Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-06-30
The Wing nominations.

We had barely time last week to announce the
nomination of Gen. WINFIELD SCOTT, OF New
Jersey, and the Hon. WIN. A. GRAHAM, of North
Carolina, as the Wing Candidates for the Presi-
dency and Vice Presidency of the United States.
1t is scarcely necessary to repeat that we will sus
tain them with hearty good will Under their
banner we have enlisted for the war, with the full
assurance of brilliant and decisive victory.
So far as we have observed the nominations have
been received with very general satisfaction. Gen.
Scorr having promptly endorsed the noble Plat
form dictated by the South, and adopted by the
Convention, the Wings of the South will endorse
him. With such platform we cannot conceive
how any man calling himself Wing can refuse
to support the men who have planted themselves
upon it, The issue is not now between Wings
in the Convention that contest was decided, and
should be remembered no more. We have now
to choose between WINFIELD ScoTT Wing of
the purest kind. with a Platform of National Wing
principles, and FRANKLIN PIERCE, Locofoco Of
the Van Buren, school, with a Platform of Loco
foco construction; between the greatest Captain of
the age, and the hero Of piece Of u war and four
wel-executed somersets between man born and
reared in the hot bed of Abolitionism who certain
" has no sympathies in common with the South,
or favorable to her peculiar institution" and the
gallant son of the Old Dominion, whose brow is
wreathed with laurels won upon many hard fought
field, whose fealty to Wing principles is above
suspicion, whose feelings towards the South and
Platform upon which he stands and proclaims,
without hesitation, to be his own! We have new
err been of those who doubted the soundness of Gen.
ScoTT, but if we had been would now acknowl-
edge our error and give him our cordial support
Such will doubtless be the course of those Southern
Wings whose partialites for Mr.. FILLMORE caus-
ed them at first to receive the nominations with
some luke-warmness. We We're the firm and fast
friends of WILLARD FILLMORE to the last, and
yield to none in admiration of the man and the
President but we have never yet been able so far
to rid ourselves of devotion to the Wing party and
its principles, as to prefer defeat with him TO sue
cess with any other man.
Hon. WIN. A. GRAHAM, the candidate for the
Presidency is citizen and an Ex-Governor
of the Old North State. He formerly represented
North Carolina in the Senate of the United States,
and since the accession of Mr. FILLMORE. has fill
ed the office of Secretary Of the Navy with signal
ability. We know him to be the favorite of the
North Carolina people, sound, thorough Conser-
vative Wing, and one of the most promising men
of his age in the Union. His nomination will
thoroughly arouse Old Rip Van Wrinkle, and in
sure to the Wings several Southern States that
might otherwise have been lost.
The Democrats take the nomination of SCOTT
and GRAHAM very sorely, which is not at all as
tonishing. An anecdote occurs to us, which may
convey little wholesome advice, appropriate to
the circumstances in which they are placed. 1t is
told of on old hunter whose rife was never known
to miss its aim. The crack of his piece was GER
tain death, and consequently his appearance in the
forest never failed to produce considerable sensa
ton among the inhabitants" The gist of the
story, however, is, that the ''varmints" finally be-
came so sensible of his unerrng aim, that when
ever he raised his gun, they left their lofty abodes,
quietly came down the trees and surrendered at
discretion Need we expose the point ''Old
Chepultepec" is sure shot, and PIERCE may
lust as well fall off his horse at once
Long time ago, when but a young man, WIN
FIELD SCOTT mounted that
''tidc in the affairs Of men
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune"
1t has borne him triumphantly aloft through the
dangers of .'three wars and ten pitched battles"
and will just as certainly carry him successfully
through the political campaign upon which he has
entered. 1t is the ''manifest destiny" Of the Old
Chieftain to succeed in every thing he undertakes,
and just as surely as we whipped the enemy with
"Old Tip" in 1910, and with "Old Zach" in
lS4S, Just so surely will they be routed and put to
flight in 1852, by the conquering hero of Lundy's
Lane, and Chippewa, Chepultepcc and Churu-
busco
The Ratification Meeting.