The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-17

New York PoEtins.
The Albany Alias Dem. Free-soiD contains
the following editorials, which throw some light
upon the darkness visible crsshroudiug the
political horizon of that State:
BARGAIN AND CoERUrYgoN---The canting
press in the service Of the WIigs--u party born
in coalition, and which has no hope Of life, ex-
cept in such Enthusiastically berate
Democrats of Vermont. Ohio aud Massachusetts
for the offence Of bargaining! The N. T. Ex-
press intimates that it IL ready to settle the
matters in the Wing party, ifthe Wing majority
will simply surrender their putatiye principles.
1t says:
"When the Wings Of the Weed and Seward
school are ready to compromise upon fair, man
ly and national grounds, when they IRE ready to
sustain national Wing administration, and the
compromise measures Of Congress, we presume
the old Wing party may be united upon the
good Wing platform Of the good old national
Wings"
The SENATOR QUESTION IN New YoRK.-The
Wing general committee Of New York on
Tuesday evening passed resolutions with great
unauimity, declaring it to be the duty Of the
Wings in the Legislature Of this State to aus
tain tho national administration, by their public
acts, and especially its position in regard to the
compromise measures--also declaring that no
man should be elected to the United States Se-
nate by Wing legislature, who is not ready
and willing to stand by each and all Of the
compromise measures "-and that such avownl
Of sentiment ought to precede any election OF
Senator to Congress in this State"
The last resolution, bearing directly on the
position Of men and things at Albany, passed
by vote of SO to H.
The Utica Gazsue puts in the following plea
for the President and his special partizans:
Two SIDES TO THE QUESTION Seward
presses abuse Senator Beekman and the Silver
Ora, with tenacity and gusto that show
pretty plainly, that their hearts are in the work
him no tears are shed-but they are extatic ia
the possession of plausible pretcxt to vent
their hate upon the men, who cross their path
and bnlwark the party honor and the Constitu-
ton against their traitorous chief The Evening
Journal, with accustomed audacity, strikes its
dagger at the heart of the President It is the
lack Of force, not Of intent, that prevents the
weapon from reaching its mark.
The various accusations against the national
Wings and Mr.. Fillmore we cannot particularly
notice. The labor of exposing caIumny and re-
futing falsehood, while easy, would be long, too
long for The space of our paper and the patience
Of our readers, and the past warns us that expo
sure and refutaton would not prevent the repe-
Lti0n Of SANDER, nor silence its authors.
II 10 true that Hamilton Fish, the caucus cam
didate for senator, has been defeated on the first
trial, by the vote Of Senator Beekman, and. for
our present purpose, we are willing to admit
that party usage has been transgressed. We ad-
nit this ia order that the foes Of the national
Wings may not be shorn of any of the force
with which they endow their well-used pretext
of war, They forget, however, that in this con-
test there ore blows to take, as well as blows to
give and that like charges can with more truth
be laid at their door. They have not defeated
Wing senator but they hare maderuthless ,oar
upon Wing President; they have not refused
obedience to n caucus of their own complexion,
but they have trampled upon party rules by a
stubborn and insulting refusalto sustain Wing
administration offences as much more eralied in
crininalty, as The Erecutire of The United States
is higher than a Stale senator; offences, too,
which are The cause and the Triumphant defence Of
The uoie Of Senator Beehman.
Not alone towards Willard Fillmore have they
been thus guilty, and not under ordinary cir
cumstances, but when events demanded cor
dial support of the President from every Wing
and every patriot.
A year ago this winter the country was con-
vulsed, the Wing Administration had terrible
ordeal through which to pass it had to struggle
with powerful party and rampant sectional
ism. Its chief, illustrious alike for his purity,
his wisdom and his moral courage, was bending
the force of his virtues to the end of an honor
able quiet Without il, his country and his
A ~,.,:, F,
and he asked the aid of the rty who elected
him as well rs of all lovers Of the Union
New York denied him; the Wings of her
legislature placed themselves in antagonism
they instructed their Senators to vote down the
plan Of General Taylor, and stir up yet more
the angry excitement he was endeavorino to
quel. William II. Seward did not need their
bidding; he was at all times Jealous to use the
power of his position to the advocacy of an
archy and the furtherance of discord No man
in the nation was so deadly foe to the honor
and the prosperity of Gen. Taylor's Administra-
ton, and his followers obcved him rather than
the President
The Administration which succeeded gave
peace to the country, at great personal hazard
1t admitted California; it did not add, in present
or in future, single acre to the area Of slavery
it took away all decent pretext of notification
at the South, and if it excited it at the North,
did it it, in obedience to the necessities of the
Union, the command of the Constitution, and
the example of Washington it was composed
of the noblest and strongest Wings in the ma
ton. Everything demanded for it an energetic
support from the Wings of New York. War
was Immediately declared upont.
Over the yet warm body of General TAYLOR.
Thurlow Weed struck at its head. The SYRIA
cuse convention condemned it and exalted at
its expense, and at the expense of the party
throughout the Union, the worst enemy of
both. The presses all over the State abounded,
as they now abound, in abuse of its members
and its measures. The Constitution whose
sanctity It has maintained, has been assailed as
an "atrocious bargain" and the laws in pursu-
ance of it have been met by open defiance The
Seward majority in the Legislature have treated
it with continued indignity. Resolutions which
would serve the double purpose of endorsing
the administration, and throwing New York in
to the scale Of harmony, have been denied the
ordinary courtesy of action and thrnst into n