Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-06-25
SsThc Coalition"

NC democracy, NORM ana oOutn,' III which,
hat paper spoke in terms of apprehension about
The union Of the Free Sellers and the DemocracyE
OF Vermont. We stated that Northern WhigsE
occupied the same ground on the question of =
Slavery, as the Northern Democracy. Our re-
marks had some effect, as the reply oft Spec
tator fully indicates. Wounded pigeons willE
hutter. The reader has observed that we do not )
.leny the union of the Vermont Free Sellers withb
Z he Democracy of that State, nor of Connecticut
or Wisconsin-but we do deny that this unionE
places the Northern Democracy on any other
han the ground which Northern Wings occupy !
This we shall proceed to prove, and by evidenc,
which is strong as "proof of holy writ " The i
EDITORS of the Spectator cannot resist its force
unless they discredit their own witnesses-andi
here, we might as well as remark that we do not[
expect to convince the Wings by any reasoning
lot ours, or by the ntroductionof the statements!
/ Of their own witnesses-but we'can furnish tn,
Democratic party South, with arguments, byI
(which they can stop the mouths of the Wings onI
l The question of Slavery for we believe the|
wings would vote for the veriest Abolitionist
THAT ever disregarded the Constitutional guaran-
lies of the South for President, in preference toI
Democrat who held contrary views. This un-
lion of the Democracy, North, pre-supposes dill
avision among them on the question of Slavery
SCan the Spectator point to any schism in the
5 Whig party, North, on this subject! If so, we
: should be glad to know when! We call the att
atention of tine editors of the Spectator to the fol
Slowing extract from the New York Tribune, al
Taylor Whigpa whose editor stands high in
the confidence of the Wing party, and is at this
! time member of Congress. In speaking of the
aVemont convention, at which this union was eff
Infected that so much offends the Spectator, the
aTribune says:
q Wed do not wish to deny to the new conglom-
Iteration any merit to which it may fairly lay
8claim. The doctrines put forth in its late Siam
i sse convention with regard to slavery, the right
to prohibit 1t in the territories, and the wrong of
congressional intermeddling with it in the slave
Estates are sound and pertinent BUT ARE THEY
#ANY OTHER THAN THE DOCTRINES WHICH THE
f1WH1Gs OF THE FREE STATES LONG SINCE PRO-
POUNDED, AND HAVE CONSISTENTLY MAINTAINED!
Villas the coalition done anything more than re-
: nounce the locofoco errors en- the one SIDE and
Aihe abolition on the other AND PLANT THEM
81 SELVES SUBSTANTIALLY ON WING GROUND! That,
acertainly is very well but is it any reason for
#giving them control Of the State!
81 The authority Of the Tribune, we presume,
Twill not bo questioned by the Spectator he is their
Town witness, and if the editor places our neigh
abors in the awkward position Of advocating, as
! h member Of the Wing party South, the doc
#trines of the Wing party, North, that is not our
&business-the Spectator must get out of the diff
fculty as best it can. We did not place it there
The editors say the Wing party, North, are ssless
8ultra," or if we twill permit (most assuredly
Agentlemen, SEmore conservative in relation to the
&subect Of slavery than the Democracy Mr.
4GREELEY, the Tribune editor, himselfa Northern
9Whig, says differently, that both parties occupy
the same ground Now, Mr.. Spectator as "faith.
full chroniclers," (Which you say you are) "ot
passing events,".we call upon you to publish
his fact, ahowever great'' your modification
8raay be. But we must introduce another wit
! mess, a Northern Wing, and therefore, good au
$thority. Mr.. WEBSTER, in speech delivered al
! Abington, on the 9th Of October, 184s, said /:
! Gentlemen 1t is well known that there is
: NOTHING IN THIS BUFFALO PLATFORM WHICH
: in general, DOES NOT MEET THE APPRECIATION
! AND THE ENTIRE APPRECIATION, OF ALL THE
8wHIGs in THE middle AND NORTHERN STATES
Suppose, now, that all of us who are wings should
8go and Join the free-soil party what would be
5the result? Why, so far, nothing could happier
8BUT THAT THE WING PARTY HAD CHANGED ITS
: NAME. That would be all. Instead of being the
Swhig. party, it would be the free-soil party We
Should be all there, EXACTLY UPON THE SAM
8PRINcIPLEs UPON WHICH WE HAVE ALREADY
&,sTooD.
81 The reader is aware that this Buffalo Platform
Twas the one gotten up by the Barnburners il
Htheir opposition to Gen. Cass, and one would
suppose that when Mr.. Webster says it meet
the entire appreciation Of ALL the Wings of tn
4 Middle and Northern States" that the Spectato
Awas not'very well "posted" in Northern Wing
Sery We think the editors had better .acknowl
ledge that they 'have been deceived, and neve
q gain repose confidence in Northern men will
8Northern principles" II, the Free Sellers hav
Staken 'the irrevokable oath to'support no mar
{ who upholds the institution of slavery" wha
i becomes of Northern Wings, for Mr.. Webste
ISasays they are ALL Free Sellers? Now, it is
Nfact; well known, that this same Wing party
North, after the endorsement by Gen. Taylor, il
8his second Allison letter, of Willard Fillmore
acame to the support of Taylor with great una
s3nimity of feeling-there was some little Difficult
Ay before the appearance of this letter. but it al
I2anished when this endorsement was made, be-
Acause Fillmore stood upon the Buffalo Platform
1--WE might pursue this subject farther, and fur
||snish the evidence of Truman Smith, Abbot Law
I renee, Thos Corwin and Rev. Mr.. Lamb, al
Sot whom are Free Soil Wings, and all of whom
#endorsed Gen Taylor as a good member of III,
aFree Soil Church, but'we have said enough t.
Mconvince appropriated minds that Free Soilisn
s4Sand Whigism are identical, and that 'conserva
#tisn" the Spectator boasts SO much about is no
@genial to a Northern climate-and that SO ia
= from Northern Wings and Free Sellers or Adolf
8tionists having acted together occasionally" a
(She Spectator would have us believe, the evidence
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