New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-05


TbstsaIo one or The Tbuqos
purpose or wish should word ia
any m obs1 VIZ mSef Of Congress from ths state
bs had differed important measures and perfect silence III
Remarks
Our readers and other friends of the Wing
Cause, who would prefer forbeaEance Of
further alteration with respect TO the late
doings at Syracuse, will perceive by the
foregoing that such forbearance is not per-
mitted. Whenever we refrain from answer
ing any of the thousand misstatemsnts of
those proceedings to the prejudice of the
majority, the public is told that we have
confessed the oharges We must therefore
speak on. In Mr. Ketchum's case, we
chose to speak only Of such misstatements
as affected our own course. But our for
bearance on other points is now tortured by
The Express into confession that oil he
saw fit to set forth on other points is true
This compels us 80 say that
1. tits not true, to the best of eur knowl-
edge and belief, shat a majority of the Dele
gates went to Syracuse inclined to keep 81
lenoe with regard to Gov. Seward Mr..
Duer's higher law resolution, which could
havs no force except as slur on Gov. Sew
ard, shows that his ooterie, even if afraid to
strike were not unwilling to wouud.'
Had that resolution passed as he desired,
with no other relating or pointing TO Gov.
Seward, his adversaries would have very
plausibly claimed that the Convention had
condemned his Senatorial course And, on
the other hand, we know that very many of
the District Conventions fer the choice of
Delegates had passed resolutions expressly
approving the course Of Gov. Seward. That
which the Convention foally adopted, and
which The Express especially diSap-
proves, had been passed by the District Con-
yention at Lockport, the home Of Washing
ton Hunt. All through the Central and
Western Counties, with few EXCEPTIONS the
feeling in favor of sustaining Gov. Seward
was decided and emphatic, while Columbia,
Ulster, Delaware, Broomo, Chenango Mont
gomery, Saratoga, and Washington voted
the same way. The Herkimer Delegates
brought letter from intelligent men in their
County, saying in substance that if Gov.
Seward were sustained, the Wings could do
well in that County, while il the opposite
course were pursued, they would be no,
where. So said the Delegates from Wayne
and Seneca, from Onondaga, from Livings
ton and other Counties. tbs entirely untrue
shat the Country Delegates did not wish Gov.
Sewnrd sustained in the Resolutions and
Of Coarse that We admit any thing Of the
sort.
.. If Mr.. Ketohum says that the mem
bers remained Of his way of thinking up to
the presentation Of Mr.. Duer's resolutions,
he must have strange way of observing
facts. Mr. Duer, or reporting, urged the
Immediate adoption CT those resolutions for
The sake Of harmony. Mr., VIM X. Strong
a friend of Gov. Seward their unan-
imous adoption, No one known to the
members spoke in opposition, while several
strong men eagerly pressed their unanimous
adoption. And yet the Convention, with
no chance for consultation among their op-
ponents, proceeded 10 lay them on the table
by vote of Sc to 81. So much for Mr..
Ketchum's second point.
5. There was no cHange Of purpose dur
ing the night-only concentration. Had
the majority ever meant to pass Duer's res
olutions, they would not have laid them on
The table, but adopted them at once, made
their ticket, and adjourned without day.
They wanted badly TO finish up that night,
50 as to go nome in the morning, and if the
Duer Resolutions had not been utterly dis
tastefuI-nsy, ruinous-they would have
Allow,