Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-01
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE WING PARTY.

denly announced some weeks ago by veteran
Wing paper in Virginia, the Petersburg IateAi
geacer, that the National Wing Party was dis
solved because of the course of the Northern Wings
in Congress on the Nebraska bill; and it was
with increased concern that we found this sen
tence Of dissolution endorsed by journals SO long
conspicuous for the maintenance of the Wing party
and principles as the Richnaoad Wig and the Bal
timorc Patriot, Respectable, however, as was the
authority which thus undertook to pronounce SEN
tence of death on the glorious Wing party, we were
not prepared to acquiesce in it, We had yet to learn
that the Wing party owed its origin to entire agree
mentof opinion to the question of the limitation or
expansion of slavery that its existence to de-
pend on perfect accord North and South on an iso-
lated point. We had thought that there were great
principles of foreign and domestic policy, of which
CLAY and WEBSTER had been the champions, which
the Wing party had asserted and contended for
and which had no relation to the disturbing ques-
ton of slavery Mr.. CALHOUN uttered nothing
about slavery when, in 1884, he said: II cannot
but remark that the revival of the party names of
the Revolution, after they had so long slumbered,
is not without an indication of return to those
principles which lie at the foundation Of our iber
sty. What is there in the meaning OF Wing and
Tory, and what in the character Of the times,
which has caused their sudden revival as party
designations at this time? I take it that the very
essence oftoryism-that which constitutes Tory
is to sustain prerogative against privilege; to sup
sport the Executive against the Legislative Depart
ment of the Government, and to lean to the side
of power against the side of liberty; whilst the
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Opposite principles" We saw that as large al
number Of Northern Democrats, relatively, as
Wings, opposed the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, but we had seen no sentence of dissolu-
ton of the Democratic party pronounced from the
South for the dereiction of their Northern brethren
Above all, while we deny the suficiency of the
alleged ground for disbanding the Wing party, we
had to learn that the opposition to the Nebraska
measure was sectional, or was confined to Northern
Wings On the contrary, we perceive every day
fresh evidence that large proportion if not
jority Of the leading Wings of the South condemned
the propriety of renewing the slavery controversy
in Congress by moving the repeal Of the Compro-
mise, and dissented from the expediency of that
peal One of the most sterling Wing papers of Vir-
ginia, the Winchester Republican, stated emphati-
cay but few days ago. that it had greater reason
to believe every day that the Nebraska question
the National Integencer reflected the general SEN
timent Of the Wing party of the South" For these
and many other reasons which might be adduced, we
unprepared to acquiesce in the edict of ami
hilation which had been without adequate cause or
authority, promulgated against the Wing party, but
we waited for some potential protest against it to
reach US from the further South Such protest we
have received in the suboined article from steady
able, and consistent Wing journal of Alabama, the
Mobile Daily Aduertiser We doubt not that our
Wing readers through all the South will peruse it
with satisfaction equal to that which it impaired
to us.
FROM THE MOBILE DAILY ADVERTISER OF JUNE o.
THE WINGS OF THE SOUTH.
The Petersburg Intelligencer time since contained
long editorial article reviewing the position of North
hio., fha sLa r;y;n 49,