The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-10-16
Northern Poiitics.

Thg general movement OF Northern poll
r Tics IL truly expressed in Tho following irbln
the New York FFera!d Of Monday. The
picture is indeed drawn with great modera-
ton, and il, instead of Il general view. the
editor had descended to d sketchof the ele.
mentary parts;and elements of this move
ment, he must have exhibited a turmoil Of
hot ana d,stempered passions such as SOL
dom visit communities, and never without
leaving behind the track Of violent and dis
astrous change. 1t is for The Southern
people to decide whether these passions
shall eXpend their force upon us, or upon
those Who have aroused and Infatuated them.
Char. Mercury.
81 From The Ncp York Herald
The political horizon Of tho North is
growing dark, and portends the swallowing
up Of the Wing party in the Abolition
movement. The course Of the majority of
the Syracuse Convention Committee is gen
orally approved of throughout the North
and East, and especially in The State OF New
York has it been adopted as the true Wing
platform. In this city, where interest
would prompt a different course, tho rcso.
buttons Of that Convention have been de-
nounced by the more considerable of the
party; but, in the interior and Western sec.
lions Of The State, the principles put forts,
and advocated by William II. Seward arc
endorsed and rcpubiiShed as the only Wing
creed. The press in those sections, with
two or three exceptions Of minor charac-
ter, have taken up the cry, sid thrown the
hnti slavery standard TO the hrcc2c. 'F,c
Albhny State Register and Buffalo Com
-merclal Advertiser arc III" -"'iJ papers oi
inHn~--m IDte that have taken up the
tynllptt ptE 4, iottlp orai,,nt t1o ~.
oftthe Convention. The Albany Evening
Journal was the first to proclaim the cause
of Seward, and the smaller prints in the
. interior have followed, and, with every
issue, %dennunce all who do not endorse the
purity Of his principles. The late postnas-
ltefat Albany, l. Benedict, has published a
correspondence in the Evening Journal, be-
tween the Postmaster General and himself,
/. and the Journal has made an attack upon
President Fillmore and his administration,
which cannot fail to make wider the already
existing breach in the Wing party. The
cause Of the publication Of the correspu,,-
deuce was because Mr.. Benedict failed to
obey the Instructions OF the head Of the De-
partmcnt, or left the whole business of the
office to the care OF an assistant, winch re-
suited in his removal, and the Appointment
Of another in his stead. The Democratic
p,css are of course placed in the dilemma
in which the Wing party is placed; and,
should the Frcesoilers hold to the nornina-
tons made by the Democratic Convention,
their success is more than probable.
pie Of action, and the Boston Atlas strongly
ccnsurcs the Wing s~eceters for the course
they have pursued. With regard to the
compromise measures adopted by Congress,
The Wing press throughout the Eastern,
States arc favorable to the Seward princi.
they manifest an answering hostility, and
especially to the fugitive slave law, which
they assert is unconstitutional, and advise
the fugitires to resist to the last extremity.
The Boston Advertiser is the only WING
p~aperSRh.ch has taken n conservative
course, and which comments the utility and
justice Of the law. The Democratic press
is generally qniet, aud leaves the Wing
party to absorb itself into abolition without
an expression of opinion. a, all of the late
Stale and County Conventions of the Wing
party in the Nnr.he:n and Eastern States,
the slavery question has been the chief sub
lectlof comment, and they have universally
condemned the action OF Congress in the
Passage 0f the Texas Boundary and Ergi-
stye laye bills, whi.esthe sane body has
aueess@rsFf strongly censured for not incor.
pofating the slavery prohibition in the New
s hIexico aud Utah bills.