Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-16
Where Shall / GOT

De uisconunued, unless Otherwise ordered,
where Shall GOT
Looking at the results the late elections In
Maine Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
wherever, indeed, a Wing ticket was run, and
In various other States such rs kentucky, Ten
nesses, North. Carolina, Georgia, and Mary land,
where no such ticket Was before the people, ID
is apparent that all who have heretofore rallied
around the Wing banner, 80 nobly borne aoft
by HENRY CLAY, aud DANIEL WEBSTER and
who have not as yet joined any other party,
must now perceive that, like I" the last rose Of
summer" they are a
Left blooming alone;
All their former companions are discouraged and
gone. Ea VII
And, therefore, under this state Of things, it
will be the most natural thing in the werld for
them to ask themselves: !" Where shall n 20 ~
And where can they consistently 30, but
with the American pdrtys They have, all
their lives, honestly and periodically bsttled
those who now oppose the Americans as yiru-
lently as they formerly did the Wings VIII
they, as the 0rientals say, "eat dirt and
strike hands with their old eneniesY A few
will lot them. They were drones among the
Wings, though clamorous at all times for offices
and honors such men are no loss to any party !;
rather is their departure arelief from burden.
But can the great mass Of Wigs 60 over to
the foreigners and their allies, by whom 1.-THE
great Statesman Of the West was SO often de-
feated, and SO lnaliciously traduced and de-
famed? No, no; a thousand times no! They
cannot be 30 false to their own principles, to
the memory Of their all-but idolzed chief; SO
wanting N selfrespect; SO regardless Of the
good opinion Of mankind. y.
Were not the foreigners ever opposed to
them, and were they not year after year, de-
teated by the votes Of these constitutional
citizens" who were in the habit of voting
over and over again at the same election, and
Of driving from the polls every man who, from
the peculiar appearance Of his dress and man
ner was suspected Of being WAigs Surely
they cannot have forgotten these things They
cannot have forgotten that it was by the for
eign vote that HENRY CLAY was defeated in
1874, if not in 1882 and 1886; and Franklin
PIERCE was elected. over General ScoTT in 1852.
They cannot have forgotten that the Wings
were always in favor of more rigid enforce
ment Of the naturalization laws, and the adop-
tion Of stringent measures to prevent foreign
ers and others from desecinting the right OF
suffrage by voting more than once upon the
same day and at the same election--,n practice
that had become 50 common as to render il al.
most ridiculous to speak Of the purity of el.-
tons, or to refer to the ballot box as ~ ~
of public opinion; and that It w, index
desire Of the Wings to prese- = this very
the elective franchise, VIII ge the purity Of
versally against IT, -ich set tho Irish uni
have forgotten I'm. We say they canno,
well the these things; If they have, it i,
tho. should be reminded of them, ant
J. they should take them into consideration
when celebrating upon the question Of "wher,
shall I got" ot ~
The result Of the late election in New Yorl
shows where the Wings of that State went
such at least as voted while the defeat Of tn
American candidate for Congress in the frs
district Of Maryland proves that, in that here
tofore Waig district they went over TO thei
former enemies. As general rule, however
they must join the American party, which |
young, vigorous, full Of hope and confidence
bcset upon reforming the abuses that hay
sprung up under the old parties, and which
composed chiefly Of the young men Of til
country, unhackncycd in the wiles and wire
pulling Of old politicians, noisy demagogue'
win make up in honesty, zeal, and energy
what 1t may lack Of political management an
chicanery. .,.. 5-. r...sss
Let this party commend itself not only TO tn
Wings but to the whole American people, b
selecting unexceptionable men, men Of ability
integrity, and purity Of character, for publ
stations of every kind, and its course must b
on,cord. ONWARD, ONWARD.