New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-05

means OF mental enlightenment anu cic-
walton. So regarding it, we labor earnest
ly for its ascendancy and success.
But, though belonging to none of the
distinctively Anti-Slavery factions or sects,
we are profoundly hostile to Human
Slavery, and in part for reasons just indi-
Gated. We propose and countenance no
political action against the Slave institu-
tions of the States, because we have no
power over them, and responsibility is
limited by power. But if we have any
intellectual ability or moral influence, 1t is
derived not from the Federal Constitution,
but from that of Humanity, and we feel
bound to exert it for Humanity's highest
good. Regarding Evil in all its forms as
no fnality but mere incident-a means,
not an end-we look for the extinction of
Slavery as surely as for the succession of
seed-time and harvest. Precisely ho'c and
,rhen it shall transpire, we do not pretend
to know, nor whether its advent shall be
the result of obvious and ordinary human
influences or more distinctly Providential;
but that Slavery is to vanish from our
land, and that it is our duly to labor to
that end, we have no manner of doubt.
All this, be it observed, has no necessary
connection with the course which may be
taken by the Wing or any other party. 1t
will in no manner be affected by the nomi-
nation of Scott, Fillmore or Webster, at
Baltimore. With ninety-nine hundredths
of the whole American People, we deny to
Congress, and to the entire Federal Govern
ment, the Constitutional right to abolish
Slavery in any State which has constitu-
tionally established and sees fit to maintain
it. And of course a party Convention,
which has no legal power whatever, can
not legally do what Congress has no power
to do in the premises. Amy resolve which
a Wing National Convention might pass
respecting Slavery in the States would be
sheer surplusage, binding no one and eff
fecting nothing. An Anti Slavery resolve
would be disregarded by all who cling to
Slavery; pro-Slavery resolve would be
spurned by all who execrate the degrade
ton of man into chattel. As declara-
ton of sentiment, it would be a fraud;
because there is no common sentiment
among Wings on this subject. 1t would
be simply fire. brand-a Babel device-a
digni6ed- hypocrisy.
An indorsment of the Fugitive Slave
Law by the Wing National Convention
would not conciliate one opponent of that
measure, while it would exasperate many
of the now lukewarm into vehement hostil-
ity. 1t would not win one adverse voter
to the Wing standard, but would inevita-
bly, drive away many now attached to it.
1t is urged to divide, disorganize and weak
en- the Wing party, in order to degrade,
humble, and, if possible, ALLEVIATE q hated
portion of its members. Says one of lbs
leading advocates. The Albany State
Register:
"Tho Wing party of this State needs purifcaaon-
There have been too many foul elements interpoated
into it-too many foreign substances permitted min
gle with the true gold Its excrescences should be Topped
Gifts crooked limbs pruned, lest the whole trunk be
lott II to have Wing party, let US have one,
and not Free-Sol faction, attempt to carry both
along tose ther II uae better TO suffer defeat for season,
than change the nature Of the party and destroy all
that is valuable in IT,
Here is the game avowed-to divide the
party in order to defeat it, with the view
of crushing those who are stigmatized as
"the Free. Soil faction" 1t is the same
which its present hackers have been playing
in our State ever since Mr.. Fillmore became
President, and whereby they have at
length succeeded in betraying our State
Offices and Senate into Loco-Foco hands.
1t is the same which now demands the re-
nomination of Mr.. Fillmore, with no idea
of electing him, but in the confident hope
that, in the general crash which must
follow, the Seward men or Free-Soil
faction will have the nethermost place in
the common ruin.
Let the Wings OF the South understand
that the Seward men, SO called, ask of
the Wing National Convention only liber-
ty to think their own thoughts and see
with their own eyes, and even this they
do not ask, but loiU hare. Any resolve
which represents them as satisfied with
the Fugitive Slave Law and commits them
to its maintenance unmodifed will be sim
ply lie, binding no one and discrediting
none but its utterers. What the Seward
men, demand is simply liberty to coope-
rate with other Wings in the promotion of