New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-02-02

Should he come home next June fully recovered
AS we fervently hope he may-we apprehend
little difference in regard to the Wing candidate,
and no mistake as his election.
The Proceedings of the Wing Nationai
Convention held at Harrisburg in Dec.
1889.
From the Courier and Enquirer, Feb. Isl
The Tribune speaking Of the HARRISBURG, Con-
vention of 1889, says: " A purer, more intelligent,
more patriotic body of men, We never met; no
Congress we have had for fifteen years was supe-
nor TO 1t.
Very true: and in support of this we annex the
following opinion of one of the most distinguished
men in the United States:
have never doubted the purity and patriotism of that
Convention But ef M %u mem
Who combined cheat Mr. Cay GU, of f.. the NOMINATION 1
was evidence intention interfere with the popular voice
Of his constituents should have had presented TO us
the alarming Outrage upon sFs s b ouTaHe has m origin
IN desire deprive of his reward one Of The abest and
paret that this coqntry has ever pr9ducea ne rn
tted can never be forgotten by the American People ana
thought Of foT the nomnaon he seeks He and such
Convention whom they misied and ne and they Cannot eA
pect TO be rewarded Tor their treochsry
1t does seem TO us high time that the Harris
burg Convention were fully indicated from the
aspersons so literally cast upon it by both Polltl-
cal friends ard foes. The effect of these ISLANDERS
is evidently, palpably mischlevous. We have
seen, in a neighboring District, good and true
Wing, who had done as much for the Wing cause
and as deserving the support OF It's advocates,as
any other 1T. t,rus, aside in n ornina'i1'g
meeting expressly on the ground OF his acting
with the majority as Delegate IN that Conven-
ton, and then the Wing candidate regularly Sc
lected in his stead disgracefully defeated in
strong Wing District on some vagrant, false and
factious charge that he also was somehow or other
implicated in the result at Harrisburgh-or if not,
that some of his friends were. We have heard
Gov. Pennington of NJ. roundly abused on the
assumption that his brother-in-law, Judge White
head, voted for Scott at Harrisburg-although
there was not firmer and more tenacious Clay
man than this same Judge w. in that Conven-
ton And this is but one case in hundred.
Now the effect of such articles as that above
cited from the Courier, and which have appeared
in that paper ever since its Editor failed OF being
appointed Postmaster, is papably to excite fac
is so blind as to believe few tough skinned poltl
clans like the Editor of this paper alone struck
al in these attackS--if that were all, would be
light matter-but al can see that, in spite Of spe-
cious disclaimers, all are assailed who were active
for HARRISON or SCOTT in 1889. They are IN
effect stigmatized as aliens IN the Wing Com
monwealth-they are tainted as traitors-com-
manded to prove their repentance, &c. &c. and
the more headstrong and less intelligent IN our
ranks are melted to regard them accordingly
What is the natural effect of this Some of this
class see their names presented for Wing nomina-
ton, and rejected with contamcly for the original
sin of Harrisonism in lS39-they hear themselves
and their old associates reproached as guilty OF
some frighttul political turpitude IN that year
and at length they half imbibe the impression that
Mr.. Clay and his intimate friends regard them as
outcaSts for their course in that contest-and shall
we wonder If they become discouraged, disafect.
ed and inefficient This is the evil which we
perceive and deplore as the consequence of the
Courier's reckless course-and knowing RICH,
well that the impression it labors to produce is
false impression-that neither by Mr.. Clay his
leading friends, nor the great mass of the Wing
party,ls any distinction made between the friends
of the different Wing candidates for President in
lS39-that nobody is generally deemed better Of
worse for his choice in that year-and that nj
question as to any mans course then will be
raised in iS45--we are compelled by the strong.
est considerations of Party necessity as well as
Public Justice, TO stand forth lii vindication Of
the fame of the Harrisburg Convention It's not
enough to admit that the mass Of its members
meant wei--theY were not cheated-they were
not fools. Their judgment was human, therefore
faliible but it was made after careful compari-
son Of facts; it was not founded on the hearsay
reports OF irresponsible persons; but their own
mutual representations, made and received IN
good faith. and weighed as the testimony OF high
minded gentlemen who could not deceive nor dis
trust each other. We could wish that the duty
devolved on US had been performed by others;
but our friend HAuearos, of the Boston Atlas, to
whom II more properly belonged as a Delegate,
sleeps Ia an Gsltlmcly and lamented grave
another, who might tittingly do it, being bu, in-
directly assailed, chooses to be silent. AS an
act of service to our party, them as well as Of JUS
tice to that Convention, proceed, with the full
notes of an influential Delegate and member of
the Grand Committee before US, TO yindcate more
fully the motives and acts of the majority of the
Harrisburg Convention. -a. Il.
Long before the assembling Of that Convention