Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-05-19

Again, be says: II cannot conceive how
any fair and candid residents Of the district
can, without blush upon their faces, ex-
press doubt as to what my position was
during the late canvass" If the gentleman
has any political honesty left, his face musi
hare blushed crimson whilst writing that SEN
tenee The people Of the district Supposed
they knew bis sentiments, he having been a
Wing from youth to hoary age; but they
found out bis duplicity only after he had
gainei the object Of his hearts fond devo-
ton.
He was not mistaken in supposing the
Wings of this district, true to this our beloved
Union. would ever be found willing to fight
for its rerpetuity; but the gentleman knows
the Wing party never elected him simply be-
cause he was or professed to be Union man.
When the tariff question came up, and his
vote was called for, does he suppose the
Wings who elected him wanted him to cry
out Union? And so alike for every question
about which the parties are divided.
The Wbias of this district have too many
able and more eloquent leaders than the gen.
tleman. any Of whom they could have elected
with much more ease than they did him, and
who had quite as much love for the Union as
he boasts of, to have selected him as their
candidate. had it not been that they supposed
him alike true to the party and tho Union.
The gentleman has been in public life for
twenty or twenty-five years, always running
as the Uhig candidate. In fact. such was
his decoiion to the party. when not being
able to secure the nomination, he has gone 1t
as an Independent Wing. For the last four
canvasses for Congress he has been the Wing
candidate at least three times, True he was
permitted to run, simply because the election
Of Wing was regarded as forlorn hope
But this time, when our opponents were divi
ded and success was certain, pity prompted
the party 20 overlook the claims Of our noble
Hunter, Conrad, Kennedy. Botcler, Tidball,
aud host Of others, ornaments to the party
and State, and again rally around cur long
,ciHdcd standing candidate who steod eager
to take the track for the great prize Pend
ing that canvass the gcnt'eman was denoun-
ced by bis opponents as an old Federal Whig,
Did he then deny bis wbiggery? No not
once. unless 10 a whisper to some disaffected
Democrat lie received the Wing vote Of
the district; in several of the Counties he
did not receive fire Democratic votes--less
than almost any other Wing would have re-
ceived. From the number of documents with
which the mail is flooded, sent to Democrats
who did not support the Democratic candi
date, il is to be supposed the gentleman re-
CARDS them as his friends. Fatal delusion
they did not rote at all. and that was the
way he was elected He received the uni
ted Hhig rote, whilst hundreds of Demo
Gratis. not liking their candidate, staid at
home. He electioncered alone with Demo-
cratic voters-wby because he felt sure of
bis own party vote. And now ask of the |
gentleman, did he not say to some disaffect- |
cd Wings that the cause Of his not saying
more about his Whiggery was that he did
not desire to array the Democratic party
against him?
Thus, after having acted with the Wing
party for twenty years elected BY the Wings
to the Legislature and Congress, he has now
the impudenee to talk to the Wings Of this
district about blushing. because they did not
sooner find out that he had prored traitor
to the party who had given him erery Office
be ever held If he only proves as dead
weight to the Abolitionists, or whatever par
~ that may be aeiiling to receire ham, as he
has to the Wings we will not wear Grape for
thirty days. The cause he assigns for not
acting with the Wigs is amusing The
Northern Wings. says he, are not sound
Why. when the gentleman was canvassing
the district. he was for using hemp in the
place of silk crardts for the Southern De-
mocrdcy. Yes. indeed. Charles James
Faulkner, the man who voted in our Legs
lature for sending cR the negroes from our
State too good Southern man to act with
such men as Clay, Mangum. Dawson, Jones,
Gentry, Crittenden, and the like.
But can waste no more time with one
who says he had no principles in 40 or AS.
and labors now in long article to prore
what all are willing to admit-that he has
none nolc in so.
One OF HIS DELUDED VINO SUPPORTERS.
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