New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-25
The Wings Of New-Yorh.


one unsoupded charge. utter two new ones by wa
f.o.,.;nipg the former the task is irksome indeed
The last Courier s. Enquirer devotes nearly tw
of ito broad columns to renewed attack on ~
whis General Committee. District Convention
&c. for their course in regard to the Presidency
We can spare no such space for reply II any
therefore. choose to believe on Courier authorlt.
tha, the Whig General Committee is usually com
posed in the main of men who are seeking once
that siHsseen treatieths Of the Wings OF our CIT,
have asrer in their lives attended Ward Meet
ing to choose Delegates to this Committee &c. DC
ve must let it go so. We know, however, tina
among the members of that Committee during the
p,st ten years have been large proportion OF the
ability and moral worth of our City, including
MANY who never sought nor were willingly cand
dates for Office while we are confident that the
number who participated in the choice OF the pre-
sent Whig General Committee was not less than
one third of the entire Wing vote OF our City at
Any election since that Of l544.-When the Courier
proceeds 70 assert however, that the General
Committee has assumed right to dictate to tue
Wbig party" and TO maintain that, because the
General Committee has seen fit to utter lis own
thence follows that " when the People appointed
body Of men to call Wing meetings &c &c. they
.rolxstartly deprived themselves Of all r'gh TO en-
terrain or express opinions in relation to the next
Presidency" il mnst be that men OF sense Will
perceive the inconsequ the preposterous alb
surdity of the assumption. Our General Commit
tees expression in favor Of Mr. Clay neither for
babe nor prevented any other expression what
ever but rather invited such. In fact, there have
been various expressions from other bodies, III ia
vor Of Clay and Taylor respectively, and not one
has fen his perfect freedom abridged by the action
of the sneral Committee.
We need hardly add that it is utterly false that
we ever assumed right in the General Commit
tee to dictate to the party, or ever branded any
who dssented from the Committees judgment as
a disorganizer' on that account OF course, 1t is
also false that 1.-THE Tribune and its colaborers
hold the great body Of the Wing party in con-
tempt"-But we have not room even TO contradict
the Couriers untruths separately. We reassert
that the call of the Wards 10 choose conferees TO
the District Conventions was regularly issued, in
ample season, and explicitly invited all Wings
who purpose to support the nominees of the Wing
NoklOual OOnNcuttOu ~ IuhdlciPuin w htkCHN ohN
participate. The Courier might have copied thatno'
tee hadit seen tit even though the General Commit
tee omitted TO advertised In journal which deniedis
authority and secuted its proceedings, or it could
have given the peedfal information in very short
paragraph. As to the Ward calls, it is true that
three Of the eighteen were headed Here s to
you, Harry Clay bat no one imagined that Tay-
Tor men were excluded, and such prefix was
rather calculated to help Taylorism than injure it
had there been any to help. But among those
Wings who know where to look for Wing Ward
Meeting 10 our City it is a very scarce article
rare, indeed, among Wings here at ALL And that
IL Why there was so little seen or heard of 1t at
the Ward Meetings. Had it been strong enough
to carry any one Ward, no catchword would have
prevented lie doing So
The Courier starts the cavi that the Delegates
commissioned by the Wings of New York will be
rejected at Philadelphia because our District Con
vsutions were called by the Wing General Com
mittee and not by the various District Committees
lit will be time enough to consider this poor quirk
when either of the District Committees sees fit to
call District Convention, in hostility to the call OF
the General Committee.
The main ground Of the Courier's assault, how
ever, 10 the pledge. The Delegates chosen from
City TO Philadelphia it airms, disqualified by
reason of their being pledged in a manner utterly
disgaeeful to the Wing party -"pledged not to
listen 10 reason-not to deliberstebut to vote FOR
Henry Clay throughout" &c &c.-An this comes
with singularly bad grace from one who has for
years assailed persons who were not Delegates at
ALL nor pledged In any way, a. having cheated
Mr.. Clay out of the Presidency in 1892 by urging
Scott or Harrison a. more likely to be elected.-He
proceeds to deny the fact that certain Tia, States
have manifested a determination 70 force the nom
nation Of their man or defeat the Wing party
Will he deny that Taylor State Conventions have
already been held in Pennsylvania Alsbams, Lou
isians, and Texas, at which Taylor Electors were
noninated taken in part from the Loco Foco party
VIII no deny that Tennessee has chosen Delegates
10 Philadelphia to nominate Wee President to
with Gen. Tsylor-assuming that the people have
nominated Gen. Taylor and will support him at all
events Can he be ignorant that the most strenu
oas and Systematic exertions are now being made
70 induce these States to send Delegates 10 Phils
dslpha. insisting that If they do so Taylor will be
nominated, but If they don't be must be defeated
t6ss yesterday Inquirer, the leading Taylor organ
In Philadelphia; also the last Tuscaloosa Monitor
and Selma Reporter, Alabsms, &c)
And now a to what the Courier calls L" the
sbominable pledges" required Of the Delegates
from this City to Philadelphia that they will heart
" and thoroughly support Mr.. Clsy-pledges which
the Albany Evening Journal 10 dragged In TO cen
sure We deny that those who oppose Mr.. Clsy's
nomination are proper judges in the premises
That they should prefer easy going, don'tcare
Delegates from the most determined Clay Districts
\ quite natural, bat that the Districts should &C
comnodste them il not clear. The Wings Of this
City have reason to know that Mr.. Clay would
BOW BE- . very strong candidate as well as 4
worthy one. and one they srdently desire bis nomi
nation. They choose Delegates TO urge their views
md feelings on the National Convention. There is
,othing novel. nothing strange IN eli this Eight
ears ago, when they chose Delegates ~ tbs Har.