The Evansville daily journal., 1859-02-22
The old Line wings.


The Old Line Wings.
Somebody-evidently with malice pre-
pense-has sent US a copy of periodical
published in New York city, and designated
as the Democratic Age. Its first article
very appropriately, we thinks in favor of
robbing Spain of Cuba its second is made
up of lachrymal regrets over the dissolution
of the Old Whig party. The Democratic
Age is fitly named. 1t is just as inconsls-
tent land regardless of the truth as the par
ty it claims to represent. 1t will not tell
the truth even VIXEN a falsehood fails to
answer the same purpose. In its review OF
the "Old Line Wings" it is as muddy, his
torically incorrect, and slanderous as 1t IS
possible for an editor to be within the limits
of so short an article ssIt has been alleg-
ed, says the author, I" and with truth, that
the Wing party o we'd its origin to the Fede-
ralists of the,revolution, of whom Alexander
Hamilton was the founder" "The Old Line
Wings date the existence of their party
from Hamilton. They owe their philosophy
to him."
During the revolution there was no such
marty in existence as the Federalists. Their
organization dates from the formation of the
Federal Constitution; as friends of that
Constitution they derived their name
Jefferson, when he organized his party in
opposition, denominated it as the Republi-
can party, and no effort was left untried to
prove that the Federalists were opposed to,
and the Republicans friends OF, popular liber-
ty. The Federalists were called Aristocrats;
the Republicans the true friends of man.
Ofthis Republican party, Henry Clay started
into political life, as a member. John Quincy
Adams met with the sneers and contempt
of his fathers friends and political adherents,
for connecting himself with the same party
Here were the two great leaders of the whig
party both connected with, and supported
by, the Republican party of Thomas Jeffer-
son. With what truth, then, can it be as
serted that they owe their origin to, and
are :lineal descendants of, the old Federal
organization To which of the original di-
visions did Mr.. Buchanan belong If it is
true that the old Whig party has ceased to
exist, why is it necessary to be continually
casting these falsehoods broadcast over the
country?
We notice one other remark of this re-
viewer of the "0ld Line Wings" and have
DONE He says Clay and Webster, and their
great associates have most of them descended
to their honorable tombs, and new age, an
age of danger, because it is an age of fanat-
icism, an age of sectionalism, an age OF
speculation, an age of intrigue, and, above
all, an age of small maen--have come upon
u.s." Why didn't he put the cap stone upon
this lofty sentence by adding-A DEMOCRAT
Ic AGE. 1t is an age of small men, and an
age of Democratic-so o-called-supremacy.
We think with nm improvement of the one
we will lose sight of the other.
No greater tribute can be paid to the cor
rectness of some Of the old Whig views
than that Democratic President calls up
on a Democratic Congress to adopt the old
Whig project of a tariff in order to prevent
the bankruptcy of his administration
Why does not Mr.. Buehanon carry out the
old Democratic doctrine of direct taxation
Here is noble opportunity for putting the
excellent theory in practice, yet not a word
do we hear from the President or a single
Democratic member of Congress suggesting
anything of the kind The old tariff doc
trine must be resurrected and paraded forth
dressed in new habiliments, as the only rem
edy for the present unhealthy condition o
government finances. We do not object to
this theft of the child, if the Democracy
would not insult and deride the dead body o
the parent. If the tariff must be, speeifcal
ly, raised in order to carry on the Govern
ment, at least let its old adherents, res
peaceably in their graves without being res
urrected merely to be insulted.