New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-18
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London, who got together and resolved that
We, the People of England do decree
thus and so, have had many imitators
Had the prospect of pay and provonder
been faircr, the TooIey-st. gentlemen might
have been ninety as easily as three. But
what if they had
= The Wing party of New-York held
a State Convention as usual when 1t has
State Officers TO elect, made It's nomina-
tons and proclaimed its principles and
views as applicable to the present posture
of our public affairs. On most questions
the Delegates were entirely agreed, but
on two they differed The majority felt it
incumbent on them to make known that
they adhered tothe doctrines the party has
ever maintained of the power, the right
and the duty of Congress to prevent the
Extension of Slavery into our Federal Ter
ritories; the minority, though protesting to
concur entirely in the sentiment, urged
that there was no remaining necessity
for avowing it. The majority, though
they had not all eoncurred i'll every
step and approved every vote of our
Wing United Statcs Senator, felt strong
" impelled to express their admiring APP
probation of the zeal and efficiency with
which he had advocated the cherished prin-
ciples of our faith, the intrepidity with
which he had chosen to be at peace with
his own conscience at the cost of being
warrcd upon by a majority Of his fellow
Senators, TO vote alone when that seemed
to him the way of Duty, and to meet i'll
suit, scurrility aud execration with mmoye-
able fortitudc, courtesy and pity. We,
who have widely and pointcdly differed
with Gov. Seward as to policy, thought 1t
but the mcrest justice to themselves, no
matter how it might be regarded by him,
to give authentic expression to the hearty
appreciation with which his constituents re-
garded his Senatorial career could those
who had concurred with him throughout
be expected to feel this less kecnly ! We
believe it would have been at once cow
ardly and impolitic for the Wings Of New
York to have held State Convention at
the close of a Session of Congress so pro-
tracted and memorable as the last and not
expressed their confidence in and admiration
of the course of their only common Repre-
sentative i'll that Congress, whose course
had attracted more general attention and
whose Speeches had been more extensively
read than those of any man ever before
were during his first Session in Congress.
And especially, considering how he had
been assailed and reviled, both within and
without our State, as having forfeited the
confidence and drawn upon himself the re-
probation of his constituents we believe
it would have been cowardice and mgrati-
tude to withhold that expression. SO
thought majority of the Convention; so
they acted. Their judgment is on record
five hundred Custom-House Conventions
could not ehace it.
MOI Heaven Itself upon The Past hath power,
But what hath been hath been.
The Tooley-street convocation serves
only to render that expression more en-
phatic and memorable. A minority re
sisted ii, exhausted the resources of strate-
gy and palaver to defeat it, called the Yeas
and Nays on it and had their names re-
corded in the negative, seeded from the
Convention, held a meeting of their own,
and put forth an Address. Surely here
was enough to render the fixed resolve
of The Wings not to back down from the
position hitherto maintained by them with
respect 10 Slavery Extension and their af-
tectionate confidence in Gov. Seward suffi-
GENTLY marked and conspicuous. But no
there must be Minority State Convention
held on purpose to prove, as the light is
proved by every shadow, that the Wings
Of New-lork mean to stand by their cher
ished principles and the chosen champions
Of those principles. Very well.
As to any prctense that this Boiling Con-
yentlon represents the Wing Purity of New
ork' II IS too absurd to be aulaciouS.-
There are Counties containing FIVE thou
sand Wings in which no single hundred
have IN any manner authorized any person
to represent them III this Convention. Take
Onondaga for smnple-the County which
was the theoter of the State Convention