Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-11-20
EASTERN TIMES.
Bath, Thursday, Nov. 20, 1851. 4
Position of Parties.

discord the recent State elections seem to in
dictate. With the Executive power of the
country in their hands, they have been shorn
of their power in all but three of the thirty-one
States Of the Union. That the party is com
pletely dendtiondi,ed is admitted by respecta-
bic wing sources, and the course TO be pursued
under this state of affairs, is begun to be
preached. In proof of this, we quote from a
carefully prepared article that has appeared in
the New Yo.k Daily Times, written since the
elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The
Times, we would state, is the new Se,odrd or
gan, edited by Mr.. Raymond, late associate
editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer;
it's colleague of the New York Tribune
Of the same school but little less radical
The extracts are as follows =
" An electric shock often precipitates chem
ical substance in solution, and produces new
athni,ies. The approaching National Conven-
lions are likely to exert similar power on the
political organizations of the country. 80 4
We publish in another column 4 letter from
Gov. Brown, of Florida, upon the subject of
wing nomination for the Presidency. Tie
thinks that Convention ought TO assemble,
and that the Southern Wings ought TO send
delegates TO it-that resolution should be Of
fered requiring the nominee to pledge himself
to the support of the Compromise measures,
and especially TO The Fugitiue Sldue La,o; and
his diSGpproral Of any repeal or modification of
3 IT. If the resolution should not be adopted,
he advised the Southern delegates to uithdrd,r
from the Convention We have little doubt
that this course will be pursued 1t accords
with precedents already established. In the
Wing Congressional caucus, at the opening of
the session of 1850, it will be remembered that
aresolution was offered pledging the Wing
party against the Wllmot Provso. 1t was
laid upon the table by almost unanimous
vote, whereupon Messrs. Toombs, Stevens and
others withdrew, and went into opposition to
Gen. Taylors administration. The example
thus set will undoubtedly be followed. Such
resolution is specified BY Gov. Brown will
probably be introduced. What ,riH be done
irifh IL
1t will probably be rejected If it should be
adopted, the Wings could not carry Ohio, (as
the recent election shows,) Pennsylvania, (as
resentments bred in the recent election would
concusively prove,) New York, as everybody
will concede, nor any wing New England
State. It's adoption, therefore, would be death
to all hopes Of Wing success
1t will be seen that the Times argues with
good deal of candor and plausblity, as well
as certainty, that the whig National Conven-
ton ,ciH not, at the demand of the Southern
wings under any circumstances, consent TO APP
prove the Compromise, or in any way openly
assume TO maintain and execute it in good faith
S.,ttla of ell
indicates, conclusively, complete disruption
OF the wing party, as national organisation,
and that the Times so considers it, we shall
show by further extracts from lis article The
fact is, the wing party at the North has be-
come so thoroughly impregnated with abol-
tionism, that il cannot recede, and it knows
full well that it can not command the co-opera-
ton of the Southern Wings without giving
them something more tangible than mere pro-
fessions of acquiescence in similar political
faiths-something in writing, pledge will
be required of them, and this would be their
ruin at the North. To what course, then, can
bly, indicated by the subsequent reasoning of
the same editor, in the Neutrality-suspicious. ex-
tract from the article above quoted from
g If ii is rejected, the Southern wings will
Withdraw, and thea we shall be at sea again,
with some sort of port, perhaps, inplair sight.
The conUeation might proceed and male nomi-
nation tcithoW any reference 10 The Soulh-
openly hostile, perhaps, to The rery measures
,chici the rerclting Southern delegates had most
at heart. This irould then stand before the
country as the Northern nOnlination-the
South having refused to have any hand in it. y
The Times man then goes on to calculate
that, should Northern nomination be forced
upon the whig party, support from the demo-
cratic party would be had But herein con-
sists the fatal mistake that the editor has
made in his article. The time has not vet ar
rived, thank God, when parties can be divided
by southern and northern lines of demarcation.
The policy of the wing party has been tending
towards this for some time, but their reckless
views were never more unpopular there than
they are at the present time. In proof Of this.
we have only TO cite the position ofthe wing
party in the States of Pennsylvania and New
York-in the former State beaten and routed
under their abolition colors, and in the latter
State trying to dolf these same colors in season
to save them, in the election close at hand, as
evidenced by the proceedings of the meetings
of the wings of New York city, inst previous
to their election, and which was represented
as grand gathering of the wings of the city
We give some of their resolutions, which were
adopted enthusiastically, as follows =
" Resolred, That the wing party of New
York claims for itself and recognizes for others
all the Compromises of the Constitution, and
that it looks TO that instrument as the great
moral Sun of our political system TO which all
true men of the country are attracted, and
around which People and States revoIve in one
harmonious system of united, free and indie
pendent government, aud therefore that no true
whig will ever seek to destroy or weaken any
provision In the Constitution of his country, or
shrink from the performance of any duty re-
quired OF him in that Constitution, or disobey
any law which has been framed in pursuance
of its provisions
Resotred, That the six pronosi,ions ;n,ro-
o"oeo ny henry Clay into the United States
o"a'' nay ., 1850, and which were subse.
I"o",,y e'np"uied 10 the SIX Compromise Acts,
lst The admission Of C.,;c
onlon WIN VII, Inc boundaries proposed:
"a. ne establishment of Territorial CIV
ernment for New Mexico; 'a' oo'-
Sd. The establishment of Territorial f.,v
eminent for Utah;