The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-05-04
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Wing party, and some ar1mepts may be
adduced 10 strengthen tie belief OF one ca
silly e~rCdulDus, We ba&, for instance, n
Convention lac in the winter, purportin to
bea Whig Congestion. The Secretaries Of
the meeting catered it so, upon the minutes.
- was 50 printed in The Journal. A com
peny OF elsrer men, headed by Mr.. Bar.
RkaE. was set zap. as irolicksome boys set up
bricks in a ow, to be knocked over in
saceessions when the ttstone fails,-just for
lhe iun OF The lining. Besides, the papers
Who opposed PARoE for President, Lave
hung out their baIners Dol lily, with "Whig
tcket" inscribed pyon their folds-deter.
h.aed to- die agsln Tor the old cause.
Again, you may occasionally meet men
on the street who from habit if not from
reason, will tell you, thu. they yeteonsider
themselves Wings. And alchelgh you may
look doabting, you will surely leave them
Fith an impression OF their sincerity of DE
lief. Indeed, a1iIqyits might be obtained
ifom responsible men-bankers, brokers,
lawyers, and now aud then a farmer who
feads the National Inttlligencer, affirming
that / Wing party yet lives.
These and other signs are worthy Of con-
kidfration. People give more e~ousidera zion
10 matters less forcibly demonstrated. The
black snow, the mad stone and the Daupnin
ipdentlticstion are not half so important,
nor perhaps 50 clearly proren-and we may
add, the gentlnaap who INFLICTED chatisement
on one Nilliapi Pattefsoa, has received a
large share Of public attention, although he
Is just as %iadehnable 2s the man of the Iron
Mask, cr the apthqr Junius. We would
Nrge our friends Of The Wing press to con
sider the suggestions we have made in re.
lation to their entity.
On the other hand, il may be urged with
great force, that we have no whig party a
inong us. And upon principle too. A
party signifies, a large body ct people ban
tied IN opinion, having aunity OF design,
and ii opposition 10 others III the communal,
". Now, We put it in all candor, whether,
strictly speaking, there be any body of men
known as Wings, having q paily OF opinion
and design, opposing t4e Democratic par
y.
Don't we--hav'nt we always oppo-ed
yeuLocos?" shouts some courageous par.
uzan, glorying in his shame.
Certainly - modest gentleman! You
have; but that is not the hinge to swing on.
Have you done it; or do you now dot, with
a unity of opinion or design? Ii so, name
she opinion and design. You opposed
Pierce; yet now, your leading paper. the
Republic Of Washington, has lately said
that il. had no opposition to make to his
policy, and it has been championing the
President for his integrity, ever since the
4th of March. :..-N
The New York Tribune, the body and
soul of the last Wing canvass. once remar-
ked that the Wing party was d negative
element, whose only design was to oppose
the '.psfnlcious progress Of tie Democrat
cy.p Opposition only; no affirmative ele-
ment, Besides, Mat influential journal de-
clared after the late election, tnen it an
nounced all the Union for Pierce, except
. IL States. that the Whigparty was uncon
ditonally dissolved.
The same paper, under a more recent
date, holds the following sentiments:
ave peak alt of this with calmuess, and
thipk with impartiaIity. We consider the
Wing parry not only defeated, but undone.
We can contemplate its history With all the
philosophic ,candor that we could bring to
hear on the history of the English War of
tne Roses, or1he rise and fall Of the Giron-f
dists in Revolutionary France. We b lieye
the only effect of Keeping II pthe Wing
organization and stand lrd is the perpetu-
a.ion of abuses and iniquities like those
rampant in the. government OF our city. As
nurses appeal tosome fabulous dwelIers in
darkness rs a qtietus to troublesome chill
dren. SO the Wing party will be used, while
it holds together, as p scarecrow and an in
Of discipline by the leaders and
fuglemen Of the Democracy Some of its
wishes to hide defeat under a new
name SO as to emerge from chaos withoptlhe
sid odlpq3. Even this has not yet teen
done. The result o. the recent elections in
Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the fact
in Massachusetts, the wings have a
spall accidental majority in the Legislature,
while the people are against them, is. enough
convince any one, that at least if there
be such an organization as the Wing, it is
utterly powerless. Hope has hardly dared
70 hover over its remains. From Maine to
California, there is hardly State which can
be called a wllg State. "Oh! but have we
NOT in Ohio, 81 party, which fayors Banks,
oppose the lax law, and hates Democratic
progressiveness?' Perhaps you have. Ii
ny that youmean, the great National Wig
party, then we will conclude by saying, that
We have a wing party among us.
In the language Of a~contempcrary, we
would give our opinion on The question:
1--WE do not ilatter ourselves that the wings
al dead, or thas their power is wholly
departed. They help make up q large
shElre Of our population. They have small
SPARE OF members and q large share of
wealth, Bnt the party is now in twain, is
shorn Of is. strength, and distinctive wing
principles lave become nothing more and
isothing less lAap 'obsolctc IDEAS.
Since penning tse foregoing, r%onclu.
sions have been somewhist SHAKEN. by read.
ing an article in the Richmond Examiner,
WHICH suggested tile existence Of JoIN NJ.
BORIS. Jaa Bolts exist and the Whl5 para
~ BIZ d~efunct? For in classic language,
slightly altered by the Editor;
Hope springs eternal in the Bison's breast
BeflE never h, but always to DO blessed. =
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