Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-06-19

bouses of CONGRESS. and we shall have after the
election another Whiq manifesto defining Wing
principles and all who do not stand by them Will
be denounced as traitors to party. we can Judge
only of the future from the past and Judging from
the past we can have no doubt as to the pnnclPles
and character of the Wing leaders. Many OF US
no doubt remember the contest OF lo40; IL was
then charged upon the Wings that a Bank was
one of the issues before the people, and how was
if met? By a bold declaration that 1.-THE charge
was false" and as proof of it both the candidates
ON the Wing ticket were referred to as known ana
avowcd anti-Bank men. This declaration received
the sanction of the Wing Executive COMMITTEE at
Raleigh, and was scattered broad cast over the
State; and yet upon coming into power the nrsS
object of their concern was to establish Bank o,
the United States with the strongest powers, ana
because Mr. TYLER whom they had run as known
anti Bank man, felt himself bound to MAINTAIN IN
power the principles he had protested through lie,
and veto the Bill, he denounced, vlhhed, ana
abandoned. " :,
But this is not the only instance in which the
Wings deceived and betrayed the public confidence.
T wish it were. One of their leaders, IN 1S4o,
proclaimed the true issue between the parties to be
t'the restriction or extension of Executive POWER.
The veto power was denounced as the one-man
power, and was to be expunged from the Constltu-
ton, while prescription, for opinions sake, was de-
nOuQCoQ as QcSpOIlSIl, anu Nflo llHSIl W w r.
cribed Well, the veto power under the fostering
care of the people, still stands in the Constitution
and we hear! nothing now of this odious one-man
power And prescription for opinions sake, now
was that prescribed! A member of Gen. Harrl-
sons Cabinet when arraigned in the House. boosted
that during the short time he held office, ne mad
decapitated 100 subordinate officers, and II nc
had been allowed to remain in office another month
he would have completed his 5000! My honora-
BILE friend who sits near me (Gen. Saunders) with
an impulse common to generous minds, rose IN his
place and denounced the author as n blood-thlrsty
tvrant. This was prescription with vengeance
and by party who came into power pledged to the
very opposite policy. At the last election we mad
another chapter upon this subject. The Wings
suddenly became enamoured with no-party men,
and Gen. Taylor was presented to the country as
patriot who would soar above partisan influences
in the administration of the Government. 10 use
his own language, he had no enemies to punish
and no friends to reward" And how was this
f solemn pledge redeemed! BY turning out OF
office, for opinions sake, gallant spirits who had
breasted with him the storm of war, exposed to all
the dangers of battle and of disease in foreign
: country, to make place for those who, for party
:, PURPOSES had voted to starve him and his noble
: army in foreign land; or for those who had en-
couragcd by their coquence that foreign foe to re-
D cevc our destitute but gallant volunteers, with
/ bloody hands to hospitable grave" "
have only one other subject to which L desire
to call the attention of the Convention in connec-
ton with the past history OF the Wing party Ii
e is the compromise of the Tariff The circumstances
under which it was entered into have not yet passed
V from the minds of many of us. Its author was the
e distinguished statesman and orator of the West
who presented it. he said, as peace-offering and
bond OF the Unon and therefore to be held sacred
II in after time In the campaign of 1910 all parties
S agreed that the compromise of the Tariff was tc
bod re
/ repeal or alteration it would have found no sup
II port from any quarter in the South And yet il
r almost the first Wing caucus, held after they came
! into power, the repeal of the compromise of the
i Tariff was determined on by the Wings of the
j North. ]. @. Adams in the House of Representa-
J. tives proclaimed that the compromise was to be
thrown to the dogs, and accordingly it was thrown
there; and in its place was substituted an odiou
\ Tariff for protection to Northern manufacture
The Wings of the South submitted to this outrage
upon our just rights-nay, sir, of them aided
in the work and but for the enlightened and lib
= eral policy of Mr.. Folks Administration, SHOULD
r still be suffering under its exactions.
Knight pursue this subject still further and show
: how utterly fallacious have been all the Wing
promises of retrenchment and reform. Expendi
e ture has almost doubled itself, while abuse anc
: corruption, even in high places, have become Sc
common that they cease to produce surprise. Blu
d [ forbear. l have said enough, l trust, to show
n what desired to show, that the Wing party have
signally violated or abandoned the principles and
d promises upon which they came into power, anc
that judging from the past we have no assurance:
n whatever for the future. l come to show, Mr.
) President, that the Wings of the South are in {
lean minority and governed and controlled by the
J. Wings of the North, who, party, are hostile t.
= our institutions ; while the Democratic party o
d the North, guided by the noble principles con
tanned in your resolutions the only party upor
1t which can rely for the protection of our right
e and the preservation of the Union.
For the truth of these assertions let me refer t.
o a few we'll known facts. We must Judge of partie
r, by their acts rather than their professions. W.
u rememberthe recent crisis produced in this country
IS by the mal-administration of Gen. Taylor. Hi
# political friends trembled at the precpice upol
n which stood. To avert the threatened DANCE
II and to save the Union, certain measures Of adjust
ment, called the compromises, were proposed. Il
this compromise the North, usual, took the lion
e share. There was but measure favorable to tn
l. South, and that simply law to carry int
l. effect constitutional provision for the rendition
IS fugitive slaves provision without which hazarc
5 nothing in saying the South never would hav
s. come into the Union. The law was so obviousl,
a just and constitutional that even a Northern mem
IT Der, (Nr. Elliott of Bcston) declared that beins
to support the constitution, he could not vot
J. against it without committing perjury. At thi
critical juncture in public affairs, fortunately 70
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