The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-19
Tho Planks OF the Fillmore Platform in
New York ... ....

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New York. ...
The Administration organs ut the North, and
their Southern echoes, have endeayored to gain
Southern sympathy for the Syracuse seeeders
by setting up the pretext Of their superior sound
ness on the Southern question. Now the
squabble between these two factions Gas we
have repeatedly shown) did not originate in
any material difference Of principle, but from
causes of n personal character. The intention
of Senator SEWARD evidently was, first to COM
nit the friends of President FILLMORE, and then
to cut them off from the control of, or commu-
Mon with, the Wing masses in New York--and
this purpose he has effected. The difference be-
tween the two sets of resolutions, rs far as the
South is concerned, is the difference between
tweededum and tweedledee, as far as measures
or principles are inyolved-but they do not in
clude the same men, who have travelled towards
the same goal by different roads.
This is patent on the face of the protest of the
seceders. In the address drawn up by Mr.. DUER,
the whole pth and marrow Of the dispute is
thus summed up, in giving the reasons which
prompted the seceders:
"Thcy did not choose, for the sake of putting
a crown of glory on the head of Mr.. Seward, to
stamp with condemnation the President OF the
United States, and such eminent Wings as
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. Could they
have done this without being recpeant to their
principles, and treacherous to their friends!"
If this is not plea I" to the person" then we
do not understand the meaning of words.
On the other side of the case n similar issue
is made The Albany Erening journal says, as
to Seward:
"'The bitter, malignant and nsatiate spirit Of
vengeance which tracked him into the Senate,
and which has pursued him through the whole
session, awakeneda sentiment amongs the Wing
masses which could not be repressed."
1.-THE cohesive power of parties is strong
enough generally to stand Il severe strain on
measures, but when the rupture is about men it
is exceedingly difficult to patch up the fracture.
Well may the gentlemen at Utica, who are about
to perform the part of Mark Anthony over the
body Of the party, pointing to the corpse ex-
claim
! See what rent
/ The envious Casca made"
But there are equally conclusive proofs of the
character of this split afforded by the avowals of
the endorscrs of Messrs DUER g. Co. We
might multiply these indefinitely, to show the
feeling that animatcs then,--but one striking
proof which We subjoin, would Of itself be suf-
6cient to expose the hypocrisy and hollow cant
| of their claim to ndtionalHy!"
The Albany RA. fsler is the special organ OF
the Administration 'clique, and speaks by au
thority for them. In the last issue of that paper
, We find the following editorial notice:
"SlGXFIcANT.-It will be seen that the reg,l-
E larry called Wing County Conventions for the
nominations of candidates in Ontario and st
Lawrence countless took high national ground
We invite particular attention TOT the capital reso-
buttons of the Ontario Convention. The St
Lawrence Convention unanimously approved
the course of the delegates sent to Syracuse
from that county, and reappointed them to the
Utica Convention"
Now the % Ontario Resolutions are indeed
: "signi6cant" as to "the high national ground
taken by the so-called National Wings of New
York Here are the most important of them:
Resolved, That the present success, and fu-
ture prosperity of the Wing party ofNew York,
are dependent on its unity, harmony and sympa-
thy with the Wings of other States and Of the
Union; and that a spirit of mutual forbearance
and conciIia ion is due alike to the exigency of
the present crisis and to the remembrance of
past trumphs and united struggles against loco
foco corruption and msrue.
Resolred, That the recent legislation Of Con-
gress for the suppression of the infamous Slave
traffic in the District of Colur ba,-for the adj
mission of California as free state--and for the
establishment of territorial governments over
New Mexico and Utah, under circumstances that
insure the exclusion Of Sldrery thererom is sub
ject of just and heartfelt congratulation to every
enlightened patriot as promising the speedy re-
turn of quiet, harmony, and fraternal regard be-
tween the different sections of this great Repub-
lie, and rendering the further agitation of sectio
nal differences as unnecessary as it is dangerous.
Resolved, That we regard the Constitution
of the United States as the supreme law of the
land, and as such to be implicitly obeyed by the
citizens Of every section, and by the authorities
of every State that we will faithfully observe
all its. provisions and compromises; that we will
resist promptly, firmly, and by all necessary
means. any attempt from any quarter to over
throw it and that in all cases Of doubt as to its
meaning we will appeal to, and abide by the de-
cision of the Supreme Court of the United
States
SEWARD himself might endorse these resolu-
: tons, for he himself, when pushed to the wal
in the Senate, denied his Higher Law doctrine
and professions cost nothing
4 The Fugitive slave Bill, is not even referred
O to- in any Of the Resolutions thus lauded BY tn,
q organ of the seceders.
" What is n Nationality like this worth anC
> why should Southern men stultfy themselve.
by climbing upon such Platform!
u Political Quarantine.
n The Louisiana Statesman contains the follow
ing EDITORIAL
y NoS INTERCOURSE. - We learn from tin
Q Charleston Mercury, that seventv-one planter