New-York daily tribune., 1846-01-21

a. Rochester. Fourth Poe.-Freedom; Cheap Postage
md the Sabbath; New Atmosphere Railway; The Mil.
vankie Robbery News Items Sales Of Stocks Ma
.ins News
The Whig Party and 0regou-The Notice and
The Express.
The Express follows up irs attack on the !" mig
Members OF The Legislature by one on The Inoune
In which II asserts that
1.-THE Tribune bas changed front by order It's editor
has been 10 Albany and got his lesson.
Now we do not remember having conversed on
the Oregon Question With any ono in Albany save
Ia passing allusion to the OF the day. Sure we
are ;ha, 10 one solicited or suggested a change OF
front on the part OF The Tribune. Whoever will
look 10 cur leading article of Nov goth last will
that then, as well aa at varioos times before and
nince We pronounced the giving of Notice 10 Great
Britain not Inconsistent with The maintenance OF
Peace, while on the appearance of the Presidents
Message. we expressed a general concurrence in its
suggestions respecting Oregon, though not in the
spirit in which they were uttered In fact the
oommsn,s on the Speeches Of Messrs. Adams and
Giddings which prominently brought forward
by The Courier to prove our change o! front, were
wrhren and published during that very absence of
the responsible Editor Albany, wilhouthe posi-
bity Of consultation with or suggestion from hin.
There certainly intention on the part OF our
Assistant In charge 10 change The attitude OF The
paper on 20 imporran, subiec: without bint from
the Editor to do so--Bui we not wasting words
on 90 empty a calumnyf
The Express proceeds to assert that the resolu-
tions 10 regard to Oregon decided by rnsjority
Of the Wbig Members OF our Legislature, is such
that
" some sound independent Wings there, have renon-
strssd against them uarlike-as intended to iunarnc
the wnrike feeling of counryas endangerins our
peaoesole relations with England and committing us
10 and policy which 1t is not wise now 10 DO
pledged so'
The.e sound, Independent Wings if Members
of the Legislature. must have very peculiar notions
n 10 the obligations of honorable confidence if they
have been Instrumental In thus giving uterance 10
their csnsures through the columns OF the Express.
And II not Members wha, can they accurately know
of the matter Let as understand before we con-
denim If the Wing Members have really done any
wrong, let US all have fair start in denouncing
them This prejudgment is unfair and ungenerous
The Express proceeds 10 say In reference to
our closing paragraph OF yesterday;
1--WE understand all ths too Iti-.'he Albany fashion
N ds.ouuce the Wings Of tho city Of SewYoTk. and OF
Long I,Iaud and the Wings of the River counties. as
wenk and s'y-but If The Tribune nd the Albany Co.
unde patronage oil me WeeI hha cOnsOn
dated big strength there. instead o getting mp an Aboi
ZION feeling aud Abolition psrty-ihe West would
have done we'll the River Counties during the last
Presidential Election and not have ost US s that great
stsheI The Wing vote in this CITY, its suburbs and IN
the River ties. was enough 10 elect Henry Clay u
only when we got among the abolition . tanfEams
that the stake lost The Abolition rhake there,
shock the Wbg ship so roughly rs 10 shake II over
Il may very well be "the Albany fashion to " de-
pouuce as w cak and silly such Wings as were no
tive and prominen, in Inducing th6 Wings mere 10
abandon ,aeir own fairly nominated candidates ana
vvsv -'~.--------ca marty lust branched OFT from
Tamunrnv Hail, based on no Wing principle o. Nm.
uonel or State policy, AM certain 10 arouse the eal
ousy and encounter the deadly hostility of large
and increasing class Of our voters, many of whom
had ever before been Whiga We know that many
of those who followed ,he Courier and Express into
this Loco Foco trap are now as thoroughly con-
vinced that this weak and silly as any
body nt Albany can be.
And now as TO the West and Abolition Every
Intelligent politician mus; have realized long before
the last Presidential Election that the dangers the
Whig cause in our State were 10 be encountered in
the North and West. The frontier Counties were
flled with Adopted Citizens. mainly Catholics who
had in good part gone with in 1910 from dislike
to Mr. Van Buren, ameness in regard to th& Schlos
Patriot operations, his treatment of Mackenzie,
&c coupled With their regard for Gov Seward and
for the historic renown Of Gen, Harrison These
could all be expected TO vote io7 Mr. Clay against
a new man and Texas and whsle of Oregon is
sue. We were morally certain 10 fall off from tho
vote of ls4o in Cliuton, Frankiia, ST. Lawrence
Jefferson, Oswego, Niagara, Erie. &c. Blu; the in
fusing OF Native Auerioanism--the election of
Harper here, tho heavy woe given for Markle To-
philadelphic Co &c. &c sweled this detection from
hundreda 10 thousands Had Gov. Seward. The,
Evening Journal and The Tribune stood on The
Sround with the Express and tho Courier, Ne,
Claws loss would have been inevitably and deplors
bly, greater still,
30 Of Abolition and the West. The Abolition
party and feeling were not got up by The Tribune
nor by any body in Albany. The vote of the Blr
ney party had been over Fifteen Thousand in the
STATE the preceding year, psl3) l, had risen 10
that from some Seven Thousand in ls42, in defiance
Of every effort of the entire Whig Press and Party
II was based on sincere and fcrvent aspiration for
Universal Freedon-rish; in lis impulse and ends
yyropg only in It's meass. II ebullition Of
the old spirit which banished Slavery from our own
coll and &c, the face of New York like flint against
tho admission OF Missouri as Slave State There
were two ways OF treating t-onc by ndiscriminaie
asnunca,ion and brow beating the other by admit
ting the Justice Of its impulse and objects bat show
ing how these would be thwarted by throwing
away votes enough on Birney 10 elect Polk and
thus let Texas be added 10 The Slave territory OF The
Uaion. Tho latter appeared to u.s. to those assaed
with us, and to nine. .lenths of the Wing Country
journals and speakers, tho true course By pursu-
ing it, the Birney vote was kept down TO tue stand
ard of the preceding year but for the un,irnS. IN
scrupulous use made BY our opponents of Mr. Ciay's
letters on Texas Alabama and the Couriers whit
ling or the Texas Question, IL woud have been re-
duced far below that point AS j, was. we could
have borne either The loss occasoned by Birneyis,n
or by Nativism sinsly bu, united they overmasier-