Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-28

faith Of mankind. In such state of things what
shall be done? How shah the patriot act! We
see our condition; we understand our principles
We are conservative. We.would stand by the
Union and save tive would stand BY Southern
tights for ne maintain Northern Independence
and ne support Eastern and Western commerce
by such an act of patriotism We would main
tain these at the ballot box and weswould de-
fend them all at Mason and Dfxon's line and on
the banks ofthe Ohio, at the pciut of the bayo-
net and tho brooch Of the cannon. This IS our
devotion and our only this
be accomplished without resort to that last A.
gument in which Reason sleast heard
= Shall It be By supporting Millard ElllmnFes
His administration is enttie TO the highest re-
spect, but, with the certainly OF Crying only
few of Southern States, and with ithe,ab-I
Solutc knowledge of a,sreakensds distracted and |
divided party in the North, who can, who dare
hope for his success they who dare SO, must be
wiifnlly blind OF Wofnlly ignorant of the facts
around the prospects ahead. Give the Old Line
Wings the heartfelt assurance of his success
and the Twelfth Section to stand upon, and they
would make strgglc worthy Bunker hill, Sara
toga, Brandywine or Yorktown. But such
hopeis hopeless; such n faith is folly, and action
based on it would be the madness Of party, pro-
noting the success of treason. -
Would, then, any nomination be acceptable tot
1.-THE 0ld-LiDe Wings coming from the Demo
cratic Convention: Formerly this would not
hayesbeen the case. The Democratic party then
was composed Of two strangely united elements,
viz: the Northern party. contending torthe lar
| gest freedom to the white man, were, as was
then believed, tho widest radical aSrarianists
| opnosine the Tariff as it claimed, because it
taxed his means of supports dcnolncing the Ma
tional Bank because OF its supposed tendency to
create an ariStocracy OF Wealth. opposing inter
nal improvements BY the federal government he
cause Of its alleged incapacity, and, of the neces
sarv tendencies of its system to local favoritism
I and national Indebtedness with its reflex action
for the necessary taxation OF the masses. These
were its principles its measures, It's hobbies
They are innocent in contrast, they are at least
eminentiy conservative when compared with the!
| locust-legions Of its kindred folies and evils,
which we are called upon 10 meet and OPPOSE
! But with This Northern Democracy, has been
more or less connected and happily blended, the
/ States Rights and Democratic parties Of atlc
South, aiding in the argument but cverInsiStingi
upon q construction of the Constitution 50 rigid
! that the Old Whig party. believed there was not
sufficient freedom loft under it for the free work
4 ing and development of our immense resources
and our magnificent destiny. If the Wing par
! tv did not want broader area of territory, il
claimed greater ranEcsof constructive PoTer>
for its policy and its action. II is not necessary
now to decide which doctrine is most conscrva-
tive, and winch most, IN q manner Legitimate &c
itself, would raise those mounds and barriers to
the nroad of that Rack Treason which immi-
incntlY threatens danger. II is only necessary
and proper to enquiry, which, under the circum-
stances, will unite the greatest numbers for the
general defence and the common preservation
So many of the States of the North, which act
| ed in the Old Wing Line have become abolition
4ized; so msny strange freaks Of fancy aud wild,
raw Sentmentalities have iTuermingied with the
ancient aud upright chiyalry of the elder Bayard
land of Hamilton, of Ames and Of Webster, that
no one can point to scarcely a Northern State
whose banner has not been used to herald the
march of negro procession, or to guide the
movements of a lawless mob, violating the in
ttcr-Statc laws of Congress Vast numbers of
lpatriotic men in the North have stood and still
stand aloof from all this dissertation Of their
cause Vast numbers will stand by their coun-
TRY. When the Wing party shall become too
weak in numbers, longer To defend the people,
the States, and the Constitution +; or when 1t
shall, as party, lose that nationality of spirit
which in liberal Interpretation of the COnsti-
tuition, defined with rigid limits measures which
were the proper subjects of legislation, from
rights and measures too sacred for party or po-
liticaI interference, then the patriotic men who
retain the nationality of Washington, Hamilton,
Bayartl, CLAW and Webster will maintain and be
Icxponents of that nationality, when the only
issue presented TO them is, the co-cquality and
iconfraternity of the negro race on the one hand,
and OH the other, the rights of the South, the
Ico-equality and confratornity Of the States, re-
Ecognized, perfected aud symbolizcd in the Con
stitutiou.
When the Democratic Party shall be true to
this principle Of Union: when it shall make
nomination of National man: when itshall un-
cquivocally place him this high vantage
ground, and he, himself, be free from thepreju-
ICiice of tho demagogue and partizaT; honest,
frank without fear aud without stain; accustomed
to the institution of slavery, SO that he knows
its precise condition, aud can estimate its dill
crilties; one who on this subject will command
respect for the sincerity, and native and natural
fitness and dignity his sentiments; of enlarg-
ed commercial views, and thus acquiring and
entitled to the confidence Of the mercantile and
manufacturing interests in the north; southern
imam with national feelings, not a northern man
with southern feelings, not a southern mar, If
such being exists, cringing to the dangerous
tendencies Of the north: if such a person, that
iConYentiOn shall nominate statesman, schOl-
ar, gentleman, then he that loves his country,
and Spurns the treason of Black Rcpublicanism,
and disbeiievcs or fairly doubts the success of
Mr.. Fillmore. will not be unwilling to see, or if
needs be, to aid In the election of such nominee.
Still thcalternativemayb be presented of Mr.. Fill
more and the 18th Section, Should he plant him
Iselfwhere the Americanparty refuses to stand cr
lademocTatic partizan with SO manyca of dis
favor and dstrIIst that itwoud be nOber to die in
the ditch defending the flag, than to have it traed
in tho infamy of SO low u prostitution: Who,
that Convention will nominate no one knows,
but If it noniinates, thousands of the Old
Liners will endorse, r. N, I. Hunter, a man of
strict construction, the father of the Ware
House system; the gentleman, who, amid tile
fluctuations of party, has maintained tic respect
of all parties, nor FORGETTING by one act of dis
courtesy towards parties or persons his own
selfesteeun; without the partizanship which de-
grades, but always cultivating that broad ma.
tional feeling which elcvates; without disscuz
siOns that have disgraced, or riyalrics that have
embitteredhis feelings or lessened the number
of supporters in r Presidential contest, and who
would more successfully, by hissuavity and sin
ccrity, unite men in New York and in the north
generally, as well as in the SOUTH than any other