New-York daily tribune., 1849-06-11
We do not wish to deny to the new congIOmera

We do not wish TO deny TO the ne" cohs hsiome'a
tion any merit to which it may fairly lay claim Inc
doctrines put forth in its late Samese Convention
with regard 10 Slavery the right 10 prohloit Il IN
the Territories and the wrong OF Congressons
intermeddling with II IN the Slave States, are
sound and pertinent; but are they any other than
the doctrines which the Wings o. the Free States
long since propounded and have consistently main
tanned Has the coalition done anything more
than rcnounce the Loco-Foco errors on the one
side and the Abolition on the other, and plant
themselves Substantially Oh Whig ground That,
certainly, is very well bat is it any reason for
giving them control of the State
The Siamese resolutions with regard 10 Land
Monopoly and the free grant Of Public Lands 10
actual settlers thereon, are very good. So are
any other things affirmed in those resolutions.
We welcome them all as signs OF popular pro-
gress and hope to live 10 see them moved forward
from the domain Of resolution into that Of positive
enactment. But we cannot deem it essential TO
this end that the anti-Whig coalition should trl-
umph in Vermont.
Hoe comes Il that the Loco Focos Of Vermont
Wisconsin and Connecticut have all at once re-
nOunced the doctrines Of their late leader lass
and taken ground in favor OF the positive statutory
prohibition OF Slavery in the Territories How
come they to take ground 50 heartily IN iavor Oh
L and Reform and other Progressive measures Il
this Difference 10 the might OF ideas were gehera''
far be IL from us 70 discredit It but wheh we see
il confined to those States wherein that parry "a"
have no rational hope Of success save through the
aid or the Abolitionists. how can we help under
standing it7 1t is maniiestly the old trick
.w5., IL. dew ~ss s,cs the devil monk ~oudbs,
bot whenever he feels hearty and strong, he has
no notion Of it. Just across the Connecticut IN
New Hampshire, the sham Democracy are stror
enough TO succeed without extraneous aid, ana
there we see so no fraternizing, hear no Land
Reform professions. There the dominant party
clearly detest Van Buren, Free Soiler far more
than Taylor Wing. Can any one fail to perceive
the grounds of this discrepancy
Itisremarkable that the Vermont coalition pre-
serve studied silence with regard 10 the Tariff,
and declare the old controversies respecting Ma
tiona Bank, &c. completely at rest, so as to form
no excuse for further division or demarcation-
What marvel that this was never discover
ed by the Loco Foco party in any other State
Wherever a vote can be made by playing upon
popular preudices against L. s. Bank We have
the old story annually repeated; but Vermont ls
to be carried only by the aid of those who were
Wings throug ghout the currency struggle and there
the Bank bugbear is unceremoniousy pitched
overboardl 1t is no longer available = The coa-
ton load their craft very lightly, and are careful to
take aboard as few "reminiscences as possible
The main reliance of this new combination is
the averment that the National Administration
favors the Extension of Slavery into the newly
ACQUIRED Territories This charge is sustained by
no fact, and is contradlcted by many. That the
President aud his utherr advisers would greatly
prefer that the question should settle itself and so
obviste all pretexts tor sectional distraction and
alienation, we do not doubt; but that single act
of the New Administration has been impelled by
a desire to extend the domain Of Slavery, we have
seen no reason to believe, and do not believe. The
President is plainly anxious so to discharge his
duty as to merit the appreciation Of the whole
American People, and thus far has done well. HIS
one reprehensibe act is the federation extended to
the fraud which made Z. a. flanagan Plenpo-
tentiary to Berlin alter Mr. Polks legal right to
nominate had expired and when there was no
quorum Of the Senate to confirm aud even
that has been redeemed 10y the frmness with
which he has resisted combination and I'M
por,unity in making his own Diplomatic ap-
pointments insisting on fitness as the first and
controlling consideration. Gen. Taylor is no favor
ito with US; but we never doubted his honesty,
and he has evincod higher qualities in Office than
we believed him possessed OF. And it does seem
Unfair that his Administration should he embar
rassed at the outset by iactous outcres against it
at the North as too Southern while II ls success
fully sssailed at the South as tooNorhern, as the
NIreinia Election demonstrates. 1t Vermont should
now strike hands with Virginia in opposition. 1t
would be to her sons modification, to the Country
misfortune. But trust she will not so stultiy
hersell