Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-09-27

noticing the proceedings Of this "lorcgone con-
clusion." which lately assembled at Baltimore,
to make forrnsl surrender of the remains" of
the Wing party to the Know Nothings- TWAS
well understood that the ''die was cast, /" and
that the small remnant of Wings who went into
that convention as such, were to be oyerslaughed
by the Know Nothing majority, and Fillmore
committed men who went there to sign, seal
and deliver the articles Of capitulation which
surrendered without bail or mainprise the rem
nant of the Wing party, who were willing to
give up to party what they owe to mankind"
into the power and dominion Of the Know
Nothing party. It was not enough that the
conouerors boosted that they "had risen upon
the ruins of the Wing party" that they were
not 20 be held responsible for its r!olatea
pledges but after this murder and this insult
to the dead body, the victors, like Richard Sd,
seek to enter into the bands of matrimony with
the daughter of the murdered King. Richard
wooed mot by what he had been, but by what
he would bc,n while the Know Nothing party
has won its bridals, not by what it would be,
but by '.what it has BEEN 1t has pointed
proudly to its work of ruin, it has not disguised
but boosted of its work of destruction, and with
these honeyed words has it succeeded in its
wooing. Wewere not surprised atthis. When
we saw such men as Baldwin, Bell, and Harper,
of Augusta, trapped in at Richmond, in July,
and deliberately and inuocently sliding into the
party which they had ever opposed, when VIC
saw a resolution, to exclude ali but those, who
were only Wings, tabled in Virginia, we well
knew that its progeny, the Baltimore Conven-
ton, would have nothing left but tamely to fol-
low on the surrender example set them by the
seni-Know Nothing Wing Convention Of Yir-
GINA While We cannot but regret the action
of that portion of the Convention who wero re-
ally Wings, it is matter of congratulation that
the smaller fry only of the Wing party attended
it. Mr., Bates was perhaps the only able man
in the body, and he unfortunately is too proud
to run the gauntlet on what the narrow minded
would call inconsistency. When before did Da-
vid PAUL Brown, the volunteer counsel for rum
aways, ever figure as leader in a national
convention? VIM. II Seward ought to have
been there. He would have been well mated
with D. p Brown. There. was no Rives, Ever
EFT, Winthrop or Preston, of S. c., there
These men dis!iiied to ground arms" thus
publicly, and could not bear to have their names
handed down to posterity as the plenipotentia-
ries of treason to the memory of the Wing
party Well, the so-called convention of self
constituted members met, and what did it do?
Itresolved substantially nothing scarcely but
the trite every day sentiments which every man
can feel for himself says nothing about the is
sue of the canvass, not even saying that they
'pretermit" the expression of opinion on it.
trace all trouble to Franklin Pierce, and then
resolve to support Fillmore and DonnelsOn.-
We wonder what the Virginia Wing Conven-
ton men will say to the Baltimore Convention
about Kansas? The Virginia Convention was
first to denounce the Kansas bill, to uphold the
vote of Bell and Houston in the Senate and of
Hunt in the House, against the whole South,
and it must feel melancholy now to find that
its treason to the South is not supported by the
late Convention. It's members will doubtless
find consolation in the fact that Bolts and Win
ter Davis will stand by them. The Baltimore
Convention did not plough the furrow" along
SO deg 80 min. with which the Cincinnatus
chivalry of Mr.. Baldwin was ambitious to dis
turb the lowery praries of the far West. But
it did resolve that the Democratic party was
sectional one. This was the play of the season.
mon interference by Congress with slavery in
State or Territory, or in the District of Column
bia." We wonder il that is the sectional part
ofthe Democratic platform? Or is the locality
OF the party sectional? Perhaps this is what
these surrenderers mean? It is not the fact
But suppose it were true, who is to blame for
it9 Is it the fault of the party if their princi
pies are national, that sectional party chooses
to make it sectional?
The Fillmore party is not even sectional. 1t
Is nowhere. He has hardly corporal's guard
in Northern State, and has a show of strength
in only three Southern States, and yet the new
nppendages of the Fillmore party resolve that
the Democratic party is sectional
But the strangest position is that Wings should
take for granted that they should vote for Mr..
Fillmore Why should Wigs rots for FIJI
more1 Let the question be met. plumP-up and
fairly. Mr.. Fillmore was Wing President, he
was deservedly honored by all for his pure
administration; upon the heel of his admins
tration arose the Know Nothing party. 1t char
ged corruption and rottenness in the two other
parties. TIC Ehig party lcas corrupt and need
ed cleansing, was the cry of every midnight
brawlsF in the party. We heard one of their
speakers in 1866 promise to clense the Augcan
stables of the Wing and Democratic parties
1.-THE Wing party was thus corrupt, who more
responsible for 1t than its last President, Willard
Fillmore; if the contrary, who shouldhave been
the Rrst man to defend the Wing party and
hurl back the false charge OF corruptiOn2 Mil
lard Fillmore, the President of the party chArg.
ed with corruption. And yet we find him at
the first note of attack abandoning the party
thus falsely asssiled, and going over to the enc
my, pleading guilty, as it were, for the Wing
party, and suing personally for pardon, and now
for Office. Was this to have been expected from
n gallant leaderH Would Henry Clay thus
have left his party to bear the charge of corrup-