The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-26
Promise and Performance.

The meeting of the seeding National Wings
at Utica was thus heralded by their leading
organ, the Albany Slate Register. Listen to
this dreadful note of preparation!
"Great political questions have arisen from
time to time, under the Administration OF our
Government, and gone by. The great question
of this day is, the Constitution and Union of the
United States. Before this, all other questions,
tariff, harbors and ALL are destined to sink into
insignifcance. The question achether the Union
shall be preserved, or madly lost and destroyed By
abolition agitation, is a greater question, and
bigger with the destinies Of mankind, than the
world can furnish besides. Upon that question,
the Convention Dhich is 10 assemble al Utica, on
the l7t, aoil haze no lille influence Its assemb-
ling, its deliberations and It's action are anxi-
ously looked for all over the country. There
is an opinion abroad in some quarters, that upon
it the fate of the Union is suspended There is
no doubt that its influence aoiU be long and deeply
fell, both in State and National politics. Like
the thirty nine who rallied around the veteran
Wing, Francis Granger, at Syracuse, its men,
bers will be bold, fearless and patriotic men,,
such men as always rise up in times OF danger
and trial, and they will discharge their duty to
their party and their country, wisely and with
out fear or favor. For them the threats, the
gibes the ieers, the jests of the central dynasty
will have no terrors They will be the slaves
Of no man or set of men, but FREE, ENAMEL
pATED, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL VINES. No
overbearing insolence can drive them from the
discharge Of their duty. Through good report
and through evil report, they will keep steadily
on, and by their party, seek to promote the good
of their country. Political despots and gam
blers may we'll be alarmed, when such men come
together"
Well, that band of Nationals did assemble,
and after discharge of blank cartridges threw
down their arms, and wheeled into line again
under the black flag of SEWARD and HUNT,
shaken in triumph over them.
Where are those "FREE INDEPENDENT Ma
TIoNAL Wines" now? Echo answers WHERE q
| Of what avail are mere resolutions when un-
accompanied by the resolve to carry them out
Into operation? What is the worth of words
falsifed by acts? The endorsement of the Sy-
racuse nominations stultifed the professions,
and the promises so solemnly held forth by the
organ in behalf of the seccders Their nominee
for Governor was appealed to, and what was his
response such as to give perfect satisfaction
to the Sewardites, and to call forth this exult-
ing announcement from the bitterest and most
unrelenting of the enemies of the South:
The New York Tribune thus prefaccd that
correspondence
"The following correspondence between Hon.
Francis Granger and Hon. Washington Hunt,
the Wing candidate for Governor, will explain
itself and electrify every Wing heart. Mr. Hunt,
it will be seen, though most anxious for union
and harmony in the Wing ranks, refuses to re-
pudiate the Syracuse nomination, to censure tho
Wing State Convention, or to denounce its acts
and resolves, whether relating to principles or
persons. He cannot perceive why an anti-sla-
very Wing is not rs truly National as pro-
slavery one. He is adverse to all political as
saults by New York upon the cherished institu-
tons of sister States out insists that slavery shall
not be extended, and that THE FuaITIvE SLAVE
BILL OUGHT TO BE REPEALED OR ESSENTIALLY
MODIFIED. Read, Wings, and move on with
locked shields and joyous hearts to victory
| New York must repudiate her whole history as
we'll as her cherished principles when she repu-
dates Washington Hunt"
| The Wings of the South can not surely be mad
and besotted enough, not to profit by The warn
ing so emphatcally given by this Northern organ
nor blind to the consequences of such sur
render on the part of the last fragment of the
national Wing party which held out even show
reconciliation or respect. We earnestly entreat
them to ponder we'll on the significant adnlis-
sions of the Register, and to weigh the perfor-
nance against the promise.
Strong as the cords of party may be, such
strain must surely snap them asunder.