Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-03-03
THE STANDARD
RALEIGH, N. C..
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1852.
ORIGIN AND NATURE OF wH1GGERY.

pectivey assumed; and we propose now briefly 10
trace these parties from that period the present.
Mr.. Jefferson served eight years, and sue
ceeded by MIR. Madison, who was also Republican.
The Federasts opposed his administration, opposed
the with England, and left no means untried TO
induce the people to the Republican party of
power and put them in. But the people stood firmly
by the Republican leaders, and Mr.. Monroe cleo
ted to succeed Mr.. Madison. But the Federalists,
who had lost character with the people account OF
their opposition Mr.. Madison and the war, and
their Hartford Convention sympathies concluded, for
the first tlme to change their name, which they did.
and assumed that of National Republican and the
real Republicans were then called, in order to dis
tinguish them more clearly from the others, Demo-
cratic Republicans. Mr.. Mo nroe was succeeded by
Mr.. Adams. Every one knows how Mr.. Adams was
elected, and what he while President, and after.
wards. He was succeeded by Gen. Jackson in 1928,
who went in sustained by overwhelming majority.
Gen. Jackson pledged the principles of Jefer-
and Madison, and he labored with zeal and ener-
gy to restore the government to its original simplicity
and purity. He successful in this in all pre-
vious undertakings; but it became his duty to lay
his strong the National Bank, and to arrest it
in its march to supreme control, and thereby the
public liberties. The responsibility great, but
the man Of the age met it with an iron purpose and
unquailing front. He broke the power of that and
all similar Institutions forever; but the warmed
the old Federaists into new life, and they, with
thousands Of his friends who fell off from him, rallied
in all portions of the country against him. Some of
his friends left him because they corrupt and
preferred Bank accommodations to the best interests
Of their country-others, because they doubted his
power to divert the deposites from that institution,
and were willing to unite in putting a check what
they regarded undue exercise of Executive
power; but large majority of those who deserted
him, did so in the honest belief that, without Ma
tional Bank, the country could not continue to inn
prove and prosper. The leaders of these forces,
strangely compounded, looked about for new name
and the Raleigh Register admits that they found it
and assumed it, about the year $780," A New
York Editor, who had been Jackson man, was sud-
denly accommodated by the National Bank, then strug
Cling for existence with Old Hickory and forthwith
his Editor turned his batteries Jackson, and assrm
ed his position of the leaders of the party
He dug up the name from the graves of the Revolu-
lion, and announced it. 1t was the name of Hhig.
Thousands of the honest people of the country were
gulled and deceived by tit was a glorious and
hallOwed name, and in the simplicity of their hearts
they could believe that the leaders who had as.
SuAeu ~ "cIS ny OF SeInSn p0r.
poses. These leaders entered the field with their
principles distinctly set forth. They were for Ma
lonal Bank, high protective Tariff, for distribu
lion of the proceeds of the public lands, and against
the Independent Treasury. These principles were
emblazoned on all their banners from Maine to Lou
siana. They triumphed in 1s4o but their President
died, John Tyler proved true TO his ancient pledges,
and their victory was barren and useless. In 1874
thew tried If AGAIN. and defeated hnt in
having changed their name again to that of - no
pnrfy'' men, and with candidate who had no par
ticular opinions for any section, but who was sur
rounded with halo OF glory acquired in honorable
foreign war, they succeeded once more in gaining
power. But This President died also and for the Sec
ond time their Vice President assumed power And
now what do we see? They threw John Tyler aside
because he did not prove himself true Wing; but
MIR. Fillmore is Wing without spot or blemish, and
yet they are about TO consign him to the fate
They want another military cheftan; and the Wings
Of the North now declare that as they took General
Tayo Southern man, without pledges in 1885, SO
the southern Wings must take Scott, Northern
man, without pledges in 1852. They profess to be
. Union " men now, for they changed their name
again in 1850; and yet with these professions on
their lips those of them who belong to the free States
refuse to endorse the late 'compromise'' fnay
and seek to reopen the Slavery agitation, which is
fraught with SO much danger to the Union while a
arge majority of those who belong the South are
prepared to acquiesce in ttis conduct of their North
ern allies, and ready to take Scott they took
Harrison and Tyler, IS without why or where
fore" We can judge Of the future only by the past.
Let the past, then, be examined, and let the people
duly reflect upon it and be warned in time.
We have said that these leaders started out with
certain wel-de6ned and well-known principles. What
has been the result! These principles were steadi-
y pressed for fifteen years. but the people steadi-
y declined to approve them and this day, not the
of them has been established in the adminisra-
ion OF the government On the contrary, Democratic
principles have prevailed and been established and
lnder the influence of those principles immense adj
1itions have been made to national territory. and
he country is every where advancing and prospecting
hey ond all former example. The Independent Treas
Try, which these Federal leaders declared would de-
'troy the Banks, establish currency for the peo
Die and another for the Office holders, and lead en-
'ezzlements and heavy losses of the public funds,
las disappointed all their calculations and predictions
md not one Of these leaders, from President Fillmore
Town, has moved or will move to repeal it. In addi-
ion to this the Tariff of 1885, about which they in
iulged in similar predictions Of evil, is working
he satisfaction of the great of the people
Ill quarters and effort has been made by the
Wings, as party, to change it. Who wants Ma
ional Bank at this time! No one-no Wing leader
Uses up to demand such an institution. We submit,