Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-05-09
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FRIDAY. MAY >, 1876.
Secret Societies and Party Names

StCIet OUCletleS duu dIty ~ duitS.
Readers of the Perce-and Kansas party
press are week v treated to dish similar
to the following from its National Organ,
the Washington Jnion:
Tar OLD-LiSE WHIGs-The noble, patriot
&c stand, taken at the present political CRISIS
by SO many of the most dsungul she'd and IN
fuential members of the Old Wig party, has
not only called forth the wdrmeSt express on
of admiration and respect from the Democratic
press, but Al has inspired throughout the Union
feeling Of confidence tiicff fUVe "r C''u'''Fy
and abiding devotion to It's true intereNtwhIch
can not for a moment he weakened by rec
objection of past differences of opinion IN re-
gard TO the merits of men or the eNprdlency
of measures. As an evidence of this state OF
feeling we make room for Ihe subloned res
oiulinn, which was unanimously adopted At
large and enthusiastic Democratic meeting
acid IN Lawrence county (Geo.) on the Isl OF
March last:
:. Resoicrd. That the old-lne Wings Of Law
renee coanty who are actnated with the same
principles Of Stephens and roombs Of Georgia
and James B. son of the immortal Henry
Clay, aud host of other odlIne Wings. and
who, like these patriots, step upon the great
Democratic platform and make war upon
Know Nuthnglsm, he invited 10 participate
in this and all other Democratic Conventions
held in the country. and that we recognize
them as brother laborers in the great cause OF
human rights.
Or to a dessert like the annexed from
our Argus eyed neightor:
"U~y.tR-Ir will be rccolected that Gen.
Scott was nominated by the Whlgs-a party
that once mar>halled ia It's ranks such men as
Ciav and Webster and was not entirely dedl-
Gated 10 nigger-wnr>hip and hOl-brained tana-
csm. Nillard Fillmore was nominated by
an oath bound, secret organIZalIon-a party
brought into existence at the hour of midnight
amii the fPted and >Ickeuing eiiluvIa of mus
tv cellars. and has carried with II, from lis
earliest breath the Struch oi It's TotenneSS. lis
father Is Ned BuntlIue, the notorious lbertne
and sheet brawler. a a Wing. we have no
doubt a great many Democrats admired FIJI
more and would have supported him IN 81 +;
but as a Know Nothing IN Sc no Democrat
or honest Wing can support him or the party
he repreSenis-Arsus.
The first thought after partaking such a
delee,able salmagundi, is, How patriotic
and how honorable the Wings have lately
become, in the eyes of the compromise
violating Democracy. Three short years
ago, every opprobrious epithet in the vo
cabulary of abuse was heaped upon US by
the editors and orators who now nauseate
US with their praise Then, we were the
Tory Wings, the Cowboy Wings, the n O.
va Scotia Wings, the Anti-war Wings, the
Monarchy Wings, the Alien and Sedition
Wings, the Blue-llght Wings, the Federal
Wings, the Black -cockade Wings, the
Anti.masouic Wings, the Internal lm-
provement Wings, the Bank Wings, the
British Wings, the Hard-cider Wings, the
Distribution Wings, the Log cabin Wings,
the Niger Wings, the Mexican Wings,
the Silk-stocking Wings, the Temperance
Wings, the Aristocratic Wings. the Abol-
ition Wings, the Old Fogy Wings, the
National Republican Wings, the Woolly-
headed Wings, the Silvcr-gray Wings, the
Native American Whigs-in fact, col
umu Va uVuuutidN'iy d.JVN'i'So M CIV w
revived some one of which were constantly
employed for our benefit Then, 4" such
men a. Clay and Webster" were stigmati,
zed as the very worst enemies of our
couutry-as paid tools of England-as
traitors-as scoundrels, destitute of every
moral and political principle. .Now, all
how changed! CLAY aud WEBSTER are
referred to, by their former calumniators,
as models of patriotism and incarnations
of personal merit. Nou, the Wings are
complimented as the patriotic Wings"
the respectable Wings" the "intelligent
Whigs," the constitutional Whigs," the
national Wings" the conservative
Whigs," &c, so that any stranger to the
fiterers would readily conclude that the
Wings had always been recognized as the
purest of parties and the best and greatest
OF men! To witness the tender wooings
Of the Democratic editors-who kindly
volunteer to take special care of Wing
} interests and bonor-one would suppose
.Lv had always admired "the noble
uls party" in general, and "the immor-
A' Gay aud the "illustrious Webster" in