The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-13
BEAUTIFUL SHAFT
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In the state appeared to have become
/ overwhelmingly anu-Jackson. In re-
huke of the Presidents assumptions
and arrogations TO himself Of what
they deemed unconstitutional rights
and prerosatives, Mr. Tyler and Mr.
| Clay worked enthusiastically with Mr.
Calhoun and AIR. Webster in behalf
OF he Senate resolutions of censure
which were adopted
out Of the ruck and turmoil of
I IT all grew a great coalition of many
men Of many minds, that became the
National Wing party. Its parents
we're the anti-tariff men and strict
lConstructionalists, largely located In
| the South. and Mr.. Clays National
! Republican party, who believed In the
| American system. An analysis of the
| Presidential votes In the years 1885
! and 1870 demonstrates that the South
ern Wings were drawn from the old
! Crawford element of the State Rights
party OF 1925. Gathered about this
formidable alliance were others VINO
were Nullifiers. and others who were
protectionists while the anti Masonic
/ party. that had grown up about the
! historic Masonic episode Of Morgan,
formed the rear guard OF the poten-
+ tiai incOngruons pslalanx
1 Thus, while some members of the
new National Wing party originally
+ favored IA protective tariff, others had
/ fiercelF opposed IL some had been for
a United States bank and others
against a bank OF any kind some
/ had favored internal improvements
I by the national government, ana
| others mad opposed, on the ground OF
unconstitutionality: and there were
also some who continued NulHflers
! IN the expectation of a future success
full revival Of the doctrine.
The generic appeilation OF Wing
embraced all the Heterogeneous e1e-
ments thus united. and their real sin
gle bond of union was opposition to
Jackson and the Jacksonian democ-
| racy 1t was some years before the
Wing party attempted a formulation
of principles and policies for the OBJ
viops reason that in such an associa-
tor there could be no agreement in
any other thing than upon the one
thing Of making common cause against
executive usurpation; and wt4en tho
Wing National Convention met at
Harrisburg, Pa, on December A. 1899
and nomIated it's first successful
ticket. which was elected In the fol-
lowing yjsr. 1t made its nominations
with view to the success which It
achieved. but as 1t most significant
to observe, II promulgated no plat
form.
In the view of this anomalous sit
nation. of the former irreconsilable
political ideas and interests Of the
various factions, from which it sprung
and of the lack Of an official decia-
ration of its principles and policies,
are 10 be read the accusations that
were made against Mr.. Tyler by his
enemies of having deserted the Wing
principles and the WING party in his
, aHrri 0lItr9ftnr tha 0fftT,A ~
dent To such accusations il may
be answered that his light had sh0no
always as beacon on n hill; that
he was known Of oil men throughout
his political career to have been Il
! strict -constreetionist and State Rights
advocate; that he was bound by no
pledge Of political doctrine written
or unwritten. to tne homogeneous
party that elected him; and that he
discharged the duties IF his high
office in the Hottest spirit Of patriot
ISM and according to the profound
and mature convictions that NE had
always entertained in regard to con-
stitutionaI government
During the presidential canvass of
1870. the course of the Wing orators
in the North was to talk loudly OF
reform, and to say nothing of the
old issues of bank. tariff and internal
/
the Wing constituencies were praeti.
caliy all for State Fights, they were
strong against these measures And
! Mr Clay's position was that all the
old issues had become obsolete in the
presence Of the Federalism OF the
Jacsson-Nan Buren, democracy.
1T is notable fact that In this
| canvass Mr. CLAY and many other
prominent Wings expressed in their
/ SDeaGhaS Nt~t,J ~b I>f.jA.
put into concrete effect in his vstoes,
Of the Bank bill and of the Tariff
bill; and II was for the first time.
upon his veto Of the Fiscal Corpora
'ion bill that the Wing members of
congress put forth in their Address
10 NE People, written declaration
Of what purpoued To be Wing pur-
poses and policies and declaring hat
the President had impeded these Wing
measures, proclaimed that all pcliti-
cal connection between them ana
lahn Tyler was a an end
rms pronunclarnento may he at
fributed solely 10 the party dominance
Of Mr. Clay and of the Northern Ma
tional Republican Wing influence inl
Congress. Mr.. Ty}er's views on the
subject of hank had always been
well known, and his veto of the Fiscal
Corporation bill. In whoa he was.
on the grounds that il was not such
a bill as he had been asked by the
wing leaders to outline. in that Il
created in t'ae District of Colum hia
a bank of local discount and not Of
exchanges and that whether Great
ing an exchange bank or not, 1t con-
tanned no provision for the consent
or the several States for the estah-
iishment Of branches The question.
after al, VAS one. not Of Bank and
no Rank but of Capitalization Of
power in Congress and State Rights
or consolidated nation and con-,
federacY of States
StaterF flights Cabinet.
Mr.. Tyler during he next two years
while the Wings had a majority in
IN Congress received byt slight sup
port from that party. and was in little
better case with the Democratic ma
jority, dominated by the Van Buren,
influence. when that party succeeded
TO legislative superiority. He relied
upon the wings of either who We're