New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-04-10

.o-,;lv 10 pursue different course, ano the r.
81, = beavypolI for Harper and even for the Ma
80. chartertckets beyond the fair strength OF their
n.ry. The Wing voters who were told that they
oush; 10 vote for Harper 10 order TO defeat Have
never, could not see why they should not also vote
for Native rather than Wing Ward tickets wher
ever the forme, had the better chance Of success.
Throughout this contest have followed the
dictates Of an imperative sense Of duty. Person
ally, we would have preferred Harper 10 Have
meyer, and the City Officers who are going out 10
those who viii succeed them Had they rallied as
City Reform parry, sinking Natvisn We should
not have opposed them Il was something morally,
though worth little practically, 10 have Temper
ance Mayor. Many OF our friends and subscribers
will lose Office By the change none will gam But
il there Is 70 be Wing party in the Country with
any rational hope OF success, or even OF exeEiins
proper and salutary influence out OF power, such
movements az this of Nativisrn must De put down.
Az 10 the "Aboiition and AntlRentism y on
whIch the Courier vents It's spleen, 1t - untrue maj
anv ,rty or journal here has ever sought 10 engIaii
Them OF the principles Of the Wing party, though
hostility 10 the extension OF Slave Territory and In
crease of slave-holding power in our Country Is
sentiment WHICH sriitIrA1 ." m -
States. and ought TO prevail. II cannot be made
the pre,ex, FOR feud III the Wing party. And the
title Democratic Wing which the Courier at
iempts TO raise breeze about, was that assumed by
the National Convention which nominated Gen.
Harrison in 1929, and borne on the official record
OF its proceedings. lis that under winch the wing
General Committee OF our City has called It's meet
oc IN the Courier s well as elsewhere tor the asi
four wears. We care ss little for names as any
body can, and generally the shortest term thai
will express our meaning; but 1t does seem Fa'hei
late in The day now 10 raise dust about the name
which our party-in this City, at all eYenis-has
borne without question for years
We cannot conceive on what rational ground
the City offce-holders and their organ pour out
such walls Of wrath on orr unoffending head We
never belonged. nor plofessed TO belong to their
oartv-wc opposed Il lust stubborn!y last oprins
as now and iried as hard TO beat them. We have
done nothing now but TO oppose them maniuly, De-
cause VIC believe their principle wrong ana theH
existence as party source Of GePlorable disaster
TO the Wing Cause and the Country. What can
they mean by their rawlings abou; " analgamaton
and being beaten by the undivided strength OF The
tuo old pa7ties?" They are beaten over 5000 by
one of these parties sInsly, and would nave been
beaten sill worse il thousands Of Wings had not
been coaxcd to vote for Temperance Mayor, who
was endorsed by Wing journals as better Wing
than MIR. Selden! But for this, they would have
proved the weakest Of the three parties, instead OF
the strongest; and now they have not poled on
heir Charter tickets onc third Of the votes Of our
Cirv All we did, all Mr. Selden did wac to give
reasons why Wings should not be Natives, and
urge those who were not 10 vote the Wing ticket.
Was not this fair opposition And is IL not evil
dent enough tina, Nativism never can, by It's own
fair strength, carry the City, much less the Coun-
try, II party, which has twice elected It's tickets
in this City, is badly beatsn al the ,hlfd trial that
it cannot, aided by every appliance Of City patron
age and power, carry third ofthe voters for lis tick
els, is it not high time TO give up lis narrow plat
form, and unite on broader grounds with those
whomi, believes generally right in Politics! We
speak 10 rational, sensible men, and such, we are
sure will hear Us after the first gust Of passion has
| blown over.