The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-05-24
the New Yosk Tribune, Oct o. 1880
The Wings OF New YoIk.--Mhat Principles have


When the wings OF Georgia. Alabama. or North Car
ona in Congress or State conventions repudiae the
OF petition and the constitutional right Of the
Shareholders TO carry their human chaels into territory
that came TO free think OF reproaching them
with .sectionasm" and DETECTION from the platform OF
the .snatonal wing" party They voted Tor years, IN
opposition Msssrs Granger, Fillmore, and our other
in Congress yet we OF New York never
considered This cause of alienation nor reiused vote
for southern wings Tor President and Wee President be-
Of it, We understood without Discussing It, that
this subjec! OF slavery IS one on which northern and
southern wings must from the nature oil the case "agee
to dfer" II would be idle and (woTse SUD peInclous
10 undertake TO keep up hollow show OF concord where
real agreement existed or could exist has seemed
BEST therefore, that wings OF each section should be faith
full TO their respective CONVICTIONS acting together on
those topics only in regard 10 which unity OF sentiment
existed In this spirit have fought together the pres
denal battles Of $780, "a, and 49, winning two OF the
three We do not believe any other basis OF union prac
tcsble To attempt TO make New England wings and
Mississippi wings think alike or talk alike with respect
to slavery and It's adjuncts rs vain undertaking We
only speak feel. and acl as we believe Any
effort for procrusean uniformity will be to result in
dscord and discontinue. We therefore do not consider
southern wing unfahu 10 the national whg" party
because he avows determined hostility TO the Wmot
Proviso; and how, then, shall northern wing be siig
matized sectional because he avows himself devo-
ted to The preservation OF free soil
The State OF New York, as early 1920, proclaimed
its unanimous hostility to the extension OF human
slavery. In 1880 Qf we do not mistake the Year, our
Legislature resolvedFrancis Granger with nearly all the
wings in the assembly voting yea-tha slavery in the
District OF Columbia ought to be abolished, In 1888,
before VIM n. Seward was chosen governor or known
candidate for Congress in Erie county, and. under
sort of political necessity for so dong, since the wing
vote Of his district was large majority Of the whole,
sent the following reply to the questions OF the abolition
lists of his county, viz:
BUFFALO, October II. 1888.
Sir: Your communication Of The 18th instant as
chairman OF committee appointed by the Anti Slavery
Society of the county OF Erie, has Just come to band
nItn In
.lst Do you believe that petitions Congress on the
subject OF slavery and the slave trade ought to be re-
ceiYed, read and respectfully considered by the repre-
sentatVes OF the people'
".2d Are you opposed TO the annexation of Texas to
this nation under any circumstances SO long as slaves
are held therein
- 3d. Are you in favor of Congress exercising all the
constitutional power it possesses to abolish the Internal
sidve trade bstwesn The States?
" 4th Are you in favor of Immediate Legislation for
the abolition Of slavery in the District Of Columbian
al am much engaged, and have no time to enter into
argument or to explain at length my reasons for my
emit by answering all your heterogeneous IN the ctirna
true and leave for some future occasion more extended
N'''N''' : - "MILLARD FILLMORE"
This letter was paraded through the ocofeco journals
of the slave States throughout the last presidential
yass when MIR. Fillmore the whig candidate Tor
Vice President yet, while its authenticity was admitted
they never made expenses out OF H. Mr fIinoIe re-
ton OF slavery in the District Columbia the right OF pc.
tion, or the grounds of resistance 10 the annexation OF
Texas: and he only qualified hs strong doctrine WIN
cent case OF Prgg against Pennsy IN which the
Supreme Court had ruled against him. And we don't be-
eve the wing ticket lost thousand votes throughout
the South because OF that letter.
AS early as ls44-the question being forced upon us
by the inrgues Tor annexation-he wing party OF New
York took decided ground against the extension OF our
slaveholdng territory The following is one OF the re-
solves unanimously passed by the wing State conyen.
ZION OF that year;
Rolutd That the annexation of Texas this Union,
of Texas, would render slavery perpetual throughout the
domnions held by that republic at the time oil annexation
the present consultation OF Texas makes slavery
porpe,ual, aud neither the yeay-making power nor the
legislative power Of government can abolish or repeal
constitutional provisos
That this ocrine was oyerued and defeated with
gard 10 Texas not the fault OF the wings OF New
York In lS47 the question OF slavery extension having
again presented itself III view OF the imminent prospect
resolve was presented in the locofoco State convention
and there laid on the table by close vote. The wing
State convention met few days aiierwatd took The re-
I've of the table where the ocoiocos had left II, and
passed il unanimously, VIZ
Rssoirsd That, while the WING eemen OF New York rep.
resented this convention will faithfully adhere 10 all the
compromises OF tbs constitution and jealousy maintain all
the rved rights Of tho States they decaresince the
crisis has arrived when the question must be met-ther
promising hostility to the extension Of slavery into
any free which be hereafter acquired by
any an ton of the government OF our Union.
On the strength mainly OF that resolveof IFS rejection
by the democ, acy and its hearty adoption by the wings
the State went wing in the election that followed by
some 30 900 majority, Millard Fillmore beaded the Ting
ticket.
The next year (lsas) that OF the last presidential
election How earnestly aud successfully the whg parry
of the free States labored 10 demonstrate It's devotion 10
The free-sol principle, all who shared in that contest
must re alize Our wing State convention unanimously
Resoped That the wing party Of the State Of New York
faithfully adbenDg 20 every obRaiion Of me eonsllnuon,
dies
and domestic institution. of other States reiicrates
il. solemn and oi.repcsted destinations Of Interchangeable
hostility to the establishment recognition Of slavery In
the acquisition an iatri1s RESOLUTION, nhich
iay,s Of tin srigrcy Of euesmarcs ean tpr I'm
pair or dtmirth
On The strength OF that profession have carried The
State and large majority I'm weight OF the Tree States,
when it would clearly have been impossible TO succeed
on what is now termed the National Wing Platform"
Mr. Fillmore was then chosen Vice President, and Mr.
Duer reelected 10 Congress
Closely following this triumph December 1S isss)
came the vote in the House on Mr. Giddings's bill to
umbs, which every New York wing present voted 10
sustain, as follows:
hsoiua laying on the fabe-tfrom New York )--Messrs
Baokmar. Couger Cot, Greeley, NATHAN X Hail. WASH
Iseros Husr, Kellogg, w. t Lawrence Marvin, Mulln,
Nelson Putnam, Reynolds, Ramsey, ST John, Sheriff.
Sylvester, snRerland, Pred. Talmadgc, Warren. Hogh
Whte-s2
No New York wings; only two absent silent
Messn. Duer and Rose
Our convention OF isip lone little year sgo) again
R.sofred Ths, tho federal constitution was formed and
adopted expressly 10 Secure the blessings OF LpFpry 10
the peope OF the United States and their postery and a
no power given therein extend the Of slavery
wherefore maintain that Congress has the right and
Territories the Unou and plainly prohibit esabb.
in any portion OF those Territories any time