Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-29
WASHINGTON.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
insepzruble.v
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1852.

Much of the space in this days paper is given
up to Speech in the House of Representatives, on
one side, and to an article from Tennessee paper
on the other, embracing very limited portion of
what has been lately said, within the Capitol and
out of it, the relative claims and prospects of the
Wings spoken of for the Presidency, and especially
their position in regard to measures which, being
now the Law of the Land, are to be obeyed and
executed rather than to be newly brought in ques-
ton in debates upon topics to which they have
no proper relation. These Debates we have all
along regretted, because, in the first place, they
are out of time and out of order-divertng the
attention of Members of Congress from the path
Of Legitimate duty and preventing them from
attending to business of real interest to their
constituents-and, in the second place, because
they have served to stir up among the friends
Of the several gentlemen whose names are mention
ed in connection with the Presidency jealousies, if
not animosties unfavorabe to that calm and candid
consideration, in selecting the Wing candidate, of
what is due, not much to the claims of particular
gentlemen to the general welfare of the country
We have hitherto refrained from publishing these
things, as far could, for the reason in part,
that we would not willingly be in any way instri-
mental in fomenting discords among those who, in
the present emergency, ought to stand together as
band of brothers. 1t will require the united
strength Of the friends of all the persons now in
nomination to carry into the Presidency the regu-
larly nominated Wing candidate. Whether the
breach between them is not already too much widen
ed by angry alterations before the People, there
too much reason to doubt.
The Editors of this paper will, in the event of de-
feat at the ensuing National Election have at least
the consolation of knowing that they have had no
agency in bringing about that disaster. We do not
say that we have no doubt, but we have almost
none that the Wings could elect their candidate for
President at the coming election, were they them
selves united upon any one, or if after the nomna-
ton by the Convention, they would then unite The
Wings would constitute the majority of the People
in any general election, did they not fritter away
their strength in mmaterial issues, whether this
that ought or ought not to be part of the Con-
stitution, when their duty such occasions is to
stand By The Constitution AS IT is, and not as Il IS
not, and cannot be- without the consent of the Peo
PIE, optdlntu III the Houe pIcScIiDeu III oho Oohs.i
tuition itself.
Though having, for the reasons assigned, gener-
ally excluded from this paper such discussions as
those we have alluded to- we do, in giving place to
the two articles in the preceding columns yield for
the nonce our own Judgment to the urgentinstances
of gentlemen in Congress, whose personal requests
we cannot refuse without giving ourselves, in doing
so, more pain than we choose to incur.