New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-06
The New Attempt TO Distract and Divide
the Wings Of New-Yorlk.

last Summer on the several measures re-
specting Slavery and the New Territories
than certain class of Wings in our City
and State seized upon those measures and
endeavored to pervert them into engines of
personal and clique advancement.
Forthwith, at the beck of backstair eau
cuses, Wing cannon Numbered from the
Battery in triumph over the passage of
bills which a majority of our Wing Repre-
sentatives in Congress had opposed, and an
active canvass Of the State commenced
with the intent of securing Wing State
Convention which would virtually if not ex-
pressly condemn Gov. Seward and chain
the fortunes of the Wing party of New
York to the car of the Fugitive Slave Act.
The immediate impulse to this movement
was the death of President Taylor and the
accession to the Presidency of Mr. Fill
more, whom the Silver Grays' of our party
forthwith made violent love to and endeay-
ored to take into their especial keeping
By the National calamity, they calculated
that power had for once passed into their
hands, and they resolved to make the most
of it. The first intimation aside from the
hundred guns on the Battery we had that
an intestine feud was brewing in the Wing
camp was given us by prominent Silver
Gray who solicited our aid in preventing
any attempt to indorse Gov. Seward at the
approaching Wing Convention, because any
such attempt must split the Wing party
But why we asked, may not the Con-
venrion commend both our Wing Presi-
dent and our Wing Senator, as that of last
year did In reply no reason was given
beyond repetition of the assurance that
any Endorsement of Gov. Seward by that
Convention would break up the Wing
party.-We promised to consider the mat
ter, and there the conference ended. Very
soon after, we heard of confidential givings
cut by the newly appointed ambassador to
Prussia, and other magnates of like tenden-
cy, that 'Sewardism' Tor 'Abolitionism')
must be abandoned by the Wing party of
our State, or it would be abandoned and
broken down. War being thus declared
and waged, no course remained for the ma
jority but to meet the issue thus forced upon
them, with what success the Syracuse Con-
ton and the election of Gov. Hunt and an
old fashioned Wing Legislature have since
shown.
But the Silver Grays' are not yet
satisfied Their organs throughout the
State are urgently calling upon our new
Legislature to pass Resolves expressly ap-
proving of all the Territorial and Slavery
measures of the last Session, including the
payment of Ten Millions TO Texas for Ter
ritory which she has in good part retained,
the ram's-horn boundary of that meek
State, and the Fugitive Slave Law
The grounds on which this action is de-
manded are in substance these -" Mr..
Fillmore is now President of the United
States; he is q Wing President; the
Wings ought TO support his Administra-.
ton; he is in favor of sustaining the Ad-
'iustment measures aforesaid and esteem
ing them final: therefore, the Legislature
of New Y rk, being Wing, ought to pass
Resolves approving and sustaining these
measures Such is a synopsis of the ar
guments advanced blythe eight or ten Sill
yer Gray journals in our State.-These
were formerly Wing journals, but this is
nevertheless quite other than Wing doc
trine. 1t belongs to the worst and basest
era of Jacksonism-to that era wherein a
Democratic Ward Meeting in our City
emphatically approved and commended the
doctrine of Gen. Jackson's Protest. as
Stunning that the custody of the Public
Moneys belonged to the President, by viz
tue of original, inherent, inevitable Execu-
tive power-when 10 the next morning
brought a Codicil from the President HIM
self, disclaiming the natural and obvious
meaning of his own language which his
thick and-thin supporters had Endorsed,
and attIibuting that construction of it to
dishonest hostility and Misrepresentation
We do not now remember that the Codicil
was in its turn Endorsed by the same en-
lightened and discriminating patriots, but it
manifeStly would have been had the Jug
gernaut of the hour required such sacri-
fee Of sef,respect and consistency.
We protest, as we have uniformly pro-
tested, against making the personal opin-
ions of any dignitary a test of fidelity to
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