The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-07-08
THE WING PARTY.

Locoioco and free soil papers, whether th
Wing Party is dead, or not. We think the
are putting themselves to great deal Of III
necessary trouble. While patriotism retnar
in the country, the Whig party will neve
die. Whether il will always retain ;he sam
name Is different matter. We like the ham,
and have no wish to see il changed. We kno,
that there are many in the other parties VIII
should be acting with us, but from the mer
attachment to their party name, are agains
us.
The Wings are, and always have been, il
favor of that policy which vii; make our coun
try truly independent of all the world. The,
want the best kind of roads mhde, they wan
our rivers and harbors improved, that our tire.
mendous internal traffic may have the least
possible tax laid upon its passage from one sec.
ton to The other. They want sound mixed
currency, that our busin
men may have every facility for the transac-
ton of business. They want such protection
given to our urvarious branches of manufactures,
as will make them independent Of all foreign
competition, whether from pauper labor or
the auction system, by which they throw
goods into our market at less than cost, for
the avowed purpose of breaking down our
manufacturing establishments.
These are the great leading measures of
the Whig party. They are measures which
recommend themselves to the sober common
sense of the people at large. Could they be
fairly presented, without false Issues, there
can be no doubt of their receiving the sane.
ton of the great body of our people.
In addition to these measures, the Wings
have always held the principle, that our form
of Government must be kept to the strictly
Democratic Republican form-that our Con-
stitutions must emenate from the people, and
that laws must be made in accordance with
them-that the laws made in accordance
Herewith, must be obeyed-that it is the
right of the people to change their Constitu-
tions and laws, whenever they think proper
to do SO.
These are the measures and principles of
the Wing party. We believe they are the
only system of measures and principles which
will make our country truly independent
The other parties advocate measures which
we believe would greatly injure, if not des-
troy our country, and of course we cannot,
under any circumstances, act with either of
them. We care nothing about politics, any
further than it is calculated to make our en-
tire country truly independent and happy.
The mere politician, whose trade is to hold
office, may change with the varying tides of
public sentiment--but the true Wing, the
true friend of his country, will ever advocate
such measures as are calculated to promote
the best interests of the country, without ta-
king into consideration the fact that he may
be, temporarily, in the minority.
We yet believe that the true friends of the
country will rally to these principles and
In Ohio, especially, it is impor-
tant that the Wings should stand firm. The
farce Of "the new Constitution in the hands
Of its friends" appears likely to turn out
tragedy, so far as the peoples pockets are
The Spoilers must be routed
the people must be properly epresented-our
exorbitant taxes must not be squandereG upon
The members of the Legislature and our pub.
lie officers, who have less to do, and more paw,
than they had under Wing rule. The masses
Of the people, of all parties, are dissatisfied
with these things, and they know that to the
Wings they must look for the redress of these
grievances. In addition to this, the locofocos
have crippled our banks, and they are gradu-
ally Withdrawing their notes from circulation.
The consequence is, that our country is flood
ed with the trash of almost every State in the
Union-of the value of which our citizens car
and do know but little. Formerly, when an
Wlsueu 10 come TO the west
to buy Wheat, Wool, or any other western
product, he deposited his money in some east
ern bank, and sold the certificate of deposit
10 the Ohio banks. The Ohio banks paid for
It in their own money, and that circulated a.
mong our people. They all knew that it was
as good as the specie itself, and that if they
wanted specie they could get II any time. Now,
from the effects of locofoco legislation, the cas-
tern merchant has to bring such money as he
can get, and pay it nut for produce. As before
stated, the people do not know its value, and if
they want specie for any particular purpose,
they cannot get it, because, if good, the bank
is so far off as to make it impossible for them
to go for il.
Thousands of dollars of this trash will no
doubt die in the hands of our people, and this
will be an additional tax which they will have
to paw for putting the locofocos in mower LET