The southern press., 1850-10-03
The aaigher Law, in the Ascendant.

From the tone of the Northern Admins
section Of the Wing party will not generally
sustain the seeded from the Convention-bu
will Sknock under to the Sewardites
The Albany Erening Journal thus chuckles
over its triumph, and shows very little anxiety
about the "bolters y
"We ask the attention of the Wings Of New
| York to the resolutions adopted by their State
Convention. We ask it with an nndoubtin@ con-
viction that these resolutions viii find hearty
response from all parts of the State.
Until the delegates who withdrew from the
Convention shall have assigned their reasons for
doing so, we forbear remark upon what will be
deemed Il most extraordinary course.
! Nearly two-thirds of the delegates to the Con-
veution were steadfast in the conviction that the
Wing party must stand where it has stood in its
past conflicts and triumphs, Any departure, BY
that Convention, from cardinal principles-any
faltering in the path of duty-any compromise
of the cause of freedom, would have left the
Whig party defenceess and naked, to the pity
of its friends and the contempt of its foes.
But thanks to the firmness and fidelity of an
indomitable majority, representing a consttu-
ency to which the Wing party is ever indebted
for its strength and its stability, there was, in
our State Convention, no wavering in faith, no
faltering in action. We stand firmly on the
platform of l84S. We go into the election up
holding the banner under which Gen. Taylor and
Milard Fillmore were elected President and
Vice President. There is not, in the resolutions
of the State Convention, sentiment, a sentence,
or syllable which does not belong to the Wing
creed, and on which our Wing President, Wing
members of Congress, Wing Governor, Wing
State officers and State Legislature, We're elected
Nor is there sentiment or n word in these
resolutions to which the Hon. Mr.. Duer is not
openly committed end publicly pledged
Why then have these gentlemen bolted! We
will not attempt to anticipate their answer. Nor
will we indulge any reflections upon Intercourse.
Time and reason is not unlikely to call some OF
them--pcrbaps all-back to their positions in
the Wing party. Let no door,be closed to their
return.
But this is question of importance TO them
selves only No forty gentlemen, however high
in Office or distinguished in character, can, by
their detection, arrest the onward course of n
great party As well might the same number of
passengers attempt to stop the revolutions of a
locomotive by throwing themselves upon the
track before it, as to suppose the dissent of forty
voices will be needed by more than TwoIuNDRED
THOUSAND WIG FREEMES
The eyes of our deluded friends will be unseal-
ed in forty y-eight hours. Nothing but that snlad-
ness" which precedes destruction can keep them
blinded. Strong men row rapidly mih the tide
Ito pull against it is hard and slow process. ;.
Leaders, too. are strong when they actin sympa-
thy with the masses bnt powerless when they
they attempt to mislead
On the other side there is evident uneasiness,
| and disposition TO acquesce' in the will of
the majority.
In view of such faint plaudits as the follow
ing, and the advice which is given, well may
Messrs. GRANGER, DUER g. Co. cxclaim, ''Call
you this backing your friends"
The New York Commercial Advertiser (Ad-
minlstratiou) thus concludes its remarks:
We need not extend these remarks much
farther.-We shall not presume 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 thai unless they are prepared 10
thro'o operboard heir reputation for consistency