The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-09-02
The Old Line Wings.

R Under the above caption, the Du
buque Express d Herald, of Tuesday
morning. after giving an extract from a
speech of HENRY CLAY, delivered in the
Kentucky House of Representatives,
Nov. 18th, 1850, makes an appeal to
Old Wings to rally now to the support
of their ancient enemy, the Democracy.
The extract given by the Herald is as
follows:
But if it (the Wing party) is to be
merged into contemplate Abolition
party, and if Abolitionism is to be en-
grated upon the Wing creed, from that
moment l renounce the party and cease
to be Wing. | go step farther. If
am alive, l will give my humble sup
port to that man for the presidency, who,
to whatever party he may belong, is not
contaminated by fanaticism, rather than
to one who, crying out all the time that
he is Wing, maintains doctrines utterly
subversive of the Constitution and the
Union"
From this, the Herald, assuming the
Republican party to be an Abolition par
ty, argues that the great patriot of Ash
land, if living, would now be found in
the ranks of the Democracy. 1t says:
"But the great statesman was gath
cred to his fathers before the event he
spoke of was consummated. Though
he feared, yet he never saw the evil day
in which fanaticism, abolitionism and
sectionalism swallowed up the great and
patriotic party to which he had devoted
his life. His speech shows conclusively,
that had he lived to see that day, he would
have been found in the ranks of the
Democracy, battling nobly against the
sectionalism which absorbed the Wing
party"
And farther on, after asserting that
large accessions have been made, and
are still being made to the Democratic
ranks, from the former followers of CLAY
and WEBSTER, itappeals to the remainder
as follows:
But there are yet many patriotic old
line Wings, who, it appears, cannot see
their way clearly, and to them we would
address word Or two.
:" We know that at heart you desire
the welfare and honor of our common
country. You love the Constitution and
you would see the laws. obeyed. This
being the case, it seems very strange
that you can, for a moment, hesitate to
denounce the mad schemes of the Sec
tional and Abolition party which calls
itself Republican. How can you, while
entertaining love for our whole country,
cast your influence and your votes in
favor of a miserable sectional party
which seeks to array one half of our
glorious confederacy in deadly hostility
to the other half?
"The platform of this so-called Re-
publican party is, in the words of Hen
ry Clay, contaminated by fanaticsm, ;
and contains doctrines subversive of the
Constitution and the Union 1t makes
open and aggressive war upon the people
and the local institutions of fifteen SOW
ereign States. 1t sets up Its local and
sectional standard of politics and morals,
and with truly Hindoo fanaticism, COM
mands all the various sections of the ma
ton to conform thereto. Like the cruel
robber Procrustes, it has its ron bed up
on which it stretches its victims, or mu-
lilates them until their forms fit its d.
mansions. Such is the character of the
platform and principles Of modern Re
publicanism.
:" 1t strikes us, then, that the day is
not far distant when no old line Wings
will be found cooperating with that trai-
torous party. They must see, sooner or
later, that it is simply the contemplate
abolition party which Henry Clay spoke
of, and which he declared he W ould OBJ
pose.
"Let every patriotic lover of the
memory of Henry Clay hasten, therefore,
to denounce that party as he declared he
would do, if he would be alive when it
sprang up. Let them leave it to the
control and guidance of its leaders, the
Garrisons, the Wendell Phillipses, the
Abbey Kelleys and the blasphemous
Rutland Conventionists. These are the
proper materials to constitute that party,
and the sooner every old line Wing, who
may yet linger among them, comes away
and leaves them alone in their glory
SO much better it will be for himself and
for the good of our common country.
The assistant editor of the Herald, who,
we presume, penned the above article,
must be a most consummate ass, if he
supposes that any Old Whig-any old
follower of HENRY CLAY-is so grossly
ignorant Of the great patriots views, or
of the relative positions of the two great
political parties of the present day, as to
be gulled by such miserable clap-trap as
this. You may tell your Egyptian CO.
hort, or your Dublin phalanx," Of the
lbolitionizing. amalgamating tendencies
If the Republican party, and make them
believe it-because, poor devils. they