New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-16

/ bono 6lOft tho WING bspaer thposn uiHuy uNi
| fopebt field; but y DO are now forsaksn as unss'e
! o,i3es and the doctrines which they preach, and
! alVpys have preached, pronounced obsolete ana
sVtbcse who adhere 70 thess old aud tried Leaders
ns"reekers after some political place VINO need
bot one ides, end ,eIdom have more who aonele
70 some diEtiDe uished man regardless o! PrincPSs,
! keen .clote within his shadow, so that ~henoy
| mat on 0cci6enL II matters little which, ne snah
he advanced TO power, and enabled orePsy 1ne
sNnscnent OF bis followers by fat JOBS ana aces VI
| distinction they may receive their re~arG =.
Now such deDunciation OF Whiss3y w ID
| r,t tho wav 10 produce harmony. wings nave
| epcucb 10 do 10 combat their enemies, without
! nakine ouslsugh.s upon their friends. Neither IS
Il worth while for Wings to spend their oreatn la
| making new Issues. In laboripg 70 snow thss
",he Law Of Progress is the law Of inc !" o'g par.
~ nor attempting 10 reiolve the fair fabric OF oar
fice Institutions into their original eleme nts We
lave Constitution; let US be content as wings
10 bring our principles to the test oil thas in.tfo,
nent, and rot attempt to ergrait upon Our political
creed Guy new Prin 'ples, or propose 70 submit
them to any higher tests.
Remarks.
TIE Commercial will oblise us by being
little more definite on some points involved
in the above essay. For instance,
l. 1t scouts the idea of Progress, eau
lions the Wing party not to abandon tho
old landmarks &c. But hoO old must the
landmarks be to render them deserving Of
our reverence? Opposition to the Military
prestige and to the selection Of candidates
for high Civil Office because they had won
popularity by Sighting battles, was once
Wing landmark 1t has been moved some
how or other, and seems to have been nearly
lost sight of. Shall we set it up again and
respect it? Opposition to Executive in
Guence over the deliberations Of Congress
was one Of the odd landmarks We
liked it heartily, as we did the first named.
But within few months we have heard
more than we could we'll stomach of the
Presidents [Gen. Taylor'sl policy the
Administration policy &c. with regard to
what CONGRESS should do, and were repeat
edly told by the ofice-scekers who haunt
Washingto that, in trying to save all the
Territory we could to Free Labor by sus-
tanning the Compromise, we were opposing
the Administration We note some ink
lings of this same anti-Whig impudence
put forth by the smaller fry of letter-writing
offce.seekers since Mr.. Fillmore became
President, but they are much fainter and
more decorous. Yet we. protest against the
lot. THE Presidents policy as to the du-
ties deyolving upon himself and his subor-
dinates, is very we'll; but the Presidents
policy for Congress we cannot abide, and
we should like to see the time-honored Wing
doctrine Of Congressional independence Of
the Executive reafirmed and lived up to-
But
9. The Commercial will oblige US by say
ing whether the Address and Resolutions Of
the last Wing State Contention are yenera-
bic enough to be landmarks in its eyes ?
II not, how far back must We 60 to find
the pure Wing doctrinei May there not
be heresy behind as well as before US?
3. The 'old and tried Wing leaders,
who have been 'exponents of Wing princi
ples,' conservators of Wing. strength find
favor in the eyes of The Commercial. They
are not unsafe guides nor are their doc
/, , trines obsolete Very good. Most con
spicuous Of these in position and one Of
: the first in every attribute Of Statesman
ship is DANIEL WEBSTER. He is LAND
Reformer, and very thorough one. Hi!
= bill now before the Senate goes a littl'
further than we ever proposed to 90 though
l not further than we would now go) il
applying the radical doctrines of the ad
Q yocates Of Progress and what they pleas
: 10 denominate the inaGenablc Rights o
Man. to the disposition and apprOpria
0 ton of the Public Lands. Does The Com
mercial object to the endorsement of Nj
/ WEpsrER's matured and deliberate view
J on this subject by the approaching Viii
State Conventionf What says it to
I. Compromise whereby the radical az
i vocates of the law Of Progress shall agre
a to rest satisfied with full and clear affirm
i ance Of Mr.. WEBsTER's views on this sui
u iect, if the other sort Of Wings will com
T. heartily up to this landmark and let a
OF other questions of Progress lie over f
further consideration? Or is Progress
Of backward from the standpoint Of Mr.. Wei
e ster and other eminent Wings demanded
The Commercial as a condition of harmon
n and success? Let US understand
u 1t is currently reported through Il
State that, through good part of the. pr
m sent summer, The Commercial has been @
OF tied msinly by Polk and Dallas Hanke
q, who would very naturally feel greater soli'
g. tude for the rigorous conservation of VIII
principles than for the success Of Wing Ga