Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-12-04
The Late Wing Party.

The Late Wing Party.
The records of State elections, almost unanimous.
y, bear witness that the Wing party is routed
party 1t has been discontinued in almost every con-
test that has taken place, since the passage of the
Compromise measures no matter under what
banner its sections marched, or what leaders they
followed. Paralysis smote what the Philadelphia
Convention left of Whigism, when the name of Mil.
lard Fillmore, as the symbol of that party, was APP
pended 10 the Fugitive Slave Law; and all the des-
pelate energies and efforts Of the politicians, in va
rous parts OF the country. to restore the strength
which that act had destroyed, only aggravated the
general weakness. The right arm of the Wing
party became withered and impotent, as if God had
smote it with palsy, when the tongue of its prophet
Daniel, had predicted that law, and when the hand
ofits chief minister had signed it,
The natural recr limitations that are now INDUCED
in towards each other, by the antagonist sections of
the Wing party, the suIky hostility they,exhibt to-
wards each others pecuiarities Of faith and the n
coherency of idea and of action, that distinguish
them, in relation to Presidential nominations, So
show, in the next place, that the Wings are
state of complete dsorganization. EeeYy
The nonextension ofSlavery was that dogmfeigh
their ancient creed (which was of eternal Significant
II was principle which general, political, or So
cal expediency could by possibility modify. Time
might demonstrate that United States Bank was
not abso utey necessary preserve the credit of the
country, and prevent periodical explosions in the
money market; aud it might prove, also, that high
tariffs could be modified or dispensed WITH as the
circumstances ofthe country changed. There was
no principle Of perpetulty in the opinions held by the
Wing party, regarding the Bank and the Tariff, as
time has proven; but in the idea ofthe preservation
OF freedom to Free Soil, there was an immortal ba-
sis of union, that nothing could DESTROY but the rea
son and falsehood ofthe party leaders, They dis
carded this principle, and the routed fragments, and
discordant elements, of which the Wing party nom
inally, is now composed, show as plainly as the
hand writing the wall, what has been the effects
OF their treason. The Neaobryport Herald abuses
the Atlas for pretending, in S50to sustain the anti
slavery ground of the Wing party, and the Atlas
wrIlhes under that abuse, but the worldly prudence
which made it swallow all its anti-slavery profess
tations in one gup, with the Springfield Convention
and MIR. Winthrop,now causes to bear the lash Of
It's bunker brethren, with snlky meekness
The Atlas is no doubt ''biding its time, ;" fol the
waters are yet troubled, and even the recondte
Boston Journal, and its profound contemporary, the
Bee, canuot see how the grampus of Whggery will
turn up
The Ne'o York Tribune expresses itself hostile to
National Convention, and the nomination Of can
didate for the Presidency. 1t says:
Sour choice, as is well known, would be to have
no National Convention at all, and no exclusive
wing candidates, but let every Wing deemed ~or.
thy be recommended TO the People and voted for bv
them, with common Wing Electoral Ticket in
each State, nominated as usual, voted for by all
w hlgs, and all pledged to cast their votes as the
largest number Of Wings throughout the Union shall
direct
The Ne0 York Express, on the other hand an
nonnces the approach of the time, when delegates
shall be chosen to National Convention, and il un.
mlstakably declares, that the hunkerzation of the
party must be completed at that Convention.
The year 1852 promises 10 be an eveuful one i,
the worlds calendar of events. Abroad,w we hear
nations trembling on the verge of some new demon.
sration of the spirit of liberty and at home, we hope
TO witness the manifestations of that spirit, in the
total dsrupture Of mere technical parties and in the
increased number, and broader front, of the known
irssndas Of freedom and right. The total break up
of the Wing party, at this time, seems to indicate
that the members Of the Webster wing will go for
southern principles, carrying with them the weak
ness and name Of the apostatized Wing party. 1t
remains TO be seen if the Seward wing will unite in
this exodus. However it may be, the Wing party
that qoas can no more be-