Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-03-11

quirer since the Presidential election Of 1852 that
that he Wing party is an obsolete fde0 The notion
hoVvegeI not met 4 ith acceptance, and
some Ingenious persons have Exhausted their ener-
gies in 1aborious to establish the fact
of the existence of a wing party amongst us. This
may be, but if 50 the body in question exhibits no
signs of animation. Neither did Falstaff when he
lay the motioness counterfeit of death but he rose
again and achieved valiant deeds of arms the 30
! dy of the gallant Percy. We suspect the Wing par
ty of no such stratagem. It has fallen neither in
syncope in affection, but from the mortal stroke
| of the destroyer.
The Petersburg Iatelzige,acer gives the result of
post nsortens examination of the Wing Party in the
following interesting article The fact as we'll the
cause of its death, are satisfactorily demonstrated
:; g The WHIG Parry 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 as those organizations were, upon the recog
milton in their respective platforms of 1852 of the
Compromise of 1850. We never for moment be-
leved 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 spols
of thrusting out the cloyen foot which they cunning
" concealed under their garments at the time Nell
ther have we any fgreat confidence in the 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 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 AL the dis
couragements, that the Wing party at the North
would, under the wise counses of such men as fV-
erett Choate and others of like stamp, be brought
to consider the olies and hazards of their antSou
thern demonstrations, and would, upon reflection,
retrace their steps and become united with the wings
of the South in great national party. We expec.
ted with confidence that Edward Everett would, OF
all men, have signalized his devotion to the conser-
vatve interests of the country they embodied
and guarded in those great enactments of the thlr-
ty first Congress known collectively as the Compro-
mise-of which he has always ayowed himself the
ardent friend If he had stood firmly up to the cr-
sis-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 struggling. But his
influence has been exerted only to precipitate the
disaster which he could have averted. Never did an
eminent man commit so wretched bunder-never
statesman so lamentably at fault as is Mr.. EV-
erett in his course upon the Nebraska bill. He has
lost splendid opportunity of consolidating his tame
of blazing brightest among the shining lights OF
the land He has, with strange infatuatlon, ADAM
doned the lofty position which he so long held with
honor to himself and benefit to his country and de-
scended to unite himself with sect whose doctrines,
maxims, and PRACTICES cannot but be the opposite
OF his. w hen we see man surrender himself 10
Free Sellers and Abolitionists and take his place
alongside of Seward, and Chase, and Summer, we
have nothing to do but to express establishment
the spectacle and regret lamentablc an instance
of instability in of the most gifted inteecs OF
the age
The detection of Mr.. Everett and of the National
Intelligcncer has played havoc with the wing party.
1t is useless to disguise the fact that Abolltlonlsm
and Free Soism have with those accessons effcctu-
ally broken the ties which bound together the Wings
of the South and of the North. The former cannot
fraternze with the latter, arrayed they now are
against another upon the vital constitutional
principle which is embraced in the Nebraska ques-
ton. There could be neither consistency, propriety
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. Toombc, Ste
phens, and Others declared the party disbanded and
denounced the National Intelligencer for its deser
ton of the South. We know not whether these ru-
mors be we'll founded not, but this will say,
that if they shall be confirmed, we shall be gratified
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 impels to this determination"