The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-19
From the Buffalo Courier.
The Condition and Prospects Of the Whis
Party.

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Party.
The refusal of the Wing Members of Con
gress, or the majority Of those present at the
recent Congressional Caucus, to endorse or ap.
prove the Compromise measures, Fugitive Slave
law included, is the prominent tact now before
the country. These whig representatives met
to fix the time and, place Of holding the whip
National Convention, and it was expected OF
them that declaration would be made ssfor the
public eye.' 1t was prevented by the friends
OF General Scott, most of whom Northern
wings, following the lead and obeying the dircc-
ton Of Senator Seward. The act of the eau
Gus is secuted at the North by all the National
whg papers well as leading independent
journals, which have honestly and in good faith
sustained the Compromise measures as a final
settlement of the vexed Slavery question
What these papers say, may and probably will
not have any influence on the National Conven-
ton, but we think it is proper that their senti.
ments should be known here, where there are a
host Of friends of the Compromise, who regard
that settlement as above any and all party
issues that be raised at the Presidential elec
ton.
We quote from the N. Y. Courier and En-
quirer Of Thursday
If the whiy party cannot be successful with
out sacrifice of its principles, or without en-
dangering the union of the States, from which
alone flows the prosperity and happiness, and
safety of the people, and the honor and great
ness of our cuuntry-then let it be defeated. If
it can only succeed by the nomination for the
Presidency, of an individual who is not ap0,oediu
the friend of the Compromise and of the frater-
nal Union between the North and the South.
which flows from it-if to achieve victory we
must shrink from the avowal OF our principles,
and bowling to the spirit of Fana,icsm. Innova-
ton and Demagogueism which Dtects the land,
indirectly countenance the denominations they
so impudently thrust forw ard-then we court
defeat rather than victory.
The N. Y. Herald makes the following com
nents:
We have no crocodile tears to shed over the
final disruption of the whig party, and its re
ducton to mere sectional faction. We read
no portents in the political converts of pestl-
lence, or famine, or cruel war, from this explo-
sior of an old worn out party or political job
bers for the spoils, The lame ducks of the old
whig board of brokers may waddle off into the
shade to lament their misfortunes; but public
opinion is elastic, and will spring at once into
more vigorous action, from the removal of these
old party shackes. The whig party of the
North may then look back, sand see with their
open eyes the fatal game which they undertook
to play, in falling into the incendiary schemes
of Seward and his Holy Alliance of unprinci
pied demagogues and crazy fanatics. They will
cease to wonder that the Union wings of the
South have refused and scorned to accept the
successful dodge Of 48 when it promised gain
the rich reward of the spolls.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York express writes:
The city is full of iunumerable rumors of
other things done and said in this Caucus but
must reserve writing upon them till further
opportunity offers. There is the greatest excite
ment about it (; and it is very evident that under
it, such old tired whig States as Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, and Louisiana, are
gone, forever gone,-f the whig party thus
eject such men as Clay. Webster and Fillmore,
with their principles, from whig Caucus
The intelligent correspondent Of the New
York journal of Commerce., writes from
Washington two days after the Caucus;
[ shall be much mistaken, however, if the
result will not be complete separation Of the
Southern wings, as abody, from the Northern
whig party, and the nomination of Gen. Scott
by a sections Convention.
Several seeding members have stated that,
after what has passed, the South will not support
Gen. Scott, even if he make the pledges which
the Northern wings have refused to make.
Things begin to point towards third and in
dependent National Union Convention.
Such is the condition and such the prospects
of the whig party at present. There is but one
contingency, upon the happening OF which a
show of harmony in the ranks can be made
which is the withdrawal of Mr.. Fillmore from
the list of candidates and the transfer of his good
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it occurs, we shall take the earliest opportunity
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