The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-30
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30, is4s.


very Respectable SNOW OF uianiintty anu Sieh5u i"S'
meeting at yauxha on Wednesday evening was numerous
Judge Kent was placed in the chair Philip Hone opened
the proceedings Ogden Hoffman made brilliant and
aashy defamation; General Leslie Combs would have
Spoken but swooned away" and was carried out;
and, finally, not without reluctance and wry faces,
the editor of the Tribune, in view of the only al.
tentative being Cass or Taylor, made up his mind to
submit with what grace he could 10 the butchery do
ngs at the national saughterhouse," and, still protest
ing against the nomination of General Taylor "unjust
and unwse" proclaimed his determination TO vote the
whole wing ticket But he added that free soi was 10
him important than all the other questions; and he
went in to win for the wings the ground that IN their
with Gen. Taylor the success OF the ree-soi
crusade against the equal rights of the south ras as
sured beyond doubt Let the wings and the democrats
of Georgia, of North Carolina, and of Tennessee, mark
and remember this declaration, and act upon it!
But the cream OF the evenings proceedings is TO be
found in the declaration of principles put forth in the
resolutions which were adopted by reclamation. We
give them below. They are conceived and expressed
in a tone of perness and fppancy, wouldbe funny
and ocose defiance of the settled judgment and recorded
verdict of the people of this country all the leading
of public policy, which is, in view, without
parallel in the history of authoritative party meetings
In their style OF expression they remind OF the rawlings
of the hard cider orgies of the Harrison campaign; in
their substance they recall the days of 1874 when, in his
OF that year, Henry Clay took the mask of the
face of the wing party, embazoned all the odious fea-
of the wing creed upon his banner, and for his
pains and fair professions got the dgnan response of
the people, sect thee behind me- Satan" Not one point
is there in the whole wing creed presented in these
resolutions, which has not again and again met the
overwhelming condemnation of the American people!
They propose in good set terms renewal to IFS full
tent of the old exploded alliance between the govern
ment and the banks giving over TO these Institutions the
custody and control of the public funds; wastefu and
unconstitutional system of internal improvements
other high tariff like that of 1872 and, TO the end that
these objects may be secured they also propose the abro
CATION of the veto power it exists in the constitution
and the substitution OF the will of temporary acct
dental majority of Congress, for that constitutional the
DRY OF legislation which, for the safety of the people and
as of system of checks upon vicious law making,
has required the of the Executive in the
of Congress before they can become the law of the
land In addition to all hls they proclaim that the wings
stand upon "ree-so' platform and as this is the
allyng cry of the liberty men, they thus raify what
spoken four years ago by Daniel Webster and the
wings of Massachusetts. that the political principles of
the liberty party were Substantially identicai' with the
principles Of the whgs But here the resolutions,
speak, or rather to stamner for themselves
The following resolutions then read by Judge
Lynch, and unanimously adopted;
Resolped, That the wing platform, upon which we stand
is the old wing platform or
L. Opposition to executive, prcrogave monarc hical
one man power Down with the arbitrary se-wii OF one
is the wing idea and the government Of the people
as in Congress consiitonay expressed, is the main plank
in the wing platform:
for the government The money that viii buy bread
and meat Is good enough money for the salaries OF oice
holders. No 2,70O,000 locked in Wal
the vaults OF the subreasuy, and abstraoed from the
currency but where the merchant and hanie safe
trust theirs also anoiher plank in the WING platform.
g. Adequate protection to the American cliizen and
American labor from the pauperlabo OF Europe, and from
their lifted, ill-clad, l.housed, starving competition
another plank in the wing platform.
and capabilities the lakes rivers and ha1bors of
interior by the federal government Tue Erie canal bring
porous half million human beings in this city and
its suburbs. To double and triple that number by bring
sppi and of the Missouri, through adequate system OF
improvement the Great West another plank
Resolved That we and will desert the old
wing platform, to stand upon any other and that with our
consent, no Cuba black plank. or Yucatan yeop plank,
shall be added it by Lewis Cas-, Bna!o composite
mosaic work, by Marlin Van Buren,
Upon " free soi our platform has always STOOD and
will stand, and they who will stand with upon it
invited come, and shall be welcomed thereon; but
leave to mount any new one especially that
which has but solitary prop to support it, and that OF
very doubtful timber to say the least
Resolved, That the whig nominations made both in
Philadelphia aud Utica eniitled to support, and
our hearty a nd m ns for in v Tao5 nyo b H
shall have able and illustrlous heads OF the repub
lie, shall also have in Hamilton Fish for governor,
and George W. Patterson for ieenant governor. efficient
and enlightened heads of the State The ticket, and the
tchoe ticket, and nothing but the ticket earnestly com
mend to wing support and wing enthusiasm.
Resoired That Henry Clay, his distinct and emphatic
zaton, again that honor and patriotism deaer
him than ambition, revenge, and that while his
example admonishcs all his friends abide by the decision
of wings in national convention, his selsacrfcing act
the more cndears him to our hearts
Ii would appear, from the proceedings of this meeting,
that the Clay men and the Taylor in New York
have at last made up their differences settled their
mon platform, and agreed to act together Yet this har-
mony is more apparent than real 1t may and probably
will, carry New York for Taylor For that result the
democracy prepared and prepared TO triumph in spite
of it. But there not few Clay wings in New
York who still gnash their teeth in rage and disappont
men at the failure of the Clay movement there, and
who resolved never for Taylor, will throw away
their votes upon Van Buren, We know this to be the
case with many conspicuous and veteran wings.
On the whole, then, mark with pleasure the course
which the wings of New York taking in this demon
straton is full of warning to the democracy every
where, and to the wings of the South 1t shows that
the whgery of the Taylor is just as bad and as
odous, and as inscriptions, the whgcry of Webster
nd Of thaN hat