The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-26
PUBLIC OPINION.
From the Nashville Tenn Bonner and Uhig.
The Wing Meeting on Saturday.

| From the Nashville Tenn. Banner and JIhig
The Wing Meeting on Saturday.
We regret that Democratic neighbors have
thought it their proper course and interest give
very erroneous impressions of the meeting on
Saturday. The Union states the material facts
| with as much accuracy and fairness could be
expected, and then gives expression to opinions
which are palpably in conflict with the facts upon
which they are predcated. But the american,
suppressing the facts, sends out upon the wings
Of the wind the most unjusfable distortion Of the
true character and spirit of the meeting. Az the
american was issued Sunday, and the other
political papers not until Monday, this version OF
| the American was the first to make its impression
on the public mind abroad, and therefore its inac
| curacy was the more unjust and ungenerou5 But,
| though error out. travels truth, yet we have con.
hdence that truth will ultimately reach it in its
utterost hiding places, and crush the vitality out
of it, and tramp it's lifeless body and limbs into
| the dust wherever they may have found miserable
abiding place.
| The Union states the leading facts asfollows;
and we must frankly say, with as much precision
ard fairness could be expected from political
opponent, Of the most honorable character, viz:
| WING MEETING.
| This body, agreeable to call met at the court
house on last Saturday. II was organized by the
| pointment of Hon E n. Foster, chairman, and N.
Baxter, secretary. Col Foster, taking the chair,
| addressed the meeting at some length. He regard
ed the Compromise vital principle, and the
| maintenance OF il a tnality, sine qua non.
| He for Mr. Fillmore first last and all the time.
He believed that by frank and manly sustain.
ment OF him, and also Of his friends, by letting
northern agitators that cyasions, by Of
pretended questions OF order, would be allowed to
| whistle of the Compromise and shove aside MIR.
Fillmore, the South could succeed to obtaining the
nomination of Fillmore. He illustrated and en-
| forced these positions at LENGTH.
General Barrow then offered series of rcsou
| tions the substance of which were:
l. That the meeting sustain the course Of Gentry
and Williams in leaving the late Wing Congress
| siona caucus.
| 2. That the meeting would not sustain the nom
ination OF any man who was not publicly and une-
quivocally pledged to the Compromise a tnality.
| g. That Mr.. Fillmore was the choice OF the
| Wings, but they would support any other
known and pledged to be for the hnality of the
| Compromise.
| 4. They recommended the holding of other
meetings in other counties.
| General Barrow supported his resolutions in a
speech Of about an hour. He reviewed the history
| OF the Wing caucus and indicated the course OF
Gentry and Williams He criticised with severi
| ty the conduct Of Seward and Horace Greeley,
and others of the northern wing of the hig party.
General Zollicofer offered series of resolutions
| III heu. They asserted the hnality Of the Com
| promise; expressed preference for Fillmore;
pressed determination to support no not
publicly and unequivocally knoton to be for the
u
patriotic motives OF all the Tennessee delegation,
and their devotion TO the Compromise. General
Zollicofer accompanied these resolutions with brief
! remarks, pretty much 10 the same effect. Here
the issue was made up One side, General Bar
row, for sustaining the course of Gentry and Viii.
lams; the other side, General Zollicoer for ying
nothing about 1t, or not sustaining them. The de-
licacy OF General Zolicoffer to his Wing friends,
and his kind forbearance, really touching.
II never seemed to occur to him that Gentry and
Williams had appealed to the Southern Wings,
over their own signatures, and that the failure to
sustain them is a direct censure Yet in the end
this himsy position triumphed, and many Whigs,
doubtless, voted for General Zolcoffer's resolution
under the belief that General Barrow's censured
Cullom and Jones, while his censured no one.
The opinions in the last two sentences above are
oil course Of partisan character, and incorpo-
rated in the hope of possibly lending aid in some
little mischief to the Wing party. We could not
nationally look for any thing better from true enc
mica of our principles. But our positions are
known to our readers. We said on the morning
Of the day of the meeting, having learned that
probably this question might be agitated in the
meeting, that "The question to whether the &C.
ceding or adhering members of the Congressional
caucus among our Tennessee delegates had the
better reason for the conclusions upon which they
severally acted, Is unimportant. They stand toge-
Their upon principle. The known fidelity of the
whole Whig delegation from Tennessee on the gues-
tion of the Compromise is ample why we should
abstain from raising question wholly unnecessary,
and productive of no good. But this is not all. To
give our delegation full force in the National Con-
venon, in defence OF the important positions taken
by the people, they should not go there toih the
slightest appearance Of jar, nor should IL be under
stood that they haze ist at home the slightest founda-
ton for one. Such state Of things would really
be unjust TO the great zoe spouse II would be
M ,bt ylu ~,
who are watching our movements with eager So
licitude. 1t would be the accomplishment of what
they have very ingenously and industriously la
bored to bring about Let not crafty them.
Let the meeting be fully attended Let our coun-
sells be firm deliberate, dispassionae, and directed
to the unity Of Wings, in defence of the rights of
the South, the preservation Of the Wing party and
the durability of the American Union"
We do not intend to be drawn into discussion
for or against either portion of delegation upon
question which lie past and gone, upon which
each felt he right, while all were sincere
friends Of the Compromise, and when an idle con-
troversy among our friends would be so indspu-
tably gratifying to political opponents.
The following additional sentences Of the Union,
too, We believe, present correct statement of
facts:
THE question was finally decided upon the mo.
ton Of Judge Bren TO strike out the first and last
resolutions Of General Barrow, and insert the last
one Of General Zollicofer That is by striking out
the resolution approving the course Of Gentry and
Williams, and inserting one forbearing TO express
any opinion on the subject at all. IL was carried
by decided majority.
"Tbe last resolution also struck out, re-
commencing the holding of similar meetings in
other counties"
But upon the whole facts, as stated above, the
Union strangely comes to the conclusion that the
majority 10 the meeting probably preparing
wlfuIly and deliberately for the support Of General
ScoTT." The dmericon gives no facts, but her
aide to its readers such gross pcrversions as
these:
at was a complete defeat TO the object Of the
movement-to wit, opposition to Scotland the
Fillmoreites may as well, from yesterday, deliver
Themselves TO Se,rard and Jones'" "Alto-
gether IL was an entire triumph Of the Jones alias
Scott clique"
Governor JOINS has been nominated for the
Vice Presidency, by the Tennessee State Convcn.
ton, on the ticket with Mr.. FILLMORE. lie has
never said or done aught which would justify the
American In identifying him with General scorr;
and the attempt Of the Amrtcan TO identify him
with Seward is actually 60 unjust and discredit-
able, that we can hardly trust ourselves to aIlude