Daily American telegraph., 1852-05-10
The "BoltinR WhiRs.n

The Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth does not
venture exactly upon defence of the boilers,
but processes to be very much impressed by the
magnifcence of the demonstration and there
fore assumes to give particular instructions upon
the Wing party as to the course of policy it
should pursue 1t holds in very high veneration
the impracticables, and thinks it only reasonable
and proper in the great body of the Wing party
to bow with Difference to their behests. We shall
quote what it says of the Wings of the North:
"a portion of the Wings of the North-per-
haps the greater portion-tell us that they can
submit to no neD additions to the Whig creed--to
no test Of party orthodoxy. They are soilIng,
they say, TO let the Compromise stand as ii is they
sOtu not attempt the repeal of any part sfH; they
ciH not refuse 10 support a Wing candidate on ao-
count Of his position in regard to t they milling
20 let the past be past; but as many of them hon
estly disapproved, and still do disapprove, of
some Of the features of that series of measures,
they cannot now subscribe to any approval Of
them without Inconsistency and hypocrisy; and,
therefore, while they wlling to leaoe the Com
promise undsturbsd they cannot consent to endorse
It, nor agree that any declaration concerning
it shall be added to the Wing platform by the
National Convention, or any pledge in relation
thereto be demanded of the candidate as the con-
dition of his nomination"
If this be so, what has any one to ask of them?
The Commonwealth informs us
- The South does not require Of them to ap-
prope of the Compromise, but only to acguiesce in
it-that is, that they shall declare, in solemn and
erphcit form, the intention which they have
already avowed in less definite modes, viz: that
they Diu not disturb that great adjustment"
To do this efeotually would require change
in the constitution of the United States. If the
American people regard the Compromise as of
such permanent importance as to require the
whole people, including its opponents, to soIeu,niy
declare that they will never disturb it, we marvel
that an addition to that great instrument is not
proposed. A law exists confessedly in accord
ance with the will Of vast amount of the Amer.
can people; and yet solemn declarations are de-
manded Of all that it shall never be disturbed in
the future. Free and enlightened Legislation will
that be, exacted under such restraints as this
There is not a law on the statute books Of our
whole country that we would thus bind ourselves
to perpetuate forever. To do so with respect to
any law is to vtiate the constitution of our coun-
try, and to PROSTATE the spirit of freedom and
self-government forever.
The great charter of English liberty, shaped
and intended for all future time, has no higher
sanction than this, nor does the prescription in
our own constitution call for q mode more au-
thoritative for it's amendment and repeal than is
here pointed out
The Compromise laws are indeed fixed and
settled, and will long remain so nor have VIC
Al ~, ~
peoples declaring their acquiescence in them
but when it comes to solemn declarations tina
they or any other human laws under, pithin, or
IL possible, above the constitution, shall never b.
repealed, we solemnly declare our protest; an
if this is to be the new test, we spurn and repu
date il.
Let such precedent be once established, an
We shall henceforth hear Of nothing in our Pres
idential contests but solemn declarations foreve
to abide by new articles in our political creed
until the constitution shall prove q byword o
derision, and free agency shall no longer be tn
distinguishing mark Of an American citizen o
legislator.
The Commonwealth, however, has discovered
in addition to the foregoing proposition, yer,
simple and easy mode of arranging the presen
difficulty in the Wing party, which, it says, is
Ia mode so simple and lying 80 much upo,
the surface of the subject, that il must have oc
Cured to many other minds besides ours al
though we have nowhere seen it proposed 1t i
this Let the North unite with the South IN securin
the nomination Of A,itard Fillmore, Daniel Wobste,
John J. Criaenden, or some other eminent stdtssma
phose position on he Compromise /. Of record tn
hsfory Of The country From such candidate II
South win demand no special pledge, nor regar
II as matter Of much importance whether u
convention which dominates him makes any d
claration upon that subject or not"
This request is so reasonable, so disinterestec
90 msgnanimous that we can hardly 6nd II In on