The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-12-16

in hopes OF being able to place it before readers
Tomorrow morning.
Position OF the AdminI stra ion-Union Plat
foIm-The President and the Wing Party.
Our intelligence from Washington, both public
and private, advise OF an effort of Senator
Seward and his party to effect a treaty of peace
with the President, 10 enable them to keep their
friends in office at the North, and for variety of
ether reasons. We are told that h. has already
had several interviews with Mr.. Fillmore on the
subject and hat the friends of the Union are not
at all pleased with the movement. We would
advise Mr. Fillmore TO beware of forming any
alliance with those demagogues He now stands
in a highly favorable position before the COM
Try, His first annual message to Congress has
commended itself to the appreciation Of the con-
seTvstives of all parties. The decided stand
taken by the Executive in favor of the slavery
adjustment, as it stands, has enlarged the con-
6dence of the people in behalf of his admins
iration; has strengthened the conservatives in
Congress; and, among wings and democrats,
throughout the country, has operated TO identity
the administration with the integrity of the Union.
Never the country in more interesting crisis
Man the present-and never was any President in
more advantageous position for rallying to his
support the great bedy of e people, of all parties
than is Mr.. Fillmore His plain and undisguised
recommendations in respect to the Fugitive act,
not only assure the country of his fidelity to the
LAVE, but Of his desire TO conciliate the South, by
refusing the slightest concession to Northern
hulifiers.
hr. Fillmore stands upon the Union platform.
The old lines Of demarcauoa between the old par
hes are nearly obliterated; the general recommen-
dations of the message may be adopted by either
party, without material violation OF their party doe
trines The only party with which the message
heRties the President, is the Union party; and his
sntagonisnn nnlIisrs nd 10 he n. Ia
party hostility which he has indicated. As far as
San be Judged, General Cass and General Foote
are scarcely to be regarded less the friends Of
the administration than Mr.. Clay or Mr.. Webster.
The exigency is the integrity or disruption Of the
republic. The President, coming into power under
the distrust Of a large section of the Union, and
generally regarded the mere l0osm fsnsns of the
White House, by the wing party itself, had very
little TO excite his ambition, except the good wishes
of the people. A modest mana capable man
but too kind and amiable for the cut and thrust,
night and left policy of Jackson; too honest fer the
"wire in and wire out" diplomacy of Van Buren,;
Voc dgnifed for the bartering system of John
Tyler; too experienced to be INDUCED in the mis-
TAKES Of the heroic General Tsylor-while Mr.
Fillmore was expected to administer the govern
ment with discretion, no party-no fragment OF a
party-beld him qualified to act the presidential
party leader. He came into the executive chair as
its mere occupant, by common consent, for the re-
nnainder Of General Taylors term. The wings
did not even flatter him with the possibility of any
thing more. He given to understand, by
movements for Scott, Clay, Webster, Crittenden,
and others, that anything more was entirely out
of the question. Meantime, he was expected
faithfully to divide out the loaves and fishes
among the whgs-for, whether they were Union
men, OF nullihers, or secessionists, what was
that TO hmi To keep the party together, he
must conciIiate all the cquesi-the wings must
have the Offices, and he must have their support.
While, therefore, the wings are under no osliga-
lions to him, Mr.. Fillmore is bound to look to their
hteress-and no thanks to him.
Parties, however. like men, are but the creatures
Of circumstances. The slavery adjustment, in its
breaking up Of the old wing and democratic par
ses, has given us four parties instead of two-the
Union wings, the Union democrats, the Northern
nullihers-chieay from the whig party-and the
Southern secedere, chiefly from the democratic.
The whig party proper, as IL now stands, is but a
frsgment-a very small fragment-of the wing
hope Of either house. aud has no possible prospect,
Of itself, Of being either able to advance or to
injure the administration. And it so happens,
that in the present state OF things, there is
more affinity between Union wings and democrats.
than there can be between Union wings and vhir
nulhhers. The circumstances creating this divi-
SION of parties, have placed Mr.. Fillmore in the
most favorable position. Standing ost boldly Cor
fhe Fugitive law, az the test Of Northern honesty
and the vitality OF the constitution. the nuIli6ers
rriD'a face, became his enemies the Union men Of
both the old parties became his supporters. He Is
thus reinforced ten fold the extent Of mis- loss. and
is rendered completely independent Of auluscation
support in Congress and in the States
A succession Of accidents, II you please. has
placed the President In this attitude before tn.
country. But the wisest exercise Of sagacty and
foresight could not have put him in a better posi-
ton Any other would have been untenable
Thss iirnl and sure footing Practice. il appears.
is following up this theory We understand that the
President has recently addressed letter to Hiram
K,tcham, or some other Union wing Of this city,
abiding TO certain removals from office, of Seward
nuhers, in the inferior of this State, and that the
executive has declai ed in this communication his
resolution to regard the nullifiers as his political
enemes,snd the Union men as his political friends
"A practical movement o. this kind IL all that IL
needed to confirm the position Of the adn,inistra-
ton. Followed uph will 500 . operate To reorqan-
we new party-a great Union party--on the basis
Of the administration. Such en- organzaticu. n il
unnecessary TO argue, would place Mr. Fillmore ia
verv prominent attitude with respect to the cam,
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