Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-07-03
From the Buffalo Courier ]
Political Prospects

The Washington Union, alluding to the old proverb
house divided against itself shall not stand" thinks
the time has fully come for the people to demand what
guarantee the Wing party as now organized, offer
OF ITS ability 20 maintain that Of national policy
which the Wing Administration itself claims be
senta to the peace and safety of the country viz the
Compromise. The Union proceeds as follows, and we
should like to see denial Of its statement in any quar-
ter:
The whole power of the northern Wings at this time
IS in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
And now the fact Is most remarkable and significant,
that, with Wing Administration at Washington thus
planted on the Compromise, solitary Indication
has been given in the whole State action and organza
on of the Wing party throughout this vast region, of
its capacity to organize itself upon the maintenance of
the Compromise and either gain hold the poicer of
single one Of those States upon that piatormn'
The same facts were stated yesterday by the Buffalo
Express in reply to the Commercial Advertiser-one of
neghbors having begun to realize that its party in
tight place as regards making Presidential nomina-
and the other having discovered that the grey-
Gus burden yet thrown upon the Administration and its
friends the obligation maintain their position on the
Compromise, and carry majority of Wings with them.
We would call attention extract from the very
nifcant article in the Express:
In Presidential nominations the personal opinions
Of the OF little moment for II he be honest
man. he viii act according the creed and platform OF
his party, whatever may be his rivate views if he is
dishonest his private opinions cannot be relied upon-but
the ground that the party shall take in Convention is all
important Now we will suppose the Whig party met
in National Convention and the proposition is made in
resolution make it cardinal point in the Whig creed
Ia plank In its platiorm-that the compromise meas
all right and that the fugitive slave law shall
not be amended! would not the delegates from New
York Pennsylvania, Ohio Massachusetts, and New Jer.
sey, say truly that neither of those States be
ried by the Wing party that basis? And that Nth
out three of them no Uhig can be elecIed?"
The case is clear one and so clearly stated by the
Express, to require little comment. Upon the
Compromise Platform, the Wing party has no hope OF
chance for the election of its Presidential candidate
But upon Anti-Slavery Free Soil Platform, with
Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law" as its watch
and battle-cry, it has hopes, if a chance win
Democrats will understand this. The campaign o
4S has taught them nothing, if they fail the patti
of duty now, to march boldly up the work before
them. Let them rally under the old banner upon the
broad National Platform which their brethren Nortl
and South and East and West stand united and firm
in defence of the Constitution and Union. Uphold tn,
Compromise of the last Congress- and dscar,
and denodnce sectional agitation! Countenance un
worthy and corrupt coalition, and make undue con
cessions in any quarter Do this and the result in 5
will be what every rueheated honest Democrat in thu
Union would have it.