The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-08-04
From the N. Y. Courier 4 Enquirer.
The Whig National Convention.


The opponents Of the Wing ticket are en-
deavoring to create hostility to il on the plea
that the National Convention adopted no reso-
lutions setting forth the principles Of the
Wing party; and some professedly wing pa
pers have urged this fact as a reason for no.
accepting and supporting the nominr tons
BY that Convention. The Tribune some days
since declared itself released from all obli-
CATION to sustain the Wing ticket, by the fact
Il at the Convention set forth no platform OF
wing principles. And the same thing has been
repeatedly and warmly urged in many resPec-
table and influential quarters, as seriously I'M
peaching the validity of the doings OF the
Convention.
1t is not easy to see from what source such
an impression could arise. No Wing National
Convention ever adopted such resolulions--or
attempted to lay down platoon Of Wing
principles. No resolutions were passed by the
Harrisburg Convention which nominated Gen.
Harrison in l840 None were passed by the
Convention at Baltimore which nominated Mr..
Clay in 1874. Why, then, should the Phila-
dclphia Convention have been expected to de-
viate from the established usage OF the party,
simply to follow Locofoco presidents? 1t is no
part of the business of such Conventions to
set forth the principles OF the party, except as
they do it by the nominations they are COM
mssioned to make.
Du, it has been said that every attempt to
obtain declaration Of principles from the Phil
adelphia Convention was treated with con-
tempt aud laid upon the table. This is great
mistake. Only two attempts Of the sort were
made. and they were d, feated on very differ
ent grounds from those alleged. One was en-
bodied in a resolution offered by delegate
from Ohio, declaring, in substance, that the
Convention would nominate no man who
would not pledge himself to use oil his official
influence to carry into effect the principles and
measures of the wing party. Il was At once
objected, that the wings have always denounc.
ed the Interference Of the Executive with the
lie sislation Of Congress, BY any such nse Of he
sofficial influence as that Indicated, as opposed
to the whole spirit Of the Constitution. And
from the force Of this objection, the resolution
was laid upon the table.
The other resolution declared that the Con-
venton would vote for no candidate who was
not whig and it was laid on the table, be-
cause it was taken Tor granted, as matter OF
course, that none but wing would be nomi-
mated by a Wing Convention.
Now in this action, there was certainly no
indication Of disposition to abandon wing
principles. The resolutions were rejected
mainly because they were themselves at war
with the spirit Of wing principles, and because
they were at all events entirely superfuous.
Every attempt to impugn the action Of the
Convention on this ground, must prove abor-
tive. 1t was a Wing Convention, chosen by
wings, composed Of wings, and acting for the
benefit Of wings: and all its proceedings were
in strict conformity with usages in similar
cases. No resolutions, declaring the princi-
Plies Of the party, have ever been adopted in
any Wing National Convention, met to nomi-
nate Presidential candidates. tits always as
sumed that wing principles need no new def
milton. They are settled and eslablishPd, aud
are Just as explicit and just as well understood,
as if-they were proclaimed anew every month
1t has been usual hitherto for the ratification
meetings, held after the nominations, to adopt
resolutions expressing their sentiments in re-
gard to the canvass. So it was in Baltimore,
both in I $40 and 1914, and so il was in Phila-
delphia in 1913. There has been nothing, in
the doings or the omissions, Of this Convention
at all unusual, or calculated to warrant any
wing in Withholding from its decision his full
assent.