The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-10-21
From the Washington Union.
The Wing Party-What have they done


onward to the accomplishment of its clorioIs
destiny, need but consult the history of tde
present and the preceding wing administer
tons. The pages Of the past, on which ire
recorded the achievements OF the denaocrqcy, /,
attest the triumphant success with which II
democratic party, waen in the ascendant,
fortunately, with brief intervals, they have
ever been, have developed the power and go-
ry of the United Stats What does the past
teach as to the craftsmanship and competen-
cy of the wing party No matter how they
may labor to disguise and distort the ques-
tons legitimately before the country and to
mask their real designs, the whig party by the
act OF competing for the presidency do submit
their past conduct and their present preten-
siOns to the severest scrutiny, and they must
abide the verdict which the coun shall pro-
Inounce upon this issue If . tree be bar
rem, and, still more, if it Dear 1t bitter and
poisonous, it must not be suffered to cumber
theearth. If the experiment of government
which the whig party have made has been bar
rem of benehcent results, and, still more, if
| it has brought disaster and dishonor upon the
country, the wing party should not be suffer-
+ ed again to assume task to which they are
incompetent, and to WELD power which they
pervert to the disgrace and detriment of the
nation. This is the question before the coun-
try; and upon its decision the result of the
approaching election should depend The
military renown of the whig candidate, and
the battles, sciges, fortunes he has passed,
are as foreign to the great issue before the
country as the fabulous exploits of the heroes
of Grecian mythology. Thepolicy and prin-
, ciples of the wing party, the effect of that
policy upon the national welfare when devel-
oped in the administration Of the government,
the executive capacity and civil attainments
of the whig candidate-these are the consid-
erations which must determine the event of
the presidential election.
1t is fact of deep significance that the
wing party have never yet attained power up
on the strength Of their cause Heretofore,
as now, they have refused to submit their
principles of public policy to the judgment
+ of the people. John Quincy Adams, the
first genuine and thorough wing President
was elected against the manifest will Of the
+ nation, and by a coslition between contend
# ing factions. The peoples choice was An
o drew jackson. 1t is notorious, again, that
i the whig party basely though hypocritcaly
n renowned their principles in the campaign
+ of 1910, and crept into power under fals(
,r prctences. In 1913 they played the same
l. game-selected candidate whose curee
lie could excite no political discnssion-by
2 false and facti0us clamor diverted the pual
J. mind from the questions really in issue, AM
4 positively and pcrtinaciously refused to stant
be- or fall upon the merits Of their cause AM
now again they are repeating the cxperimen
> of 1910 and 1913, in pretending to rcnounc
their principles, inavoidug the discussion q
- the issues legitimatcly involved in the car
! vass, and attempting to stiAe the voice @
- reason and truth by the roll Of the drum an
- The whistle Of the fife. We say these ar
y, significant facts, because they betray the di,
trust with which the wing party regard thci
own cause. They amount to confession b
whig politicians that their party has no clair
upon the gratitude or the confidence of tn
~ country, and that it dare not make an homes
~ appeal to the reason and Judgment of th
- people Truth never fears the light & shrink
90 from 10 sclu my, while fllseh o hides il
deformity under the mask of hypocrisy an
X conceals its weakness by every expedient
lie deception.
ny And, in truth, what have the wing part
rd done in the 1our of their brief and accident;
a triumph to merit the gratitude or secure til
IL confidence Of the country? For what mea
tie ures of political wisdom and national adyal
en- tage is the country indebted to them? VIII;
OF are the achievements of wing craftsmanship
*, and where the evidence of the administrati,
- e IL. Il
n wing party to the test of being judged b
nd their fruits, and what title to the support
te- the people in the present crisis can they e
be tablish? In 1910 they contrived, by avail
5e- ing themselves of the military reputation
nd Gen. Harrison, to get possession of the reil
lys of government, and, with majority in Co
er- gress, they had full scope for the display
for the beauties of their political system al
ng their ability for the administration of civ
Id, affairs. In what do the political exploits
III the whig administration Of 1910 consist
ly, Let the history of the extra session of 49,
ess return an answer The restoration of tn
ia monster of federalism, national bank-tl
zen protective tariff of lS42-the act licensil
OF the reputation of honest debts by the
ed. honest creditor, miscaled bankrupt law
these were the prominent achievements of t
/ whig party when, with the executive and lie
islatiye departments of the government und
their CONTROL they had power to carry o
Dry their principles in the policy of the Sta
the Never was the radical and essential error
list, any political system so conclusively demo
en- strated-never the incapacity and unftnC
of party SO fatally apparent as the me;
rs a ures of the whig administration and the wi
hat Congress of 1840-'42 proved the wing pc
yer, cy and the wing party to be. If Mr.. Ty
ate had not shrunk in alarm from the consequ(
for ces of whig policy, and had not arrested tt
OF, partyi the pursuit of their cherished schen
pro- the country would have been Frustrated
ion, the ascendeney of measures of governmC
was which all men of all parties are agreed n
? of to reprobate as fraught only with nation
ruin and disgrace. If the wing party,
on by Mr. Clay, had been suffered to riot
an unchecked sway, and to push their prir
Ion. pies to a complete development, they wol
tits, not have survived the administration of
at Ter. The experiment of wing governme
, on administered thoroughly upon wing prir
elve Piles, would have taught the country an
full but an instructive lesson-the lesson
wing incapacity and wing impolicy. BY
are permitting the wings to carry out their pI
ami ciples in the administration of the COVE
ev- ment, and thus manifest to what deplora
hos results they would lead. Mr.. TYLER, with