New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-17


written bv either of the Editors, but BY some
volnnteer at the bellows, who now signs
himself "A Wing lie now says;
49,, that u,e Of the term, understand that
.rt,nteyi,m' means the oiiense Of rebakIng ana
hlISjng M 70 contempt and rdicule the prePos,er-
b'aoins " e a. sdtor UpOn what
,,rornd can this extraordinary claim TO i'm mnnty
e. he editorial corps be placed Are they not
subject TO the laws and to public Opinion 70 G.
ION " IN their fellow citizens Or 10 tnefs Ia
,bjs case also higher law than the Constitution
vbieb sbsolves them from restraint sc. &c
We thought the public had been sum
GENTLY naUseated with this balderdash from
the Bench, without sinking the Press TO It's
level. The 'Flunkeyism OF when 'niS
pameIess factionist was guilty consi''eu'
first in lying. lie said,
The most puissart and thrice ilustrlous eds'n
formally proposes terms Of recP'Dc" Ia, ~
f,1endsI,1 between himself and the Pcesll S...oj
| The limited States He has handed ia n's d, ~ -.
and awaits in diplomatic dignity us t5ers bs,
snonsei The world at large is informed tnero -
! sPCbSo ~ - and arrangement between him
| and the President Prodigous
This was not true. Mr.. Weed had not
nronosed "terms of reciprocal amity and
friendship" to the President On the
contrary, he had avowed that their form
er relations of personal friendship had
been broken of, and clearly intimated his
conviction that they would not be renewed.
But he added, notwithstanding their per-
sonal arrangement, he should yield cor
dial and thorough support to the new Presl-
dents Administration, unless that support
should involve what he must consider in
fidelity to his cherished principles and the
cause of Free Soil We trust this reserea-
ton was needless, but the idea that there
is anv arrogance" in an Editors stating
that he will sustain President 80 long as
be proves faithful to that Editors cherished
principles-the sneer at the diplomatic
dignity" of the Editors ayowing his princi-
pies and waiting to see if the President
maintains those principles before he swVgs
his hat in that Presidents lsudatiOn-in
short all forms and phases Of the idea that,
because one man is President and another
an Editor, therefore it is ridiculous in the
latter to speak of his alienation and
enlargement from the former, or speak
of reciprocal amity and friendship be-
tween them-this is 'Flunkeyism,' and
a very striking exhibition of that low,
unAmerican vice. 1t is upper servant all
over. We have known Mr.. Fillmore for a
number of years, and never regarded it as
any condescension on his part to associate
with respectable Editors as equals, and are
very sure that he took the same view Of the
matter. II never made any difference with
us that he was by turns a private citizen,
Member of Congress, and Vice President !;
and we never perceived that it made any
with him. And, though we have not seen
him since he became President, we have no
doubt he is the same man still, and not ex-
allied one whit above Editors and the like.
Had we ever been at variance with him, we
should have deemed it no more prepOSterOuS
to speak of our alienation and estrange-
ment' from him than from anybody else.
Now wilfully blindis the bat who pretendS
not to see that The Registers former article
did assume a disparity of rank or position
between a President and an Editor, which
rendered the idea Of alienation and es-
arrangement on the part Of the latter, of am
ity and friendship between the two, or Of
conditions and stipulatiOns by the Editor as
to the grounds of his support to the Admin
istration of the President, presumptuOus,
arrogant, and (as he in another place.
'supercilious.' His last dodge is pretense
that we have claimed some exalted privileges
or consideration for Editors, whereas we
have only insisted on their standing along
with Presidents, streetpavers, wood-chop-
pers, &c. on the platform of a common HUI
manity.
We have taken this trouble with The
Registers anonymous Wing because we
recognize in him member Of the small COM
pany who because they still cherish the feu-
dal notions of former age, hug the illusion
that the Country has not defnitively discard
ed them, and are bent on using the Wing
party in crusade for their restoration
dissatisfied with the success Of their fathers
in running the great party which rallied
around Washington, Pinckney and Jay,
they would delight in trying like ex-
pertinent with the Wing party if they
could only coax it into their livery
But this can never bet the stars in their
courses fight against it, Day unto day ut
tereth speech in favor of the essential and
eternal Equality Of Men-their equality as