Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-20
WASHINGTON. ID. G.
WILLIAM N. BURwELL, Edilor.

MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1865.


A Word TO the Old Wings
We are aware that many persons cling with
tenacity to the old Wing organization. Some
are in local majority. Some have an unan-
swerab!e argument upon an al yalorem tariff
Some have stored up statistics upon the hnan-
cial policy Of the government for which they
are like to have no use in this generation.
And generally highly respectable company
of elderly gentlemen, having prepared ascen-
sion robes, made out their own printed contri-
buttons to past controversies, patiently await
the second coming of Biddle, and are duly
enraged at any interruption which defers that
beatific contamination. These indignant pa
tfiots have co-operated with the Locofocos and
the Abolitionists to defeat the Americans
We think they ought to remember that they
have had fair opportunity to carry out the
original principles Of the Wing party. Twice
they have had the government in their hands,
and twice they have been turned from the
glorious goal Of reform, by the golden apple
Of official temptation which has been thrown
across their path. Twice have they been
called to correct the corruption of the govern
ment, and twice have they been driven in sin
full shame by the indignant spirit of an in
censed people. What have they done to ex-
cept them from the doom to which tho broken
down and detected organization Of the Demo-
cratic party has been subjected? Nothing.
But this last party, making convenient to
forget the SANDER heaped upon the most emf
nent men of the Wing party, having adopted
Webster and Clay into their Pantheon, flatter
their followers with the most fulsome compli-
ments. In the meantime the Democrats ap-
ply to that portion Of the American people who
have detected and dcspise their acts, all the in
famous aspersions which were in times past
applied to the Wings.
We wish those ancient politicians, to whom
this is addressed, to remember that they can
no more obtain justice at the hands Of their
ancient and implacable foes, than get truth out
of Jesuit. Now, they are patriots too noble
to abandon the standard which has so long
waved over them. The necessity for their SER
vices passed, they will again be Federalists, y
aristocrats, liars, thieves and everything evil,
as Of yore.
The sole object of this spoils administration
is to keep the key Of the Federal Treasury.
For this they heap epithets upon party com
posed of American citizens, epithets which no
honorable or courageous man would use, and
which none of their anonymous scribblcrs
could apply to any respectable member of the
American party, at the peril of that remnant Of
his ears which public justice may have spared
The object of all this obloquy upon more than
half of the American people, is to hold the
money key. The fattery of party which
has been denounced in precisely the same Ian.
guage, is solely to secure its cooperation, Can
the old line Wings be bought or flattered into
the support of this administration, in opposition
to the Americans who are standing upon the
platform or the Constitution, the Union, and the
LawH Notwithstanding the neutrality Of. some
and the active assault upon the American lines
Of others, headed by General Webb, we cannot
believe 1t. Let those who give way to fraud
or fattery remember that sham Democracy
has but one piinciple-the love of power and
plumber. II viii employ the ancient Wings
as il has employed the aliens, the Papist and
the Free-Soiler; and, when no longer necessa-
ry for its purpose, the old Wing party will ex-
perience tho same denunciation which assais
all who stand between sham Democracy and
the money bags and commissions Of the Fede-
raj Government.
We will give a single instance of the shame
less manner in which the old Wings are in
suited and flattered in the same breath:
At a District Convention, held in the Con-
gressional district represented in the last Con-
gross by the Hon. J. L. Seward, the following
resolution was adopted.
"ResolOed, That the issues heretofore involved,
which formerly divided Southern Democrats and
Southern Wings, no longer afford ground for contin.
ued separation and conflict among them. In view
Of these obvious truths and secure concert Of ac-
ton, we earnestly invite our fellow-ctzens, Wings
and Democrats 20 reunite with us In maintaining the
Consultations against the threatened aggressions Of
the Know-Nothings'"
In the address Of this convention, the South
ern wings" are called !" to the rescue" Yet
carried the Nebraska bill, against Wing oppo-
sition.
Another resolution declares IL TO be-
"a duty imperative upon the South and upon us
Georgians 70 sustain the principles Of the Kansas
and Nebraska act Of the last Congress- and the
vcntion views with pleasure The in whieh oar
immediate representative, he Hon. James L. .Seseard,
conducted hiusef IN Ds last Congress and we recon.
mend him TO the voters Of this district one worthy
to bear aloft the Democratic in the contest
pending against Know-Nothingism."
Now, upon referring to the vote upon the
Nebraska bill in our possession, we do not
find the name Of Mr.. Seward at all, but we
find him amongst those "absent or not voting"
upon the passage Of that bin.
Now, Mr.. Seward, being Democrat can be
pardoned this dereliction Of duty but IL he
had been Wing, he would have been stigma
tiEed as traitor.
We would remind the honest portion Of the
old line Wings, North and South, that the
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