Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-08-14

The writer's for the Washington Union" are,
We dare say generally in earnest in their attempts,
through its columns, to cast obloquy and reproach
upon the Wing party, upon the present Wing Ad-
ministration, and upon the Wing candidates for the
highest Offices in the Government, which are to be-
come vacant on the Sd of March next. There is
doubtless sufficient for all the adversaries of
the great principles embodied in the Resolves of the
late Wing National Convention, and represented by
the Wing candidates nominated by that Conyen-
ton, to bestir themselves Their craft is in danger
The Democratic Platform, adopted at their late Con-
vention, has been practically repudiated by their
own party, who, through their Representatives in
Congress, are actually contending in rivalry with
the Wings as to which shall be foremost in put
ting in practice the great Wing principle of the
power and the duty of Internal improvements; and
in so materially assisting the Wings as they have
done in the recent triumphant passage of the Bill
on the subject in the House of Representatives, they
have, whilst doing justice to their constituents re-
solutely turned their backs upon the Platform" of
the party. This undenable fact is sufficiently por-
tentous of the fate of the rest of that Platform in
GLIDING the re-enactment of the Kentucky Resolu-
tons of olden time inserted in it with the sinister
intent of preparing the way for the notification of
the Fugitive Slave Law In the anomalous position
in which the Democratic leaders thus find them
selves placed, between two fires in their own wig
wan, it is not matter of surprise that they should
seize upon every charge true false, old or new,
against the Wing party and its principles that
be raked up from the rubbish of by-gone ISLANDERS,
or invented by the fertile ingenuity of the present
day The Wing party, for its candidates, defes
them to do their worst. They can do no greater
service to the Wings than to bring forth all their
charges, true or false to be answered. as they shall
be- whenever they have substance in them, and to
be seorned or laughed at when they are such as to
deserve no more serious treatment
| Among the charges such as only serve to excite
visibility is one in the "Unon" of yesterday, in
troduced under the startling caption of The Can
cass Of Frauds Us --latest Enormiy" and begin
ming in the following ludicrously solemn strain:
I" Some days ago, upon rendered reasons embrace
ing the action of the two Conventions and the main
points in the attitude of the parties and their
ddates before the people, pronounced the present
Wing to be an unprecedented extent can
"ery and juggling since we SO wrote has multiplied the
proofs" &C.
After long prelude of this fashion, we come
to the plot" as that honest gentleman Titus Oates
was wont to call his invention, which, when ex-
amined, consists in piece Of waggery, by some per-
son or persons unknown, in the form of an Address
"to our constituents at large, &C., to which are an
nexed the names of nine of the soundest Wings in
Congress, represented assigning reasons why they
"cannot and will not support Gen. PIERCE for the
Presidency" &c. The reader will perceive, at once,
from this brief alusion to the article, that it
is nothing but a parody upon the Address, by the
same number of gentlemen, some weeks ago, assign
ing the reasons why they cannot vote for Gen.
SooTT for the Presidency 1t is an ingenious hoax,
of which the Wing gentlemen, whose names are
made free with in it, have more right than any body
else to complain; and they must be exceedingly
green, one would think, who could mistake it for
any thing else. The funniest thing by far about
this hoax, however, is the ONIONS" taking it. Sc
riously, and pronouncng grave homily upon the
sin of such droll dongs as this
But, seriously, in turn, zoe think it very doubtful
whether this hoax was perpetrated by Wing or De-
mocrat We know of wags among the Democrats
capable of ingenious advertisements than this
and very capable Of making merry them if done
by other hands than theirs One thing we conceive
ourselves authorized to state as certain that no one
of the Wings whose names are borrowed in this
jeu despru had any agency in the matter, or is in
any way responsible for it.
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