Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-05-23
Tae Duty of WIhiss.

. : a
ng eteslIentiAl election uses the follow
Ing language
There is no probability that Wing
candidate will be presented forsthis Office,
We have advocated Convention Of the
Wing party not with view of making
nomination. but for the purpose of re,af-
6rming our principles and of deciding koso
and ssM sbk6ia5 tile sAYhlSi party OF the
South should act in the coming canvass.
Our party must choose between the three
others, as we hold sislto be the duty of
10 cast his hallotsfor his countrysrsl What
claims have the three parties upon, sthe
Wings? The Black Republican faction
Is tie party Of fanaticlsm, a party made
up Of olijionlsts. Atheists, Socialists
and men of,eyery stripe and haze that was
found in Joseph's ,coatiof many ,colors.-7
Disunionists. negro worshipers In theory.
negro haters in practice. men who are OPP
posed to y hateVeriis. aud advocate every,
change from the established order Of
Ihing$, no matter how ruinousrto society,",
allcoIors aud isms, Beechers and Stoves, u
band that would have made even Cataline,
blush are here found mingled together,
fraternally acting for The ruin, Of the South,
the dissolution OF the Uuion; and the ulli-
mate extinction of the negro race itself, the
nominal object of, their assumed philanr,
Ghropy. 1t will hardly, be- expected that
the Wing party to mich we refer can
fraterni7e With this pirate crew. Then
comes the American party as they sty le
themselves, and we will speak, only of the
oel IL 4
Know NothIngs as nothing better in the
mass than the Black Republican party
itself. for at Philadelphia they proved
themselves enemies Of the South by the
abolition OF the 18th section and; the es-
tablishWent in its stead of a mongtel plat.
form, broad enough in its base and gen>
eral enough in, its terms to hold cheek by
jewel the Giddings oil the North, with the
cra2iest disuniOnIsts, of the South, the in
habltants of Patagonia and Greenland, OF
China and California ~ asai 3.
But it is of the, Southern party that we
speak, that party which was decoye ed
buck into the Conyention by the ,nomina>
ton OF Alil.iard FILLMORE. CouceLe this
party tn. be as zralouSIy devoted TO the
rights of the South as any other party can
be-. conceds that upon this question it is
sound aslthe Democratic parry. vi hat rea.
son is there why the y hIg party should
prefer it z. VIVA; single Wius rrIncipIe
does it profess, or is continued 10 its plat
fOrm? We have beensable t0gind no
one Of our old text books in their course
OF Study.;, We have searched in vain for
the proud OLD dag with its emblazonry
which Clay has So often and gIoliuusly
unturled to the breeze. but We have found
it not, nor shall we. We have refused
assent to their peculiar principles and
forms. because we could mot approve
OF them, and they themselves. even. have
learned TO cast aside the mummery, OF
their earlier orga ,iz4tion. while the late
platform mudiieS their principles both as
to religion and placeIUf nativity. What
claimlhas this party :uponlthe Wing par,
ty? If 20 disOrgaaiEe it. il to draw of
its cohorts from the principles of Clay and
Webster. and turn their pow ersg against
the tOrei IN horn citizen. be cause Of
gratitude ON the part Of the Wings. then
perhaps they have claim. II utter pro-
Ecription Of Wings by this party (whtn,
ever strong enough to succeed without
external aid) be a cause why Wings
should act with them then should we be
grateful indeed, for from the very organi
cation Of the party, whenever they were
in majority, the Wing who had acted
with them, and was aided by them, had
6rst to adapt himself to the Procusteau
bed of intolerance, upon which they laid
him. Does this constitute a claim upon
the Wing party. 1t will hardly be con
tended That this party has any claims on
the Wing party IT it has, we are at a
loos to know in what it consists. Then
comes the Democratic party. 1t is an
old political organization and one essen,
TALLY variant from the principles of Fed.
eral policy. which have been advocated
by The Wings. in days gone by. They
have been. our opponents and nobly has
the Wing party contended against their
measures and as. party, on party
grounds, they have no claim on the
Wings. a syra r.,7 a-eH i
But upon the great question of attach
ment to the Union, of its preservation and
perpetuiIy the Democratic party Of the
South stands unquestiuned. II has de-
Tended. and it will defend, the rights of
the South. and its most lpartizian oppo-
nents are willing to concede this. Ehen.
when we look TO the North, we find that
with but few exceptions this party alone
dares maintain the constitur ional rights of
the South. While the Wing party of the
North has been torn into fragments bv
incongruous elements. while Abolitionists
IN every shape and ofevery hue have un .
dermined it and worked its ruin while
the Know>No'hing party of the North.
tottering. as it did for a season. upon the
18th section. has fallen also prey to the
same wild spirit of fanaticiSm. and can no
longer claim an existence there separate