The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-10
From the Albany State Register.


The resolutions of the late convention at SYRIA
cuse have been the subject of considerable COM
ment, and some persons seek to give them a con-
struction which would deprive them OF their sec
tional and offensive character.
One of them tenders the thanks of the convention
"to the Hon. w IL. Seward for the signal ability
with which he has sustained in the United States
Senate those beloved principles so long cherished
by the Wings of this State, expressed in State and
county convention, well in the votes and in
structons Of our State Legislature" The history
of the last session of Congress shows that Mr. Sc
wards "sgnal ability" has been exclusively con-
fined to advocacy of extreme measures and doc
trines the subject of slavery, and that he has
scarcely uttered a word or taken step to promote
the old, well known and distinctive principles and
national objects of the Wing party. And no man
can doubt that the resolution was intended to APP
plaud his services on the different occasions when
the subjects in any way connected with slavery
were presented, including his opposition TO the
Texas Boundary bill, and 10 the bills creating the
territories of Utah and New Mexico as we'll as his
proposition to abolish slavery in the District of Co
lumba. Now, deny that in his on these
subjects he sustained the long-cherished principles
of the Wings of this State; and we dcprecate and
disapprovo the resolution because 1t afrms that he
did, and adds that these principles have been ex-
pressed in State and county conventions, and in
the votes and instructions of the Legislature. The
Texas Boundary bill has never been the subject OF
any expression Of opinion by any Wing conven-
ton in this State, have the Territorial bills
aforementioned. The universal expression Of all
parcs mere against the extension oil slavery 10 Tree
territories has application because the bills did
not extend slavery TO those territories, nor permit
1t to be established there, but left the whole ques
ton TO the people when they should form State
CARNATIONS. Nor has the abolition of slavery in
the District Of Columbia been promulgated by
State conventions as a Wing doctrine.
The circumstances under which this offensive re-
solution was introduced, TO supersede the which
had met the approval Of the select committee, and
which IL understood to have been sanctioned by
one of the candidates nominated, give great signi-
hcancy to the object Of its passage This object
was more distinctly marked by the strong contrast
between the resolution expressing general and
indefinite appreciation Of "the experience, fidelity,
and enlightened craftsmanship" of Willard Fill
more, and the specific approval Of the fidelity Of
Mr.. Seward in the United States Senate. com
pliment TO the Senator general as that bestowed
on the President would have involved no principle
of party faith But the resolution not only approves
the particular Of Mr.. Seward in the Senate,
bot declares that il was in accordance with the long
cherished principles Of the Wing party thus in of
feet declaring that the doctrines avowed, tho
sures advocated by him, we're those of the Wing
party Of this State and that the of his doc
trines and measures not consonant to the prin-
ciplcs Of New York Wings. Here then is a direct
issue rendered of great and vital principle. The
implied and necessarily resulting implication
against the President and his administration ia in
itself enough to condemn such n resolution in body
of Wing representatives But its paramount and
inherent vice s found in the effort to make the
Wings of New York responsible for the opinions,
doctrines, propositions, aud votes of Mr. Seward in
the United States Senate, and TO make those opn-
ions part of the Wing creed in this State.
The other resolution 20 which We refer, s that
which seeks TO revive the agitation of the Wilmot
proviso by applying 10 territories already created
That queson is settled beyond the reach Of disturb
ance, and its agitation can answer other purpose
than TO form part of new abolition platform.