,
that mind is healthest which is so employed, as
to look with contempt, or at least indifference,
upon the tri1es OF life.
pg-Those who have subscribed for Miss
Whulesey's work will be pleased to learn that
it is now in the hands of the publisher and will
soon be ready for delivery.
IJ-We have received another letter from
our correspondent S. b. F. dated Cincinnati,
which we will publish next week.
THE NATIONAL WIG PLATFORM
A copy of the Platform adopted by
. the National Wing Convention will be
found upon GU. outside. 1t is in every
respect a sound document, embracing
the great fundamental principles which
have ever formed the distinctive features
of the Wing Party. 1t is not ricketty
patched up concern, with its ill-jointed
seams and heterogeneous materials COW
cred over with borrowed carpet of
nationality, but a firm, compact struc-
ture, broad enough and strong enough
for every Wing in the Union to stand
upon. We understand that some ofthe
Locofocos of this town are endeavorlng
to make capital out Of the &c votes cast
against The adoption of the Platform, in
the Wing Convention. Now We charge
il upon the Locofocos, that they were
afraid to put the question on the adop-
ton ofthe platform prior to the nomlna-
ton, notw thstanding it was declared
publicly in the convention, that sit they
nominated a candidate without first lay
ing down their principles, they would
be irretr,eyaS,y disgraced, and defeated
y,n the coming contest, as they deserved
to be- Moreover, we charge them
tina. the platform was not adopted by
the convention proper, that the efforts
to test its strength we're choked of, and
that its provssons are not recognized as
in the least degree binding by their party
in the North. The New York Post,
Locoioco, says:
"With regard to':he resolutions said
to have been adopted by the convention
Just before its close, called in some quar-
tiers the PLATFORM We reaSsert. in strong
Ct terms, what we said yesterday. Furth-
er enquiries iato the circumstances sat
isfv US that, in saving that they did not
express the Sense of the convention, we
used the least expressive phrase the case
would Justify. They sere not adopted
By the contention. Three fourths of the
members-more than three-fourths it is
said by some-had left the room; not
more than a dozen ofthe rest knew what
was doing. Mr.. Davis, the president of
the convention, had been obliged by
exhaustion to leave the chair. Mr.. IT.
wing was in his place, and was eXerting
himself vainly to establish something
like order. The main business of the
convention had been completed; MEM
bers and bystanders were talking it over
with each other, and every thing was
attended to but what was going on be-
side the chair. In the midst of this bus
tie and contusion-in the midst of loud
conversations, shouts, and noise of the
hasty entrances and hasty departures
something was read which nobody heard
and concerning which very few were
aware that it was reading. Mr.. Irving
put the question on all the resolutions
in lump. The ayes, in that fragment
of convention, just in the hustle of
breaking up, were more numerous than
the noes. and he declared the resolutions
adopted. From one of the members,
then in the convention, who was decid-
eddy opposed to part of the resolutions,
and would have voted against them if
he had been given an opportunity, we
have it that he did not even hear the
resolutions put to vote, and was not
aware of this pretence that they had
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