The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-20
The Humiliation OF the wings.


The convention at Philadelphia has the whig par
ty into the in attitude of abect humiliation
unknown before the political history of this country
Claiming to be the PARTY OF CONSERVATISM they have
chosen for their standard bearer soldier with his sword
at his side, who has political past, and who has
scorned to give them single guaranty for his
political future. Claiming throughout the whole north
ern section-tha is the wing secon-of the Union
to be patty firmly planted upon platform OF
hostility to the extension of the slave interest, they
have suffered themselves, under the and at
the dctaion of the wings of southern democratic
States, to thrust aside all their best and ablest and
most trusted statesmen identified with that platform,
and to have foisted upon them by southern votes as
their presidential candidate large and opuent slave
holder whose interests and habits, and associations bind
him to fixed opposition to all their peculiar views.
Claiming to take their stand party by unanimous
vote in the Senate against the annexation of terrific
ryrallyng at this moment against the democratic ticket
manly because, they allege promises annexation
administration having in this view, denounced our
glorious war with Mexico robbery and murder, they
have chosen their representative and leader man
known to the country ercusvely by his feats in this
by which vast xaton OF new territory has been
achieved AS frightened and chagrined at the spectacle
exhibit to the word-as feeling that any pretended
profession OF party principles from men who could so act
must be received poor and sorry farce by an intel
lgent and patriotic people-they have shrunk away from
any attempt 10 lay down any platform Of political doc
tne hateUer, the truth of which, and in the strength
of which to come before the country and ask its suages
And in this claiming together Qor we cannot call their
motley and ill cemented union political rally)-in thus
claiming together under mere name absolutely denuded
of all political significance; in thus taking up, without
pledge condition, the Natvst nominee, and the indie
pendent nominee, who had even openly avowed himself
ready to be the Democratic romnee and who could not
be persuaded under his own hand to reract modify
word Of his recent letter which spuned the decision
of the wing convention, at the moment when he
before tn thus deliberately laying down all their
old party pride and all their ancient party organization to
be rampled under the iron heel of their former horror,
military chieain be it remembered that the Wing
Convention have at the time done their very worst
and their very utmost to compromise and degrade the
sion of the for whose supposed popularity they
have thus shamelessly huckstered all that any party
true to itself, must hold most sacred and dear
tbs from their journals that we now learn that
Gen. Taylor, who "never surrenders, has surrender
ed at last to wing intrigue, and wing subserviency
and wing lust for the lucre of ''the spois" By
a whole volume of letters, early and recent, he
had pledged himself to position of independently"
He would be "peoples candidate" and nothing else
Any party might nominate him. but he would be no par
ty's champion representative With these high pro-
LESSONS yet sounding his lips, with the ink which re-
corded them for the public eye not yet dried he e-in an
evil hour for his renown for his consistency and his
frmness, he feamong the wings. All the ingenuties
of political deception at once at work Letter after
letter evoked from not skilled however OF late
pracsed) in political letter writing Finally, epistles
painfully elaborated to bear any meaning, meaning,
were furnished ready made for his signature; and when
at last it found that language had no formula vague
enough and broad enough, and -commttal enough,
to form ground upon which the wings could with toe
rabe pretence of party integrity unite upon Zachary Tay
lor as candidate, then, a last resort 1cole State
delegation authorized to go into the convention and
uiua attempt define the undeinableo draw lines
and split hairs in the endeavor to mark the precise
of obedience which General Taylor would render to
the convention whose nominee he sought to become and
to assume for MemSelups, and to withdraw from him in
whose behalf they spoke, all the Inconsistency of
most papable and fragrant recantaon of his former
declarations to his sindependent' supporters!
Such in bnef outline-ampler illustrations of which
we shall furnish hereafter-is the machinery by which
the wings have brought their candidate into the field Is
it to be wondered at that the best spirits of the wing
party rose up at once upon the spot, revolted, in
censed, and violently protesting against the whole
proceedngl Is it to be wondered at, that Judge
Allen of Massachusetts-one of the ablest, camest and
most eminent members of the neutrality-suspicious.
that the whig party from that day dissolved Is
it to be wondered at that Mr.. Wilson for the State
and Mr. Campbell for Ohio, openly announced Zone Of
them with the solemny of an oath) their fixed opposition
to the nominee and their determination to go home and
rally their States to that opposition Why, the
editor of the New York Tribune himself-as ardent de-
voted, and INSCRIPTIONS wing there is in the
try who could be expected to bolt whig nom
nation than the nominee himself-even he is staggered
by this transaction of the Philadelphia convention and
looking back upon its teacheries, its subservence, its
utter abnegaon of principle its entire disregard Of the
claims of the northern wing States, its browbeating Of
the delegates from Ohio and Massachusetts, he loss OF
either of which States ruin to the wings and finally up
its secret concdue pottngs which the people
being shut out these wing wire pullers hudded up the
dark bargain nomination, the process of which even
" they dared revea-even he is forced to tell his read
es that he must stand and wait awhile; that he
whether something else cannot be done a little more
worthy Of freeman than the support of a nominee fol
the peoples highest Office so situated and so presented