North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-10
THE NEW YORK COALITION.

fence of the late dispracefu coalition in New York
State between the friends of Seward and Fillmore.
Let US look calmly into the facts, and see how they
stand.
Last Fall the two parties in New York held their
Conventions and announced their principles. The
Democrats by vote of SO to 81, adopted the follow
ing Resolutions:
Resolued, That the Democratic party of New York
proud their fraternity with and their de-
voon to, the great principles of the democratic party
of the Union, declared in the national democratic
conventions held at Baltimore in 1910, 1874, and
Is4s, and they look forward in hope and confidence
to the complete triumph of that party in 1852.
Resolved. That we congratulate the country upon
the settlement by Congress of the questions
which have unhaPPily divided the people of these
States. Isl W.
Resolved That, devoted to the principles and form
of our confederation, mindfuEof the blessings it
has secured to ourselves and to MANKIND and regard
ing the citizens of all sections of country tnem-
bers of a common brotherhood, we cherish the Union
of the States the ark of political covenant, and
that deprecate all sectional agtatons at the North
South, calculated to impair its sacred obligations,
or to threaten its perPetuity."
And the following Resolutions, among others, were
adopted by the Wing Convention by a vote of IS
to 40:
Resolved, That the admission of California into
the Union State. and with free constitution,
meets hearty appreciation and territorial gov
ernments established for New Mexico and Utah,
without pr0hl0ltOrY clause, on the aSSum ptl0H'
that slavery is excluded by other causes, it is the
solemn duty of Congress to extend the Jefersonian
ordinance those Territories the first indica-
ton that slavery or involuntary servude is likely to
be introduced into them.
Resolred That our thanks arc especially due the
Hon. William H. Seward for the signal ability and
fidelity with which he has sustained in the United
States Senate those beloved principles of public poll
cy, so long cherished by the Wings of the Empire
State expressed in State and county conventions
well in the votes and instructions of our State leg
islature Those principles eminently national and
republican, because they are just and equitable"
The campaign opened and terminated on the above
platforms, and the Democrats were defeated. Gov.
Hunt, the Wing candidate, who was pledged to exert
his influence in favor of the repeal essential mod
fcation Of the fugtive-slave law, elected, and
also Wing Legislature; and this Legislature met
and adjourned without uttering the first word of ap
prevail of the compromise measures" enacted by the
last Congress.
These are facts from the record.
Well, what next? These two parties are to hold
Conventions again, Syracuse, the 10th and 18th
of this month and Committee of the Wings, APP
pointed to harmonize the party, and to give notice of
their Convention, issued circular in August last,
duly signed in which they took the following posi-
tons:
IS That the Wings of the State, as body, an
Terribly opposed TO the subsection Of any territory Of the
serUfude, except as punishment for crme and they
rejoice that proposition to that effect is now pend
ing, is likely to be presened while, at the same
time, they unqualifiedy acknowledge the right of
every sovereign State to regulate its own municipal
in such manner as its people may deem
most conducive to their safety and happiness, without
directly indirectly, by citizens of 9TH
er States subjects of other countries.
That the laws of Congress, and of the State Leg
latures, pronounced Constitutional by the Judicial
tribunals, must be enforced and implicitly obeyed
hat 10 full zoA fho
duty of ALL subjects of the laws, yet that the right
of citizens voters, is equally undeniable to discuss
with full and mutual regard for the rights and in
erests of all parts of the Confederacy, (Which is as
to maintain, as it indispensable to
achieve the blessed Union of these Sates, the cape
1iency Of such daos, and the propriey Of any of their
and TO seek, by Constitutional their
-epeGl or notification
The Wing Committee at the same time endorsed
he Administration of Mr.. Fillmore generally, but not
Is compromise - Administration; but the same
hing, it will be remembered, done in the most
glowing terms by the Wings of Pennsylvania, who,
the next breath, very coolly Mr.. Fillmore aside
md brought forward Gen. Scott for the Presidency.
Such endorsements, however, cost nothing; and on
hese occasions they as little as true Wings
could do.
The foregoing positions have been heartily endorsed
" the New York Tribune, the organ of Mr.. Seward,
IS Sc fair and liberal and the very thing for the
risis; and also by the Albany Evening Journal, and
II the Abolition Wing journals in the State.
These are, also, facts from the record.
Here, then, we have the Wings of New York re-
rn,ing their attachment to the WGknot Proviso and
aking the ground, after due deliberaon, that the G-
tiveslaUe aw IS properly and fairly open for discus
ion and that it is their right to seek its modification
v repeal. ..
The Raleigh Register approves and defends this
Coalition, and, in doing so. approves matter of
curse the sentiments thus put forth by these New
York Wings. That paper says: I
And what is it, by the way, these Democratic bah
ers call a surrender 1t is simply the acknowledge
nent of Gbstrocion-the right discuss anu meas
Of public interest-the very right which the South
IN Democrats are now using and enjoying to the
argest extent-even to the extent of attempting to
issolve the Union.''
That paper is very careful not to publish any of the
vidences of this coalition, but takes the ground v
readily that the President is in favor of the COM
romise measures and that the Seward Wings have
surrendered " to him We ask the people to read P
ne foregoing again and again, and then determine "
,ho has surrendered. s.
The Register has nothing but abuse and bitter II
'ords for Southern rights men-for its own fellow
zens-for men who have been assailed and Injured
" years in their character and property by the vile
reesoers and Abolitionsts but content with "a
lis, goes our enemies, unitess with them in
'alions formed against Southern Institutions and