The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-18
The New York Elections.

The Courier & Enquirer of Saturday comes to us
with the following we'll timed article both as re-
CARDS the unnatural alliance contaminated at SYRIA
cuse between the Old Hunkers and the -Soilers
and the high duty devoving upon the friends OF
the Administration in the efforts they should put
forth carry the Empire State in the approaching
contest:
"The Wings of this State, within less than fort
night, will select, through State convention, can
ddates for State officers to be voted for at the No
vember election. Delegates to that convention
from this city to be selected on Tuesday next
It is then, therefore, that the active duty of the
Wings in the fall campaign will commence; and
we hope it will be discharged with the vigor and
energy essential to success.
"The Wings have hard battle to fight this fall.
The divisions in the ranks of their opponents have
ceased. The principles involved in them, which
seemed firm and as lofty as the rocky Alps, have
yielded to the acrid, gnawing eagerness for the
spols which quarters abstinence has engendered.
Free-Soilism has disappeared corner stone and
all-and National Democracy is heard of no more.
INSCRIPTIONS, recklessly ambitious, Abolitionist
coalition. They will put forth every possible effort
to regain ascendency in the Empire State. The
desperate determination which they will bring to
the contest may be inferred from the absolute sur
render of principle and of consistency to which
both sides have submitted. They will strain every
nerve, make every effort, resort to every possible
expedient to detach this great State from the Ma
down General Taylor, and to scatter to the winds
the great national party which has made him Pre-
sident. The sole object of this endeavor is to
gain power themselves. They can have no motive
for it connected with the public good, for General
! Taylor has done nothing with which even they can
Justly find fault. His declaration of the principles
which he will administer the Government while il
met to the full extent the wishes and expectations
of those by whom he was elected, left no room for
the censure of those most warmly opposed to his
election He has placed Wing principles clearly
and so entirely disconnected from temporary and
unessential issues before the country, to chal-
lenge for them the appreciation of the great mass
of the people without distinction Of parties. For
the first time in many years the essential faith Of
! the great Wing party stands free from all en-
tangling alliances with banks and other temporary
| expedients, and can be judged upon its merits.
Personal prejudices and private anmosities have
been soothed. The heat engendered by long years
of partisan strife has been allayed. The whole
country in General Taylor an honest, upright
sagacious patriot-free from all personal ambition
but that of serving his country, and determined SO
TO administer the government to promote the
tranquility advance the prosperity and perpetuate
| the union of this great confederacy. The great
| mass of the Democratic party can find in him
| nothing TO justify excuse the virulent and ma
| lignant caumny with which he has been assailed
"But the crusade will be continued with unsparinR
ferocy and in this State especially at the coming
| election, the whole enginery of Locofocosm will
be put in requisition to overwhem the friends of
the National Administration. Whether thcse effects
prove successful or not, depends upon the energy
| and the spirit with which they are met. If the
Wings enter upon the contest with determine
ton worthy of the cause, they will achieve an easy
victory. But they must be thoroughly alive to the
magnitude of the danger, and wise well as en-.
ergetic in the effort to meet it. The VERY BEST
MEN Of the Whig party throughout the State must be
put n nomination And to this great consideration,
which is absolutely essential to success every thing
in the shape Of personal feeling of private and
partial purposes, must be compelled 10 yield"