Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-18
Old Line Whiggcry.

A Wing Convention met at Lexington,
KY, last Saturday. We find the proceed
ings in the Louisville Courier. Hon. RIca-
ARD HAYES, of Bourbon, presided, and
THos. B. STEVENSON, Esq, Of Maysville,
acted as secretary.
The Convention adopted an address to
the Wings of the Union, proposing a Ma
tional Wing Convention, to meet in Louis
vile on the 4th day of July next; and also
laid down a platform of principles The
president of the convention in his address,
made the following remark:
ave cannot unite aoith our old Democratic
opponents, for reasons ,ohich hare been publicly
proclaimed for more than to0enty .Jfre gears"
In the address adopted, the following
paragraph appears:
The Old-line Wings as such cannot consist emily
unite with any other existing party. They cannot
join tie Democratic party because theg do not ap.
prove ats administrative policy. They cannot join
the American party, because they believe its prin,
ciples and spirit involved menace against the Sc
curities Of civil and religious liberty, and because,
furthermore that party has Systematically intrOdu
ced the alarming practice Of subordinating the Judi
ciary to political and party influence and control.
They cannot join the Republican party of the NORTH
because 1t is fanstical and sectional party whose
policy, if carried out will shatter the Union in frag-
ments, and drench the land in fraternal blood.
The reasons assigned for the refusal of
these cold Line Wings" to join the Amer
lean party, if they had any real, substantial
foundation, would afford them ample juSti-
fcation. But it is untrue that the "princi-
pies and spirit" of the American party
Involve a menace against the securities of
civil and religious liberty" and have Gin
troduced the alarming practice of Subor-
dinating the judiciary to political and party
influence and control" Such assertions as
these, having no foundation in fact, are un-
worthy of a convention of respectable gen.
tlenen, whether old line Wings or old line
Democrats; they are SlanderouS imputa-
tons upon the patriotism and honesty of as
high minded, virtuOus and honorable citi-
zenS as belong to any party in the country.
Democrats will receive these unfounded
charges with pleasurc-sweet morsels they
are to enemies of the American party
but how will they relish the idea that these
co-defamers, vile as they regard the Amer
lean party, cannot join the Democratic
partly"
In this State, democrats have been ma
king overtures to old line wings, and at
tempting to show that the latter can con-
sistently coaleSce with them against Amer
caniSm. Our neighbor of the Union and
american has an old line wing correspond
ent, who has succumbed to and become a
propagandist of this faith Old line wing
consistency in Kentucky and Tennessee, our
friend Davidson, and our neighbours CORES
pondent being the opponents Of the latter,
are quite opposite things 1t strikes us
that were we Of the whig household, and
could not support the measures Of reform
proposed by the American Party, whilst
we could not regard any portion of our
countrymen as quite so debased as the K en-
lucky remnant appear to view the Ameri-
can Party, we would hang ont our wing
banner and stand by it to the bitter end.