Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-12-04
Whiggery becoming Abolition.
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The defeat of the wings in their recen, State
election in New York, has resulted in pretty
general roU between the two wings Of the par
~. The New York Tribune and the Seward
press attribute their defeat to the adminis,ra-
ton wings, and in their ire breathe startling
threats Of vengeance to their silver-grey allies
The Western IN. W State Journal,
Seward whig organ, lets out the whole truth
when il says:
"We admonish the Union Safety Committee
that if they persist in their efforts TO silence
free discussion on the slavery question, the
agitation has just. commenced. ..e ta
We can furnish priests of the new deity
worshipped in New York, with another bit Of
information for their comfort. The people Of
the country have seen the last Cotton ticket
formed in that city, that will run without pro-
voking reprisals 10 the rural districts 1t Isl
game that two can play at, as Cotton VIII
find TO its cost, in the next contest. Nothing
but the Canal prevented the whole West from
breaking loose in the election just passed and
even as it was. they were with difficulty re-
strained on both sides. The unfnrling of an
other Cotton banner in the city, will be the
aignal for general revolt in the country"
So long as there was prospect of enjoying
the spo,ls, these two heterogeneous elements
of whiggery could coalesce; so long as the
nine million Canal fund patronage was at stake
there was sufficient inducement>o hold toqeth-
er-but this measure being defeated, criminal
ton and re-crimination has commemorative
signal for general reroht
The Seward wings of New York arc now
actually forced into that position Swallowed
forth in the extract from the New York Times,
which we have published recently. They
must fall back upon their abolition issues, 10
preserve theirstrength in the western cuunties,
and il would seem as if THE movement has act
ually commenced, Judging from an extract of a
manifesto just put out by Mr.. Joseph Bene-
dict, said to be a leading Seward whig Of
Western New York-which is as follows -
This morning, the Hon. Joseph Benedict,
the leader of the abolition wings III the House
last winter, appeared in the Oneida Morning
Herald, in long article, in which he says he
has long acted with the great whig party but
the time had now come when he must stop to
consider what was to be done. He says that
much has TRANSFERRED during the late campaign
which leads him TO believe that the much loved
principles of the whig party of the Empire
State, are TO be abandoned by the Office hold
ers of the present administration that the
friends of these principles had been cut down
by the dough-faces of the North and the
sooner the party was rid of the so-called silver
greys, the better il would be for all concerned
That the movement of few designing men
holding offices under the administration, is 10
muzze the mouths of the freemen of this State,
and to secure the nomination Of Willard Fill
more, or some one of the same stamp for the
Presidency in 1859 and in order to do This
they had struck down many Of the good and
well-tried wings of the State. He, for one,
would not submit 10 this way Of doing business
Lit was better for all wings to rise and repu-
date such course at once. When he was
at Albany Hast winter, he was beseiged BY men
holding offices in New York and other places,
10 lend his aid to defeat the election OF Gov.
Fish as Senaior-,hat the same game had been
played in Pennsylvania for the purpose Of de-
feating the election of Gov. Johnston. He,
for one, would feel ready TO throw of the pail
of such party, and begin anew, and start a
WING party for the freedom of all, and let those
men of the South 90 on their way rejuicing-
the quicker tne Detter ana tnat tne Time was
not far distant when an men would be called
upon 10 enter the political field on this ground
the quicker the better. He was ready at
any time to meet the issue. -1
The letter is much praised by all the abol;-
tionists in New York, and by number of the
abolition whig leaders"
The wing party seems fast degenerating into
that position declared by Henry Clay 10 be in
,olerable-''a contemplate abolition party ?"
Wonder if the Hon. gentlemen is prepared to
make good his pledge, to leave the party!