Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-06-27
SATURDAY, JUNE 81, 1857.
REORGANIZATION OF THE WING PARTY

/ New Orleans we remember that that most feryiC
T and brilliant of American orators lover whose un
timely death the genius of Eloquence has not vel
ceased to weep remarked to his political brethren
in an hour of disappointment and defeat, that the
Wing party, though often thwarted in its tempo
rary measures of public policy, could never be
wholly destroyed SO long conservative sentimen,
/ prevailed in the land And he must have been an
inobservant spectator of public events during the
past few years who has failed to remark the obvious
fact that Wing sentiment, powerful and abiding
has survived the efficiency and permanence of the
] Wig organization as it existed in the PALMER
days of the party Frustrated by defeat in the year
1852 and distracted by sectional issues in the year
1854, the Wing organization gradually underwent
partial and in the end, an almost total disinte-
grafton, fastened by the rise and prevalence of new
political considerations which absorbed large por-
ton of those who believed that the old Wing ban
ner had gone down never to rise again unless upon
principles and aims which should strike at the
root of Democratic strength and ascendency Yet
it is instructive and significant fact that the
members of the old Wing party, even in seeking
protested their paramount adhesion to the great
fundamental principles of the Wing faith, and have
sought to retain them with the least possible sacrifice
or admixture in the new alliances into which they
have entered. But that, in making choice among
the competing organizations appealing to their
fdence and support the Wings of the country
should have found their ranks. not only broken but
transferred to rival factions, was result which, in
despite of the common motive that influenced their
conduct, could hardly fail of occurrence under the
peculiar circumstances of our Federal politics dur
ing the last few years 1t was but natural that each
individual according to his local tendencies and pre-
possessions, (Which were repressed or harmonized
while he acted with the Wing party should, on
the decline of that organization, seek new afhlia-
ton, in which, as his second choice, he hoped at
least partially to atone for deserving his ancient
faith; and hence it is that we have seen the ee-
ments of the old Wing party, under the influence
of different elective afnties, gathered around one
and another of the political centres of attraction
lately existing in the country.
With the gradual disappearance of the causes
which have produced and accelerated the disrup-
ton of the Wing party we might naturally expect
to see the old Wing sentiment beginning to reas-
sert its vitality and power And that the distract
ing influences which for time have paralyzed its
efficiency are gradually spending their force, can be
doubted by none who contemplates the subsistence
of sectional excitement and the inevitable decline
of the political considerations which have assumed as
their bond of union common purpose, inadequate,
in its dignity or in its universally to meet the de-
mands of the whole country, or form the basis of
benefcent political action in view of its varied in
terests. The platform, in word, of both the
" American" and " Republican" parties is too mar
row for liberal and national Wing to stand on,
while to the theory and administration of the De-
mocratic party there must ever remain much that
is repusive to one who has been thoroughly imbued
with the principles of CLAY and a WEBSTER.
Is it not time, then, for the Wings of the United
States to restore their old organization, and thus
give form and efficiency to their conservative opin-
ions 1t is only by such concert of action that the
nucleus of political party be formed That
the elements for the formation of such nucleus exist
in every State of the Union we do not for moment
doubt, and, if We had been tempted to do SO, the
evidences which meet us on every hand would suf-
fee to remove any such distrust.
As among such evidences of the Wing sentiment
which still prevails in the country may cite the
fact that large number of the leading citizens of
New Orleans have recently addressed letter tc the
Wings of that city and of the State of Louisiana,
invoking reorganization of their party, and which,
though primarily addressed to the people Of that
city and State has not been suffered to pass with
out response from the Wings in other quarters of
the country. As afording to our readers some
slight illustration of the extent and prevalence of
the Wing spirit which still animates most re-
spectacle portion of the American people, we APP
pend copy of the New Orleans letter, together
with few Of the greetings which it has called forth
from the press, and which would of themselves suf-
flee to prove the hold which Wing principles still
retain upon many enlightened opponents of pub
lie opinion. The letter to which we aIude, and
which is honored by the signatures of many among
the most respectable citizens of New Orleans,
headed by the name of CHRISTIAN RozELIus, Esq,
is as follows:
TO the People Of Louisiana.
We the undersigned, representing the wishes of the
great mass of our Wing feow-citisens make this de-
claration
Under the present condition of our political and mu
nicpal affairs the Wings of New Orleans deem it duty