Richmond semi-weekly times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 184?-1853, 1852-04-27
VIII CON oress;oual Caucus.

Wig Congressional Caucus
tbe Whig Nat; opal Convention shall display
tho came iiberal and uncompromising spirit that
,,,serz to have actuated the majority of the Wing
congressional caucus, the candidate that may Dc
chosen for the Presidential race, will be doomed
- certa;n defeat. The South holds in the college
oe e,actors the balance of power between the
Markham Wings and Northern Democrats, and 1t
: brown truth that the Southern voters will not
cast their sufftages for any whose opinions in
raspect TO the Compromise, or rather the slavery
asnects Of it, are not known to be perfectly sound
As for the Wings of Virginia, they stand on the
broad rock of the Compromise, and there they
mean to stand forever, until IN defence OF IL
thew are compelled to retreat from the Onlon.-
Eli details If the operations of the caucus have
,,o+ a,ansad Init enough is known to display the
violent dislike of the Northern Wings to embody-
;notbe Compromise in the National platform But
let It be borne in mind that there was no direct
vote npon that proposition in the caucus, and let
Il ba remembered too, that the caucus was not
o,o+hed with the powers of National Convention
10 construct for the party platform of principles
When that assembly meets the members will
have to decide whether they are willing to dis
solve the ligaments that unite the Northern ana
Southern Wings, and willing to engage IN
the Presidential struggle without the cooperation
of an important division of the party force. 1t
thew are rash enough to adopt the last alternative,
then the Convention becomes a vain pageant, and
n signal overthrow awaits their candidate. But
ifthe majority of that body shall be influenced by
wiser and more patriotic counsels, they Will not
sunder the ties that units the old Wing party,
but will maintain them unbroken by assuming
more national position. There are, we conceive,
that Two methods for the attainment of this harmo
Nous conclusion. The first by making the Com
promise in ALI parts an element In the wing
national platform. The only objection that can
be urged against this course Is, that 1t exposes
that adjunct of the constitution apparently to the
yicissitudes of party warfare; and the implied adj
mission thatit might appear ocarry that particu-
lar na,ts of those measures might be the subjects
of modification.
These deductions, wrong reasoners In the free
States might, in their folly, be led to draw, where"
IA we are perfectly convinced that If the Fugitive
Slave law were to be altered by the force of Nor
.hern votes. or the Wilmot Proviso be at
anv time hereafter engrafted upon Territorial
Governments, that the slave States would una
soce proclaim revolution. This we take upon
ourselves to declare, would be the action OF the
South in the case supposed; this certainly we
can with propriety, declare would be the course
that we, as public journalists, would strenuously
advocate. Now the Wing party in the South
will have to decide as to the best form in which to
express this their firm resolve, when their dele
gates assemble in Convention. 1t may be done by
having the Compromise, only portion OF winch
contains vital issues, inserted, as we have be-
fore said in the national platform; or if prefer
mitted in that declaration of principles, the same
object may be reached by requiring at the hands
of the National Wing Convention, candidate
whose opinions shall be known to be favourable to
the fnality of the Compromise.
If the Northern Wings shall be willing to pur-
sue neither the one course nor the other, then the
Whigs of the slave States cannot co-or crate with
them. Now a word as to the position of the
Wing party of Virginia in respect to the alterna-
tives above spoken of. After proclaiming their al
legiance to the Compromise and preference for
Mr.. Fillmore for the next President, the Conven-
ton go on to declare in the fourth resolution
T. That the Wings of Virginia will give the like cordial
support to any other true Wing, who may become the
nominee of that Convention who has stood by, and does
stand by the compromise out and out and regards 1t and
stands by it. with unaltercd determination as final set
Element and adjustment of the measures nvovedin it.
1t seems then the opinions Of the candidate are
the test by which our cooperation is to be deci-
ded. The question then of the unity of the
Wing party, has not according to the tenor OF the
above resolution, been yet decided, nor can be de-
cided until the action of the National Convention
The day of grace has not yet elapsed. We like
the position of the Wing party in this State ; we
will have the Presidential candidate on the ques-
tons of the Compromise, to be pure as vestal,
and 1--WE will consider any attempt to dis
turb them as blow aimed at the peace of the
country and the integrity of the Union"
Upon these deliberate and well-weighed reso-
lutions we think that the Southern Wings ought
to stand we had almost said the entire South,
but it would be too much to expect the heteroge-
NOUS materials of which the Democratic party is
composed, to undergo SO thorough fusion as to
enable them to do this.
KOSSUTH.
Kossnth's pilgrimage through the United States