New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-07
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We have often been reminded, but never
more forcibly than by the above, of Hal
leck's prima donnas of an earlier day,
"who.e la, f,rever. .tll rnsero'eru',
And again, of culprit on the gallows,
who, as described by an earlier bard,
"on fitted the halter, OF tr.yer.ed The car
And often took leave, bet fssned 10th 70 deVarf.'
Here are Messrs. Toombs, Stephens d
Co. appearing once more in the character
of renouncing Wings Monsieur Ton
son come again with an assurance as
cool and fragrant a,if they had not played
that role some half dozen times already.
Gentlemen, you are good actors, and the
public likes to see you but can't you vary
the performance trihei There is a pos
sibility of having too much of good thing.
Nearly three years ago, Messrs. Toombs
and Stephens bolted from the Wing party
on the election of Speaker of the last Con-
gress, and helped (by indirection) to secure
the choice of their Opposition colleague,
Howell Cobb. The combination thus orr
ginated was found profitable and extended.
A Union party was formed in Georgia
and other States, composed OF portion OF
the Democratic with nearly all the Wing
party, but avowing not one distinctive
Wing principle, and this party elected Mr..
Cobb Governor of Georgia, returned Messrs.
Toombs and stephens to Congress, and chose
Legislature which made Mr.. Toombs a
U. S. Senator for six years from the 4th of
March next. These gentlemen have at no
time since that Georgia Election evinced
either interest in or sympathy with the
Wing party, but have uniformly avowed
and in action exhibited their want of faith
in it. They discouraged the sending of
Delegates from Georgia to the Wing Ma
tional Convention, though they knew the
avowed and express object of so doingwas
the denomination of Mr.. Fillmore first,
and the defeat of Gen. Scott any how.
They have at no time evinced any anxiety
or made any effort to secure Mr.. Fillmore's
and defeat Gen. SCOTS nomination. But
now that Gen. Scott is the Wing candidate,
they make his selection their main reason
for boiling. Judge whether it be real
reason or only pretext.
So with the FIVE gentlemen who sign
their Manifesto. Not one of them was
elected to this Congress as Wing, or upon
a Wing nomination. All were nominated
and chosen by the Union party, founded
on the remuneration and humiliation Of the
Wing party of their respective States
Mr.. Brooke is Senator, chosen by the
votes Of legislators now open and jealous
for Pierce and King. Mr.. Faulkner was
elected as Union man, but, long before
the Wing National Convention assembled,
and while he had good reason to suppose
Mr.. Fillmore would be its candidate, he
expressly repudiated the Wing party as
net sufficiently pro-Slavery and went over
to the camp of the Sham Democracy. He
evidently means to be the regular Oppos-
iion candidate fer Congress in his District
at the next Election-and did so before
Gen. Scott was nominated.
Now that these gentlemen are opposed
to Gen. SCOTS election, we can very well
understand; but what right have they to
counsel or speak for the great party which
they long since abandoned Why might
mob Senators Hunter, Sumner and Chase,
and Messrs. Bayly, Charles Allen, Gid
dings, and half dozen others, who have
dropped of from time to time during the
last dozen years-some because we were
too much, others because we were too little
Anti-Slavery-cut and renounce the Wing
party because of Gen. SCOTS nomination
as the 'signers of the above Manifesto
have donel Does not the above de-
monstration involve a virtual fraud, as if
Capt. Ry nders, Johnny Austin and Yankee
Sullivan were to gravely set forth that the
nomination of Gen. Scott had rendered
their further cooperation with the Wing
party impossible!
We speak not here of Messrs. Gentry
and Williams, who were recently Wings,
and we hope still will be. We believe
they will yet recognize the propriety of
supporting Gen. Scott, and do it heartily.
But even were they TO hold off, we cannot
believe that Tennessee will go against
him. She was very urgent that Northern
Wings should sustain her favorite General
last time, herself giving him more than
Eight Thousand Majority. We do ro,h.