New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-31

TThs Express is surely the basest and pariest
OF all possible journals, 1t accuses of agtating
the Texas Question from concealed impulse of
hostility to Mr. Clay for next President when the
Erpress itself took ground for john MCLEAN
months ago. We said then, what we have uni
formly said In public aud private, that the Wing
party will not patiently hear Of new candidates for
President for a long time yet, or until the Future
shall be far clearer than it now is. IT. in ls47, it
shall appear that the Wing party CT n elect whom it
peases President, il will choose nobody but HENRY
CLAY II clouds and darkness obscure the prospect
If we are TO select candidate whom TO rally
for dubious and desperate contest-Mr. Clay can
hardly consent TO be placed in such position. 1t is
indignty and humiliation enough for such man to
be beaten once by being of the Polk order. The
Tribune will endeavor to keep clear of all Prcsiden
tal agitation these coming two years The caum-
ny that our undyng hostility to Texas is in any way
impeed or instgated by opposition to Mr.. Clay is
Just worthy of its source. They are no friends of
Mr.. Clay who are forever ,hrusting him forward as
q champion Of Slavery and DESTROYS of its extension,
which his repeated declarations disprove. We
sand on the doctrines of his Raleigh letter. let those
who intimate that he has abandoned them produce
the evidence.
--Asto Texas, we keenly feel that the Free North
has been overreached betrayed and wronged in the
stipulated terms Of Annexation, and that frmness
and energy may yet regain for us the ground un-
fairly lost. There IL no conceivable reason why, il
Texas IL to be annexed Freedom should not have
secured fair division of the territory, was done
In the settlement Of the great Missouri Question
and done. too on the motion OF Stakeholder If
the North has dcgcncratcd somewhat from what she
was In 1890. she is returning TO her integrity Now
10 the time to stand firm.
-Asto Abolition, there is just one way to keep
down the new tangled, onedea Birneyism of our
time, and that is to stand up for the right and the
true. now a. formerly. II the Wing party of New
York shall abandon the ground maintained by New
York Of old and especially in 1920, and become a
o-Slavcry party. such as the Courier and Express
would have II. the Biney vote will very rapidly go
up to Twenty five. Fifty and One Hundred Thou
sand-nine ten,hs Of 1t at the expense of the Wings
The Tappans, Leavitts and Alvan Stewards would
like nothing better than to have the Wings follow
that lead. But they not silly enough to do it,
Out of this City, the policy Of those journals cannot
muster fifty Wing adherents in any County of the
State.
Tho Express asserts unruly, as Col. Webb as.
serted at the County Meeting, that the late Wing
victories In Georgia and Florida y were 7eras
triumphs No such thing There is no other State
In the Union which has more reason to oppose An
nexaton than Florida its Wings are NOT Annexa-
tionists, and the Wings OF Georgia not generally
Annexationists, though some Of them may be.
The Express is not satisfied with once asserting
the untruth that the difference at the meeting origin
atsd In opposition to one Of "Mr. Grceleys nos.
srxms." or "nsr discoveries IN Political Econ
omy" a. at first stated. Win the Express now
undertake TO sustain that assertion If hostility to
Annexation is "nec quackery' as the Express
has 1t. what can be firm Wing ground The Ex-
press and Courier are eiernally assuming and
serting that the whig party approves in substance
Of Nativism. though no Wing Convention or other
autAorixcd cxpositor of Wing principles has justified
any such assertion. They are siernally fosting in
their own narrow bigotry as established Whg dos
trne without a particle Of authority, and abusing
u for :" se~ quackery" because we stand by the
essabhshed and well-known landmarks of Wing
faith.
The Express says;
"What q Mr. Greeleys address the Nominating Com.
mittsc did not strike out The Public Meeting would no,
adopt and hence only part Of the Editors pr,
posserous arrogance 10 lecture for not puh.hns an
Address which be In substance withdrew Is moyns s
sdjournment"
Now this was no, the Address of the County
Meeting hut Of the Nominating Committee 10 the
Meeting, and Of course was no, subjec, to amend.
nent or approval By that Meeting. worshiping
congregation might with equal proPrie,y be called
aAer each service to take vote the merits oft
sermon The Committee SC, forth the reasons which
In tAe,r opinion. should impel the Wings to exer.
ton this Fall, leaving sill at perfect liberty to act
upoE those reasons or others, or none. The only
vote taken by the meeting was on striking out the
paragraph relating to Texas and that motion was
decided to be lost That was sufficient There
was no shadow Of opposition from any quarter to
any thing else contained In the Address. The pub.
lie win judge whether the suppression Of that Ad
drso-tvsce carefully discussed section by section,
and adopted BY the Nominating Convention -
tAssvs-was Unstable. That the Address would