Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-03-15
THE WIG pARA BROKEN tpf


quirer) since the Presidential election Of 1852 that
that .he Whg party is obsolete idea. The notion
however, has not met with universal acceptance, and
some ingenious persons have exhausted their ener-
gies in aborious augmentation to establish the fact
of the existence of whig party amongst us. This
may be, but if so the body in question exhibits no
signs of animation. Neither did Falstaf when he
lay the motionless counterfeit of DEATH but he
again and achieved valiant deeds of arms the 5o
dy of the gallant Percy. We suspect the Wing par
ty of no such stratagem. 1t has fallen neither in
syncopc nor in Affection but from the mortal stroke
of the destroyer.
The Petersburg Iate13igencer gives the result of
post mortena examination of the Wing Party in the
following interesting article The fact we'll the
of its death, satisfactorily demonstrated:
"TnE WmG PARTY. We have for some time been
under the impression that the new phase which the
slavery question has assumed in Congress would
play the mischief with the old party organizations,
based those organizations were, upon the recog-
milton in their respective platforms OF 1852 of the
Compromise of 1850. We never for a moment be-
lieved that the Free Sellers who embraced the Dem
ocratc 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 thrusting out the coren foot which they cunning
ly concealed under their garments at the time Mel
ther have any great confidence in tho body OF
the Northern Wings, because the influence of VIM.
H. Seward over them has been too obvious to have
escaped our notice. With few distinguished eXcep
tons, the Wings of the non-saveholding States have
been found steadily opposed to the constitutional
rights of the South as it regards their peculiar in
stitutions. They almost unanimously resisted the
Fugitive Slave bill, and have given 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 counses of such men as Ev-
erett, Choatc, and others of like stamp, be brought
to consider the follies and hazards of their anSou
thern demonstrations, and would, upon reflection,
retrace their steps and become united with the wings
of the South in great national party. We eSpec-
ted with confidence that Edward Everett would of
all men, have signazed his devotion to the conscr
vatve interests of the country they embodied
and guarded in those great cnactments of the thir
ty first Congress known collectively as the Compro-
mise-of which he has always avowed himself the
ardent friend. If he had stood firmly up to the cri-
sis-f he had proved himself true to his post in the
time of trial-therc would have been a chance of
getting the Whig party safely through the Abolition
breakers amidst which it was struggling But his
influence has been eNcrted only to precipitate the
disaster which he could have averted. Never did an
eminent man commit wrctched hlun,ler-never
statesman so lamentably at fault as is Mr.. Ev
crett in his upon the Nebraska bill. lie has
lost splendid opportunity of consolidating his fame
of blazing brightest among the shining lights OF
the land. lie has, with strange infatuaton, aban-
doned the lofty position which he so long held with
honor to hEself and benefit to his country and de-
scended to unite himself with sect whose doctrines
81 lin npa a grastess% s % sannSt 9%t be the
Free Sellers and Aboiitionsts, and take his place
alongside of Seward, and Chase, and Sumner, we
have nothing to do but to express our astonshmcnt
at the spectacle and regret lamentabe an instance
of instability in of the most gifted inteccts OF
the age.
The detection of Mr.. Everett and of the National
Intelligencer has played havoc with the whig party
1t is useless to disguise the fact that Abotionism
and Free Soilism have with those accessions eectu
ally broken the tics which bound together the Wings
of the South and of the North. The former cannot
ratcrnze with the latter, arrayed as they now are
against one another upon the vital constitutional
principle which is embraced in the Nebraska ques-
ton. There could be neither consistency, propriety
or sincerity in any union between them after the
proceedings of the Northern Wings upon this ques-
ton. For some days rumors have been rife OF a
meeting of the Southern Wings having been secretly
held at Washington, in which Messrs. Toombe, Ste
phens and others, declared the party disbanded and
denounced the National Intelgcncer for its dcser-
! ton of the South. We know not whether these ru-
mors be we'll founded not but this we will say,
that if they shall be confirmed shall be gratifed
at the stand taken by the meeting, and shall cheer
| fully cast our lot with the South-our own South
and abide the consequences. Inclination no less than
! duty impcls us to this determination"