New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-29
The Presidency.

The Express desperately assailed The
Tribune on the subject Of the Presidency and the
Slavery issues involved therein, virtually charging
us with seeking to divide and defeat the Wing
party. We copied the attack in full. most con-
spicuousy and responded asking our nssailnnt to
copy our reply. This it refused, but renewed the
attack and The misrepresentation in another
shape. We rejoined, aud restated our position in
single paragraph, which we again asked The
Express to copy. This is aga 'efused; though
our assailant finds for over a column of fresh
attack on The Tribune, prcpped up by bits of
quotation from that very article, from cores
pondent's letter, &C., intended to create impress
sions adverse to our statement which it dare not
let its readers see. We like controversy with can
did, manly antagonists, but not with guerilla so
cowardly and lodging as this. Let him run
Here are two specimens of his own per.
fomance. The Express had deliberately as
serted that Gen. Scott was supported in the great
Free States
"on the ground that he would lend the influence of
his Administration to open, In order to modify
peal, the Fugitive Slave Law"
We denied this, and challenged the production
of proof: Whereupon The Express says:
awe meet the denial. Who then, the support
of Gen Scott In these three States Are they not
Mr. Seward and his supporters here in Newfork, and
the Free Soil Wings with him In body Are they not In
Penns yvans Gov. Johnston, Thaddeus Stevens, and
their followers Are they not in Ohio the same class
| of politicians man Is known by the company ne
keeps and the Scott in these and other States who
have thrust him forward embrace the agitatng Free
| Soil, peacedisturbing portion Of the party
If this is net intensely paltry and shutting.
| we know not what could be.
| Let us us expose enc more dodge, and then
wash our hands of the concern. We stated that
Mr. Fillmores prescription of a large portion of
the Wings of the Free States had rendered con-
| ccntration upon him OF the Wing votes Of those
| States impossible. Here is the reply:
ain the first place. Is not true that Mr. Fillmore
has warred upon and prescribed large portion of the
| Wings Of the Free States bakers dozen would
cover all his Wing removals and thei placesno only
good Wings were put but the remev ais were made with
cause. They were the Keoggs the Benedicts and the
like and pray tell US If the Wing party is to be sacri
feed at such shrine this But all this show and
pretense is rather aferthought than truth felt or
believed in Let tire Editor of The Tribune in 1852 be
answered by the Editor In 1851 and in conclusion and
for that purpose now give the following extract
| from Horace Greeley's Wing Almanac for 1851 See
| page 81
''He appointed new Cabinet, Daniel Webster head
and varied from TIE pursued by General Taylor
influence the Administration favor OF the Compro
he rebuked with
hruness and made by
Mexico has been S0Ve,ned By desire 10
candidate tie rayTr"g sections and arr'AE HAaSOsr TO rHs
usfos
| Now the man who could say this would not
hesitate to fire on flag of truce. The Wing AL
manac. to preserve its character and justify its
name. necessarily avoids the discussion or sugges-
ton of topics whereon Wings are divided. To
make it essentially Horace Greeley's' or James
Brookss Wing Almanac, would destroy it. When
the Almanac for 1851 was prepared for the press,
Willard Fillmore had just been called to the Presl-
dency, and biographical notice of the man was
Indispensable He had not then Indicated, at
least to orr apprehension any settled purpose OF
prescribing all those Wings who did not agree
with him respecting the Fugitive Slave Law.
And because, in an Almanac intended to contain
nothing Objectionable to any Wing, we spoke ia
vorably of the new Presidents intentions IN the
fall of 1850, we are now held to have endorsed
and commended all his actions up to the summer
Of 1852!
A word now as to the prescription of Messrs
Kellogg, Benedict, &c. Were they ever so inslg-
niicant as persons, it would not matter, since
their removal was palpaby impelled by their pre-
sumed principles. Prescribing 4 bakers Dozen,
more or less. becomes a serious thing when 1t In
wolves the prescription of at least three-fourths OF
the Wing voters of this aud other Free States
These men have been charged since their removal
with hostility to the Fugitive Slave Law; but
nothing was known of this, nothing was cared
about it, when they were put overheard their
sole crime was friendship for Gov Seward and
sympathy with that great mass OF the Wing party
who sent fye-sixths of the Delegates to our last
Wing State Convention and have elected a like
proportion OF the Wing Delegates to Baltimore.
Putting them out implied that all these to be
put out or kept out so long as MIR. Fillmore is
President And that is just what won't answer.
There are hundred thousand Wing voters IN our
State who neither expect nor desire ever to hold
a Federal office but to ask them to vote for a
President who tells them in advance that men of
their opinions nerer shall hold one, is just what
they would MT swallow. And this il involved in
the denomination Of Mr. Fillmore.