New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-24

terence IN our Country a pOfIion VI 6ieAei
party concur in unfolding the Fugitive
Slave Law another portion are quite as
heartily united in detesting it. And no
candid, intelligent man can deny that large
majority of the opponents Of this Law are
Wings, while majority of its supporters
vote in the Opposition. To talk of this
law as Wing measure, or make its sup
port toucksrone Of fidelity to the Nation
al Administration, IS practically to make
the President the head of the party which
opposed and the antagonist Of that which
supported his election.
Yet what do We see First, an attempt
to commit the Wing party Of NewYork
to the support of this and other measures
which a great majority of It's members con-
demn-an attempt which, had it succeeded,
would have put the Wings Of New York
where those Of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey now are-then like attempt to
shoulder of Horace Mann in M4ssachu-
sets, which did not harm him, but succeed
ed in defeating Gov. Briggs and Senator
Winthrop, and upsetting the Wing ascend
ancy in the State; and now We see the
same fatal course persisted in by the leading
Cotton journals of that State, backed by
The Republic at Washington, which can
have no result but to nail and perpetuate
the prostration of the Wing party in Mas
sachusetts, and injuriously affect it in all
the Free States. We refer especially to
the concerted attacks on Mr.. Scudder, the
Wing candidate for Congress in the New
Bedford District who, because he has
ayowed himself hostile to the Fugitive
Slave Law and all measures Of kindred
bearing, is marked for prescription and de-
feat We cannot say how many of the
Wing candidates for Congress in the seven
Districts where no choice was effected in
November are in substantially the same
category with Mr.. Scudder, but We cannot
be wrong in assuming that majority of
them are so.
The logic resorted to in justification Of
this prescription is substantially this
Mr.. Fillmore is President, and the Off
cial head of the Wing party; Dir. Fill
more thinks the Fugitive Slave Law ought
'to be acquiesced in and sustained as an es-
.sential element Of series of measures
calculated to repress agitation and restore
harmony to the Union: therefore, Mr..
'Scudder whose devotion to old-fashioned
Wing principles nobody questionsl won't
do for Member of Congress, because he
does not sustain but condemns the Fugi-
tive Slave Law
Here we have the worst feature of Jack
sonism revived-the testing all opinions by
the standard of conformity to the judgment
of an individual, and treating as heretical
all who in any point come short OF that
standard. 1t is not asked Is Mr.. Scud-
der Whig?' but Is he Fillmore man!
DO all his opinions accord with those of
the President! and, since he fails to satisfy
the requisition in one particular, he Is to be
prescribed and defeated by Wing votes.
This is the identical spirit which defeated
five Wing candidates for Congress in this
State and elected Loco Focos in their stead
from Wing districts. Can any one believe
that great party is to be held together
and maintain an ascendancy on so narrow
and unstable platform as this
We do not find an intimation that Mr..
Scudder was unfairly nominated and it
seems obvious that to drop him because he
dislikes the Fugitive Slave Law will not
secure the election of Wing. To pro-
scribe him on the ground taken by his ad-
versaries is to prescribe at least half the
Wings In the District, and how can they
be expected to turn round and elect Web
steran substitute The moment Wings
begin thus to cut each other, they seal their
own overthrow. he can stand this if
the holding, paronage-enjoying Sec
ton Of the party can; but is it worth their
while thus to saw off the limb wherein
they are not uncomfortably seated We
trust they will think twice before deciding
to doit
Y THE WING PRIMARY ELECTIONS for this
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