Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-04-23

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a Two-eds ci Lesson.
hllud!ng TO the resent Charter Election IN
city Of Hartford, Conn, and very properly
ojcctlng 10 s'is issues, (which always tend to
'orl sacrifice Of p iacip ISL the frog Wh,g
.ays:-
A LSssoS.- Whenever Wines minge
6rS with their creed they generally are slrc to
AL with their candidates. With u0con.anin-
itc! Wing principles only can SUCCESS be
"chi35cd. This 10 sHowU IN tie result Of the
,'ccnS election for Charter officers in Hartford.
II the Stat" Il-otna last week, the Wings
'hvngh ccuoS3cdIy in thu majority. iinot dlyld-
"A ~ any Insane iS,g.wlre overwhelmed in dis
81 r. because. under the lead Of Greeley and
,.,nI,I, Temperance was thrown into the can
,ays. On Monday last the Charter Election
TOO, place. when all iSms were discarded, and
tr' battle tour.N on the old fashioned Whig
Platform. and the result is Il brilliant Wing
.:.ory"
The Hhir then quotes from iLe Hartford
Now.ni as follows -
"Not the least gratifying part Of this victory
~ne the return 10 our RANKS Of the Wings who
,J.et against rS only week before. from their
hostility ~ mlnTliug questions Of moral reform
'Niu politics. No such side issues existed in
the cry con est. The victory was gained on
the old party grounds, and all our friends came
~ f.. their share Of it."
Whcreuppn lao wig adds =
"Ccmmcn, is quite unnecessary. If the "a
Their cr all iSh,S will keep cut Of Connecticut
n" " hjgs Will do well enough. Ills med
ding is iatai,'
Now this is extremely fine Our good
frcnd OF the Troy wing has been exerting his
best ability j2nd it j. by no means snall) to
force the "Coupronise" ism upon the " big
party Of The Uui.n for the past two years He
i among tn warmest aud ablest of the Wing
editors who advocate the ",sn'' that the "Com-
Promise i"iucuS 4 non k!ccado'l is a "fnali-
t." and INSIST that the series Of heterogeneous
Jaws which iorrgs it are part and parcel Of
Wig principles! The Hh,g with its co-abor-
ers, is apparently d.tcrmincd to force this new
"jsm" upon tn Wing party, while it hno,,s that
the Compromise has no more connection with
Wing principles than it has with the Aurora
HoreillS The Wbig party did no, pass Che
as they were passed. To n portion of them.
especially TO the infamous Fugitive Inv, the
Wings Of the North, (while they will obey and
sustain It while 1t remains LAW are most em-
phatica'!y opposed, They believe their ac-
kno~iefred constitutional obligation to restore
"tUgltlveS from labor" can be discharged in
FIR less objectionable way. They do not relish
the impuiatioa which the den.a! Of the cardinal
rights of trial by jury, and llabeas Corpus.
casts upon their PATRIOTISM. And while they
will obey AMI submit to the Law as 1t is. they
VII NEVER rclinquish their right, for politics
c. politicians, to endeavor to obtain of Congress
more humane and merciful law in the prem
iSo5 But what nas this to do with WING
PRINCIPLES, as involved in Presidential elcc-
ton: Nothing whatever. 1t is mere dues
ion OF legislation, as to the proper methoa Of
carrying cat 4 constitutional provision. u higs
at the South and y higs at the North may diff
fer as TO how it is best to do what both arree
That the Constitution requires to be done. And
when " h4 papers make it sine q.tu non that
the "tompromisc' shall lie the toueh-sione of
Will; principles, they introduce an "isn" more
destructive than that which overthrow the
WLi-r3 Of Connecticut, and this we beg our
friend Of the 'roy mir to believe. ne think
tie .~'gltHe slave Law is unutteraby detest
aa.c IN operation he thinks it is all rIght,
ana has d right to think so. lie certainly
as!ce' with the entire iocot6co ,eQEA. Bat we
care not WHIT he thinks, nor what Mr.. WIN
sTE0, or -ir. IlLLMoRE or Gen. Scorr thinks.
on The sane subject. 1t IS matter forlxi y.
n9' b: PRINCIPLE, - iAnsmuch Us we arc cou,ii-
t'f,onoly coMpriied to deliver u these "lu~,.,
ives from labor"
ego 'oT the nominee ofthe WING Nation
q Convention, whether he be Gen. sscorr or
Mr.. Iu1NoRa. Indeed, We should 70 for MIR.
FILLMORE win PLEASURE because We KNOW
hat he regards slavery aud the Furlrivo Slave
Law precisely as We Go,-as ry,volpApLr
EYRE while he rnccrnizos his obligation both
10 1oey 9ur Constitutional duty to restore slaves
= tGernrstar7 and to execute the laws of die
l-ad. We have the highest ana most uulmjt.
e. respect for President FlLLMoan, because
's A"9" nHn personally and politically, and be
cause lis whole life entities him to orr rosnect
I'r' w'.at he THINKS about the "ConYromiso " or
NE "Fugiuve Slave W." is Just cxlctIy none
N our business, for the simple reason That moi.
iher q. iacm is matter Of party principlc.-
Ia"y are 'tsaas'inl the most Objectionable sense
oi the word and if our friend Of the 2toy mir
and his friends, succeed IN making them " hju
tests, they mist 500, ont cor breakcrs." We
cprnsc! tbe.a to learn wisdom from the conrso,s
Of such men as MANcUM, STANLEY and WArp
G5@We copy the following 10 let our r,9d.
cts lnow what ongress is about. And ", de-
sire to call attention to the fact that A., This
wa'." oftina IN personll chickering's AMI polit.
lcai debates, is aftrio3able to tho "DenGcrot-
lc' members, wlo appoIr to regard thon,,,ve,
as havinE been sent to Congress for the DUR
pose otht5Ing about the next Presidency
oA The Wing side Of the House, no time has
been consumed beyond what decent satire