Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-07-10
ridian as to that. We make the fol

1.-The Oiu-Lin6 wings oil the South /
profess to beconservative in matters
of foreign policy; is not the Demo-
cato party now conservative enough
to satisfy the most scrupulous stick |
Ter for the faith Of ties and obi cations
Of public law? Old-Line Wings op-
pose sectionalism: are not he De-
mocracy the bulwark of the Union?
Old-Line Wings pretend to peculiar |
regard for the institutions oe the
South: is not the Democratic party |
the only power in antag onism to abb
oIitionism? Separated then Only by |
hereditary animosities, or by issues
Of an insignificant character, and con-
curing on cardinal principles of pres
ent policy, why should honest Wings
and tho honest Democracy defeat q !
common object, which they may SO
easily achieve by combination of
forces?
"The Wig holds hia nose at the
thought Of associating with the De-
mocracy. Indeed! Why, yeu well
coined the mere refuse Of the Dem
ocratic party to an eager and delirious
embrace. There was no affectation
Of deeentdisgustand supercilioua con.
mpt,when such men as Nat Claiborne
sought your alliance. Even as the
bridegroom rejoices to meet his
bride, with such impatient desire did
|you consDmmate your nuptials with
the faded outcasts Of the Democ-
racy. By your own act Fillmore a
Wing is welded to Donelson Dem
|ocrat; and there is not q Democrat OF
any pretension, ready to consort with
you, whom you have not courted and
complimented with an empty NOM
ination to an u1attainable office.
You took Beal, you took Patton,
you took Morris, you took Reins,
and other names not worth mention;
and whatever might have been your
secret contempt. nobody saw any
exhibition of disgust with the assio ca
tiou. The argument will not serve
your purpose. Itcuts both ways
II Old-Line Wigs are to be repealed
from utilization with Democrats, then
they cannot cooperate with Know.
things, for their molly ranks are
recruited from among the rabbla Of
the Democracy If Old-Line Wings
shrink from the support OF a Demo.
GRAFT they must repudiate the Know
Nothing ticket, which parades An
drew Jackson DoneIson as candidate
for the Vice Presidency Of the Uni
| ted States.
"Our neighbor need not be naus-
Gated by the thought Of contact with
the Democracy. Very many Wings
of the highest responsibility have
enlisted 10 our ranks, and they are
none the worse for the association.
Indeed, a change from Whiggery to
Democracy is very like a new birth;
a putting off corruption and taking
on iucorruptibility; an escape from
the bonds of iniqui!y to marvellous
light and liberty. The conversion
helps nightly. Let the Khig fol.
How "Madisonn Stuart in bis enumer.
alton Of Democratic recruits, and
observe how much more admiration
and honored by the people. As
Wings they got office not at all, OF
lby the skin of their teeth; as Dem.
ocrats they are gratified in every
aspiration. Look at our friend
Mead. With a character shove re-
preach, aud talents of a very high
order, while Wing be could get no
farther than the Legislature. He be-
came Democrat, and Immediately
tbs people of the South Side sent
him to congress, kept him there until
be declined another term, and are
now ready to bestow upon him any
other mark Of their confidence and
admiration. 1t is SO always. While
a Wing, the man Of genius is in a
chsysalis state; when his energies are
fully developed and be expands into
the respectable dimensinos Of q DEM
Iocrat, he bursted from his prison,
scars higher and purer regions, gaily
huters in the sun, and sucks nectar
from every blushing flower.
We entreat the Wig not to mis-.
take our motive. We solicit the
cooperation of Old-Line Wings from
no selfish consideration. We are Ger.
tain Of triumph. We know Virginia
will vote the Democratic ticket, ia
any contingency. Whether Old Line
Wings aid or oppose US, the result
will be the same. In truth, it is