New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-20
Tho vhigs Of New-York and their next Cam
didste for Governor.


Tho Wings Of New-IOrk and their next can
didate for Governor.
From The Neac- York ErYress hug 10
Why do the Wing Presses Of this city. and OF tins
State 20 difert IS question often put, Dqt se!Iom
answered These difference PAIN u "a nuch a. l'iey
Gun main anv Wing in the Union, for no one can Fave
more nj heart than have the good OF the W 2 cause
and no one have greater love OF concord harihoh
and union But the fact sand cannot oe disguised
tina, the differences in principle between the hSpfes
snd such nominal Wing papers Is the Tribune ana me
Albany Evening Journal are broad and esseniia-tha
rhey have different conceptions OF rght and wrong al
,ercnt impulses and different objects III view. Indeed
we re paned 10 say that the differences between Vi and
then are greater than the gull between u ad the Even
inc Post or the Albany argusand that the Wing Party
az whole taken together rs II exhibits Itself IN puOc
meetings and through the Public Press quite a well
If not better represented in the Locotoco Press here
than in these nominal Wing Presses OF this quarter
Now with such differences OF opinion between us anu
the men who write for or maintain when printed The
Tribune and the Albany Evening Journal there can be
no unity no harmony. We only nonlnal!y Of the
same party dler, i'll fact, more from each othcr
than we differ from the common enemy
We ask the thoughtful attention of every rooder,
and especially OF all who ask WHY the Wing
CITY Presses quarrel so 2 to the foregoing demon
strations They are copied from a leader of nearly
TWO columns in the Express. In that article. The
Tribune and the Evening Journal are assailed with
every variety of cpithet and scandaIous accusation
charged with all manner OF .Iacobnism AgrarIm
ism, dcmagogueism and popular Generalization
The Eve Journal sometimes wonders why The
Tribune will not abandon all hopes OF F." Social Re
form, so as to disarm he malice Of as e"en'cs but
the Journal, with all its stubborn and steady hos
tility to said changes fares no better IN tins sweep
ing indictment ahan The Tribune Fomentns civil
war and murder counting Catholic Bishops with
the vain hope of thus cheating the Irish Catholics
into casting Wing vote, Jas If Catholic could
not vote Wing, without being cheated, proposing
10 let Irishmen and all other ignorant foreigners
vote the moment they have obtained n mere local
residence on our shores &c. &c. are among the
sins laid at the door of the Journal. How The
Tribune fares in such company need hardly be told
The first question suggested by all this is What
has it to do with the selection OF W ing candidate
for Governor No Editor that we know oil IS
candidate nor will be- and the terms oil future I'D
mission TO Citizenship are being settled by Loco
Foco State Convention subject to the approval on
rejection Of the whole People. Mr.. W eed is per
sonal friend and warm admirer Of Catholic Bishop
he believes that the best possible way OF treating
the European Immigrants to this Country Is with
uniform kindness and generosity and that the noto-
rious frauds now pcrpetrated IN regard to Natural
ization and Alien Voting (Which let the dishonest
aliens vote unbalanced by the intelligent and con
scientous) can best be prevented by shortening the
term and simplifying the process now required To
transform Aliens into Citizens Now whoever inti-
mates that he and all who think with Inn are lnsln'
cere in these views. propou nding them Tor selfish
and snister ends cannot thereby injure Mr. Weed
they but bctrny the ngraincd basencss OF their own
schemes and aspirations
STILL the question rccurs-' What Is kicking up
oil this disturbance ? oh, the Editor OF The
Tribune is Fourierite and that is something hor
ub!e Have ii so then; but neither is he candi.
date nor is any one who is an advocate OF any
Social Reform whatever So OF Mr. Weed-so Of
his peculiar views respecting Naturalization, SC.
Then why are these matters logged III to raise u
row in the Wing party What has the party TO do
with the opinions and acts of its individual mem
bers on topics wholly apart from those which ITS
organization contemplates
But consider this whole toray IN broader fuller
aspect. There are in our State not less than One
Hundred Thousand Voters Ninety Thousand OF
whom Were and Eighty Thousand still Wings
who are In sentiment hostile to the perpetuation OF
Slavery in this free land and anxious To do what
ever may be fairly and consututionaly done for its
eXtincton--at any rate, sternly resolved that II
shall acquire new strength, make no new lo!s
ments, under the flag of our Federal Union There
Isl smaller number bu, not less than Forty Thou
sand about half Wings who deeply feel that the
Feudal Teuures under which great portion o, oar
States soil is held by few individuals iniu
rous oppressive, and must in some peaceful ana
Just mode be terminated. There are again thou
sands more OF our citizens who feel q lively sym
patty with unfortunate, n.,rodden Ireland
and ardcnty wish her success in her struggles or
a restoration of her own Parliament, IS means 10
great practical deliberations in the condition Of her
impoverished millions, There are again some thou
sands who feel interest more or less ardent the
ideas of Social Reform which distinguish our age,
and which look TO the securing TO ever! person OPP
portunity to Labor without begging that Opporu
nifty boon from some more fortunate fellow
being and OF enjoying the fruits OF that Labor with
out surrendcrng the lions share OF the proceeds to
some one who much less needs them These and
kindred ideas are part the tmes-they refuse to
be annihllsted by the trown OF any Editor. clique
or class IN the community. What then. shall be
their relation TO our practical Politics? Shall the
Wing party shoulder broom march to the sea.
side and attempt to drive back the advancing tide
Is it any part of its duy-i,s mission as the can,
phrase is--to make such an exhibition of ITSELF
Shall it not more wisely coniine itself to the spe.
eihc or general purposes for which it has hitherto
consended. and If it canno, properly inter,neddle
with Social theories questions Of Foreign Pol.
isics on the side Of Reform aud Humanity. then by
ell means let them alone7
Bear in mind that We who stand up Tor Tolera.
ton, do not ask, we have never expected ,hs, any
candidate shall be chosen who synpa,hi.es viii,
the views We hold on all these questions We
only ask that come capable, consistent Wing shall
be selected as Wing snd thus supported in good
tsish by the Wing party. But here is tracss 80,
no by two sort,o' Wing journals which insis, on
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