New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-07

men, and hitherto steadfast wings. IHey
have right to counsel Wings, and their
counsel or remonstrances are entitled to
respectful consideration. Messrs. Toombs,
Stephens q Co. stand on an entirely diff
ferent footing.
For do but consider what they say in the
light Of notorious facts. They broadly as
sert that there is no known incident Of
his life in favor of the principles of the
Compromise. We reply that his attend
ance and remarks at the great Compromise
Meeting at Castle Garden refutes this as
sertion. They complain that he does not
indorse the Compromise with sufficient ex-
plicitness in his letter of acceptance-that
he does not give it the approval of his
judgment. But in truth Messrs. Toombs
& Co. have not been willing to permit the
exercise of any deliberate judgment in the
premises. They began by signing Pledge
not to vote for any man who did not open
ly and thoroughly approve the Compro-
mise-thus appealing from mems judgment
to their apprehensiors. And they have
gone on to this time, not attempting to
make their prescription palatable and ac-
ceptable to those who they insisted should
swallow it, but laboring to render it as Bit
ter end revolving as possible. Refuse to
swallow it if you dare " has been their
habitual menace; and when they had thus
forced it down, they turn round and say,
To be sure be has taken it, but | kno " he
did mt really like it, for he made horribly
wry faces Why, Sirs if it were the
choicest dainty, no one could relish it with
your club over his head. You do MT seem
to understand human nature.
But, then, Gen. Scott was "the favor
ite candidate of the Free Soil wing of
the Wing party" Well, what of it
Gen. Taylor was the faverite candidate of
the ami Free Soil wing of that party; yet
you were very glad to have the help of Gov.
Seward, Mr.. Weed, &C., in nominating
and electing him. You did not consider
him poisoned by such support. You would
not allow us to whom the dose was a hard
one any Platform to sweeten it, but made
us take it, cold, without Now you
have Gen. Scott with a Platform as Pro-
Slavery and Hunker as heart could wish
yet you bolt Is this doing as you were
very glad to be done by!
The real difficulty in the case is, that
Gen. Scott will not pledge himself to pro-
scribe and treat as enemies those Wings
who, exercising the same liberty that they
freely accord to him, dislike some features
of the Fugitive Slave Law. If he would
only agree to make the finality of the
Compromise the touchstone of fitness
for office under his administration, and
promise to held every Free Soiler unfit
for any appointment, he might possibly be
favored with the support of Mr.. Toombs
and his boiling squad, however much or
little that might be worth. He could win
them yet by agreeing to break up the
Wing party and join their little segment
OF a Union party-union on the basis of
treating every lover of Universal Freedom
as disunionist. Lacking this assurance,
the squad go throgh the motions Of renoun-
cling the Wing party once more. We on
ly ask that they shall now stag out, and
nevermore pretend to be in for the sake of
going through the farce of kicking ost
again.