Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-06-20
THE COALITION.

The indicator thinks we were amazed at
the union Of the Democrats aud Free Sellers in
Vermont. We assure him he is mis,aken--we
thought it very natural and were not even surpris-
cd. After the coalitions in Connecticut, Wiscon-
sin, Ohio and New York, we were fully prepared
for any thing OF the kind. Nor was it ga portion
of the Free Sellers and a portion OF the Democracy
of Vermont" that united, as the indicator would
have us believe; but both parties assembled in their
respective conventions, influenced by strong md-
tual attraction, simultaneously rushed together and
''like kindred dew drops mingled into one." Such
conduct in sour natural allies is certainly migrate
full ard very hard to bear, but instead OF venting
his spleen On US and the Wing party, our neighbor
had better acknowledge that he has been deceived,
and never again repose confidence in Northern
men with Southern principles"
Now we have never thought or pretended that
Northern Wings were the peculiar friends of South
ern nsti.uio,is-.on the contrary, we believe pub
lie sentiment at the North is pretty unanimous ON
the general question; but we do say that the Wing
party there is less ultra or, if The Vindicaor will
permit us, more conservative in relation to the sub
ject Of slavery than the Democracy. Northern
Wings and Free Sellers or Abolilionists, may have
acted together occasionally, but there has been no
wholesale coalition-no general 'sfiison" between
them to show that they are essentially one and the
same. There are now but two parties q, the North
Free Sellers and Wings. And does not this fact
"pace the Wing party North and South in stu
alton one whit better than the Democracy, North
and Souh'2
| The indicator ventures 10 say, elf il had been
union of the Free Sellers with the Wings, the
good people of Augusta, and the Wings particular
ly, would not have heard one word about this Goa
lition. Would they, Messrs. Editors 2' They
certainly would, Mr.. indicator. You, to-be sure,
judging from your past course, would have kept ST.
lence but we. faithful chroniclers of passing
vents, would have published the fact, however great
our modification might have been.
Following the example of his leader, the Rich
fnond Enquirer, the indicator asks "attention to a
coalition more to be dreaded than any yet mention
ed"-that of Free Sellers and Wings in the Pre-
sident's Cabinet. The Enquirer, however, speaks
Of only three of the former--the Vindicator men
tions sir. According to this intelligent well 'ost-
ed" politician, Messrs. SEWARD, FILnMoRE and
WARREN are members of the Cabinet! We give
the Vndicator credit for the discovery of fact OF
Which the country has not heretofore been informed
To calm the indicators fears in relation to the
much dreaded coalition we copy the Richmond
Wings reply to the Enquirer on the same Subject
"Free Soilism," says the Wing, sis not fixed
and solitary idea with the Wings. 1t is not the
absorbing and predominant sentiment of that party.
They can. they have, they do support slavehold-
er as President. If ne agrees with them on other
questions, Free Soiism is matter of no moment.
And this constitutes the great leading distinction
between the Northern Wings and the Free Soil
Democracy. The latter have taken the rrevoka-
BILE oath to support no man who upholds the inst-
tuition of slavery. They are organizing sectional
party the very basis of which the humiliation Of
slavery, and the prescription of every man who up
holds it. The Northern Democracy have fully
identified themselves with this Ecton--for the a
vowed purpose of overurning the Administration
of Southern President and the Enquirer and
its party in the South are operating with those
patriotic gentlemen!
"With the liberal and enlarged views OF Wings,
every member of Gen. Taylor's Cabinet might be
Free Soiler-and the country would never know
the fact from their official conduct. They are Sec
retaries for the whole Union, and sectional ques-
ton, like Free Soilism, cannot come before them,
in their official capacity and if it did, they would
consider it in a national, not sectional point of
v;eyy