The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-04
Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, October /, 1850.
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The disruption of the wing convention at SYRIA
suse gives great Importance TO the position of w.
IL. Seward. The efforts of Mr.. Duer and his COM
peers TO nationsize the whig party on the basis of
of Mr.. Fillmorr's administration appear TO have
exploded, with the resolution endorsing to the
hilt the feciiuus course OF Seward in the Senate
As amember Of the senate, Seward has proved
disappointment. As the recognized leader OF d
great faction It was expected, that he would de-
velope someikiug of the powers OF leading de-
batter. But he failed. From an object OF fear, he
became an Object of sympathy, for he was iashed
upon all siGrs, and submitted 10 II all. The
champion of the most inllahmatory princi-
pies, while he excited the most violent oppo-
stop, ii was wasted upon the submissiveness OF a
child. Hewouid spring fire.brand upon the Senate,
and shelter himself in the smoke. II was imposs-
bic &c determine why man so innocent, so pas
give, SO mech md charitable TO oil men, should be-
at this capital, universally despised There ap-
PeaTea TO be II uk injustice IN il, and something
dPersctuion IN hunting hun down.
The ~ racusr Convention disClcs q the secret
II is not W. ii seward that has been so buifeted
about by every pnny whipser,' but the recog-
man Of straw at the he ad Of a column, and YOU
make il the object OF attack. IL is the salient poa
OF the night. AIdy.t Hale, Of rev Hampshire,
IN the place of Seward, would have kept all New
York IN a blaze With his cue before him. scarce
ly man could have done less than Seward has
done. lie li'e- and runs, and comes in at the end
OF the battle ne iaGocent as lamb. Bat with the
psssivepess he his the cunning of Jesuit AMI
while be Hrpars The feeble instrument Of stronger
minds. be hUTfo = uuder them liz a mole.
AS the 'inhodnerE Of all the isDs of the TT
6pnS, AID Oh tr ulhisms Of the Albany Journal,
as the candidate If The runaway negroes, and the
"Oily Ganln ~ Of our adopted citizens; as the
organ # lend r TOM, universal brothe hood, abo-
htion, an free soil the morbid elements of ell the
political fag .nds of New York, regard him, OF
crudiuts ct his political Greco, absurd, bi.orrs,
and feeble rs they msy seem, sIe the elements o.
his strength The mistake in The wing party was
the adoption II such customer, as the exponen,
OF wing pnh piles. a temporary success or two
from the con,hiHrd forces ef the outside factions
belonging In Stvard, has resulted in the spi. az
Syracuse. Th" attempt 10 natioEalixe the whig
party Of New York an abolition basis was
bound 10 fail With the administration committed
abolition, Their c"nd he unity ia the party. with
out casting .lthrr Fillmore or Seward overheard
by common consent.
The cabinet alarmed. The hopes Of Mr.
Webster df Irud upon the Matchmaking of the New
York whjg parry But, according TO the WhiI
convention, =, va d would outrun Webster ia New
York, TWO t. one.
The moral 81 the story shows that IL such man
as Seward, ~hosr coarse in The Senate has excited
only disappointment in his leebleness and dis
belief IN his hon. sly, can evoke the rebuke o: a
wing conve p'i"u upon a whig administration. jus,
now-that III, slavery business is not settcd-that
agitation will b" ttvIvcd-that the adminstra lion
will be large deserted by the North, and tia; the
Wing Vsiiy is "a banded.