New-York daily tribune., 1849-06-11


| We do not wish to deny to the new conslomcra
tion any merit to which may fairly lay CLAIM Inc
doctrines put forth in its late Samese Convention
with regard TO Slavery, the right to prohioit u IN
the Territories and the wrong OF Congressional al
intermeddling with it in the Slave States, are
sound and pertinent but are they any other than
| the doctrines which the Wings OF the Free States
long since propounded and have consistently main
tanned Has the coalition done anything more
than rcnounce the Loco-FOco errors on tie one
side and the Abolition the other and plant
themselves substantially on Wing ground That,
certainly is very well; but 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 to
actual settlers thereon, very good 50 are
many other things affirmed IN those resolutions
We welcome them all as signs Of popular pro-
gress and hope to live to see them moved forward
from the domain Of resolution into that of positive
enactment. But cannot deem it essential TO
this end that the anti Wing coalition should tri-
unph in Vermont.
HO,c comes n that the Loco Focos Of Vermont
Wisconsin and Connecticut have all at once re-
and taken ground in favor Of the positive statutory
prohibition Of Slavery in the Territories How
come they to take ground so heartily in favor Of
Land Reform and other Progressive measures II
this Difference to the night Of ideas were general
far be it from 10 discredit it but when we see
it confined TO those States wherein that party can
have no rational hope Of success save through the
aid o, the Abotionists, how can we help under
standing it ? Ii is inaniiestly the old trick
When the dsvl sch. the d-vi monk would be
but whenever he feels hearty and strong, he has
no notion of ii. Just across the Connecticut, In
New Ham pshire, the sham Democracy are strong
enough to succeed without extraneous aid and
there we see so no fraternzing, hear, no Land
Reform professions. There the dominant party
clearly detest Van Buren, Free Soer far more
than Taylor Wing Can any one fail to perceive
the grounds of this discrepancy
1t is remarkable that the Vermont coalition pre-
serve a studied silence with regard to the Tariff,
aud declare the old controversies respecting a Ma
tional Bank &c. completely at rest, so as 10 form
no excuse for further division or demarcation.-
What a marvel that this was never discover
ed by the Loco Foco party in any other State !
Wherever vote can be made by playing upon
popular preiudices against U. s. Bank, we have
the old story annually repeated but Vermont is
to be carried only by the aid OF those who were
Wings hroue hout the currency struggle, and there
the Bank bugbear is unceremoniously pitched
overboardl 1t is no longer available! ! The coall-
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
(avors the Extension of Slavery into the newly
acquired Territories This charge is sustained by
no fact and is contradicted by many. That the
President and his 5 ,uthern advisers would greatly
prefer that the question should settle itsei, and so
obviate all pretexts for sectional distraction and
alienation we do not doubt; but that a single act
of the New Administration has been impelled by
a desire to extend the domain OF Slavery, we have
seen no reason to obelieve, 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 reprehensible act is the toeratlon extended to
the fraud which made L. A. Hannegan Plenipo-
| tentiary u Berlin after Mr.. Polks legal right to
| nominate had expired and when there was no
quorum Of the Senate to confirm and even
that has been redeemed by the hrmness with
| which he has resisted combination and I'M
portunty in making his own Diplomatic ap-
| pointm mrnts insisting fitness as the first and
controlling consideration. Gen Taylor is no favor
| ite " th US: but we never doubted his honesty,
and he has evinced higher qualities in Office than
| we believed him possessed of. And IT does seem
| unfair that his Administration should be cmbar-
rassed at the outset by tactous outcres against it
at the North as too Southern while 1t is success
fully assailed at the South too Northern, as the
Virginia Observation-Disclosures Ii Vermont should
now strike hsnds with Virginia IN opposition, It
would be to her modification, to the Country
misfortune. But we trust she will not so stultiiy
herself.