Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-05-13

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ty, whenever they were in majority, the Wing
who acted With them, and was aided by them,
had first to adapt himself to the Procrustcan
bed of intolerance, upon which they laid him
Does this constitute claim upon the Wing par
ty. 1t will hardly be contended that this party
has any claims on the Wing party. If it has.
we are at loss to know in what it consists
Then comes the Democratic party. 1t is an old
political organization and one essentially variant
/ from the principles of Federal policy, which
have been advocated by the Whig<, in days
gone by They have been our opponents and
nobly has the Wing party contended against
their measures; and as a party, on party
grounds, they have no claim on the Wings.
But upon the great question of attachment to
the Union, OF its preservation and perpetuity
! the Democratic party of the South stands IN
questioned 1t has defended. and it will defend,
the rights of the South, and its most partisan
opponents are willing to concede this. Then,
( when we look to the North, We lind that with
but few exceptions this patty alone dares main
: tain the constitutional rights Of the South
While the Wing party of the North has been
torn into fragments b. incongruous elements,
while abolitionists in every shape and OF every
hue have undermined ii and worked its rnin !;
while the Know Nothing party of the North,
tot,cr;ng, as ii did for i season, upon the 18th
section. has fallen also prey to the same wild
( spirit of fanaticis:n, and cn no longer claim an
existence there separate from aboiiiionlsm and
frecsoilisn; the NaiionaI Democracy ofthc North,
though Mt war with others upon questions OF
State policy have ;.lone stood forward as thead
yocates of the constitutional rights of the South
and of equality to all sections. Borne down, as
they have bcen during the last three years, over
wi,elmed as they have been, by the wave of ia
naticisn which wasrOlledup by the passage 0fthe
Nebraska bill they have yet stood firm in these
their principles and yet dare, in the face OF num-
bers and fresh from defeat, to rally upon the
{ same principles, acknowledging Southern equal
,lty, and are now ready to engage the crowded
masses of ianaticisn. They have suffered for
these principles, yet they maintain them; they
have been defeated by these principles, and yet
do they re-afFirsn and declare them. Thisis the
party at the North, and all Southerners not
blinded by partizanship or zeal must cOncede
that in thus maintaining the constitutional rights
of the South, this party stands alone at the
North.
What, then, is the great issue in the coming
canvass? 1t is fact apparent to all, conceded
by all, that the great battle is to be fought be-
tween constitutional conservatism and the most
unconstitutional fanaticism. 1t is to determine
whether orr Union shall be preserved upon the
basis of equality to all sections, or whether the
South is to be mere appendogc of the North,
and do her bidding and be dependent upon her
for its rights in the public domain, and even for
Southern property.
The next canvass must decide whether the
ueople of the South are entitled to be held as
equals to those of the North in the contedera'
cy. The most casual observer of political posi-
bi.itcs m,lst conclude that the issue as to results
must he between the nominee of the Democratic
party and the Black Republican candidate
What ever may he our admiration for Mr. Fix
more's course as President, however much he
NAV command our admiration and regard,
vet it must be conceded that the very qualities,
which lave won upon us, render it impossible
that lie can receive support at the North from
those alone to whom ne would look The par
ty there which voted for Clay and Taylor and
Fillmore is no longer Wing party, no longer
national. 1t is Abolition and scarce anything
else. In the South Mr.. Fillmore may carry three
States. Ought party looking to the good o.
their county to waste theirvotcs as compliments
to Mr.. Fillmore: Is itnot the duty of all patri
OTIS to rofe to tie is,e, and is not the issue be-
tween Democracy and Black Rcpub!icanism ?
Is it not in fact giving a vote to Black Repubii'
canisrn to throw away votes on Mr.. Fillmore and
thus aid in giving AboliConism pluralities:
We have thought earnestly, and as Wing,
upon this grave question; We have not treated
of Mr.. Fillmore's peculiar party views, because
unnecessary for our present purpose, but from
the past character of the Wing party, actuated
as it is by the high motives already indicated,
fettered and trammelIed BY no miserable and
grovclling struggle after sports place. looking,
as in its days of palmy prosperity, to the coun-
try and the whole country, the Constitution and
the whole Constitution, to the rights Of all and
the prosperity of all, we hesitate not to declare
our opinion, that if the approaching Cincinnati
Convention proves true to the country, if it pre-
sents as its candidate man above the range oil
mere party behests, who can expand his vision
to comprehend the limits of the Union, who will
be President of the Union, and not of faction or
section, who will stand midway between ex-
tremes, aud by his character and position make
still the troubled waves of our political ocean ;
that for such man the Wings of the South
can vote. Let us sec the action of that Con-
vention, and then the Wings will prove worthy
of their former character and former leaders.
SrRAwnEnsr FREAx-The Louisville Courier
states that singular freak of nature is notices
bic this year in the Strawberries of that neigh
borhood. Thcvariety called the Longworth Pro-
life has been remarkable as having stamens and
nistils on the the same anne flower, but all the