Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-01
THE WING PARTY NOT DEAD.


prerogatve of pronouncing on the National Wing
Party. Our impulsive young friends in Virginia
viii pardon US for saying that it is not given to one
nor vet to two or three malcontents, however re-
spectacle, to dissolve old and patriotic party,
founded on the broad principles of public liberty
and just administration Of the Government, and
which has been cemented by united struggles for
common object We remember to have seen this
thing attempted from the other end Of the Union,
and just as abortvely as we trust the present eff
fort will prove If our editorial friends of Virginia
who are now in such hot haste to disband the Wing
party, will turn to the proceedings of the Wing
National Convention of June, 1913, at Philadel-
phia, they will find that the Hon. CHARLES ALLEN,
Wing Abolition delegate from Massachusetts,,
proclaimed that ssthe Wing party was thenceforth
finally and forever dissolved" yet the Wing party
of the Union answered this proclamation by tri-
umphantly electing ZACHARY TAYLOR, a Southern
man, President, by a triumphant vote. And now,
although neither prophets the sons Of prophet,
we say to our dissolving friends of Virginia that
the Wings will in the year 1856 in like manner
respond to their dsbanding proclamation by elect
ing some sterling old-school National Wing to the
Presidency.
We subjoin few additional articles from South
ern Wing journals, Geceved after the page on which
the article of the Mobile Advertiser is printed had
passed through the press) which we commend to the
calm consideration of our readers.
FROM THE FRANKFORT (KY.) COMMONWEALTH.
The WING PARTY Nor DEAp.-Some of the Democratic
journals to feel very that the Wing party
ri. Ala Had;
The Northern Wings in Congress, they tell US, voted
against the bill they therefore Abolitionists The
Southern Wings cannot of course, act with them any
longer and the party is dead Perhapss but the
Wing party died of the Nebraska BILL did not die alone
of that disease The Democratic party died Also Forty
eight Northern Wings voted against the bills but forty
three Northern Democrats voted against it also If voting
against made Aboitionists Of the Wings it made Abo-
itioniss Of the Democrats aso and Southern Wings
longer act with Northern Wings who opposed the
BILL then Southern Democrats no longer act with
Northern Democrats who opposed it, And if each party
is bound to repudate all its members who opposed that
BILL then national party each is dead. There be
doubt of that proposition. The Wing party might be
obliged to cut off larger proportion of its members than
the Democratic party but the latter would certainly
have to cut off enough to destroy it at once and when
mans head is cut off it matters very little to him how
many joints of his neck are cut off with it.
If all who voted against the Nebraska bill are Adolf
tionsts both parties dead 50 far national life
organization is concerned but that is far from the worst
Of it. Look at the vote. There one hundred noes
the final passage of the bill. Are there hundred
Aboitonsts in Congress II there are, not only
national parties dead t the aountry itself il dead The
vitality of the Union gone and in few days it must
fall to pieces in the dissolution Of decay.
But who believes that there hundred or half q
hundred Abotonsts in Congress No sane and intei-
gent Doubtless there Abotioniss among
the opponents Of the bill but have not the least dis
position question the patriotism Of the great body OF
its opponents Why of them of the very best
men of the South, such Houston, of Texas; Mson,
of Virginia; Harris, Of Mississippi, among the Demo
oras and Bell and Culom, of Tennessee and Hunt of
Louisiana among the Wings. Who calls these men Abo-
litioniss Among them also many National Wings
and National Democrats Of the North of the Fill
more and Dickinson stripe of their respective parties
supporters and defenders Of the compromise Of 1850
Who questions their loyalty to the Union and the Const
tuition 1t will not do to call such men Abolitionsts it
is an insult and SANDER Of which the only effect must
be to nfame still further the already infamed sectional
feeling of the North and to tempt them to become the
very characters denounce them for but which they
cannot become without producing disruption Of our be-
loved and glorious Union.