The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-04-01
.sThc Defnnct WING Parry"

whelmed the Wing candidate at the late
Presidential election seemed so universal,
that the successful party who swan upon
its waves did not hesitate to believe that
their less fortunate competitors were totally
and forever submerged. But since the sun
has come out and the waters grown calm,
there has been no difficulty in discovering
their error. The Wing Party still lives
refreshed, purified and invigorated, like the
green earth when the floods subsidized
Though they were not victorious in the
great contest, they exhibited greater strength
than they ever before displayed--and held
in reserve power which if put forth would
have more than given the majority on their
side which appeared against them.
1t seemsto be taken for granted by good
many belonging to the successful party in
the late contest, that because the Wings
were defeated-apparently overwhelmed
they were routed, broken up and annihilat-
ed as party. This is jumping to very
unrehecting, if not absurd conclusion. If
defeat dissolves the whig party. it has been
resolved into its original elements several
times since 1880.
Men who reason in this way, look only
upon parties as instruments of party success
las being originated for that end--and
when they fail in attaining it. are dissolved
thrown aside as somuch useless material
from which new combinatons-new parties
are to be formed. This is evidently the
leading idea in the organization of the Dem
ocratic party, and hence many of its adyo-
Gates conclude the Wing party is dissolved,
because it failed to elect Gen. Scott How
limited must be the conception of these
men of the real objects, obligations and du-
ties of parties.
The Wing party was formed for nobler
purposes than the mere acquisition of Office
and emoluments; it has sought power at the
hands of the people--not to put this or that
man into office; but to enable it to carry out
principles and adopt measures believed by
its patriotic members, best calculated to pro-
mote the glory, prosperity and happiness of
the American people, aud toperpetuate that
liberty which is their proud inheritance:
The political power of the country. hay-
ing been by the people entrusted to other
hands, they acquiesce cheerfully, and hold
themselves in readiness to discharge the
humber, but scarcely less important duties
which devolve upon minority party in a
representative government These duties
they will discharge as men who feel the res
possibilities to posterity under which they
act; and the Wing party out of power, may
be found power behind the throne-inthe
next four years, greater than the throne
itself.
Mr.. Calhoun once said, that the Demo
cratic party was held together by the eco
hesive power of public plumber" and, he
might have added, the outward pressure OF
the opposition of the wing party.
Whenever the whig party ceases to exist
there will be no democratic party as now or
ganized. The death -knell Of the one would
be the certain precursor of the dissolution
of the other.
The Wing party dissolved indeed!-the
Democracy will do well to abandon all such
hopes, and endeavor to place themselves in
position where there late victory will not
prove the cause Of their own dissolution.