Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-24
Wig Congressional Caucus.

be same illiberal and uncompromising spirit that
ppears to have actuated the majority the Wing
Congressional caucus, the candidate that may be
hoseu for the Presidential race, will be doomed
10 certain defeat. The South holds in the college
felectors the balance of power between the
Northern Wings and Northern Democrats, and it
5 a known truth that the Southern voters will not
last their suffrages for any man whose opinionsin
respect to the Compromise, or rather the slavery
aspects 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 it
they are compelled to retreat from the Union.-
Full details of the operations of the caucus have
not elapsed, but enough is known to display the
violent dislike of the Northern Wings to embody-
ing the Compromise III the National platform. But
let it be borne in mind that there direct
vote upon that proposition in the caucus, and let
it be remembered, too, that the caucus was not
clothed with the powers of National Convention
to construct for the party platform of principles
When that assembly meets, the members will
have to decide whether they willing to dis
solve the ligaments that unite the Northern and
. Southern Wings and are willing to engage in
the Presidential struggle without the cooperation
ofan important division of the party force. If
they rash enough to adopt the last alternative
then the Convention becomes vain pageant, and
signal overthrow awaits their candidate But
lfthe majority of that body shall be influenced by
wiser and more patriotic counsels, they will not
sunder the ties that unite the old Wing party,
but will maintain them unbroken by assuming
more national position. There are, we conceive,
but two methods for the attainment ofthis harmo-
NOUS conclusion. The first by making the Com
promise in all its parts element in the Wing
national platform. The only objection that can
be urged against this course is, that it exposes
that adjunct of the constitution apparently to the
vicisstudes of party warfare; and the implied adj
mission thatit might appear to carry, that particu
lar parts of those measures might be the subjects
of modification.
These deductions, wrong reasoners in the free
States ght, in their folly, be led to draw where
as we are perfectly convinced that if the Fugitive
Slave law were to be altered by the force of Nor
thern votes, the Wilmot Proviso be at
any time hereafter engrafed upon Territorial
Governments, that the slave States would ana
voce proclaim a revolution. This we take upon
ourselves to declare, would be the action of the
South in the supposed; this certainly we
can, with propriety, declare would be the course
that we, as public journalists, would streuuously
advocate Now the Wing party in the South
will have to decide 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 which
contains vital issues, inserted, as we have be-
fore said, in the national platforms; 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 finality of the Compromise.
If the Northern Wings shall be willing to pur-
sue neither the one course nor the other then the
Wings of the slave States cannot co-ol crate with
them. Now 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
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 and
stands by it, with unatered determination final set
tement and adjustment of the measures involved in 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 a 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 wel-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 heterose-
NOUS materials of which the Democratic party is
composed, to undergo so thorough fusion as to
enable them to do this.
kOSSUTH.
Kossuths pilgrimage through the United States
is nearly completed His last public appearance
was at Jersey City, and we presume that by this
time he has reached New York, the point from
which he originally set out on his Intervention
crusade. We believe that it is his purpose to