The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-22
From The albany Register.
Address OF tho Wing Convention at Utica
To the U'higs of Me State of Ne,r York.

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FELLOW CITIZENS: The occasion which has called
us together renders a brief communication of our
views and principles TO constituents necessary
and proper. The Wing party of this State and of
the nation has been in peril. The preservation OF
its purity, integrity, and usefulness are objects
dear to you and u.s. They can be maina ned only
by an adherence to its nationality. Local and sec
tonal parties can be useful only for local and tenn
| porary purposes. The Wing party, of which we
| arc members, organized, and has been held to-
gether, for the establishment of great principles,
and the accomplishment Of noble and bcncfcent
| measures cocxtensive in their end and aim with
our country. Through long series of years, in
days of darkness and trial, through alternate
sons of prosperity and adversely, the political
brethren who compose it, the Wings of the North,
| the South, and the West, have stood shoulder to
shoulder, and done battle vahrntly together in a
| common cause. In our ranks are time-honofed
veterans, who have borne the burden and brunt
| of many contest, who have shared victory and
defeat together; and young. men, who emulate
the virtues and well-earned distinctions of those
who have preceded them, and are burning with
| ardor to be led on under the same banners
Much good remains To be accomplished by the
continuance OF our association, and we must not
be divided now; and least and last Of all may tho
Wing party of the nation be divided by geograph-
ical hines AS Wings of the North, we can ''not
surrender our claim TO live and die in the
tional party with Clay and Crittenden, Bell and
Mangum Stanly and Gentry" and a host of 9TH
ers like them, for they have been and still
among the truest noblest, most devoted and self.
! New York and Wings of the Union, can never
| consent to be separated from our brethren of the
South and West. "Sink swim, live die,
vive perish, hearts and our hands ehall IL
| ways be with them" As we have done in times
past, so in the future desire TO rally with them
| around the Constitution and the Union. Most
| deeply do VIC regret that any cause OF estrange-
| ment should have arisen between them and u.s. and
prayer IL, that all occasions of difference may
be taken away, all disputes adjusted and all divi-
| sions speedily healed. While we should much de-
Plore division of the Wing party of New York,
we should regret still more 70 see the National
| Wing party rent in twain.
| But paramount to every other consideration is
the preservation of the Union of these States with
| the republican institutions inherited by US from
our revolutionary fathers, and which are bound
to transmit unimpaired as precious legacy to our
poserty. On it depend the best hopes OF ourselves
and our children, and the only hopes of the down
| trodden and oppressed Of all other nations. Its
value TO the American people, and TO each one OF
you and oil us, cannot be measured or told. There
10 no sacrifice of blood treasure nor any other
earthly sacrifice, that We should not be willing to
| make for it, for 1t is above all price For wisdom
| and excellence, the American Constitution has bad
no parallel in the history of the world. IL is
| less 70 disguise conceal that the Union of the
States has been in no less peril than the union and
| harmony OF the Whig party In the spirit of COM
promise, concession, and Cancellation il found
cd, and In the same spirit il must be preserved. As
| a party, we can have no higher objects in view
than the preservation Of the Union, and all other
objects must be made subservicnt to that. Not n
tie nor thread that binds it together must be
vcred or even weakened.
| The causes which have threatened The disruption
| of our party and of the Union arc known To you
| all. We do not propose TO dwell upon them here
Suihcc 1t TO say, they mainly out Of the ac-
QUESTION of territory from Mexico by the treaty OF
| Guadalupe HdalgU, which acquisition, in our
judgment, was consequent upon the annexation oil
| Texas. 10 that annexation, to the war with Mex
| leo, and the acquisition of territory from her. and
10 the extension oil slavery into IT, Wings arc
opposed. But all these matters which belong
now TO the history OF the past Texas is Of the
states OF the Union, well as her younger sister
California; the war is ended the territory has been
acquired, its boundaries defined, and governments
extended over it. California is free by her consti.
| tuition; we believe that New Mexico aud Utah have
sufncient guarantees for freedom in the nature oil
their coll and climate, in the Mexican laws still IN
iorce over thom, and in the character end senti-
| ments OF their inhabitants. After the most stormy
session oil Congress since the establishment OF our
| Government; after an exhibition Of passions and
feelings in the halls Of the two houses before which
the friends of our institutions may we'll rccoi and
which VIC desire never to see repeated after an cx-
| citement North and South, which has not only
engendored feelings of hostility and bitter hatred
between the people Of the two sections but has come
well nigh arraying them in deadly conflict against
| each other and caused the pillars of the Union 20
| tremble the question Of the extension Of slavery
has been adjusted and settled, and in that settle
meet we are prepared, and we deem Il our duty
| as friends OF our country, 20 acquicsco.
| Inc adoption OF measures of peace by Congress
was brought about upon the recommendation of a
| faithful aud bonored con of New York sustain ed
by the able and patriotic councillors he has called
| around him, by the wisdom, and cloquence, and
| sell sacrificing patriotism Of Senators and Repre-
senta'ives from all sections Of the country, whose