The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-15

the cry, subdued and sofened tone, OF The FhHadef
phia A1'ercan, the Baltimore american, and the Rieh
mond Republican, against the union of the Cass and Van
Buren, in these three States. 1t says: SIN Vermont
the democracy have grounded their arms, and marched
into the free soil camp They have rushed into the
brace of abolition Van Burenisln" We know that there
has been division in the democratic ranks growing out
of the free soil agitation and that portion sustained
Cass and intervention, while the other stood by Van
Buren, and the Buffalo platform. And we will inform the
Republic of another fact, wit that there div-
sion in the wing ranks OF the North growing out of that
agitation because there difference among them
that subject They oil for the Buffalo PLATFORM and,
tcih unimportant exceptions, sustained SOLID body
Taylor and free soil The only difficulty among them
growing out of the Wilmot Proviso TO the trust
worhness OF Gen. Taylor Truman Smith stood godfather
to him in the slaveholdng Sates and he and Abbott
Lawrence, and the Rev Mr. Lamb, solemny promised
that he would be shining light in the free soil church
Some few could not forget his two hundred slaves TO
whom the wings of Louisiana (anong whom may
number the senior editor Of the Repubc) pointed COM
placently good and sufficient security to bind him to
the interests of the South But the great mass OF the
wing party--all worth mentionng-believed General
Taylor 10 be honest capable, and faithful soldier in
the free soil ranks There was some difficulty; but when
the second Allison leerthe written at Pascagoua,
which the public, with great unanmy attributed TO the
counsel if the pen of the senior editor of the Re-
pubc-came out with Free full and perfect endorse.
ment of Willard Fillmore, all difficulties vanished, and
the wing party of the North deserted the Albany
ment; and, with Taylor, Fillmore, and Freesol in
scrbed upon its banners il mounted the Buffalo platforms
and laid claim to it in despite of Abolition Fan Baren
ISM"
Does the Republic deny these facts! Does it deny
that General Taylor in the South enemy
to the Wmo Proviso' Does it deny that he
tanned in the North friend to free. soil Did the
wings Of the North apologize for his two hundred slaves,
by saying that il necessity imposed him by his
residence in southern Sate' And does not the Repub-
lie reterae their words when says GO" General Taylor
had been citizen of New York he would have enter
tanned precisely the views Millard Fillmore now
entertains" We have high authority for what have
stated Every who knows anything of the manner
in which the late canvass conducted, on the two
sides of Mason and Dixons line, knows what have
stated is strictly true; but prefer to give authority
good whg authority--for what we say The Mem York
Tribune, speaking of the Vermont conventions at which
the union effected that much ofends the Republic
and its kindred organs, holds the following language:
We do not wish deny the conglomeration any
merit which may fairly lay claim The doctrines put
forth its late Sianese convention with regard slavery
the right prohibit it in the territories and the wrong of
congressional ntermedang with in the slave Sates
| sound and pertinent OTHER THAN THE
| DOCTRINES LONG
PRoPoUNDED, CONSISTENTLY MAINTAINED :!
Has the coalition done anything than the
locofoco the side, and the abolition the
oher THEMSELVES SUBSTANTIALLY WING
GRouND That certainly is very well but is any reason
| for giving them control of the State!
Does the Republic dispute the authority of the Tribune
Then here is another which is just high in
the confidence of the administration, if may Judge
from the liberal manner in which it has supplied him
with patronage notwithstanding the declaration that Gen.
Tayor's nomination was not fit to be made" We
aude to Daniel Webster. of Massachusetts, In speech
delivered at Arlington on the 9th of October ls4s he
said
Gentlemen, it is well known that there is NOTHING
BUFFALO PLATFORM WHICH; in general,
APPRECIATION, APPRECIATION, THE
WINGS MIDDLE NORTHERN STATES. Suppose now,
that all Of us who wings should 30 and Join eesoil
party what would be the result Why, far nothing
would happen BUT THAT The WIG PARTY WOULD HAVE
CHANGED NAME. Tha would DO all Instead of being
the wing party, would be the free-so party We should
be all there,
WE HAVE ALREADY STOOD.
We could go and cite authority from Daniel Web
ser and Thomas Corwin, down to the petty papers of
petty villages but it is useless to do Every man who
knows anything Of the political history of the last twelve
months, knows that the wing party of the North seized
the Buffalo platform, built and put together by what the
Republic terms abolition Yam Burenism." as its own
property, and claimed by right of twenty-five years
elusive possession.
The Republic displeased because we have, in
speaking of the wing ticket of 1885, used the soutt
en stakeholder and northern abolitionist" II dislkes
the words northern and southern in the expression We
are sorry that it has found early in its career such
serious cause of complaint We must justify ourselves
We called General Taylor southern stakeholder, be-
cause he has lived all his life in the South and
slaves. We called Willard Fillmore a northern abo-
tionis because he has lived all his life in the North,
and enterains sentiments which have been heretofore
thought to characterize certain fanatics country
known by the name and style OF abolitionists 1t
| seems to that this reason is amply sufficient In
Decd there be but objection il and that is.
distinction in terms should always imply difference
in reality and since the coalition between wings and
aboonsts in the North-and since the wing banners OF
the North are borne by such Corwin, Webster.
Fillmore. Seward, Parey, Tuck, Collamer and Horace
Mann-aboonsm is merged in whigism, and the term
northern wing would cover any amount OF ncendary