The southern press., 1850-10-02
The "Hisher Law, in the Ascendant

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From the tone of the Northern Admins
tration prints thus far, il seems as though that
section of the Wing party will not generally
sustain the seceders from the Conventon--but
will "knock under" TO the Sewardites.
The Albany Erenng Journal thus chuekles
over its triumph, and shows very little anxiety
about the @bolters !"
"We ask the attention of the Wings of New
York to the resolutions adopted by their State
Convention. We ask it with an undoubtng con-
viction that these resolutions will find a hearty
response from all parts of the State
Until the delegates who withdrew from the
Convention shall have assigned their reasons for
dong so, we forbear remark upon what will be
deemed a most extraordinary course
Nearly two-thirds of the delegates to the Con-
venton 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
Wing party defenceless 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 ii constitu-
S''Ny W "ai'st ehS 'h.S PsaoN 10 t'ti iHutpLCu
for its strength and its stability, there was, in
our State Convention, no waverng in faith, no
taltcrng in action. We stand firmly on the
platform of lS4S. We go into the election up
holding the banner under which Gen. Taylor and
Millard Fillmore We're 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 Whig
creed, and on which our Wing President, Wing
members of Congress- Whig Governor, Whig
State offcersand State Legislature, were elected
Nor is there a sentiment or a 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
thcm--pcrhaps 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
great party. AS we'll might the same number of
passengers attempt to stop the revolutions of IA
locomotive by throwing themselves upon the
track before it, to suppose the dissent of forty
voices will be needed by more than TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND Wing FREEMEN
The eyes Of our deluded friends will be unsea-
ed in forty-eight hours. Nothing but that amad-
ness" which precedes destruction can keep them
blinded Strong men row rapidly UiM the tide
Ito pull against it is a hard and slow process
Leaders, too are strong when they act in sympa-
thy with the masses but poweress when they
they attemptt to mislead.
On the other side there is evident uneasiness,
and n disposition to "acquiesce" 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 & Co. excaim, ''Call
you this backing your friends!"
The New York Commercial Advertiser (Ad-
ministration) 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
Hiro,o orerboard their reputation for consisiency
they must come back to IT, positions they oc-
cupied in November, l84S-that the voice of
tilc 1idjoIltY Is Vic NolCe ol lnc
the voice of the convention is the voice of the
party. By these landmarks any party must
abide that would successfully carry out its prin-
ciples. We must have some cardinal principle
which must remain mistaken amid all fluctua-
tons of opinion and sentiment Thai principle
IS, that myorifies must gOrern wherever the
representative system is fully carried out. In
the Wing party it is so. If we neglect the
primary meetings and other channels of inhu-
.encing the convention, the blame rests with us,
and to the Inconvenience or penalty we are
bound in all reason and honor, to submit. If
conventional decisions wrong us, we can pro
test; if they conflict with our settled couvic-
tons so as to interfere with principles and con-
science, we can retire from the party but our
friends who propose rival convention and a
rival ticket will, we are sure, yet perceive that
their entire ground is untenable, and their pro-
posed action calculated only to estrange them
from the Wing party, and work mischief both
to themselves and the principles to which they
profess to be attached
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