Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-04-25
Old Line wings

Old Line Wings
The game of the anti American leaders and cant.
didates foi Office is to win the support of I'D line
Wings by fattery. Whether conscious of the sell
fish motives that control their political action,
or, looking to that incarnation Of party npostacy
their state ticket they infer the yenaty of all
Whigs,,hey indulge the silly delusion that par
", which has for years withsiood alike the smiles
and frowns of power. can now be seduced by stu
pil caioleries an senseess compliments. Can
ddates for Congress. particularly, who, in the So
curity of inviucible majoriiies. have heretofore
locked with the most supercous contempt upon
that Wing minority they had SO cunningly muz-
zled by gerrvmander. have suddenly made the
discovery that the old Wing party was mobile"
gallant" aye n "Repnbiiean" party-an worthy
their own immaculate companionship. Rcpubli-
can Whgs",! Did any man ever before hear
of such an animal as a Republican Wing, from the
lips of Locotoco politician Wehave heard of
Federal Wings, British Wings, Mexican Wings
and Abolition Whgs,for the last fifteen or TWEEN
ty years, but the term Republican Wing is en-.
tirely new in the nomenclature of tho dominant
party in this state.
We venture to suggest to these gentemcnthat
their discovery has been made too late.and under
circan stances too suspicious. For n long series
of years they have heaped upon the Wings inds
criminately all manner Of abuse, aud stigmatized
them with every opprobrous opthet in the vo-
cabulary of invectve. They have studiously
and rigidly excluded them from all participation
in the government, as though Wing principles ne
cessarily disqualified man for any public trust.
But now, forsooth, Wings have suddenly been
metamorphosed into marvellous proper Rcpubli-
cans, and their patriotism is invoked TO uphold
falling State. We repeat that these distressed
politicians have been too slow in opening their
ewes to the virtue and patriotism that dwell in the
ranks of the wings. They should have recol-
lected these things when they were sandering,
prescribing and DISTINGUISHING this much abused
and grossly outraged party. But, in tho rleni-
tude of their power and in the MONDAY of their
prosperity, they were blind to the Repubcnnism
of Whggcry. They did not awake to an appre-
citation of this hidden virtue, until they were besot
by storms and breakers and the fabric of their |
domination began to tremble on its base. Tho |
motives of tLeir sudden conversion are too obyl-
Gus to be mistaken by the most credulous green
horn in the commonwealth, and tho Old Line I
Wings of Virginia are much too shrewd and
perienced in the ways of the political world, not |
to understand that the same principle OF selfish
ness which has heretofore led their tyrants to /
Cypress now prompts these same gentry to ilotter
and oajoe them.
The anti American leaders may save their dis
sembled amiability may spare its
elephantine caresses; when, after days and nights
Of nquisitoral labor, and cunning malevoence
the Locofoco leaders produced and passed into n
law the present arrangement OF Congressional
districts, by which sixty thousand Wings were
denied all voice in the federal Legislature, they
duga chasm between those Wings and them
selves, too wide and deep ever to be bridgod over
or filled up. Insubstanta batteries and simu-
lated regrets, it is very oertanwil serve neither
to bridge nor fill il. As between Dives and
lazarus there syas no way of Communication. SO
may Locofocoism in its extremity call in vain for
comfort, from those to whom it denied the crumbs
that fell from its table, when it arrayed itself in
purple and fine linen. Gallant" generous
"Republican," though they be, Wings have
some memory of wrongs, and are not insensible
to those instincts which make even the humbest
OF Gods creatures turn upon those who trample
upon them. They have too long felt the crush
ing weight of Democratic despotism. to lend a
shoulder now to prop the efete and lettering dy
nasty that has overborne them, and they feel too
sensibly that their political emancipation is
staked upon the issue of the pending canvass. to
feel otherwise than earnestly interested in libe
rating at once themselves and the State from the
incubus of party domination.