New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-04

aver that no Delegation from Free State
uiu support that nomination. because it
is possible, though by no means probable
that one or two may do so but that no
Delegation has been elected for that pur-
nose or instructed to further 1t, Is re-
corded and most instructive fact. The
Office holders. as a class, have been active,
jealous. officious; but they have failed to
overbear the deliberate judgment OF the
People. They have edged in here and
there struggling District Delegate mainly
from Districts filled to surfeit with Custom
House servitors and travelling satellites OF
the White House they claim (unwarrant-
ably) that they have slipped in unpledged
and uninstructed Delegations from Vermont
and one or two North Western States who
will vote as they desire; they boast that
some Delegates elected from Pennsylvania
and other States under express and unani
nous instructions for Scott will nevertAe-
less betray their trust and support Fillmore;
but they certainly have not elected Dele
CATION from any Free State avowedly for
Fillmore, nor has the Convention of any
Free State instructed its Delegates to sup
port him.
On the other hand, Delegations are be-
ing drummed up from Slave States by Of
holders expressly under calls addressed
not to the Wings as such, but to the
friends of Mr.. Fillmore and on the
strength of declarations that unless they can
have every thing their own way, both as to
candidates and platforms, they will bolt
and 90 over to the Loco Focos. The three
dozen Wings in South Carolina, who never
vet named an Electoral Ticket for any
Wing candidate, will yield unanimous
support to Mr.. Fillmore now, though their
ticket in '48 was Tyler and Butler; but If
Gen. Scott should be nominated, and the
Wing platform not narrowed to suit them
they will kick right out of the traces.
Heard hearted implacables how do they
suppose we shall ever get on without them
So in Georgia, Alabama and other South
Western States, where the Wing organlza-
ton has been deliberately and utterly CIV
en- up and its members merged in new
Union party with Cobb, Belser and
Foote for its leaders, we see that the Wing
name is being resumed again impromPtu
for this night only, by particular desire)
and Delegates chosen by little bar-room
gatherings to represent their States at Bal
timore and cast the full weight of such
States into the scale of Fillmore and Final
ity. This is dashing game, but it can +
win. 1t is not possible that a Wing Ma
tional Convention will allow South Caro-
lima and Alabama to impose a candidate
upon Pennsylvania for whom neither the
imposers nor the imposed-upon can carry
their respective States; for the Wing
party does not hold National Conventions
merely to commit suicide. The Conven-
ton will select a candidate who can make
q strong run in all sections; and that can
didate is not now President.
The universally of the Free State repu-
diation of Mr.. F. stamps as false the as
sumption that Seward and agitation
are its causes. The Free States most
kindly affected toward the Finality,' and
wherein Gov. Seward is rarely named save
as a bugbear by the Opposition, have often
er than otherwise sent Scott Delegates at
all events, not FiIlmore-because they de-
sire candidate who can unite the party
and insure its success. That candidate, 1t
is now notorious, is not Mr.. Fillmore.
We submit, therefore, that, whoever
ought to be nominated, the incumbent
clearly ought not to be, and that it would
be unworthy Of President to presume
upon the ct,valric and grateful attachment
of hue Southern friends in the immnen!
Convention. They know that his nomna-
ton would expose us to ignominious defeat
yet they feel bound to support him, against
the dictates of their better judgments, by
sentiment Of honor. Mr.. Fillmore ought
promptly and utterly to relieve them from
embarrassment by Withdrawing his name
from the canvass and renewing his avowal
of fidelity to the old and sound Wing
principle of 'One Presidential Term.
THE TRIBUNE AND SLAVERY.