The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-08
FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3

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i FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3.
The Policy Of the whigs.
i We have heard much of late of the recon
ciliation and harmony Of the Wing party i
New York, and extrrvagant speculations hav
been freely indulged by the Wing organs upo
the probable success of the Wing party in tha
State. 1t may be well to inquire how this re
suit has been brought about. From the bes
information we can gather, there has been
! free and full concession Of the Fillmore men {,
Seward And in view of this humiIiating fact
we cannot avoid an expression of honest indg
nation. While the organs of this party ar,
industriously procIaiming their attachment fo
the Union, the Constitution, and the late Com
promise-and while they claim for their party
trough their leader, Mr.. Fillmore, all the cred
and glory Of the adjustment measures-they are
secretly laboring and planning, in the State
Conventions, for a union with the Abolitionists ,
even at the cost Of party, country, and con
science. This has been apparent in all the
State Conventions, where Free Solism exer
clsea sufficient influence, to encourage an
effort for its aid and support The whig party
in New York, Pennsylvania, OHIO, Vermont
&C., has secretly and quietly given in its al.
hesion to this principle, and it is generally be-
lieved and acknowledged that whoever that
party select for it's standard bearer in 1852 must
be committed, body, soul and breeches, to Mr.
VIM. H. Seward, of New York And what
does this commttal involve, let us inquire . II
involves everything against, and nothing for
the safety Of the government and the salvation
of the people. 1t is, perhaps, taking high
ground to say, that Mr.. Seward is an enemy Of
he country, but we sincerely believe that at
careful reference to his political history since
he entered the arena Of politics, will fully justify
such conclusion. For the last twelve years,
he has devoted every energy of his mind and
body to the propagation Of principle and the
keeping alive an agitation, which has contribut-
ed more to weaken the bonds of the Union, and
poison the virtue and fidelity of the people, than
any other one thing since the establishment of
the Government Steadily and industriously
has he sought to force his peculiar tenets upon
the State and General Government, and infuse
into the minds of the people bitter and unre
lenting prejudice towards the people Of the
South. And it is a most humiliatng and Ia
"entaoie fsAs.tion, that few months since,
this gentleman and his coa.,i asors had obtained
such control over the better intelligence.
rience and virtue of the peoples Representa-.
tives in Congress, as to have almost sanctioned
the passage of laws, which must have severed
the Union. trampled under foot the Constitu.
ton, blasted the bright prospects of the country,
provoked civil war, deluged tie land in blood,
and left W the mere wreck of once proud and
prosperous people. And although the storm
has passed by, and the public mind in a measure
quieted down, the danger is by no means over.
Temporary defeat only seems to have sharpened
the appetite Of these slavery propagandists to
still further and fiercer conflict, and unless thev
receive aspeedy and overwhelming rebuke from
the people, the day is not far distant when the
country will be sold into the bondage of IA
naticism which strikes at the very root of social
political, and religious freedom. Even now,
we are daily called upon to record palpable and
extravagant violations Of the Fugitive Slave
Law" in which the claimants of fugitives,
and the laws, are openly resisted by regular
organizations of white and black negroes, even
to the spilling of blood and numbering of peace
able and law abiding citizens Only few days
since. Christiana was the theatre of a most dis
graceful tragedy, in which a mob of negroes
and abolitinnsts brutally murdered peaccable
citizens. who were quietly seeking their pro-
perty, in conformity with the laws and customs
of the country. And this dlsgraceful violation
of all law and justice, is sanctioned and approved
blythe leading wing and special Seward organ Of
thu country, the New York Tribune It will
require but few more such unlawful and san
culinary demonstrations, to excite the just indig-
nation Of the South, and call forth retrbution
as thrilling and signal as that which consigned
the fool-hardy Lovejoy to his grave. We
should deeply deplore such a result, but we
cannot shut our eyes 10 the many and fruitful
causes which are conspiring to bring it about.
Will the honest and rational thinkers of the
country, and those who are sincerely devoted
to its interests, give any encouragement to a
party, which acknowledges Mr.. Seward MS one
Of its leaders, and indeed gives to him an almost
exclusive control Of its operations Will they
. contribute to the encouragement and support Of
party, which, in place of having the welfare
Of the country at heart, is constantly feeding
the flames of agitation, and fomenting discord ?
arrives for the people 10 express their views, it
will be done in such a manner AZ to make as
surance doubly sure, that there is sufficient
public virtue left, to rebuke the errors of the
past and present, and insure the perpetuity of
our glorious institutions.