Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-05-04
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patbizinp friends ut their respective homes to
), whom thew would communicate the burden OF
4 tbair oriefs. and sorrows, and indignation. But
wa 6nd that so much of our sympathy as related
70 the constituents of these gentlemen was mis-
Of placed They do not partake of the sorrows Of
a their Representatives. not even in the slightest
degree On the contrary, the newspapers of the
South and Southwest come up to us daily filed
with regrets for the course of action pursued by
them and protestations against any such usurpa-
tons by a Congressional caucus as they had
meditated and urged upon it.
We have heretofore made several quotations
from the papers of the districts alluded to, bear
ing testimony to the facts here stated; and we
now propose to submit another of like tenor 1t
is from the pen of sound politician, an accom-
plished writer, true wit, and true Wing. We
trust our friends of boiling notoriety will read
what he has written for their enlightenment, and
be instructed and influenced thereby We quote
from the Louisville Journal
The WING CONGRESSIONAL CAUeUs-Those
men who succeed best in this life always attend to
their own business strictly and leave the bust
ness of other persons to be attended to by those
who are most nearly concerned We never knew
one that was anxious to attend to the business of
his neighbor who did not neglect his own Inter
meddlers and busybodies are nuisances where
ever found. NIX. M....
When it was proposed that the Wings in Con-
gress should designate day and place for the
meeting of the Wing National Convention, no one
for moment supposed that they would under
take to do anything beyond that. No one ex-
pected that they were going to adopt resolutions
In relation to national bank, tariff, public lands
the resolutions of 98, or any other subject. If
the Wings in Congress wish to adopt any such
resolutions, they can do it for themselves. Nobody
will thank them for doing it for anybody else The
| Wings Of the country expect, through their dele
gates, to nominate Presidential candidate, and
then they expect to elect him. Thus much they
are able to do for themselves. Moreover if they
see tit to say anything in relation to the Compro-
mise in their National Convention they will do SO
and if the Wings in Congress wish to record
their fidelity to the Compromise, they can adopt
resolutions to that effect also.
| We see no reason why any Wing members of
Congress should be unwilling to refer all questions
which concern the National Convention to that
body. Do they suppose that they have got such
a monopoly of the wisdom of the country that
no Wing Convention can act discreetly unless
| they interpose their surplus sense to save such
convention from folly? As the Wing party is
perfectly willing to entrust the nomination of a
candidate to National Convention, it is also
perfectly willing to suffer that convention to
pursue that course which, on full survey Of
the Presidential field, it may see fit to pursue
We see no reason why either the wisdom or
the integrity of the Wing National Convention
shall be doubted IL advance of its meeting. The
people do not design to send fools and fanatics to
that body and hence it is only reasonable to sup
pose it's members will BIO able to discharge their
duty faithfully to the Wing party and to the
country without any dictation from any Wing
members of Congress Had the Wing caucus
adopted fifty resolutions in favor of the Compro-
mise measures, who would be bound by those
resolutions but the members cf the caucus?
They cannot bind the members of the National
Convention and 1t looks very much like presump-
ton III them to undertake to do 80. If, when
the National Convention assemblies, the members
I find that they have not got sense and patriotism
;, enough to determine what they ought to do,
? they can send a telegraphic despatch to Wash
y ington to that effect, and receive consignment
of sense, fresh and sparkling, from that fountain
4 of perennial wisdom without any great delay. Ii
is to be hoped, however, that the gentlemen who
there meet together may have sense enough to
understand what ought to be done, and frmness
enough to do it,
The more we reflect on the conduct of those
members of Congress who bolted from the Wing
caucus because the majority were not willing to
undertake to dictate to the National Convention,
the less justifable we think it. Why could
they not patiently wait and see what the National
Convention will do before making such display
of tremendous patriotism and Whigsm? If the
National Convention act in an outrageous man
ner-if it do what it ought not to do, or leave
undone what ought to be done-it will then be
time for gentlemen Of exhausted stocks Of Wing
ism to march out Of the party.
We do not think it appears very clearly that
the Wings who bolted from the caucus are any
better Wings than they who remained. When we
} remember what the course of some of these gen.
| tlemen has hitherto been, we are quite unwilling
to take the color of our politics from them. They
have not given so many hostages to fidelity and
consistency as some others have given. One of
them was, and we believe continues to be, tho
roughly opposed to the Compromise, and yet he
was so shocked that the Wing caucus would not
adopt resolution opposed TO his doctrines that
he Indignantly withdrew himself? Isn't he q
model Wing? Oughtn't he to get himself stereo-
typed that the country may have the benefit of
several editions of himself at small cost Should
he not be petrifed and put in the museum of the
Smithsonian Institution, to convey to posterity,
through all the generations that are, to come, the
port and look of an Immaculate Whig of the nine
teenth century?
The "retiring Wings assume that their object
is to hush up oil sectional discord-to put an end
to all slavery agitation. Their recipe for peace
is the sword-their cure for strife is an excite
ment of evil passions
From the frequency with which the Compro-
mise is invoked, person might infer that the
adjustment is in jeopardy. But nobody expects
Congress to disturb it, and if Congress will only
let it alone, it must be safe. No President, how
ever devoted to secession or abolitionism, can
then affect its stability. 1t is fnality," and
| everybody, save few malcontents North and
: South, is willing thus to regard it. The North
ern Freesoil Wings have acquiesced in it and are
willing To abide NV hut na Il ,rna rnthnr h;44o-