The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1854-03-17
The Wing Party broken up!


Enquirer since the Presidential election of 1852,
that the Wing party is an obsolete adea. The
notion, however, has not met with universal &C.
ceptance, and some ingenious persons have ex.
hausted their energies in laborious augmentation
to establish the fact of the existence OF a whg party
amongst US. This may be, but if so the body in
question exhibits no signs OF animation 1Iether
did Falsaff when he lay the moiionless counterfeit
of death; but he rose again and achieved valiant
deeds of arms the body of the gallant Percy.
We suspect the Wing party of no such stra,agem.
I, has fallen neither in syncope nor in affection,
but from the mortal stroke OF the destroyer.
The Petersburg lnteNieencer gives the result of
a post mortenp examination Of the Wing Party in
the following interesting article. The fact we'll
as the Of its death, are satisfactorily demon.
strated:
been under the impression that the new phrase
which the slavery question has assumed in Con-
gress would play the mischief with the old party
organizations, based as those organizations were,
upon the recognition IN their respective platforms
of 1852 OF the Compromise Of 1850. We never
for moment believed that the Free Sellers who
embraced the Democratic platform had particle
OF sincerity in their declarations, or that they would
not seize the first opportunity, after getting their
share of the spoils of thrustng out the cloven loot
which they cunningly concealed under their gar
ments at the time. Neither have we any great
confidence in the body of the Northern Wings,
because the influence Of VIM. II. Seward over
them has been too obvious to have escaped our
notice. With few distinguished exceptions, the
Wings Of the non-slaveholding States have been
found steadily opposed to The constitutional rights
of the South, as 1t regards their peculiar Dsritu-
lions. They almost unanimously resisted the
Fugitive Slave bill, and have g ven no indication
since of the slightest change in their position. We
had hoped, however, notwithstanding all the dis
couragements, that the Wing party at the North
would, under the wise counsels of such men as
Everett, Choate, and others of like stamp, be
brought TO consider the foes and hazards OF their
anti-Southern demonstrations, and would. upon re-
Election, retrace their steps and become united with
the wings of the South in great national party
| We expected with confidence that Edward Everett
would, OF all men, have gnalized his devotion to
the conservated interests of the country as they
are embodied and guarded in those great enact.
ments of the thirty first Congress known collective.
| ~ as the Compromise-of which he has always
avowed himself the ardent friend. fhe had slood
firmly up to the crisis-If he had proved himself
true TO his post in the time Of trial-there would
have been chance of getting the Wing party
safely through the Abolition breakers amidst which
it was struggling. But his influence has been ex.
erted only to PreciP plate the disaster which he
could have averted. Never did an eminent man
commit SO wretcheda blunder-never was states.
man so lamen:ably at fault as is Mr. Everett in bis
course upon the Nebraska bill. He has lost a
splendid opportunity Of consolidating his fame-of
blazing brightest among the shining lights Of the
land. He has, with strange infatuaon, aban-
doned the lofty position which he so long held
with honor 10 himself and benefit to his country
and descended to unite himself with sect whose
doctrines, maxlms, and practices, cannot but be
the opposite of his. When we see man surren
der himself TO the Free Sellers and Abotonists
and take his place alongside of Seward, and Chase.
and Sumner, we have nothing 10 do but to express
our establishment at the spectacle, and regret SO
ainentale an instance of instability in one of the
most gifted intelecrs Of the age.
The detection of Mr. Everett and OF the National
lntelligfncer. has played havoc with The whp
party. IL is useless 10 disguise the fact that Abo.
litionsm and Free SoiIism have with those acces.
sions effectuaIly broken The lies which bound to.
gRther the Wings of the South and OF the North,
| The former cannot fraternize with the latter, ar.
rayed as they now against one another upon