The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-03-29
DEFERRED ARTICLES.
rHE WING Party.

TIE w HtG PARTf-
Let every true Wing in the land lis
ten says the Alexandria Gazette,l is
what j. ]. critienslrn said at tke din
ner given 10 hilH ai Frankfort. A taasI
was given IN his honor:
After the applause subsi,led. Mr.
crittenden rose and spoke with his &C.
eustolned iarce aud eloquence fsr about
twenty minutes. lie said il had pleas.
ed the Legislature Of Kentucky to
elect him again 20 the United States
Senate, being the sixth time he had
received that distinguished honor.
He was a Wing Of the Henry Clay and
Webster school They were his
teachers. and if he understood their
teachings. if he had rightly understood
whig principles, he thought that when
he served bis country the most he
should be serving his party the best
lie repented of NO opinion he had ever
expressed, ofno act. as public man.
he had ever committed; with him po-
lltics and parties change, and asperi-
ties pass away with the occasion which
gave them birth. The National De-
mocracy Df New York had come Sc
nigh to rs that we can shake them by
the hand. lie would be glad to unite
in one great party to support the Union
and uphold the Constitution.
!" The Whig party. though now in a
minority, is as necessary as it ever has
been for the true well l-being Of the
country. It's the great Reserre to be
called up when the country demands
its service. Whether in minority OF
majority, the duty of the Wing party
was the same--to stand by our coun.
try. The Wing party more than once
had saved the country from impending
ruin, in 1890, 1852 and in 1850,
Without Henry Clay where would We
have been? Where would have been
the Missouri Compromise, the Com.
promise Of 1892, the Compromise Of
1850? The Whig party, though de-
ieated in the great canvass Of 1852,
with the great aud gallant Scott for
their leader, were not dead, and il
would be bitter day for our country
il it should die. The Wing party was
not made to be killed BY one defeat !; il
will awake to new life whenever the
country demands its service. Here,
in Kentucky, only once in twenty
years has the Wing party been defeat,
ed. Here we never have laid down
our arms. This is the old banner Wing
State Of the Union, and ii our banner
should trail in the dust in other States,
here, in old Kentucky, it shall stand,
and proudly erect, while there is a
warm heart and strong arm to up>
hold it. The Whiy party is the party
Of true progress, progress based upon
the experience of the past. Every step
il takes is step forward.
"But the glory of our future depends
upon the union of these States. Di-
vide the States and the world has ne
yer seen SO wild wreck as there
would be. He represented State in
Which there was no Disunionist, no
Abolitionist, no Seccssionist. Here
the peoples motto was the Union, the
Union always, the Union as it is.
Such are the people of Kentucky. the
State in which he was born, and which
he was 50 proud to represent. lie
saw nothing to discourage the Wing
party. The lust of office is not So
strong in our ranks as to render US un
mindful Of the true honor Of the coun-
try. One million two hundred thou
sand Wings voted for Gen. Scott. He
did not succeed; but nobody could
have beaten him but our Democratic
fellow citizens. In conclusion, he said
he was for Old Kentucky, as she wa:
and as she is. So may she remain"