The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-26
DAILY NATIONAL WING.
MMsMAMAHsM sANNa
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26, is47.
For President
GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR.
Subject the decision Of the Wing National Convention
iDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 26. ls47
WING sentimen nj m OHIO.
Subject the decision of the Wing National Converts


WING Sentiment In Ohio.
further territory shall be forced upon u.s. let eer
nal nfamy be associated with the name of that repre-
sentative OF a free State who does not insist that
there shall neither be slavery involuntary serv
tlide therein otherwise than for the punishment of
crimes. .M
This strong language is from the last of series Of
resolutions adopted by the Wings of Greenvie in the
State of Ohio, meeting recently held by them
in that village.
II consigns to eternal nfamy the name ofthe Rep
resentave from free Stae who shall not insist that
there shall be slavery in any territory which
may DO acquired by the United States To this SEN
timen If the word insist is limited to Its true parlia
mentary Specification, there is not man. In the free
States, Wing or Democrat, who will not promptly
respond But the question is did the authors of this
resolution use the word insist in its parliamentary
sense? We take it they did because If they intended
otherwise there was nothing to prevent them from
adopting phraseology commensurate with their
opinions.
If for instance, they meant to condemn TO eyeras-
ing infamy the representative from free State, who
should, in acting upon this question, follow in the
footsteps Of our early statesmen and rote they did
upon this very subject, they could have said So In
many words The Representatives. duty is to insist
upon puSSuBe VI SuCI iuWb Will DeneHt Tie III
terests of his constituents and the interests of the
whole country, he understands them; but his bro
ther representatives may have such diverse opinions
from him us to make II incumbent upon them all to
unite upon new ground ground of compromise,
SO as to meet the requrmens which the interests of
the whole body polite may demand. So that the
language Of this resolution does not extend its
tence of condemnation to the Representative from
the free State, ii he shall find that he must vote diff
ferently from what his constituents might require UNI
der ordinary circumstances. Such we take It is the
ming of the Darke County Wings whose love Of
country and whose love Of the Union, are not sur
passed by any Of their brethren in any part of the u
Mon.
We have referred to this resolution for the purpose
of showing that there is not half the violence mani
tested by ultra friends in Ohio upon this slavery
question as there was exhibited even last summer.
II is favorable sign. Uhraisn, was not the spirit
that guided the councils Of our orefathers who gave
us the charter OF our liberties. Right glad we are to
see the Wings of Ohio repudating this enemy Of Just
Judgment In man. The State that is governed by II
must ultimately, If not Immediately, fall.
What is the object for which the people Of ,hose
States have united together Is It not for just gov
eminent? Surely 1t is. Can any Government be
just that does not protect the rights Of all the people
whose Government it is? Certainly not. See then,
how it is that the trainers of the Constitution tole
rated and bore with the evils Of the people for whom
they ordained and established the Constitution. They
did not demand the extirpaion Of slavery Of any
other institution belonging to the States. They treat
ed the question of slavery question Of fact and
left its amelioraton to the proprietors Of the insttu
ton.
If the United States shall come to acquire new
territory by reason Of the Mexican war the slavery
extension question will necessarily come up. in re-
gard to the new territory. How shall we treat that
question? Shall the free States say that, under no
circumstances shall slavery 60 into any part of that
territory? Shall the slave States say that slavery
shall go into all the territory that can or shall ac-
quire from Mexico4 This Is not the way the found
ers of our Government even talked. They talked
and acted compromise from the beginning, and the
glorious structure Of our Government is the fruit of
this talking and acting. What is to hinder us from
doing as they did, Nothing, nothing but the bad
passions of our nature. Shall these passions prevail
God forbid Our duty Is to unite on some plan Of
compromise upon which North and South and East
and West shall meet What that plan Is or ought to
be 1t Is not for us to say. There Is wisdom enough
In Congress to devise proper plan. The prcserva-
ton of the Union is the first object Of every man,
Every other question must be made to bend to this
grand object And we are proud to see that our
Greenvle friends recognise this principle in the
fanny only TO the omission insist that there shall
be slavery, &c. and leave the representatives free
TO net as the circumstances may demand.