New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-07

to keep out the Syracuse ticket for
season. but that was because it was the
Syracuse ticket-or rather, because certain
Resolves adopted at Syracuse did not meet
their appreciation. SO they held another
State Convention of their own at Utica,
and, amid brave parade of National re-
solves, speeches, &c. renominated Mr.. Hunt
as the National Wing candidate for Gov
ernor, and pledged themselves to labor
night and day for his election.
Were these assumptions, these profess
sions, honest? Did the Duerites believe
themselves when they ayowed themselves
satisfied with Mr.. Hunt and in good faith
aboring to elect him! Let the returns
embodied in this paper answer.
New-York City furnished a majority of
the Delegates to Utica who had any shadow
of pretense for speaking or acting as rep
resentatiyes of Wing constituencies. This
City elects National Wing Mayor, Dis
trict Attorney, &c. by very large MAORI
ties, sends three National Wings to Con-
gress, and chooses thirteen Wing Assembly
men out of sixteen; yet here, with an aver
age Wing majority on the local tickets of
at least $500, Washington Hunt though
personally popular and receiving many OPP
position votes, is beaten nearly 1000
SO in Troy: 50 in Oswego, and wherever
else National Whiggery has any real
strength. By Wing plots Wing exertions,
Wing votes, Washington Hunt is defeated,
and disciple of Cas-, Marcy and Croswell
made Governor of our State. They were
no fanatics, no sticklers for higher law
no believers in 'isms.' OF all the Wings
who, for whatever reason, have voted
against Washington Hunt not half dozen
could Justly be designated as Seward men,
But by idolaters of Cotton, valiant cham
pions of the Fugitive Slave Law and hearty
sympathiscrs with the Syracuse Boilers,
has the Wing standard bearer been struck
down--not in fair manly encounter, but by
stealthy. assassin slabs, while protesting
devotion and trust. art thou in health,
my brother!' inquired each leader of the
conspiracy whose headquarters is in the
Sub Treasury, as he prepared to send his
dagger to the heart of Washington Hunt.
1t was mainly because we believed the
wire workers insincerc and treacherous that
we objected to the Utica Convention. It
had sinister purpose from the start. 1t
the contrivcrs had really intended to aid Mr..
Hunts election, they would have called no
such Convention. They had formally voted
against the Resolves which formed the pre-
text Of their Bolt They had seeded from
the Convention, held separate meeting,
and put forth their own sentiments in an
Address. Had they desired Mr.. Hunts
election, they would have ratified his nomi-
nation in that separate meeting, resting
upon their alleged knowledge of his senti-
ments being such as they affirmed and
gone home to help elect him. No possible
purpose which they confessed would not
have been better subserved by such
course than by holding a new State Con-
vention, But the Utica gathering inflicted
on Mr.. Hunt the odium OF their principles
without securing the compromising advan
tage of their support. Itqualifed and be-
logged the position of the Wing party on
the Free Soil question and furnished the
needed pretext to those who wished to con-
vince themselves that they might as we'll
vote for Seymour as Hunt, so far as devo-
ton to Free Soil was concerned The gem
uine, earnest support of John Young and
William Duer would have been a load to
stand up under; but to have the public
reputation Of their support with the reality
OF their secret opposition, would break
down any man. If any one could have
borne up under it, Washington Hunt would
have done it.
Well: Nationalism of the Duer stripe
is triumphant. A Loco-Foco is chosen by
One Thousand or SO majority to take Mr..
Duer's place in Congress, and like results
have been produced in almost all the Cen
tral Districts If the Administration, Gas
The Express has asserted) prefers defeat
in New-York to Wing triumph on the
platform reafirmed by the Syracuse Con-
vention' it has been fully gratiGed, so far as
the election of Governor is concerned. How
it may be with the rest of the State Ticket,
we have no adequate means of Judging
but 1t is safe to consider all lost until we
have data on which to base an opinion that
something has been saved.
Such reyerses have their lessons and
their uses. This may be intended to ex-