Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18
The Wings, Whis principles, &c,
From the NJ Y. Courier and Enquirer.

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From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer
Attempts haye been made, and are still
made, to urge the abolition Of Slavery as Wing prin
cpe to be acted upon in our national contests This
we have felt it duty to denounce, as in violation
of the compromise of Federal Constitution and as
utterly destructive of that nationality which belongs to-
and forms the greatest strength of the Wing party.
So long these attempts are persisted ill., it is the du
ty Of every Wing journal to oppose them If they are
abandoned, and the great Wing party left to stand up
on its old principles,the same for which iG fought in
1910 and lS44,-the principles of HARRISON and Of
CLAY,-we SHALL as we have always done, give to its
advocates most cordial and effective cooperation
These are the only principles, 6nd this is the only
ground, upon which the WhigS Of the Union can be
rallied We have no right to abandon them or to coun
Itenance and uphold their abandonment by others.
With Slavery, now as in 1910 and 1874 the Wings as
national party can have nothing to do. 1t is
dial principle of that party-repeatedy proclaimed in
national as well as in local conventons,-that to the
States alone in which it exists belongs the control of
that institution This is the ground always maintained
by HENRY CLAY, and it is the only ground on which
Wings be asked such, to act with reference to
this question.
We opposed the consummaton of Annexation in the
manner in which it proposed, and continued that
opposition until the question had been decided Now
we believe farther hostility not only to be unavailing
but dscorGant to the disposition ofthe Wings as ma
tiOnG party Others profess to think differently The
matter is certainly one of slight Importance must
within very short time be irrevocably decided.
0FSThe above remarks are from one of the Oldest
and most influential Wing journals in the Union; and
moreover the view it takes of the relation of the Wing
party the question of slavery is virtually acquiesced
in by the New York Tribune, which approxmates the
nearest to an out-spoken anti-savery paper of any
Wing journal within our knowledge This is plain
statement of the case, without hypocrcy dssimula
ton. How else, but upon the ground here described,
could the Wing party for moment maintain its
tionahlB? Surprising the Wings, at their last Ma
tona Convention, had attempted to pass such anti
slavery resolutions they have adopted at their local
conventions throughout the free states for several years.
what would have been the consequence IfblCody
noses and broken bones had not followed secession
of every Southern Wing and probably many Northern
ones, certainly would, and prompt organization of
Wing party, South, would have been the result or
what is more probable, the Southern Wings in a mass
would have turned into the DemocraGo(@ fold, for
that security to their peculiar institution which they
failed to find elsewhere. Now what Intelligent Wing
does not know this and what honest one will not ac-
knowledge it Pledged to do nothing in its national
capacity against slavery, the Wing party in Congress,
or Wing executive, could do nothing to effect the
abolition slavery in the DistEctto break up of the
slave trade between the States-to repeal the kidnap-
ping laws upon our statute booksor to turn the whole
current of the judicial Legislative and executive power
of the general government ffom its slaverysupporng
channel into its appropriate one, of sacredly securing
to every American citizen his right to life liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. But Notwithstanding how
assduousy do the Wing editors and politicians, espe-
cially of New England, labor to deceive themselves
and deude the people into the belief that the Wing
party is and has been for years. d,ai-Sauey party
dong its utmost to accomplish the peaceful aboli-
ton of American slavery, and if entrusted with the
reins Of government would speedily bring about this
glorious result! This double-dealing course of the
Whigs-ther fair words and specous promises, with
acts of oppression and blood-he dazzling ant-savery
garb for the outside, while within is all manner of pro-
:, slavery uncleanness and dead mems rigHs,-have
made it incumbent upon all such look for the re-
dempton of the slave, however unpleasant the task
tear off the mask, and expose the deception, that the
real friends of freedom might not misplace their conf
dcnce And for thus doing-for exposing the true
character of the Wing party with reference to the
slavery question: just as their oraces haze done a.
bOue,-the Liberty party has had melted out to it a
course of malignant abuse and bitter persecution that
it is without parallel in the history of American pol
itics. Were the Wing party, like the so-called Dem
ocratc, satisfied with the scanty spos meted out by
the slave power as reward for their servy without
setting up claim to be the only efficient and available
anti-sIauery party in the country, there would be no
danger ofdeception and the work of arousng the ma
ton to the dangers of slavery and the appropriate re-
NEEDLES, would be comparatively easy. But, so long
as the rotten carcase of proslayey whqgery thrown
In our path decorated with thousand specous profess
sons of freedom, it must submit to an examination Of
its real merits and fthe process is an unpleasant one
for its friends, they have themselves to cepsure, and
not us.