Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-11-06
a Dark Picture.

The New York Times, under the editorial manage
men of Henry R. Raymond, skul politician and ac-
complished writer, draws the following picture of the
whig prospects in the approaching Presidential elec-
ton They are gloomy enough, and in opinion, look
to union of the Northern Wing and Free Soil vote as
the only hope for success In such contingency the
Wing party would lose more nationals now in their
ranks than they could gain by the acquisition of the
whole abolition strength.
PRESIDENTIAL.
One year from the present time will find the eve
ot another Presidential contest. The prelimnaries
all SIDES already in progress but with less public
demonstration than usual Candidates anxious and
busy political puers soctous and perplex-
ed; while the great mass of the People attending
10 their own concerns usual.
Both parties will hold National Conventions; and il
any nominations there be made each party will un.
doubtedy support its OWL nominee But the political
signs oil the times not propltious. The skies
not halcyon The old party lines have been far su-
Perseded that old ary usages will have their
customed weight. New tests will DC presented, new
pledges exacted combinations formed, and perhaps
results attained. We shall have new chapter op.
ened in political history; what we may read there
will become evident in due time.
The great oil both the Wing and Democratic
parties in the Northern States desrous of dropping
all issues growing ont of Slavery in the coming
They think thai acguiesceRce in the compromise
measures and regard for the peace Of the country
qnlre them 10 do Various signs Indicate that they
will not be permitted pursue this Oganiza-
lions have been formed for the purpose Of forcing the
Slavery issue into the contest. The election Pennsy
vana shows that large body of Wings, claiming TO lie
friends Of the Whig administration break loose from the
Wing organization and defeat the Whig candidate for
Governor. The Ohio election shows that great
bers of Wings desert the Wing ticket because it is
sufficiently opposed the extension of Slavery In the
Southern States the Wings have elected Democrat
Governor OF Georgia. and will elect another Democrat
Governor of Mississippi.
These facts show that the old political organizations
sadly shattered At the South they have been
p.etey blown up and at the North their cohesion
threatens to yield, at any moment TO new combIna-
tions. An electric shock often precpitates chemical
substances in solution, and produces aflinites.
The approaching National Conventions are likely to
ert similar power the political organizations OF the
country.
Brown, of Florida, upon the subject of Wing nomi-
nation for the Presidency. He thinks that Conven-
tiOn ought TO assemble, and that the Southern Wings
ought TO send Delegates to -tha resolution should
be offered requiring the nominee pledge himself to
the support of the compromise measures, and eSpec
ally Of the Fugt1e Stare laW; and his disapproral Of
any repeal or modification Of IT, Ii the resoluti II
should not be adopted, he advees the Southern deega
TO citbdrGw from the Convention. We have little doubt
that this will be pursued 1t accords with pre-.
cedents already established. In the Wing Con9resson
al caucus, at the opening of the session Of 1850 it will
he remembered that resolution was offered pledging
| the Who party against the Wimot proviso 1t was
laid upon the table by almost unanimous where
upon Messrs. Toumbs. Stephens, and others withdrew
and into opposition to General Taylors admins
tratrn The example thus will undoubtedly be fol
/ lowed Such resolution as is specifically Gov. Brown
will probably be introduced. What lviH be done acitl
/ H3
1t will probably be rejected II it should be adopted
the Wings could carry Ohio, (as the recent eeco!
shovs,) Pennsylvania, las resentments bred in the
cent election would eoscusively proye) New York. as
everybody will cOncede, any Whig New England
State Its adoption, therefore, would be death to al
hopes of Wing success And political Convention:
held for the express purpose of securing success
infer that such resolution will not be adopted Ii
is rejected the Southern Wings will withdraw, and te
shall be again, with sort Of port per
haps in plain sight. The Convention might proceed an
make nomination without any reference TO the Sout
openly hostile perhaps, the very measures whicl
the rexnliing Southern delegates had most at heart
This wonld then stand before tho country the North
erR nomination. the South having refused to have an
hand in it.