New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-27

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our article on sWtbster-FIllmore-Scott,
AND thus comments
"The ackro wledemens that the opposition to Mr.
FILLMORE 10 suggested BY no resra for principle,
but proceeds from personal MOVIES aione, IL as,
serving of particular notice. IL will be observed
that the admit sson IL full and wthout any quaIyfcg-
fior The nigs Of New-York, according to Tao
Tribune to permit han 1ful! Of ohceseekersto
lead them out OF the party and thus pr sctlcay AID
in the elec,ion of a Democratic President, merely
because the Executive Of The raiion sees ut to make
a few charges IN the Government offices. This
the proposition, stripped o. ths 'efoiase Ia WHICH
The Tribune has enveioped II"
We have no idea Of setting right the
mercenary and mendacious fabrlcator of the
foregoing-he knows what he asserts is not
true, nor any thing like it. He knows
right well that the reason we gave for the
reluctance of the majority of our Wings to
supp0rt Mr.. Fillmore was not based on the
naked fact that he had removed certain Of
Gen. Taylor's appOintees from office, but
on the far more material fact that he had
removed them for thinking as THEY (the
said Whigs) themselves did. Our language
living before him when he coined the above
falsehoOd was expressly this
"Why then, il Mr.. Fillmore obnoxious to large
majority of the Wings OF our State We answer
Because he has seen ht to prescribe and ossracise
many OF the most efficient and beloved Wings In the
state ON ACCOUNT OF their alleged sympathy Ulfh he
ami Compromise majority Of ne pary-on accoun. OF
their acouiescence in the declarations OF principle
and Jealous support Of the candidates of the Wing
party"
This is SO plain that nothing but willful
dishonesty can affect to mistake it. The
fact that John T. Bush was by Mr.. Fill
more appointed Marshal of the Northern
District of our State, in place Of Palmer v.
kellogg removed, would not in itself be
regarded as of great moment by the Wings
but when it comes to be understood that
the latter was removed because he adhered
to the regular Wing State Convention at
Syracuse in 1850, and did not unite ia nor
countenance the Granger and Duer bolt
from that Con, ention, nor the efiigy of a
Cow ention got up by the boilers some
weeks afterward at Utica, then the affair
ceases to be one of persons and becomes
ore Of prihciples-a much more serious
matter. The prescription OF Messrs. kel.
Iogg, Cloves, Thomson, &C., was in effect
a declaration ~f wal upon the regular Wing
uganzation liz this State-upon that sec.
,ot eff the party which had a large majority
of Delegates in the Wing State Convention
Of 1850, and about se,en,elghths Of the
Delegates in the Wing State Convention
Of 1851, in spite of all the power OF Federal
patronage liz our State, that of Mr.. FIJI
more's new appointees Inclusive.
This prescription looks before and al
ter Let Mr.. Fillmore be renomiasted
and the great majority Of the Wings OF our
state are virtually told - You may hep
eit ct him but ii you succeed you will Dc
regarded by him as aliens in the Wing
household, enemies ia the camp, to be de-
famed by his jackalis, vigorously excluded
fIom office by the President you will have
elected, and tainted by his organs as no
Wings at all, but Disunionists, fanatics,
factiODists, traitors &c. To whom would
this prospect seem inviting!
The Commercial proceeds to assert
thar MIR. Fillmore's friends had been ex.
cluded from Office under Gen. Taylor, and
that the changes he made were necessary,
though insufficient, to produce an equili-
bIium between his friends and his opponents
In the Wing party of our State. We have
repeatedly given this assertion flat con-
tadiction, and have backed this by list Of
the names of those whom Mr.. Fillmore
found holding important Offices in our State.
We dare The Commercial to do the like in
support of its assertion. Let it make out list
of men holding Federal Offices worth $500
or more in this State when Gen. Taylor
died, and that list, if an honest one, will
show decided preponderance of Fillmore
over Seward men. We dare it to the
trial!
The course pursued by Mr.. Fillmore has
been more than paralleled by that Of his
friends. II is but a few days since one Of
the most upright, capable and indefatigable
Wings Of our City, who had been nomina-
ted HarbOr Master by Gov. Hunt, was OPP
posed in the Senate by the Buffalo Sena-
tor and by one Silver Gray from this City
on the flimsiest and falsest prstexts-the
sole impelling cause of that opposition
being the fact that Mr.. Sherman was
Seward man. This opposition was ut
terly wanton-the Loco. Focos would have
defeated the nomination any how, and the
spectacle Of Wing division and disoerd
was purely gratuitous. But is it therefore