The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-01

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| throwing themselves upon the track before il, "a
to suppose the dissent o. forty voices will be hee
| ed by more than two hundred thousand wing free
men The eyes of our deladed friends will be Nm
sealed in forty eight hours. Nothing but that
| "madaess" which precedes destruction can keep
them blinded. Strong men row rapidly with the
tide-to pull against il is hard Gnd slow process.
Leaders, too, are strong when they act in symPa.
my with the masses; but powerless when they at
tempt 10 mlsead. Instead, therefore, VI weaken
Ing The wing party, or lessening its chances of
success, the detection of certain delegates, upon
totally insufficient grounds, mparts vitality and
strength 10 the contest, and inspires freshness and
confidence in the result. We are all the stronger
for having passed through that ordeal Parties
like ores, must be purified by fire The Wing
State Convention, though severely tried, stood by
wing prineples. The wing electors catching from
the wires in magnetic whispers, evidence of the
hdeliiy OF their delegates, will take up the shout
with which the convention closed its labors, and
make the whole State resound with their cheers.
We went TO the convention with the strongest
desire for harmony We labored for harmony.
For harmony We were prepared to concede much
did, indeed, concede too much. But all was by
the wisdom, frnness, and iiety of tho conven-
ton, overruled Instead of concessions which
would have left us, like eur opponents, without
principles, we now 60 TO the polls abundantly for
tilted.
The whig party is better prepared for the ap-
preaching conflict, and stronger by many thou
sand votes, than we should have been without the
glorious platform which the convention has given
us Nobly has that convention done its duty
And Tor doing II, under severe temptations 10 err,
II has commended itself TO the confidence and gra-
htude OF the wings, not of this State only, but of
their wing brethren through all the free States.
From the Albany State Register national big organ
Sept. 80
1t will be seen that the names of the nominees OF
the late convention at Syracuse, are this morning
Withdrawn from eur columns.
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ofthe late convention which assembled a, SYRIA
cuse, we must be permitted to cay few words,
not OF passion or Of elimination, but of sober TRUTH
and more In sorrow than in anger We shall not
go much into the details of its history, for those
are set forth more ably than we could do it, in the
Address prepared by the com nitteo appointed for
that purpose. majority of that convention un-
doubtedly assembled, imbued with spirit of con-
Citation and harmony, and il was only by stringent
appliances and discipline that spirit of dissord and
fanatacsm was infused into theni and the mo Il dis
asiroo results produced. There has been for some
time past, disposition manifested in certain quar-
tiers, TO find fault with and embarrass the present
wing administration of the general government,
the instances of which il is not no W necessary to
enumerate, and we foresaw and gave early warn
ing of the difficulties and dangers which the State
Convention would have TO encounter. We gave
early notice that any attempt to convert the wing
party into sectional or abolition party, revive
the agitation Of the vexed and dis,racting questions
which had been so happily settled, would be re-
sisted to the last extremity. Upon those subjects
il was well known that a radical difference of
opinion has existed among wings for some time
past, and any attempt in convention, to force the
doctrines Of one portion Of them upon the other,
could not but prove disastrous. These were
matters about which there must be federation and
forbeaTance, or there could be no harmony-un-
fortunately that federation and ferbear ance on one
side did not exist. A committee Of eight was ap-
pointed, with the assent of a majority Of the con-
venlion, to draft and report resolutions. The very
able and impartial president appointed, for that
purpose, eight of the ablest and most Influential
members-four Of each sort. They met, and
seven Of them agreed unanimously upon a set Of
resolutions not satisfactory TO the national wings
and friends Of the administration, nor fully ex-
pressing their views, but which they were willing
and consented to adopt in spirit Of concession
and compromise; the eighth member Of the
mittee concurred in all the resolutions but one,
and objected 10 that only IN single particular.
Those resolutions were reported to the conven-
ton, TO objection being made BY any member
OF the committee that the report was premature,
or anything Of the kind, and as they were read.
were received with unbounded applause, and the
one with which Mr.. Dickinson was not quite salts
he'd, with more applause than any other; and had
the vote been immediately taken on them, u was
evide nj they would have been carried by an over
whelming majority. They were such as ought 10
have been satisfactory 10 all reasonable men, and
we trust the great body Of wings will approve.
The question unfortunately, was not permitted 10
be taken then; an adjournment was had. What
appliances were used between that time and the
reassembling Of the convention, We will mo- stop
10 Ieerate; suffice Il TO say that majority Of the
delegates came in the next day a changed and al
tered set OF men. Their own honest convictions
had been cone away with by some process, aud all
their opinions changed. They had now become
faDaiical end niolerani and prejudice had usurped
the throne of reason. They were no longer free
agents, but the tools Of outside wIepullcrs, some
ofwhom avowed the purpose 10 separate one por-
ton Of the party from the other. Resolutions were
introduced and offered ne substitute for those re-
ported by the committee, known To he highly OF
fensive TO the minority, and couched In the most
offensive language. The majority knew II they
were passed, there would be accession OF The mi
norty. Willing TO leave no effort nj Cancellation
untned, Mr.. Bush made some eloquent and appro-
pirate remarks, and moved that the substitute be
referred TO the committee OF eight on resolutions,
and Mr.. Duer moved that eight more be added to
that committee, which motions were adopted. The
representatives Of the majority on thai committee
would make ssione the result kno an. The
substitute was adopted and the minority LEFT con-
vention. IL is untrue that Mr.. Duer al any time
moved the previous question, az has been asserted
CT the action Of the delegates who seeded, we
entirely approve. Had they done otherwise, they
would have been political outsasts, AT Only TO he
despised-they would have despised themselves.
Their secession marks a new era in the political
history OF this State and Of this nation, and Is the
dawning OF a brighter day. The delegates who
seeded are the true representatives, OF the whig
party-tbe nsional wings Of this state. Those
who remained. now constitute a sectional political
abolition party. with the poor, despised member Of
the United States Senate nom this State-William
II. Seward-fer their leader. They can never
succeed in this Sfate, and, " they could, must
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| the nation. Were IL otherwise, they must be a
most dangerous pery. for, To say nothing Of their
snties TO all the ou,lsndish ties and isms OF the
day, Seward, the aptator and aboltienst, with all
his higher law beresies, s not only their leader,
/ but Al once the embodiment and exponent 81 their
principles; and abolition aud renewed agitation
Of the questions which had well nigh destroyed
| the Union, are their creed.
- The principles OF their resolves, notwithstand-
ing their proie ssons 20 the contrary strike directly
at the constitution and Union. II those who think
/ with them should ever become a majority, the
Union and all our glorious institutions must inev
tably be destroyed. We can embark iu no such
mad crusade. We love the Union. and we love
the men VINO lave helped TO save and who sustain
| it-Clsy, Webster and Fillmore. We cannot, we
| will not separate ourselves from them and theft
supporters They are national wings. Union wings,
true wings, the iusirious leaders Of the national
wing party, and true exponents Of its pin
4 ciples. We admire that Spartan band, who, al
| Syracuse, would not have an oath OF allegiance
| 20 another leader, who morally, mentally, and
politically, IN wide the poes apart from Out
n H. al down their fhrOsfa nv nj