Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-06-22

pecial pets and P,oiegees of the Government
lille the conservative middle-the old.line
compromise democrats have been oyerlooksc
aud disregarded.
| The result is that this last division Of The
party by far the most respectable, trustwor
thy and patriotic, have been shorn other proper
influence in the Government. and reduced 10 q
condition of but little more than political non
nenlity. They will be apt 20 conclude tha
they were cheated at Baltimore, but whether
they yllthereby be made wiser for the future
remains among the other problems involved
in the incorrigibity ofdemocracy.
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PARTY PoLrTIos are generally very dead
Just now among The Wings all over the coun.
try; but here and there we see a spirit Of the
true sort; which is i'll disposed to submit quiz
city To the rule ofthe dominant party. Thus
the editor of the Mobile Advertiser in spirit
which thousands OF other Wings also feel,
though not always in reference TO local poll.
tics says:
They (the Wings have struggled too long
against the tide of Locofocoism that has so
blighted the best interests OF the State to yield
tame submission because al one more defeat.
1t is true the defeats they have met with in
the maintenance Of their cause have prevented
the adoption of their principles, bui they baye
not caused an Abandonment Of them. and
though defeated again and again they will
live by those principles to the last"
The editor Of the Louisville Journal also
says
"Thcy have no such miserable word IS
submission in their political vocabulary. They
have for many years contended for prlncl rles
rather than for power, while with the LoCofo-
COS the great object Of struggle has been pow
er. The Wings are unsubdued though mac
give. They are reposing in inglorlous ease, 10
tive Locofocoism fair opportunity of ex
hibilng itself 10 the country.
The Wings have seen far gloomier days
than the present-days on which the sun was
darkened and not ray of hope pierced the
overhanging gloom When Jackson and
Van Buren, were Presidents there seemed far
less chance that the Wings would ever be able
to establish themselves in power than there is
at present. But one short year before the
great Wig victory Of 1918 the question was
Sc riously debated in the Wing papers wheth
err it was not better TO disband the Wing par
ty than to continue The Intellectual struggles a.
gainst Locofocoism. But the Wings secuted
the base suggestion. and prepared themselves
for the contest which was approaching, aud
which resulted in a most splendid victory"
That able and sterling journal, the N y.
Express, says, the Wing party is sleeping, but
is not dead. 1t will awake in due season, and,
rcst, from its labors, be all the better prepar
ed for whatever events may happen. The Ma
tonal Administration, 80 far has done but lit.
tic else than turn Wings out of Office. That
we expected. for from party whose motto is
that"to the victors belong the spoils of office,
and which invented the political guilotine in
Gen Jackson's day mot much clemency or JUS
tice was 10 be expected. We do not therefore,
war upon the Administration for removing
Wings from office, although as citizens, wish
ing well to the country, we had hoped, as a
whole, for better class Of appointments.
When the dominant party fairly deveopes
its policy we shall be prepared to consider and
discuss it; but we have no reason to expect
any change from the past, except so far as cir
INSTANCES have changed the importance OF
public questions. There will be Democratic
Tariff men in Pennsy lvania and New England
and there will be, on the other hand, Free
Trade Democrats in The South and West, Free
Soilcrs and Hunkers, Compromise and Anti
Compromise men, Unlonists and Secessionists
are Just now, and almost equally. vigilanr
supporters Of the Administration but there
is union of men without a unity of prin
ciples, and such combinations cannot lasi
always. The natural antipathies will in the
end be stronger than the love Of power
or if 1t should not be So the men of principl,
will in the end separate from the men whose
political princi pies have no deeper or better
Judgement than their pockets.
The last Southern mail brings intelligence
says the Richmond Times, ofthe resignation o
BRIG. GEN. PAUL QUATTLEBUM of the thirt