The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-01

The Condition Of WING Party.
In The general views OF the condition OF the wing party
presented in the article which we copy below. from the
Providence Herald we fully concur There has probably
bsen no period since 1916 when the wing party-sub-
,aniay the political organization under all It's
various al,aseshas been weak in the country it is
today Yet this very feebleness OF the wings is not
without its penls the democracy. Whigsm is
oommodahng it is feeble. There is no faction, no
specal interest," no sectional ldea with which, at the
proper time and place. it cannot affiliate in order to place
itself in power 1t put forth old principles. or new
principles, principles or, finally, "a the prinei-
PIES" catch votes Such opponent this is always
10 be dreaded in wides spread country like ours, and is
pehape least formidable when its actual ieebleness
becomes so manifest as tend to disarm the democracy
Of its caution or zeal,
rlom the Providence Herald, Oct 90.
WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE WHO'S The result OF
the elections in ana and New York places the
general whg party III bad predicamen 10 be OF moi
to be--thai is The question with them and distressing
question il is II is almost cruel to inquire whether me
wing party be united national, when another question
is 30 much more pressing, viz: whether there be any
such party at ALL The wings have but three or four
governors all the States The State legislatures are in
nearly the same proportion Both houses OF Congress
are against them by strong majorites They have
wing administration, with It's power OF appointments but
eneebled by the exercise OF this between two hostile
factions which also represented in the cabinet Them
again. the administration is shorn OF all moral strength
new word "Gaphinsm" has given such an unenviable
notorey, and by trucking to foreign powers The Pres
dent himself has shown a weak. vacillang, spirit,
and in Virginia and, through his agent, succumbing to
Seward and the asitators in New York By his Union
professions he seeks to gain presidential votes at the
South and through the Seward interest TO draw in to his
support the higherlaw wing Of the wings at the North
Webster is also Notwithstanding with the shaliowest
all hopes the formation OF general party which shall
place him in the chair designed for one who is demo-
cratic on all points, and not merely solicitor OF demo-
cratic votes Scott the Seward candidate, and looks
wisuully to the South. but can say nothing SINCE Tx
poor Harrison, he has been debarred from answering
any more letters and is spiked piece till after the eec-
ton.
strength. but they warning among themselves with
what they have In two factions burning with irrecon-
clabe hatred toward each o!her and incapable of hon.
ey coalescing upon any common ground OF co-opera-
ton. The southern wings are compromise men for the
sake Of upholdng the Union and they cannot sit down
in maternity with another class, whose principles and
rubverson of southern rights. and with them Of the
Union itself. The solitary hope Of the party is in the
possibility Of such polite adhesion of Seward Greeley,
nomination. will enable them to take the field with the
aspect Of Union and Compromise party But an nsur-
mountable obstacle presents itself In the determination
Of the wings Of the South TO erect in convention III they
meet at ally apain. unmistakeable platform, which will
preclude all the shifts and evasons OF lsis Then all
silence the conventions and the TWO Iactons pre-
sented two different and distinct phases of whggery 10
deceive the northern the southern sections OF the
Try. Now the southern wings demand clear show of
hands Without it they secede from whiggery. from
Union and Compromise banner. fairly unfolded by a
whg convention, the ireeso and abolition elements of
whggery will fall away. Deception then will be impos.
able. There no longer be two faces for the two
sections Of country and the unmingng oil and vinegar
of whiggery will separate, each TO its own sectional
line.
That is melancholy picture Of the wing party; and
there hardly sensible in il who does not feel
that il is gone past redemption for the next presidential
election But we offer coincidence to our " Age-
rne brehTen for they richly deserve their fate They
have held together wings about long as they usu-
ally have done under and when that has been
laid down in defeat. perhaps under another alias they
may reappea with better prospects failure time
But they il most assuredy, whatever may be their
fortune, the patriots of 76 longer to desecrate that
title OF honor which was worn through the revolution
by the democrats who achieved it and il the tory party
oil the present day must persist in calling themselves
wings let them add the Spanish prefix which, from the
displays of their hostility to the OF freedom
abroad will constitute for them appropriate mark Of
separation from all who sympathize with the friends OF
the in their struggles for deliverance from the
grasp OF the oppressor