The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1854-03-10
CHARLOTTE:
FRIDAY MORNING, MAR. 10, 1854.


by the history of the country? The Wing u
ITS party Editors and stump speakers are bound by
party fealty to heap upon the candidates of their OPP
ponen,s, SANDER, viluperarion and abuse, just in
proportion as they dangerous 10 the success Of
the Democratic party"
! The Editor of the Wing is an imaginative
gentleman and frequently draws upon his fancy
for his facts. Is there line of abuse or SANDER
Dockeryl Point it out. The facts we stated
stand in all their unmitigated force and the
"Whig" has only lodged them after the manner
OF ingenious Petfogger. What constitutes
qualifications for Governor? certainly not the
position a man may be born in, or the occupation
he may follow in after life. If TO say candidate
is not qualified by experience, reading, and P"i-
cal information, is Islander, then are ninety-nIne
hundredths of our people liable at any moment TO
have their characters bIackened. But the Giving"
insnuates we spoke co1temPluoUsly of Dockery
because he Is farmer. That is one Of the wind
mills this Don QuIxote has raised for the pleasure
Of demolishng.
ers indeed the virruous and enlightened HUNTER,
the living embodiment of Democratic principles
and consistency, is farmer but merely because
he happened 10 be- farmer did not make him a
distinguished Senator. We think the man and
his principles, and mol his occupation, should de.
eide choice.
We Instituted no insidious comparison between
Osborne and other distinguished Wings and Dock
cry personally. We know that he is man Of
good common sense, some reading, honorable in
his intercourse with his fellows, and performs
his duties a christian and man, but is that
any proof that he understands managing the com.
pick movement Of the machinery Of government ?
He deserves credit Tor being The architect of his
own fortune and the offices tina: he has held in.
dicates that his efforts better his condition in
life have been appreciated. All this talk then
about his being farmer and arag2On boy, &c,
is ingenious attempt to enlist the feelings of
the people in his behalf, without regard to his
qualifications the principles he entertains.-
We repeat that we do know that he Was Fed.
eral Scott Wing, and made during the canvass
as ultra consolidation speeches ever heard.
"Tae reason for The faith tina. is within u.s. is
simply this: He was Secretary of the Congress.
sonal caucus that appointed the time for holding
the Baltimore Convenlion--refused to endorse the
Compromise of 1850. and paved The way for the
nomination of Gen. Scott. Dir. Mangum, the
Chairman OF the caucus. was denounced at the
time by nearly every Southern Wing paper, our
neighbor of the Wing" among them if we
mistake not, and so heartily was he condemned
by the Wing party Of North Carolina. that he
did not receive a vote 70: reelection. Now Mr..
Mangum and Gen. Dockery stood upon the same
Seward.Scott platform and were prominent officers
in the same meeting. We heard Gen. Dockery
here during the canvass and we'll remember that
he urged upon the attention of the people the dis
tribuon question in its most odious form. But
the " Wing" is little nettIed that we spoke of
Gen. Dockery as the head and front of the great
Wing party that rcaS. Our authority for using
the past tense Messrs. Stephens ard Toombs,
and other distinguished Wings who officlaed at
the disbanding Of the Wing par,y-and this Me-
braska Bill, the passage Of which you thought
would be bad faith TO the North, has done it. By
the. BY, which side OF this question does General
Dockery take! Does he follow the " National
Intelgencer and Raleigh Register" or is he
with Mr. Badger and the South?
1t is very amusing TO hear the Wing prating
about President Perce's free-soil tendencies, when
it is a we'll known fact that every document that
has issued from the Presidential mansion is sound,
conservative and States Rights in its tone, and that
he is now exerting his influence to secure the pas
sage Of bill that will elfec;ually and forever put
10 rest The Slavery question and restore the South's
equality in The confederacy-a bill which will
receive the almost unanimous support Of the
South, together with that Of the majority of the
National Democrats of the North, while not a
single Wing Senator from The North will vote for
ii. Will the " Wing" be so good as to inform
its readers which party is the sounder upon this
question: at the North? What now has it 10 say
Of Mr.. Everett, their pet champion, upon whose
shoulders it has been said that the mantle of the
great 'expounder' had fallen? Acts are The ndcia
by which we judge Of a mans opinions, and try.
ing Dockery by this test have we not a right to
say that he is opposed to free-suffrage Did he
not vote for Manly against Reid And has he
not always been identified with The party that op-
posed this great measure? The Editor is mistaken
when he states that the lree-suffrag e bill in the