Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-06-15

The whic Croalsers.

The Millennium of the Grumblers and Growers
has arrived in the late Democratic victory in Vir-
GINA. Chronic Dependency has reached the
lowest abyss of the horrors, and frenzied Despair
is towering to its climax. The Democracy are
again victorious in Virginia Once more the
Dutch have taken Holland and the end of the
World is at hand The Wing party, in the o.
pinion of our Tribuaton Trepid's, is as fiat as a
pancake and hatter,-dead as herring,-knock-
ed into a cooked hat,-with no more hope of res
direction than grave stone.
We confess that it fills us with horror, gives
US the headache, the govt, the neuralgia, the
tooth ache, chils and fever, cholera and yellow
jack combined, to behold one Of these Wing "a
vens' and to hear him croakiRg, $50. NeUer'nore. ("
1t was that same dismal croaking which has just
prevented US from carrying the election for the
first time in Virginia and by the moral effect Of
that victory inspiring the universal Wing heart
throughout the country. We couldn't do it,-oli
no! and therefore, we didn't do it, but we now
see that we could have done it if we ,could. We
might have elected our Congressman in this Dis
trict,-we might have elected our Commissioner,
but we were beaten by our own fears before we
met the enemy. Yet, even as it is, we have
gained in the Legislature, and in one Of the Dis
trcts, the regular candidate of the Democracy for
Commissioner, is defeated by '.Zachary Taylor
Boyd" Independent There is nothing discoar-
aging at all in the actual result. The only dis
enlargement is our own miserable timidity and
incredulity.
A few Wings have left us,-a few dead, dried
and dwarfsh limbs have dropped from the tree
few have gone out from US, ''because they were
not of us,n but, "bless 'em, let 'em 60" We
are the BETTER the purer, and the stronger without
them. Let office seekers depart in peace; let
them sell their principles and themselves for a
mess of pottagc ;let them complete their apostacy
by abusing and berating the Wing party, to whose
warm bosom they owe vitality and strength
Let them 90 and float merriy with the tide, while
their late companions "bulet it with lusty sin
ews," resolved either TO conquer. or to sink like
mel, rather than swim down the stream like drift
wood and rubbish
The Wing party viii stand together. and will
fight on that it may save its country. if not ITSELF
What would have become of the Republic, if,
when Henry Clay was defeated by Mr. Polk, the
Wing party had relinquished its organization 2
1t was through its influence, though in a minori-
ty, that we were afterwards saved from an unne-
cessary war with Great Britain, war which
would have ruined American commerce, (now E.
quail to that Of Great Britain.) and put US back a
century in public improvements and prosperity.-
1t was this same Wing party, which, in. the next
election, triumphed gloriously, and saved the
country from Dsunion and Civil War. Let us
learn lesson from this instructive Renaissance.
and abide now by our party organization and prin-
ciples. We may have an opportunity again, and
that soon, TO save the Republic from foreign and
domestic war, and the time may come, and that,
within the short period of four years, when the
Wing banners will once more float in victory over
the apitol.-Richmond Morning Mail.