The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-07

oales nave the power, and they should not be slack
| TO exercise IT, Not another inch Of slave territory
should be added to this union of the States--not q
single act which sanctions and protects slavery and
me slave trade should be suffered TO disgrace our
statute book. The Senate we cannot hope 10 gain
| al present. but the time will come when the free
states will control both branches Of the national e-
gsature, and nothing but locoioCOism the fast ally
ofsavery, will stand IN the way of clear sweep OF
all slavery legislation and the enactment Of laws
winch VII conhne the peculiar institution to the
| States in which it exists,
"We believe these views to be substantially the
views OF the wing party in this State We so I'M
derstRnd the meaning at the resolutions passed. by
! the State convenuoR--we so understand the able
and eloquent speech Of Mr.. Winthrop made in that
conventon-we are happy so to understand Mr..
Sumner.
SIN respect TO Mr.. Phlins's resolutions, we take
them to be almost identical IN sentiment with those
adopted by the convention The clause which re-
laesto not supporting candidates for Office who are
noe opposed to slavery we understand To relate TO
Candidates for State Offices, Ii IL be designed to
embrace national Offices we dissent from it. While
The Union lasts we would not dIstranchise any por-
ton OF Tive would not be governed by sectional
views. The citizens of the south have the same
nafoHnt rights tie citizens Of the north, and when
properly nominated by national wing conventions,
We shall not hesitate TO support them. Mr. Phillips
and his supporters voted at the last election for
! Henry Clay, and We cannot suppose that they nov
deliberately stuuiy themselves. IL will always
happen that national candidates will be selected by
national conventions from both sections Of the Union,
and we certainly should not refuse to vote for Daniel
Webster for president, because Clayton, or Critten-
den, or Bsrren might he on the same ticket for vice
president"
The positions taken in this extract, throw very
strong light upon the stand in reference to slavery,
now taken by the wings of Massachusetts, As an
organ Of that party the Mercury, ia the first place,
impzdly the "impraetieabis abolltionists
and with the above extracts from Mr.. Summers
speech before it, procaims that that gentleman is
not one Of them. In the sense, in which the Mer-
curry employs the terms, this is true. Mr. Sumner
is very able, accomplished, active, and influential
member Of the whig party ofMassachusetts. He is
no more an "mpraCtiCable aboGonist" than the rest
Of them. He is, on the contrary, just what ninety.
one at least out of rather more than two hundred
Of the wings in the State convention were
that is practical abOliiiOnih. He says in express
terms that he is in favor of using every particle Of
legislative power which he can possibly use, To eE
feet the abolition Of slavery. He is for rallying a
party on that warchword. And meaning to make
no imPutaton against the sincerity Of Mr.. Summers
misgu CONVICTIONS we believe that he adopts
his ayowed course in the matter precisely because
he regards it being in Massachusetts, not an i'm
practicable but practical course In other words,
he believes that very large portion of his wing
friends agree with him upon the subject, and
that undsputed and entirely controlling majority
of them iriH agree with him before the presidential
election in l54S Among all the wing young men
Of Massachusetts,, we could hardly select a more
eloquent, or more adequate representative OF the
present political tendencies Of the WING party in
Massachusetts than this same Mr.. Charles Sum
ner.
Having settled its account with Mr.. Sumner, the
Mercury still speaking for the ant-ura- abolition
wings in Massachusetts, proceeds to define its own
position as follows:
lst. II looks to Legislation" for the "abrogation
of slavery" as a national feature.
Cd. 1t procaims that the "free States have the
power" and 'should not be slack to exercise it."
Sd. 1t urges that ''not single act which SANCTIONS
and protects slavery, should be suffered to disgrace
our statute book"
4th. 1t looks for the time "when the free States
shall control both branches Of the national lcgisla
ture."
5h 1t proclams that "Iocotocoism is h. fast ally Of
sGrsry;" and that it alone will stand in the way Of
"a clear sweep" Of all slavery legislation.
9th. II claims these to be the views Of the wing
party in Massachusetts.
7th. It claims under these general propositions,
and indeed, in terms which cannot be mistaken:
lst That Congress has the power and ought to
exercise it, to abolish slavery in the District of Co.
Iumbia; %. To prevent what they call the domes-
tic slave rade-hat is to say, the sending Of slaves
from one slavehodng State to another, and the per
hitting of masters to move with their slaves even
where slavehodIng States permit it; and all this
power is to be exercised, whatever excitement it
may produce, and although it "endangers the sta
bility and permancncy of the Union"
Sin. 1t holds MIR. Phips's abolition resolutions
''to be almost identical in sentiment with those adopt
ed by the conventions" and
9th. In conclusion it processes itself fully ready
to cooperate with the wing party of the nation and
go for Daniel Webster as president, with southern
man to run on the same ticket for vice PRESIDENT
Such the declarations of moderate wing pa
per in Massachusetts, whose purpose in making
them is to keep the wings of Massachusetts, in good
fellowship with their wing brethren throughout the
land. Will the IntelIigencer favor US with some
skilful explanation Of all ths' Or, may we conclude
for ourselves that it very perfectly explains tsef1
We see, in the case Of the Mercury, how the
moderate wing journals in New England treat the
recent proceedings of the wing State convention.
Now let us hear the other side. Let us see how the
avowed abouonist journals in that section of the
country regard the doings of the convention We
quote from the leading article of the Burlington Free
Press, a we-known abolition paper;
"THE WINGS or MAssAcHUsErTs.--We don't
know to whose sleeve we would sooner pin our
faith than to that of the wings of the old Common
wealth of Massachusetts. There ia a freshness and
vgor, az well soundness Of PRINCIPLE, in the
odd Bay State that carries captive both the head
and the heart.
ave are led to these reflections by perusing the
proceedings Of the wing State convention of Mas
saehuseus, The staunch and inhexible wings of
that State assembled in Fanueil Hall last week TO