Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-12-05
THE wILMOT PROVISO.---NIlt. WINTHROP
AND MIS. BURKE.

Since the recent Locoioco specula,ions in Free
Soil have terminated so disaStrousy in New York
and Massachusetts, the Opposition Journals
sailing the members of the Free sol! party with no
liiilo asperity. Mr. John Van Buren, has been bit
terly denounced, and Mr. Senator Chase has met
with very harsh treatment from his late loving
friends. II is hard that all the billing and cooling
between the parties 20 This corrupt coalition should
end IN SD much heart burning aud contempt. Ii is
the natural end, however, of all such iaciious COM
bnI;ions. But not only the Free Sellers, their
late much beloved and trusty allies, denounced by
the LocOoCo press So sensitive has Locofocoism
become upon this subject, that even MIR. Winthrop,
the late speaker, is s,gmaiized by the Union as
much OF "Free Soil" man. These corrupt coali-
tionls,s oppose and abuse Mr.. Winthrop in Massa-
chuset,s for "ruckling to the South" They de-
nounce him as a''pro-savery" man. In Washing
ton and for the Southern meridian, these same coal
itoniss denounce him us a Wilmo,-proviso man
and Free Soiier." Good, sincere. free. suil MIR.
Palirey amagamates with Locoiucosm 10 defeat
Mr.. Winthrop, on tieground of his being ''Nor-
lhern man with Southern principles. and his
friends of the Union call upon the Southern Wings
10 repudiae him, because lin the North MIR. Win.
ihrop is know be as devoted TO Free SoiI as Gar
rson himself, or any other Wing protesting HOSTILE
| ~ 10 slavery
The in,inaion here is that Garrison is Wing.
This is false, and doubt known to be false 10 the
| Union. Garrison is not and never a Whig.-
| He has been Aboli,lonst ever since he was
! known 10 he any thing and the Union knows that
the most bitter enemies of the Wings in the Nor
| then States are these very Aboliionisis. They de-
ieated MIR. Clay in 1914. They did their best to
defeat Gen. Taylor in 1913. Recently they have
defeated, with Locooco assistance, three Wing
candidates tor the House of Representatives in Com
necllcut. They have just done their best to pros
trate the friends of the national Administration i'm
New York. Massachusetts and Vermont by their
coalitions with the LocofocoS against President lay
Tor. Wherever in the Northern states we find the
Wings in the political field, there we may see the
AbolIllonisis in oppositlon-now fighting ON their
own account, and new allied with I.ocofUcos and
Democrats 10 oppose Whggery and Presiden, lay
lnr 10 the bitter end. The Wings ofthe North like
the Wings OF the South, are the members of ma
tionGt party. la all quarters of the country they
have given the nnblest assurances of their national
ly. and their attachment 10 the Union. They seek
TO aIlay and not 10 intlame excitement. They hold
on all sides that the compromises of the Consiiu-
ton are too sacred 10 be triled with and that there
Is legal and constitutional mode of adustinp all
differences Of opinion. without resorting actious
or reasonable agitation
But To return 10 Mr.. Winthrop and the attacks
OF the Union. 1t is known at the North the Union
alleges, that Mr.. Winthrop is as devoted TO Free
SOL as Garrison himself This means that Mr.
Winthrop lisa political Aboliiionst or it means moth
ing. The charge is false Equally false is the
charge that Mr.. Winthrop during his representative
career has in any manner iosiered or encouraged
Abolition doctrines With regard 10 his conduct
as Speaker of the House, we suppose that ft were
liable 10 any just censure, gentleman of different
political views, like Gov Mcdowell, would hardly
have gone out of his way introduce resolution
o! thanks for the cable, impartial and Identified
manner IN which he had discharged his duties If
more distinguished honor Of This nature could have
been conferred upon him, it the effort made by
Mr. johnson, OF Tennessee to amend The resolution
by striking oui the VOID 'mparlaI." The CEN
sure of this person must have been as gratifying 10
any gentleman as the praise of Gov. Mcdowell
10 the Governor, therefore, appeal from Mr.
Johnson and The Union, and affirm that Mr. Win
ihrops course upon the slavery question while he
was speaker, was precisely what it ought To have
en- and that he conducted himself precisely as be-
came national statesman.