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

From the N Y. Courier & Enquirer.
The Wing National Convention.
The opponents of the Wing ticket are en-
deavoring to create hostility to it on the plea
that the National Convention adopted no reso-
lutions setting forth the principles Of the
Wing party; and som professedly wing pa
pers have urged this fact as a reason for not
accepting and supporting the nominIti ons
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.
II is not easy to see from what source such
an impression could arise. No Wing National
Convention ever adopted such resolutions-or
attempted to lay down a platoon Of Wing
principles. No resolutions were passed by the
Harrisburg Convention which nominated Gen.
Harrison in 1870. None were passed by the
Convention at Baltimore which nominated Mr.,
Clay in 1894. Why, then, should the Phila'
dclphia Convention have been expected to de-
viale from the established usage OF the party,
simply to follow Locofoco precedents? It 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
missioned to make.
But it has been said that every attempt to
obtain a declarationo Of principles from the Phil
a~delphia Convention was treated with con-
tempt and laid upon the table. This is a greaI
mistake. Only two attempts of the sort were
made, and they were defeated on very differ
ent grounds from those alleged. One was en-
bodied in a resolution offered by a delegate
from Ohio, declaring, in substance, that the
Convention would nominate no man who
would not pledge himself to use all his oficia'
influence to carry into effect the principles anc
measures of the whig party. It was at once
objected, that the wings have always denounc.
ed the interference Of the Executive with tht
legislation of Congress, by any such use Of hi
~'oficial influence as that indicated, as opposed
to the whole spirit of the Constitution. Ant
from the force of this objection, the resolution
was laid upon the table.
The other resolution declared that the Con
yention would vote for no candidate who wa
nota whig:-and it was laid on the table, be
cause it was taken for granted, as a matter o
course, that none but a wing would be noml
mated by a Wing Convention.
Now in this action, there was certainly n
indication OF a disposition to abandon viii
principles. The resolutions were %rejecte
mainly because they were themselves at wa
with the spirit Of wing principles, and beGaus
they were at all events entirely superfuous.
Every attempt to impugn the action of til
Convention on this ground. must prove abol
tive. 1t was a Wing Convention, chosen b
wings, composed Of wings, and acting for tn
benefit of wings: and all its proceedings wei
in strict conformity with usages in simil'
cases. No resolutions, declaring the prime
pies Of the party, have ever been adopted
any Wing National Convention, met to nom
nate Presidential candidates. It'll always a
sumed that wing principles need no new deb
milton. They are settled and eslablishPd, al
are ust as explicit and just as we'll understood
as if~they were proclaimed anew every mont
Ii has been usual hitherto for the ralifcatic
meetings, held after the nominations, to adoI
resolutions expressing their sentiments in r
gard to the canvass. So it was in Baltimor
both in 1910 and 1914, and so it was in Phil
delphia in l848. There has been nothing,
the doings or the omissions, of this Conyentic
at all unusual, or calculated to warrant al
whigin withholding from its decision his FL
assent.
The following letter from Mr.. Jetferso