Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-31
WHOLE NO. 93S
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as long as the Wing party was in the field
We are not surprised at the change OF
strategy evinced by the Buchaniering press,
in honeyng so lovingly old-line Whigs-or
even that more obnoxious class, whom a
year or two since they denounced so bitterly
la certain faction of the "bloody, dark
lantern Know Nothings,"-b we shall be
utterly surprised if intelligent men whose
chances to know the standing and tactics
of the party are at least equal to ours, should
be caught in such shallow traps, or taken
with such untemptrngly nauseous bait.
We marvel not that PRESTON, OF KY and
other Southern Wings who are, by interest
and association, committed to slavery Prcpa-
gandism shall lash themselves to the appro-
pirate and congenial climbers and crew of
the Cincinnati Platform, and launch out into
our political sea, on a magnificent Bucan-
iering Expedition, but we opine that Mr: P
"reckoned without his host" when he pro-
missed at Cincinnati that 100000 Wings
should join them, and that if he looks to .he
North to furnish respectable Corporal's
Guard Of the number, his looking will be in
vain.
We cannot pose,--though there are
few, but we are glad to know as we do know
that, 50 far as our observation extends--they
are very few--who are not entirely satisfied
with the position and candidates of the Re-
publican party,-that |Whigs will, at the
present crisis. either commit the gross ncon-
sistency of supporting a man always an
antagonist, who possesses no superior per-
sonal attractions, and of endorsing principles
which we have seen to be the reverse of
those they have heretofore maintained, and
getting into party which shows them no
quarter or countenance except on the most
humiliating conditions, or the equally fatal
in consistency of supporting "balance of
power" candidate whose personal and party
position and relations are such, that not
even considerable minority of the voters
of any Northern state car support him, and
thereby possibly endanger the success of the
most truly moderate, conservative and yet
liberal movement of the day. But of this
more perhaps hereafter.
Finally, whatever political changes may
occur, whatever breaking up of old party
lines, or dissolution of party ties, whatever
waving of old issues or substituting of new
ones, we must confidently believe, that after !
a careful and impartial survey of the whole
pol ii al field, " his Q who have been lectured
in the school of CLAY and WEBSTER, and
the younger ADAMS, will ever be found on
the side Of safe and cautious, yet generous
and liberal conservatism, which understands
too we'll and respects too fully the rights and
interests of each individual in every section
of the Confederacy,to make undue & uncos-
stitut ional concessions,-through timid and
unworthy fear, or yet more base, criminal,
and unmanly prejudice,-to that small
minority of single section, the extension
o. whose power must inevitably compromise
the mos. sacred rights and embarrass the
dearest interests of the very large majority, |
who, whilst they are taxed most severely for
its support derive only incidental advantages |
from it, which were it not in existence, |
would be realized much more successfully |
and extens lively in an other way, and whose
moral, mental, and natural progress is and
must continue to be,largely retarded by it,
that enlightened conservatism which ~ ould
promote the progress, welfare, and harmony
Of the entire nation by directing the energies
Of it's people to the Development of lis vast
material resources,-the humanizing and re-
lining culture of morals--science. and art
and thereby the devtl pm snt and. consolida-
lion of our already widely extended domain
rather than pander to that unhealthy thirst
ior aggrandizement, that fatal and too widely
liss eninated lust OF conquest and military
lchievement--power, and dominion, which
,y its reckless disregard of international
aw, and the rights and interests of neighbor-
ng nations. may--if unrebuked by the peo.
DE, plung US into fearful, perhaps fatal In
estine and foreign war.
The party through which that great good
s to be accomplished and this fearful evil
varded off, is party which has absorbed
md is absorbing much of the better clemens
# the older parties, and which we doubt
lot will continue receive recruits from these
I'D perishing parties, until il shall concen-
rate in itself the leading virtues OF all with
nut the vices of either. That party, in the
alignment OF tho WRITER'S the Republican.
To Wings, if there be those who are yet
it appeals with twofod force. In
10 other existing organization can the un-
ul6lled mission of the old Wing Party
which was to resist The extension of the
Of slavery,--the spirit of conquest
md unhealthy and premature annex xation--
Ind the promotion of such Lane and Marine
as will benefit the entire na-
ion, and which with its attendant moral and
Material development, are the only bonds by
which our Union is to be preserved "ons
md indissoluble. now and forever,"-be so
certainly and so speedily realized.
Such, at least, are the firm and deliberate
of one who, in all the VARYING
,hases OF our changeful political life, will
emember with pride that he has been
A HENRY Clay WHIG.