Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-05-13
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what will be the course OIL the O'u Line " Ais
If the South in the coming Presidential canvass
and many are the billings and eOoings extended
TO them by the organs of the other parties For
our own PAT, NC have long since concluded there
Il INIT little cause for speculation on this subject
There Is no party in the country, there has been
no narty in the collnt=y, there car be no party
In the country, more deeply, more sincerely
more ardcntly and disinterestedly devoted 10 the
true interests, welfare and perPetnity oil our
country and its institutions than the Wing party
Of the South. They have fought, and fought
noLly. for the great principles of conservative
nrozress and development, advocated and Illus
trated by the genius Of Clay, aud the profound
argument of Webster, but never for nn instant
have they lost sight Of tue Constitution and the
Union, aud never have they been found want
ing. when called upon to maintain uader the
Constitution, the inaliensble compact rights OF
the South.
Now. that This party is disOrganized in part,
when the trumpet tones of Clay no more are
heard leading his countrymen to union and haF-
,oonv. and are hushed forever to mortal ear, even
The most bitter and partisan opposers of our
marty and its principles, concede all that VIC have
claimed for the patriotism and true disinterest-
e,lness of the Wing party and its great leaders
postcrity does that justice to its purity and IN
teurity which cotemporaneous partisansliip was
found 10 deny. Weallude to these things in no
sn;rit of unkindness or elimination, but for
better purpose.
Clay and Webster arc no more. Their elo-
ouent tones of patriotism are heard no longer,
save in their example aud in that bright halo OF
prc-cminent craftsmanship which clusters
around their principles and MINES, and survives
No warning and beacon to the Wing party
and to posterity. The leaders are gone, the ar
NV is much of it, scattered and disorg"nized,
and have turned to other organized, forgetfnl OF
Of the principles of their first love, but Eota few
oven vet remain, and that few the very old Guard
of Wing principles and patriotism in times past
What is to be the course of this portion OF the
Wing party in the coming canvass, is the ques-
ton now auxiously involving the attention OF
the three other parties of the country. occu-
nyinc. as does the present Wing party, the high
position which nov that it is so hopelcssiy IN
the minority has been conceded to 1t, 1t may
well act out the principles which have ever char
acteriscd it 4 party that has never lost sight
of the Union and the Constitution in the moon
tide" of its prosperity, when power and place
might well tempt it into crrcr, may well act now,
removed as it is from all chance even of selfish
motive, for the country, the Union, and the Con-
stitution alone. No hope of reward is held out
before it to allure, no fear Of censurc can serve
to intimidate and that portion of the Wing par
ty who have chung still to the faith of their Ia
theirs and turned not to idols, has now in its
hand perhaps the fate OF the Union, the integri-
~ of our institutions. Three prominent par
ties now stand upon the arena of political action
md three candidates will be offered to the Amer
lean people for the Office of chief magistrate OF
the Union. One only has been nominated, an
other will be nominated early in June, aud the
third will he presented to our vicNv before the
end of July.
There is no probability that Wing candi-
date will he presented for this office. We have
advocated convention Of the Whig party not
with a view of making n nomination, bat for
the purpose Of re-afirrning our principles and OF
deciding ho,s and teiM irhom the Wing party OF
,ho South should act in the coming canvass
our marty must choose between tae three others,
as we hold it to be the duty ofevery good citi-
zen to vote, and in voting to cast his ballot for
his country. What claims have the three par
ties upon the Wings? The Black Republican
faction is the party of fanaticism, party made
nm Of Abolitionists, Atheists, Socialists and men
of every stripe and hue that was found in
.Toscph's coat of many colors Disunionists,
negro worshipers in theory, negro hateTs IN
practice, men who are opposed to whatever Is,
and advocate every change from the established
order of things, no matter how ruinous to socie'
4v. all colors and isrns, Beechers and Stoves, a
land that would have made even Catalina blushi
are here found mingled together, fraternaily ac-
ting for the ruin of the South, the dissolution of
the Union, and the ultimate extinction ofthc ne
gro race itself, the nominal object Of their as
,sumed philanthropy. 1t will hardly be eSpec-
ted that the Wing party to which we refer can
fraternizc with this pirate crew. Then comes
the American party as they style themselves,
and we will speak only of the party South, as
we regard the Northern Know Nothings as MOTH
ing better in the mass than the Black Republican
marty itself, for at Philadelphia they proved
themselves the enemies of the South by the abo-
lition of the 18th section ard the establishment
in its stead Of mongrel platform, broad enough
in its base and general enough in its terms to
hold check by jewel the Giddings of the North,
with the craziest disuninnists of the South, the
inhabitants of Patagonia and Greenland, of Chi
ma and California.
But it is of the Southern party that VIC speak,
that party which was dccOycd back into the
convention by the nomination of Willard Fill
more. Coneedc this party to be as zealously
devoted to the rights of the South as any other
party can be, concedc that upon this question it
is sound as the Democratic party, what reason
il there why the Wing party should prefer it ?
What single Wing principle does it profess, or
Is contained in its platform We have been