Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-11-25
Just what Everybody Expected.

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the front rank in point Of ability
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Gle 10 the attention Of our numerous
readers:
JU5r WHAT EvERYBoD EXPECTED
1t is said that Daniel Webster, on
lis dying bed, prophesied that the
wings, as national party, would
soon cease to exist. On Tuesday
last that propheey was fulfilled =
The wing party, Which was. Baptized
by Philip Hone, which opposed
Jackson, beat Van Buren,, was led
by the gallant City, and Supported
BY some Of the noblast spirits Of the
land, is no morel This is a histori-
cal fact already on the record.
is not difficult to trace the caus-
es of this result, for on looking back
at the policy Of the wing party for
the last few years, the consequences
5ust transpircd Sc EN- perfect natural
THE only wonder is that trey did
bot sooner happen. A few men
euch as Seward, Weed, and Greeley
-clnhbsd 4ooethpr and used the
party for their own personal adj
vancement. With that view they in
troduced abolition ism, and nearly
every other ism of these latter days,
until the parasites choled the life out
Of the party itself The treachery
10 Clay by the nomination Of Harrl-
son, an humble county clerk in Ohio,
was the first move.of these patriots.
Then, in 1914, they stabbed Clay be-
hind his back, while before his flee
making Il great show of friendship
and zeal. Id 164S, to use the en-
phatic language of bis wrmest
friends, "Clay was murdered in the
house of his friends" and, the scene
Of the outrage became familiar to
every citizen as the "Slaughter-
House Couve1tion.'' In 1852, they
literally killed off their last great
champion, by nominating a gentle
man eminent hlohe as a man Of war,
and whose whole political life was
open to charges Of inconsistency,
wayeriug, and gross contradiction
At TIE time when anew and distinct
issde was raised Of Union and the
Constitution against abolitionism and
the higher law, the man who, Of all
others,in our land, stood first as a
Statesman, unsurpassed in pure and
passionate devotion to the Union,
aud who, by universal consent, and
By reason of pre-eminent abilities on
many memorable occasions displayed
at the forum and jul the S enate, had
for more than quarter Of 4 century
worn the proud title of DEFENDER Of
the Constitution this man, SO far
ahead of every living member Of his
party, in intellect, services, and mer-
it. was thrust aside+and for whom?
A Statesman? Mol An old Ind
well-tried wing, who had done yeo>
man service for his party? No. A
man free from sectional bias, and iii
no way identified With abolitionism
and It's kindred enormities? MOI
but for military here, fresh from
the field of battle, whose nomination
was urged on the ground Of expedi-
oncv alone, aided, allotted, and pro
erred By this very abolition clique
Of Seward, Greeley 6 Co.
Now there were thousands Of men
in the wing ranks who, to their eter-
nal homer be it recorded, loved their
country more than party, and whose
sense of justice and common propri-
ETY., reFolted at the outrage. They
could not be cajoled with brilliant
So in Mexico: nor pleased,
ike cd ildren, with fine pictures of
plumes and uniforms 1t Was IN
vain to tell su eh men of Scots pat
riotism no one ever doubted that
Tor every honest American is a pat
not; but it was most suspicious cir
to find him in the arms of
.he rankest woolIy-heads in all the
northern States. The sterling origi.
nal wings passed by the Broadway
House, whose familiar walls had 20
,ften resounded to hearty cheers for
Clay. Webster, and Fillmore, but
where nothing now was heard save
he drum and the fife, and nothing 8
cen but 4 list of the cardinal princi c
lies Of the whig party displaced BY a
he huge transparency of a general G
o full uniform, surrounded by the :
anguinary motto, chippewa and
lherubusco, Lundy'S Lane 4 nd Mex
.