New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-16

ne,day at 10 o'oooF.
sc civ. fbio ia not the entertainment to which
we were invlEedW
In l848, the nomination of Gen. Taylor
for President being to us most distasteful,
and the failure to accompany it by any ez-
nl;c;t declaration of Wing Principles tend
inc to confirm the impression that these prin
ciples were not to be maintained in the can
vass and to triumph should Gen. Taylor
srcceed in the Election-when we specially
d;sl;ked the sectional complexion of the
vote whereby the nomination was made, and
+be anti Proyiso influences which seemed to
nrenonderate in the selection, we were urged
and expected to unite with what was then
understood to be distinctively the Free
soip party, though we see Prince John as
serted at Syracuse that it never admitted it
self to be aught but the Democratic Repub
lean party. That, certainly, was not our
understanding at tbs time the Buffalo Con
vention was being mustered and held; but no
matter. We thought the matter over, and
finally concluded that our settled convictions
Of public policy required that we should re
main with the Wing party and support its
candidates. This decision subjected us to
much odium and abundant imputations Of
treachery to the cause of Free Sell, which
have been since revived from time to time,
in terms not over-courteous and with every
variety Of opprobrious epithet and harsh
construction. The time, we think, has now
come when we may fsirly ask the authors Of
these attacks, and especially those Wings
who saw fit to break with us and 60 the But
ssIo vay, to review the whole matter and
pronounce calmer verdict.
There were many aspects of the Buffalo
movement which challenged our hearty ap-
probation. Free Soil for Free Labor, Free
Homes for the Landless from the Public
Domain, the Improvement of Rivers and
Harbors, Incidental Protection (which is
better than none) for Home Industry-all
these were very well-some Of them could
not be bettered. Our main objections to
going in for the Buffalo movement were
Ghese:
|. That by SO doing we should be con-
tributing to the election Of Gen. Cass, by
diverting Wing votes from Gen. Taylor to
Mr.. Van Buren,. Had such as we even
been able to give Mr.. Van Buren, the votes
of New York, Massachusetts,, Ohio, Yer
,mcnt and Wisconsin, we should only have
ensured the election Of Gen. Cass by the
House Of Representatives. and
2. That, while we should do nothing or
less for Free Soil by joining the Buffaloes-
we should destroy all remaining hope of es
tablishing those great Principles of Nation
al Policy which we believe most essential to
the rapid development of the Resources, the
steady employment and due recompense OF
the Industry and the securing of the highest
Welfare of our Country.
Tive years have elapsed since we an
noupoed our decifion to stand with the Wing
rarty in the contest then pending and sup
: n,o4 len. Taylor for President. Knowing
t r~, tbo 90 neral sentiment of the Wing par.
4 n;n tbo : Free ss,.stes was decidedly adverse
a s1a a. IN 'u the Slave Stars generally indifferent
to the Extension of Slavery, we believed
that Wing triumph in the Election then
pending would go very far to preclude such
Extension.
We ask those who repudiated, denounced,
and stigmatiaed The Tribune in lS4S, be-
cause Of its adhesion to Gen. Taylor. to re.
view their Judgment, in the light OF the
facts which have since transpired.
We ask those who honestly declared that
The election of Gen. Taylor would involve
the surrender of the New Territories to
Slavery, to say frankly whether they were
ar we're not mistaken.
We ask those electors, especially OF New
York Vermont and Ohio, who were Undue
ed to vote against their former associates II
1s49 on the strength of charges that Gen
TAYLOR and his Cabinet were maneuverlng x
nlaps and legarze Slavery in California anf
The Territories, to say whether these charges
have been sustained or disproved BY INT
facts since made manifest
/ And especially do we ask our Political as
socistes of former days, who were led OF
from the Wing party in lS4S on the But
{alO trail, believing that they were assisting
10 build up a great party devoted to Free
labor and Free Soil, to say whether thell
expeosahons have or have not been fulfilled
Look at the Resolutions which form th'