Spirit of the Whig Press.

The Baltimore Patriot asks
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instantly followed thc announcement ol Mr.
Polk's eeclipn. we ascribed yesterday to the cir-
cumstsnce that 10 man could say what his elec-
ton decided. No man can say what will be done
with the Tariff under MIR. Polk's administration
what will be done with the pubic lands,
whether the proceeds will go into the National
Treasury, or the land be given 10 the States in
which they are located, as proposed by MIR. Cal
houn-what will be the system adopted IN rela-
ton TO the governmen. money, whc!her 1t viii
be placed in pet banks or locked up IN Sub
Treasury-or cvea what will be the fate oi tie
Texas Annexation project Dc all these quss-
tions there is doubt resting. No one can there
fore wisely undertake business which may be
affected by the decision Of these questions, for
no one can cay which Of the most opposite Po-


cies will be adopted"


But the Wings have DUTY 10 perform, and
the United States Gazette, says:


"To the Wings must the people OF the North
ern and Middle States now look to save them
from the evils which majority CT these people
have rendered imminent; and, after coniending
against The means of ruin which, in an evil hour,
were proposed-after contending against them,
and suffering defeat, the Wings must not sit



of It's own folly they must come to the rescue,
and though they could not make their party
triumphant, they must stand By their country.
And never did that country more need the appli-
cation of Wing principles, and the constant
wetchulness and faithful services Of Wing men.
Ire tcrYent that could not be averted, must be
kept within some channel; and when party
pride and keen disappointment suggest that, as
4 TO fbo ,Jnlr
Focuism, she should be let alone, then may patr-
otism whisper in the ear of every Wing, that it
is our country that is in danger, and the senti-
ment Of Decatur could never be more applicable,
Our country, right or wrong"


The Indianapolis State Journal expresses the
following sentiments:


"Calmness, patience, Submission, and fervent
prayers that the new administration may be pure
and useful, should be the spirit Of the minority.
The contest being over, we arc neighbors and
friends again. Let the Wing party offer no
merely tactious opposition; but, true to the great
principles that have, fox this timc fallen with it,
let them support, in spirit Of compromise, what
may seem right under the auspices Of those in
power We yet believe that there is in the
American people wholesome virtue which will
Suotiiii liS AiISoSoiSS iOA "thiS'i W.
have been contending."


The Ne,o- Hampshire Statesman attributes our
defeat to these causes:


''Tt cannot have escaped the observation of
intelligent men that whatever new parties are
formed, and whatever objects come up to attract
attention, and call for an organization of men
under conventional associations, they obtain a
large majority OF their recruits from the Wings.
Whether it be Anti-Masonry, or Abolition, or
whatever else calls for the cooperation of bodies
of men, the draft is usually upon US. Every vii
lage has its lawyer, its physician, or its clergy
man, not too greatly burdened with the secular or
spiritual interests of their fellow men to lend
hand-who are ever active in getting up some
thing by which they may pry themselves into
public notoriety; and while the objects they pur-
pose 10 effect may be humane, or desirable in
other points Of view; still, by being made 10 as
sumo an Importance TO which they are not ent-
tled, Or what sworse, adhered to with the utmost
tenacity, and to the inevitable defeat Of great
Wing measures the consequence is, az seen in
this election, that while combination Of forces
would have enabled the Wing party to gan as.
cendancy, and thus have secured Wholesome al
minis,ration of the government our dIsjointed po-
sition has resulted in throwing every guod object
vastly in the rear"


The Richmond Wing says:


"We have started, there can be no doubt,
on most perilous political voyage. The future
is all Doubt gloom and uncertainty. In despite
of his struggles to keep bold heart, and his pre-.
determination to hope for the best, the Patriot, if
he surveys the prospect with a calm aud expert
enced eye-e1perienced from knowledge of the
past-must contemplate with solicituds and awe
the approaching conflict Of sectional feelings, of
pecuniary interests and of party passions. No
man may say what six months may bring forth:
it NAV be sunshine, or it may be storm We may
by possibility, rejoice still at the expiration of that
period; in the continued integrity of the Union,
and general prosperity. But, tho wise citizen
ought not, cannot, conceal from himself that ele-
ments are now in the ascendant which may tear
down the fabric of the Union, and Simultaneous
ly devolve upon the country foreign and civil
strife.


"Our firm persuasion is, that Texas cannot be
annexed to this country without civil convulsion
and foreign war our equally firm conviction is,
that American industry cannot be laid PROSTATE
and captive at the foot of the pauper labor of Eu
rope without exciting intestine commotions, which
will lead Immediately and of necessity to Dis
UNION"


WHAT THE South EXPECTS FROM THE NEXT
ApMlNlsTRAT1oN.-Ou readers have seen, by the
article cop ed from the Suubury American, what
Pennsylvania expects from Mr.. Folks admins
tration. At the time of copying the article from
the Sunbury paper, we stated that the Loco. Focos
of Charleston had honored the election of MIR.
Polk by "torch.light procession" The Charles
ton Mercury of the 18th inst. gives full account
of the procession, and accompanies the pubiica-
ton OF the account with the following remarks:


"The only inscription which we would rather
not have seen in the procession, and towards
which we exclaimed with Byron,


"What business Ind it .ierc-at such tme?''
was the extract from MIR. PoLK's letter about
"equal protection to all interests, &c. &C." That
it was equipocal-was enough to condemn it with
frank plsin-deahng Republican CaroIiuisns. We
trust, VIC beliere Mr.. Polk meant by equal pro-
lection, impartial forbearance from allinterfercnco
with the industrial pursuits of The country. We
are sure that our spirited Committee of arrange
ments interpreted the proer of protection, as the
French merchants OF old answered ,hcir monarch
ho offered government protection, and was told