New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-13
The Wing General Committee, the Wing
Party, and the u. y. Senator.


The Wing General Committee, the Wing
Party, and the u. y. senator.
Tuesday night witnessed the cOnsumma-
ton of the difficult and protracted labor OF
purging the Wing General Committee, to
the utmost practicable extent, of Seward
ISM Free-Soilism and all who adhere to
the doctrines protested by our several State
Conventions for the three last years res
pecting Slavery Extension. The regular
Delegations elected by the Wing voters OF
the Sixth, Sixteenth and Eighteenth Wards
had to be severally excluded and their pla-
ces supplied with the fancy gentlemen APP
pointed 10 fill their places by the office
holding cliques before it was deemed safe
to operate upon those from the Ninth, al
though theirs was rightfully the second in
order. The decision as to the Sixth Ward was
made in defiance of the well known prefe
rences of fve-s ixths of the Wing voters of
the Ward, and the successive decisions of
the three Wing Nominating Conventions
(all strongly Silver Gray oflast Fall. Those
conventions had stomachs for very high
handed measures, as their acts proved;
but to exclude the Delegates chosen by the
great body of the Sixth Ward Wings was
q Job which overtaxed their hardihood.--
The new General Committee, however, by
drilling, driving and threatening, was rem
dered more pliable, and the Peoples Dele
gates were thrust out and men who did
not and could not poll fifty Wing votes in
the Ward-who would not vote at the reg
ulsr poll held by the Inspectors, because
those Inspectors would only receive one
ballot each from Wing electors of the
Ward, while the Jim Taylor ticket it
was perfectly understood on all hands,
could only be carried by very different
sort. So the half dozen intriguers, unable
to break up the election and perfectly sure
hey could not control it, went off by them
selves, filled hat with votes at their lei
sure, declared their ticket elected, sent it
up to Broadway House, end pushed it in
the true Delegates from the Ninth, Six
teenth and Eighteenth Wards being pre-
vented from voting on this case
by contesting their seats So the
four Wards have been gone through in sue
cession, Delegates being secretly lobbied
and openly browbeaten into voting contrary
TO what they knew was right and honest
on the pretense that to vote otherwise was
to oppose the Administration! 81 thought
YOU were Clay man." said one OF the
managers to a Delegate ian Alderman)
who voted against one of these outrageous
decisions. Thus the game was bulled
through from first to last. To vote for the
Delegates VIGOROUSLY elected by the PeO-
pie was to incur the stigma of opposing the
President, deserving Mr.. Clay and pro-
noting Abolition. By such appliances
men who would rather be honest than not
if they thought they could afford IT, were
dragooned into voting contrary to their
knowledge and their CONVICTIONS
The Ninth Ward job looked the hardest
and was skillfully reserved for the last.
Here the lines were drawn last Fall; the
gentlemen who claim to be Mr.. FlIlmore's
especial friends Though the more active
among them did not vote for him) and who
are trading out Mr.. Clay's influence and
popularity for their own benefit, obtained
the services of Mr.. William Pool at the
Primary Election, and, by such appliances
as he knows how TO command, carried
their ticket and nominated John Mclean
for Assistant Alderman. The old-fash-
Toned Wings of the Ward, who did not
care to live entirely at the mercy of Mr..
Pool and his cohort, no matter whether
they for the time called themselves Wings
or Loco-Focos, resisted the swindle and
renominated Charles Crane. At this the
REGULARS were vociferously indignant,
and their Ward Committee held meeting
Oct. goth, and denounced the supporters of
Mr.. Crane as follows:
~ Ninth Ward Fhig Committee.-At meet.
inc Of the Ninth Ward Wing Ward Committee held he
Northern Exchange Blocker ST. Tuesday evening Oct
- 1850 IN pursuance Of previous notice, the attention Of
the Committee was directed 10 communication or sdver
hsement IN The Tribune Of Oct g. 1885, emaAans from
setsSed Committee and puportng to express me wishes
ofthe Wig Electors Of the Ninth Ward Deemng some
action the part ofthe Ward Committee In reference to