The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-03
NATIONAL WING coNYENTfoN.

NATIONAL WING CONVENTION.
II Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri on be-
ing conducted to the Presidential chair of the
National Wing Convention in Baltimore on
Wednesday, delivered an address OF great
power. lie thanked the Convention for the
honor they had conferred upon him, and ex
pressed his confident belief in the regenera-
tion of the glorious Wing party
We are told, he said, in some portions oil the
Union that the union OF these states is 10
danger. Now that is an old cry; have heard
very often that the integrity and nationality
of This great and glorious Union, was put in
;.onardy by the strife of party; but believ
ed II moi. Nv father fought at Yorktown; and
narbans there is not a man here whose ances-
ior.-if not himself, for see many old and
grevheaded men here-did not carry the mus
iet and face the enemy in the contest that
tried mems souls. And do not believe that
this Government would he worthy of the ven.
Grafton which was taught as child to bear
towards it. If 1t could not stand all the trials
and assaults to be apprehended from party
strife and contentious. What must be the
pernlanency Of that government which can
not resist the occasional ebulli,ion of popular
passoni Weak, indeed, would it he, and ut
teriy subversive Of the fundamental principle
OF Wing doctrine If that government was to
depend upon that higher law of the Democ
racy which looks only to the temporary and
fuctuating will Of men, to be brought forth
upon some particular crisis. ! do not believe
in that. believe in the eternity of this glo-
rious union OF States [Applause.
1t will not be expected Of me, it would be
out Of taste as well as out Of time just now, to
60 on in an elaborate speech. We came here
for arE lal IA " hat 1 for | In
come a thousand miles and would have gone
three thousand more, TO bring back this coun-
try to what our fathers intended il should be.
1 came here for work. We have to rebuild
glorious party that has nothing but its prin.
ciples. We came here not for Office. not for
honors; for that would be hopeless task un.
der present circumstances when our party
throughout the country is too utterly weak
to have a candidate OF its own. We must se-
lect, if we hope to do good, some one of the
three candidates that are now before the Am
erical people. With loud boast the rampant
and blatant Democracy call on us to turn to
them, not because they are good, not because
they love us, not because they make promise
of better behavior in the future, but because
they have chosen to add TO their old platform
another dangerous and bloody plank. They
call upon US TO countermarch the old lines of
the Wing party, all our walks of social and
political lite, and wrong all We have ever said
heretofore; aud |, for one, will not do it. APP
plause and cheers.
A man that has in his heart a real con-
seriousness of the truth of the principles that
he goes for, is not afraid to stand alone. lie
Gays
"Oh lost to manly thought,
Lost to the noblest solace OF the soul,
Who thinks il solitude TO be alone,
A good man can stand alone. | know hun
dreds of Wings WHO have stood almost alone,
for they could not muster corporaPs guard
for the defence of their citadel. But one
thing we can do we can at least re organize
these shattered and almost bleeding remnants
Of this almost broken party aud open new
recruiting rendezvous for our friends and
brethren who have left us. Great cheering. ]
If the prodigal will return To us we will re-
ceive him with open arms Icheers and if he
has honestly repented, perhaps he will be as
safe a man in all future time as il he had not
left us, because has seen the dangerous con-
sequences of desertion. We are little rem
nant of the Wing party--not so little either,
because we have been talking this morning
about lengthening our cords and strengthen
ing our stakes, and the Chairman of the Com.
inittee of Arrangements had to get up and
apologize because he had not calculated for
so large party here to-day. 1Appause. J.
only wish he could now go to work to tear
down this enclosure and extend them from
end to end OF this immense hall. Applause. !
We could not have brought in Ill Missouri
here because the Wings Of Missouri are like
the Sybiline books of old. they rise in value
as they decrease in numbers Laughter J.
Like precious stones we put them up in small
packages and not in large boxes. Laughter
and applause.
But tell you one thing gentlemen; when
see reverend, old grey heads from whom we
expect prudence, wisdom and moderation,
and when see scattered all through them as
pirng Young men from whose eyes beam forth
the fire of youth, expect to have in our par.
ty from this day forth all the elements OF hon.
or and of success. But we must liberalize
ourselves in nor. essentials. We are not put
to the necessity of deciding whether our plat
form shall be tongued and grooved or only
laid together blunt laughter, but only how
we shall accomplish the essential object. We
have not got to tell the people what Wing
is; the way.faring man, though fool, knows
that. We need not to write out long string
Of resolutions and call il platform-passed
by the impulse of the moment, and abandon
ed when another impulse comes over u.s. APP
plause We have the men who though dead
yet live. We have written constitution-a
better platfoim and much easier Interpreted
because ~ mas no aftiul amDlSuities w H. APP
plause. 1t nay have an occasional dark
passage in it. but it has no elaborate contri'
rance any where in it.
Then let us go on in love, and peace, and
harmony, bound together by the external
pressure which we feel on all sides around us,
hoped in as firmly with iron, and banded to
gether in one compact brotherhood. Let us
study no geography daughter ask about no
line, not attempt to repeal the dictionary and
give new meaning to words. Do none OF those
things which Democrats have done. but in the
simple spiritof American whiggery stand forth
as u higs ever stood in the revolution. That
is n thing that has grown neither wiser nor
better, and he is the wisest man who carries
out principles. leaving consequences to Him
who governs causes. Applause.
tys- The New Orleans Picayune Of 18th
instant says n shark WINS recently caught be-
low thai city,. The monster measured sew
entcen feet ten inches in length from tail to
snout, aud nine feet ~ circumference. lie
had seven rows Of teeth, three OF the rows
being almost hidden in the upper gums.
In his paunch was found the body OF Il
man, in half decomposcd state. So far MS
could be judged, the corpse was that of
wel-dressed man, of medium size-white