The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-18
From the Lo,ceH 9mericaa.

The Courier is attempting to explain the defeat
Of the Wing party in this StWe. 1t says that
has been Sin great measure paralyzed by the at
tempts of some of lis members to make it a violent
an-sIavery party!' A sufficient answer to this i.
thnt tive Wing PARTY has always heen successful
when it has been mos violent mis- very. 1t is
the succ-sstul attempt to make the Wing party Il
slavery PARTY, which has done the work. Every
man of common sense knows this to be the case.
The Courier again says:
"a large majority of the people OF MasSachu-
sets were satisfied with that al iusrment Ninety
nine of every hundred Wings in the common
wealth were satisfied with il, the best settlement
that could be made under the circumstances. And
yet, instead Of falling in with This public sentiment
and showing the wisdom Of the territorial policy
adopred-so e leading Wings and Wing presses
hive been actually frightened out Of their plo
prety by the Remuneration which it received
from the Free press. Hence we have seen de
II nciatory Wing resolutions passed at some OF
our district conventions, undoubtedly intended L"
secure Free-soll votes, and keep up the agitation
of the slavery question. We have been no party
to this system Of tactics, and constantly protested
against it. The effect of it has been to create in.
difference and apathy among many Wings, and
very greatly to diminish the aggregate vote through
the State"
sufficient answer to this is THE VOTE. The
The friends of cad justment" have been defeated
in every congressional district except one. In the
9Th district their defeat is overwhelming. They
Obtained control Of the nominating convention, and
put u Mr.. VALLEY, but The people upset all their
contrlvances and elected Horace Mann, most de-
cided enemy of the compromise. Fowler, who
has over 5000 majority, is anti Webster and anti
compromise, cup to the hub " las Rev. Mr.
Towne says.) Scudder and Goodrich would not
have come within hang distance of an election,
if they had not repudicated Webster The W hlg
loss IN Lowell is in great degree to be attributed
TO the Courier's pro-slavery teachings. The Cour-
Ter goes on:
ITO this may be added the attempt during the
las eight months, in certain Wing quarters, to
ostracise Mr.. Webster and read him out of the
Wing party. Websterism was not an issue a,
the late election-but Wing attempts to make it
one, in March last, and above all, to write down
the most commanding statesman in the land, and
make him odlouS-have created much dissatisac-
ton among the Wings throughout the ommon-
wealth. They have been saddened and mortified
ut such treatment OF so distinguished patriot and
unioniSt, well as SO influential Wing, as Mr..
Webster"
1t is pretty lucky for Webster that w ebstersm
was not an issue in the whole State; if it had been
the Wings would have been beaten by 1000 ma
iory Ii ,ras an issue, directly and unequivocally
made, in Horace Mann district, right under the
noses Of the Cotton power, and the Courier
knows the result The Wing ship had two pas
sengers on board, Webster and Mann, whose
disagreement became so acrimonious and persc nal
that one of them had to go overheard. The
wrong man was thrown over, and the old shr
was aground in less than no time.
The Courier thus enarges on another alleged
cause:
" The Fugitive slave act had nothing to do
with our election, and had effect upon it.
Judge Allen, the great champion in the State OF
unconditional rePea, is defeated by an overwheIm-
ing majority IN his district while Wing candidates
for Congress, who are opposed TO its repeal with
out providing some substitute or rather who are
in favor of its modification, have either been
elected, or come the nearest to an election. Mr..
Mann is elected, but an inspection of the returns
in his district, as compared with those on the GU
bernatorial election, show beyond all question,
that had not Democrats voted for him. he must
have been defeated-and no one need be told that
the Democratic party is opposed to the repeal OF
the Fugitive stave act"
Such an assertion as that the slave law had nc
effect upon our election, might be expected from
an Egyptian mummy, just unrolled, but i sounds
ridiculous enough coming from an intelligent edl
tor of newspaper. That law was the principa
cause Of the Wing disaster. Judge Aliens defea
is nothing TO the purpose. tle was defeated a
ins hrst trial, two years ago., and nobody expected
his election at this trial. The fact Is that BARTON
and hnowIton, his competitors, were both opposed
to the law; the former styled il % execrable.'
II Is true that some democrats voted for Mann,
Pss double the plumber Of Wings voted for him.