New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-27

j. :. p who Will douotiess give IL uue
attention, and proceed to deal with TIE
ErDr.ss's own version of Mr.. FIllmore's
present attitude and personal aspirations.
That paper says:
aThe President II is well known, long ago submitted
10 his Cabinet-tMr Webster no; presents Iefer de-
cripg 10 be run for the Presidency out mset mucn
argument be finally though WIKI uiulcu,ty, us
s1,sSed hsrefruu-upon the ground we believe though
ue hsve no authority for so ssying,-thst IN me
present condition of the country, the great
hnaliiy 10 the mischievous proslsvery ana ant ss'oiy
seitatou upon which the Administration u s hf,t mes
ssoe had taked its existence, must be ana
that this hnality could not be maintained II sns res
dent then retired from the neld and eit ID eio a
for others who were declaring 10 the puohc tna' no
man should be named for that BIZ office who was com
rnitted 10 tia, fnaly. Gen Scott Is believed tneIe
fore would 90 far Mr. Fillmore IS concerneo, ~
had clear field months ago-out thar DC was s us
forward and kept forward by Pennsylvania, ONO ana
NewYork Free Soil gertlemen,-upon the ground toas
he would lend the influence OF his Administrator,
elected TO reopen in order TO medy or repeal the u
gitive Slave Law
Now we most emphatically deny, and
ask The Express to Justify its assertion
that Gen. Scott has been " thrust forward"
in the three States named, :" on the ground
that he would lend the influence OF his
Administration to reopen, in order TO mod
ifv or repeal, the Fugitive Slave Law"
If there be any truth in this, The Express
can prove it, not by some stray paragraph
from country newspaper, but by some au-
thentic and authoritative uttersnce from
the friends of Gen. Scott in the great Free
States. They have held State Conven-
tons and Legislative Meetings; they have
set forth their reasons for preferring Gen.
Scott, and acted upon them. The En-
press has already refused to reciprocate our
publication of its views on this important
subject, yet we will once more test its man
illness by asking it to copy the following
paragraph:
The Free Soil Wings who urge the NOM
nation of Gen. Scott do not desire that he
would lend the influence of his Admins
tration" to any agitation adverse to the
Fugitive Slave Law, or bearing upon that
subject Having condemned such exer-
ton of Influence" on the other side by
Mr.. Fillmore, they would be prompt to
condemn any such interposition OF Execu-
tive power by Gen. Scott. What they ask
and expect of him if elected is, that be will
let .Slarery and Anti- Slarery agitation en-
tirelu alone, and devote himself to the dis
charge of his proper executive duties. We
expect him to enforce all the laws of the
United States which he finds on the statute
book unless and until they shall be repealed
by Congress, or pronounced invalid by the
Supreme Court. We expect him to treat
all Wings with equal favor, whether they
be pro-Slavery or anti-Slavery, champions
of Finality or advocates of a Judicious
and considerate modification of some of the
harsher features of the Fugitive Slave Law.
We do not ask that Wing candidate for
President shall agree with US upon any
question respecting Slavery; we only
demand that he shall not prescribe and
treat US as enemies because of our consci-
entious convictions. In fine, we demand
that he shall be WING President, elected
on WIG issue, and not merely or mainly
on the Fugitive Slave Law. Is this asking
too much!
The Express does not pretend that
any Wing principle is to be advanced any
Wing measure carried, by running Mr..
Fillmore for another term. On the con-
trary, it plants him distinctly and solely on
the ground of 50 finality of the mischievous
pro-Slavery and anti-Slavery agitation -
a ground which no one viii seriously con-
tend is peculiar to or characteristic of the
Wing party if it were even common to all
portions of that party. Nobody doubts
that the Opposition candidate will be in
favor of that finality;' SO that the run
ming of Mr.. Fillmore v II only tend to
crowd the Wing party upon the same plat
form with its great antagonist, so far as
Slavery is concerned, and thus to accom-
plish, not Wing purpose but a pro-
Slavery one. And nothing IN the world
could give greater strength and activity to
the Anti Slavery element in our politics
than q coalition OF connivance of the two
great antagonist parties to stiae and extin-
guish it. Far from accomplishing the
fnality which The Express talks of, it
would signalize the commencement of a
new ard sterner agitation. The intelli-
gence, the philanthropy, the conscience of
the American People are all adverse to the
perpetuation of Human Slavery in our
country and anxious for its termination.