The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-31

The Wings of Tennessee are preparing Wig
orously for the ensuing State elections. A
State convention of the party is to meet at
Nashville in April to select candidate for
Governor, and the local press bring reports of
numerous county assembIages held as prelim-
naries to that proceeding. In all the resolu
lions that we have noticed, emphasis is laid
upon the necessity of forbearance and harmony,
to secure and perpetuate successfully the prin-
ciples for which Tennessee Wings have battled
long and in the main successfully. We quote
from the preamble to the Madison county reso-
lutlons as fair sample of all:
"Whereas, the Wings of Madison county,
though defeated in the late Presidential election,
are not conquered, but are ready now to declare
their principles. and proud to defend them %
in the days Of their triumph and prosperity.
And
"Whereas, some of our hitherto strong Wing
States have been much divided and weakened by
local divisions, it behooves the Wings of Tennes
see to guard against similar dissensions, and to
come up to the next contest, all together under a
united rally, and bear down the Locofoco column
everywhere before them. The day is not now
darker than it was in 1889, one year after which
we carried nineteen States. To the manly hearts
OF Tennesseans we need not say, take courage.
Wings here are Wings tried in the ordeal of
Jacksonism, anhen in its glory. They know how
to buffet with reverses. They stemmed the break
ers of l935-6-7-S-9! and in 1910 VIGOROUSLY in
scribed upon their banner the proud sl2 1000. ,
Like the Wings of '76, the odds against them only
binds them the more devotedly to their beloved
principles. They glory in them whether under
uic Iofoo
Wing States have fallen into the slough of Locofo-
cosm, buckle on their armor for signal service in
the coming campaign. 1t remains for Tennessee
to turn this tide of revulsion back again. and once
more place herself as shining mark in the column
of conquering Wing States. She will do it! Her
Wing principles have never been endangered but
BY self confidence-never, when aroused to the
danger of defeat, has she fai ed of a triumphant
Wing victory"
General HASKELL, who has been the appa-
rent favorite for the Gubernatorial nomination.
has formal: declined, and suggests that Major
HENRY be taken in his stead. In his published
letter, General HASKELL expresses apprehen
sions in regard to Presiden, PIERcE's course,
and counsels prompt and unhesitating rally
around the Wing standard as the most effec-
tual means of checking the aggressive spirit
with which in his judgment the entire Democ-
racy are infected. On these points he writes
thus:
"The Wings of Tennessee can and will triumph
if they are animated by the proper spirit in the
coming State struggle. have never known a
time when their highest efforts were more demand
ed of them by every consideration of honor and
patriotism. They have withstood the shock of
adverse fortune, and it is the time for them to
establish themselves an the nucleus of that con-
servatism which constitutes the greatness and the
glory, and the justice of peculiar Govern.
ment. The inaugural address of the new Presi.
dent, despite its specious phraseology and studied
qualification, displaysa spirit of aggressivism, the
result of yielding to, or fear of, the desperate
factions which have elevated him, which forebodes
disaster both to domestic quiet and the peace
of the world 1t is idle to talk of the acquisition
of Cuba without war, and of its Incorporation into
our Union, if we acquire it, after the expense of
our blood and money, without recurrence to the
dangerous domestic agitation which SO lately
startled us from our hopes in the permanent &C.
eurity of forms and institutions of Government
l said it last summer all over Tennessee, and re-
peat it now, that the aggressive, progressive and
propaganda tendencies of the various restless
and disorganizing factions which in the aggregate
make up that INDUSTRIOUS conglomerate, known
in this country under the party misnomer of sthe
Democracy is rapidly merging all questions of
internal policy and domestic concern into an alb
sorbing, feversh, and painful anxiety about our
foreign relations, which no sagacity can uuravel,
and at which the stoutest and most hopeful patriot
| ism might stand appalled,.
"What is it to this turbulent Democracy that
We already have an empire commanding the trade
of two oceans, with millions of square miles OF ter
rtory, uncultivated and much of it unpeopled, ca
pable of maintaining hundreds of millions of peo-
pie, and which even our unexampled reproduction
Of population, coupled with an extraordinary in