American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-09-13
From the Richmond Wing.
OUR NOBLE ALLIES.

mentous crisis with any thought Of OBJ
tanning political offices of honor or trust
by so doing. We arc quite certain
that they have had far higher and no
bier views and objects in view. They
have been imbued with lofty patriot
ism that rises far above personal con-
siderations, interests and prejudices.-
They have seen the discordant factions
to which they have ever held antago-
nistic position, banding together to O.
verthrow the Constitution and dissolve
the Union, and they have nobly and
generously resolved to stand by the
National Democracy in the coming
struggle.
They compose one wing of the great
army of the Union. Occupying this
proud position, standing, as they do,
as our equals, is it not right and pro-
per that they should have share al
lowed them in the honors we have to
bostow? shall we allow ourselves to be
outdone by them in generosity? They
have been. ready and willing to sacri-
flee their old party prcjudices upon the
altar of the public good and shall we
hesitate to do the same? Is it asking
too much of the noble Democracy of
our city and county, to put some Of our
leading and influential allies in nomin-
alton for political Office? We think there
can be but one answer to this question.
If any genuine, proud Old Line
Wing any where in these United States
can read the foregoing extract from the
Pennsytvamian--the Buchanan Organ
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. feeling as ifhe
had taken a monster dose of ipecac,
we both pity and contemn him from
tho bottom of our hearts. We have
rarely seen any thing in public jour-
nal so we'll calculated to excite ire
pressiblc disgust and make'a body vo-
init. To hear an unadulterated and
unscrupulousLocofoco call those profess
sing to be Old Line Wings, sour noble
allies!' Is it not enough to make e.
ven good Christians curse all creation,
and despise his race? "Om generous
and patriotic aNies" That tops the
climax of clfrontery. And how, if they
have any sensibility at all, do these
dcserters from the Wing party to the
camp of Locofocoism feel when they
are thus damned with such disgusting
praise? Can they really feel like white
folks? Or do they, as they should do,
in the midst of their humiliation, feel
like negroes or penitentiary convicts?
Like the latter, to be sure, if they are
yet blessed with any feeling at all-if
not, they glory in their trcachery and
their shame.
But our soft-sawdering Buchanan
organ Is mistaken.--" Ournoble allies"
have deserted their friends and fallen
into the embrace Of their enemies with
only the "thought Of obtaining politi-
cal Offices OF honor or trust by so do
ing That was their sole considera
tion-patriotism had nothing to do
with their disgraceful somersetting.-
Selfshncss and lack of principle we're
at the bottom Of the whole business
And the Democracy will soon discover
to their great annoyance perhaps that
such is the fact. Take the Virginia
Wing exfoliators for example. What
prompted them to declare themselves
in behalf of Buchanan? Suppose the
present contest was in fact, as they
fraudulently assume, simply between
Buchanan and Fremont. Would their
votes make Virginia any surcr for Bu-
chanan than it is without them? Wo'd
not the State certainly cast its vote for
Buchanan, whether 'our noble allies
supported him or not? What, then,
becomes of their fimsy and silly pre
tert for desertion? Will it, upon ex
animation, even hold water? We sub
NIT it to the judgment of all candid &
intelligent men to say whether it does
or not.
No; thesemcn with scarcely an indi-
vidual exception, have all been ANNA
ted in their course by hopes of the
spols. 1t is entirely useless, there
fore, for the Buchanan organs to be en-
treating their party to allow their new
"allies" q "sharc" in the honors and G.
molumetits, which they may have to be-
stow. These doserters will all be found
to be sufficiently disposed to push their
own fortunes; and whether you are will
ling for them to have office or not,
they will be sure to strike for it at the
earliest opportunity, and will kick up
terrible muss in their new homes, sho'd
their wishes be opposed. We congrat-
ulate the Democracy upon the Access
sion of such men to their ranks. They
were in the wrong pew with us, and
were utterly worthless besides. 1t is
to be hoped that they will make them
selves little more useful where they
have gone. They will, to be sure, have
to linger in the wilderness for few
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