The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-10-10
c,tI FOR THE WING CONVENTION"

Z put forth the following call for another State
Convention:
o "CALL FOR THE WING CONVENTION"
The Wings of the State Of New York who de
sire 20 maintain their connection with the Wing
marty of the United States, and who are opposed
TO the action of the Convention recently held in
Syracuse in condemning the course OF President
Fillmore and his Cabinet, and in seeking to renew
agitation on the subject of slavery are requested
TO elect delegates for n State Convention to be
held in Utica on the 18th day of October inst
Each county will send as many delegates as it is
entitled to elect members of Assembly
COMMITTEE.
William Duor, Francis Granger,
William c. Hasbrouck, Daniel T. Uhlman
John II. Bush.
The conduct of the boilers, so far does not
seen. .. .ssHvsths appsssAt0D. sensra)ly % that
section of the party which sympathzes with it in
other respects The New York Commercial 1id-
rsJtiseI, strong Webster .paper, IiscpoDtenantyo
their precipitate action. We shall not pre-
sumo it remarks, to advise Messrs Granger,
Duer, and their friends, upon their future course
With them we regret that the ultra sentiments
of Senator Seward were so cordially endorsed
But we would also suggest that, unless they are
prepared to throw overheard their reputation for
consistency, they must come back to the position
they occupied in November, 1S4S-that the voice
of the majority is the voice of the Convention,
and the voice of the Convention is the voice of the
party. By these landmarks any party must abide
that would successfully carry out its principles
We must have some cardinal principle which must
remain mistaken amid all fluctuations of opin-
ion and sentiment. That principle is, that MAORI
tbs must goUeTa wherever the representative sys-
TEN is fully carried out. In the Wing party it is
SO. If we neglect the primary meetings and other
channels Of influencing the Convention, the blame
rests with us, and to the inconvenience or penalty
we are bound, in all reason and honor to submit.
If conventional decisions wrong US we can pro-
test if they conflict with our settled convictions
so as to interfere with principles and conscience
we can retire from the party but our friends who
propose rival Convention and rival ticket will,
are sure, yet perceive that their entire ground
is waendble, and their proposed action calculated
only to estrange them from the Wing party, and
to work mischief both to themselves and the prin-
ciples to which they profess to be attached
! The remarks of the AdUertiser are to the point
The Convention was composed of delegates fairly
elected in accordance with the usHges of the Wing
party, and the result was clear majority in ia
vor of the position occupied by Mr. Seward No
irregularity-no fraud vitiated the organization
of the Convention. 1t was a fair representation
of the party, and by the decision of an undoubted
majority, deliberately expressed, the course of
Mr.. Seward, and the Wing representatives from
New York who concurred with him, was en-
phatically endorsed.
Nor could it be pretended that these gentlemen
had violated their instructions or the sense of the
party, repeatedly affirmed in District and State
Conventions, and through legislative resolves
The party and its leading journals had boosted
of its paramount, inhexible devotion to the Jefer-
sonian policy of slavery restriction, and had in
sisted without ceasng that it was the party of
Progress, consecrated to the cause of human free
dom, and pledged to seek the extinction of slavery
by all constitutional means. MIR Seward and his
friends in the House of Representatives sought
to carry out these principles and for their fidelity
in this respect, the Wing State Convention of
New York, honestly chosen, fairly constituted,
and perfectly representing the party, bestowed
upon them high commentator.
In what position then do these seeding men,
bers Of the Convention stand before the people
They are faaio"Ns, denying the principle that
majority should govern, arraying themselves
against the usages of their party, rejecting doc
rines repeatedly affirmed by their party No
wonder the conservative Wing papers, although
not sympathizing with the anti-slavery resolves
of the Convention, should condemn or question
the conduct of the seceders--no wonder that the
Administration papers here should abstain from
any commentator it. Undoubtedly MIR Web
ster would have been highly grstfed at the pas
sage of the resolutions submitted by MIR. Duer
but Mr., Fillmore has too much sense not to see
that the cause of Wing conservatism in New York
has sustained a severe blow from the rash i'll
advised action of its special friends The Adj
ministration cannot dispense with the services of
the Wing party in the Empire State, for the sake
of bolstering up Messrs. Duer, Granger, x Co.
1t must feel anything but grat6ed with the
pretence set up by the boilers, that they the mi
nority, are its friends, while the majority are it's
oPP98ea,s-a s?esssse 10. warranted by the facts,
For, the resolves adopted by the Convention, if
possible, exceed those submitted by Mr.. Duer in
strong expression Of confidence iu and cordial
appreciation of Mr.. Fillmores Administration
Therefore, the call issued by the seceders for
another Convention, rests the propriety Of that
measure on false statement-namely, that the
late convention condemmed the course of President
Fillmore end his Cabiaet, and sought 10 r,ne,p Me0gi-
tatioa on He mLjcd Of sldrDy A reference to the
resolves of that Convention will clearly show the
statement to be utterly false. Here they are:
ROOlred, That this Convention, respecting
those who have sustained Wing principles with
equal ardor in prosperity and adversely, rejooe ~
the opportunity non oFrd for making expressions Of
re,ie'r,d coRfd'acc IN me present National Admmis.
tyd',OR, amt ~ ne pisdOm anil efficiency NH which
Il has betR administered HdeT circumstances Of uHn-
sual embarrassment anil hGcpltyn
Rcsoipcd That while we lament most deeply
the irreparable loss of our Chief Magistrate
General Zachary Taylor, at a crisis in our coun-
try's history which his clear Judgment and Roman
frmness seemed so peculiarly designed to meet,
We deem il most fortunate for the nation that his
place is filled by a successor so distinguished and
capable as Mllard Fillmore, ~ mho@ experpnc,,
|th,fuH and enlightened craftsmanship The psopte Of
N''o York hare hGrHed 10 repose entUe confdeneep
SO much for the action Of the Convention gin
condemnlng the course of President Fillmore y
Let us see how it sought to renew the agitation
, Of slavery.
Resolr'd That the admission of California
into the onion as State and with free Con-
stitutlon, meets with our hearty appreciation; and
as Territorial Government is established for
New Mexico and Utah, without any prohibitory
clause, on the assumption that slavery is excluded