The republic., 1851-08-05

right OF treemen 10 discuss the enactment,
operation, modification, OF repeal of any, or of
all laws-copsttute programme of doctrine
eminently worthy of Americans and of Wings.
With such declarations from such men we are
content. The Union is safe and the Wing
party united.
There are other and outside evidences that
the various opinions represented by the Con-
ferring Committees will be respected and con-
frmed by the people. Here is the language of
the Albany Erening Journal
"The Whig State Central Committee and the
committees appointed by the Utica Convention
and by the Wing members of the Legislature,
have united in call for State convention This
united call is the result of protracted consultation
and mutual concession. The several committees
met with profound sense of their responsibilities.
They knew that their constituents desired the
dial union of the party, if, they believed it was
possible TO effect such union without sacrifice of
principle.
'Such Union has been effected. The old land
marks of the party distinctly recognised, while
more recent and more perplexing questions have
been frankly met and wisely and harmoniously
disposed of. Although there is distinct and EN-
phatic reiteraton of the iniexible purpose of the
sWhigs of New York to oppose every attempt to in
troduce slavery into territory free, there is an
equally emphatic reitcration of the often avowed
Wing doctrine, that every State has the right to
regulate is own domestic affairs without interfe-
renee from other States or foreign countries. And
while acquiescence in and obedience to all laws
constitutionally passed, and whose validity ia sane
toned by the judicial tribunals of the land, s de-
clared to be the solemn duty of every citizen, the
right to freely discuss such laws, and to seek their
modification or repeal, is reaffirmed right not
to be surrendered.
''The cordial and unanimous concurrence of the
several committees in these propositions not only
afford gratifying indication of the continued at
achment of the party to principles just in them
selves and vital to domestic harmony but of the
desire of their representatives to effect union
upon principles which every Whig may sanction
who holds sacred the principles of human freedom
and the liberty of speech.
''Union upon such basis, followed by an ex.
preston of confidence in the National and State
administrations, cannot fail to be acceptable to
the great of the Wings of the State as it is
unquestionaby wise, conciliatory, and just.
'We cannot doubt that this call will be respond
cd to by the Wings of the State in the came spirit
which induced its promulgation. Vital principles,
are at stake The harmony of the party ia indis-
pensable to the success of those principles. That
harmony is now effected. Let every personal con-
sderation be brought into subsection to secure the
triumph of those principles"
We may add to it, as scarcely less significant
of progressive harmony, an extract from the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican:
"We would declare that the Wings of Massachu-
setts are, ever, a component and harmoni-
GUS section of the great Whig party of the nation;
of the same Wing party that, the most truly
national grounds ever occupied by any party
in the Republic. overthrow the Van Bpren dynasty
with Harrison, in 1910; resisted, noby and man
fully, with Henry Clay their standard bearer,
the annexation of Texas and its sequence the
war, in 1874. and triumphed with the nation
hearted Taylor in ls4s. AS such we stand by the
Union; and so long as Bunker EIill and Concord,
and Lexington stand, there shall ever stand, as
devoted, as self sacrificing, as loving friends and
uphoders of the Union the citizens of any sister
State, whether her shores are washed by the Allan
tic, the Pacific, the great inland seas of the North
the gulf of the South, the ghty rivers that both
separate and unite the States of this great Republic
Nor 30 long as the memory Of John Hancock and
John Adams and Elbridge Gerry shall exist and the
living Webster continue to have the influence that
whether living or dead, he is always destined to
exert, will the Wings of Massachusetts, prove false
to the Constitution. lts every provision, whether
agreeable to their personal prejudices not are
they ever ready to maintain, both In the spirit and
10 the letter. And while frankly admitting that
some of the details of the measures of Compromise
enacted under the spirit of the Constitution by the
last Congress, were not in unison with their ideas
ofjustice and duty, yet they as ready and
as frankly to declare that, measures passed for
he purpose Of pdcyying dangerous strife of sec
tions, and adjusting opposing interests and vieps,
hRy are iling to dcqiesce in their erisence regard
them as settlement, in principle of the matters to
,ohich they relate and maintain their srecuiion, as
!atrS Of the land, to.the fullest eatsnt.
eve would further declare that while op-
posed, as we always have been, to the extension
of slavery, the Wings of Massachusetts are equally
opposed, as duty devolving upon them as mem
Ders of the Union and supporters Of the Constitu
tion, TO sectional agitation for the abolition of
slavery or interference with it as it exists in the
several Sates. That while we will concede no
thing to the slavery interests we will give them
and protect them in all the rights and powers
cured to them under the Constitution. That while
that instrument secures to us the highest and dear
est blessings, it also imposes obligations which
must be honorably discharged so long as we con-
sent to enjoy the benefits.
"This in brief and in general terms, ia the posi-
ton which the Wings Of Massachusetts, as it seems
to US, ought to assume at their approaching con-
vention. We believe it reflects the feelings and
principles of the entire party in the Common
wealth, and that such platform would be adopted
With enthusiasm by their assembled delegates on
the occasion in question For we believe it TO be
eminenty true that there ia not that difference
among the members of the party in this State, on
these broad and national questions, that enc
mics have pretended, that some Of our friends
have imagined, to exist. If will but cast aside
personal predjudices and personal feelings, and
look at the subject in the broad and generous light
of good old fashioned Wing national doctrine, we
shall find no difficulty in becoming thoroughly
united both in form and in fact and thus united in
overcoming the combined forces of the Opposition
however they shall present themselves, and with
whatsoever weapons they may assail u.s."
As further evidence of the subsidence of
iactlona strife, and the restoration of national
harmony, we find the following comment on the