New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-05

10 this category. Gen. Commanded. though
unable to be present, sent his proxy In favor
Of the time and place for holding the Con
vertioD which was adopted. Messrs. Jack
son Of Ga. and Freeman Of Miss. (whose
oames ioin in the lst) we're elected 70 Con
gress on precisely opposite principles. but
that means little. The Democracy are
going in fox the Spoils of Victory this
time. and Southern Rights or Uoion,
Free Soil or Slavery Extension, are OF
small account in the general apprehension
when compared with the main chance.
The Committee have done quite right in
admonishing tie States against sending
supernumeTary Delegates 70 the National
Convention. They are in the way at best
and are often the cause OF mischief. Let
them be kept at home.
And row. if the Wing Members of Con-
gress will dispense with counter Conven-
ton altogether, add enable each Wing roter
10 cast his ballot directly for President and
Vice President, we can beat any ticket
which this Baltimore Convention may scare
up. Conventions are but necessary evils
at best. while National Conventions are
more evil and less necessary than any other.
Their essential. inevitable vice is the re-
n.oyal of power to great distance from
tie People. The plain farmer or hard
working mechanic, who wants no office
AID is only solicitous that the country be
well governed, may 60 as delegate to the
County town. or even 30 the State capital
but rarely or never can he afford to take a
Journey of several hundred miles to attend
a National Convention. The delegate to
that Convention is almost Of necessity an
office-holder or efice-seeker, who attends
and operates with an eye to his personal in
terests. At the best, his efforts will be d.
rected to securing the ascendancy of " the
party'-nOt to molding that party into an
instrument of the greatest practical good to
the Country. He goes in to win, and
Success is his touchstone of Merit.
In allowing the People to declare on their
ballots for whom the Electors they choose
shall cast their votes, we do not preclude
State, County or any other nominations of
preferred candidates-we only stipulate that
those nominations shall not be exclusive.
Nor do we, as a contemporary mistakenly
insists, divide the Wing party, as it was
divided in 1886 by the nomisations of Har-
rson, White and Webster. With Wing
Electoral Ticket in each State, only pledged
to obey the expressed will of the largest
proportion Of the party, as proclaimed by its
ballots, we might have as many candidates
as Wings should see fit TO nominate or vote
for but the votes cast for each and all would
count at last for that candidate whom the
larger number of those voting the Wing
Ticket should prefer. Thus the friends of
Mr.. Webster. Gen. Scott, Mr.. Fillmore
and others would each work for their ia
vorite throughout the canvass, with the d0u-
bic Indictment of promoting the general
cause and that of their fav0rite; each vote
secured by them having this double efiicien-
cy. At the close ofthe canvass, each Wing
voter would have the satisfaction of knowing
that he had done his best for the Wing
cause and also for that candidate who SEEM
ed to him its worthiest exponent and cham
pion; if oyerruled in the general result, he
would know that 1t was because the People
inclined "a the other party, and not because
National Convention had selected for US
an unfortunate candidate. SO, If the Wing
party should succeed, vet his favorite can
didate should fail, he would know that his
choice had been overruled by the People
and not 10y political intriguers. This plan
would not only concentrate the energies and
efforts of all Wings an support of the COM
mon cause. but it would relieve us ever
more from the necessity Of taking up avail
able candidates and voting for men we dis
like to sustain princlp,es we approve. Each
vote then cast for anH Wing for President
would be testimonial that he was, at least
by one fellow-citizen. esteemed the noblest
Roman of them all aud not merely that ne
was deemed the best that, under the circum-
stances, could be chosen. We cannot sur
render the hope that this plan will yet be
adopted
= WILLIAM MINER, Esq, Opposition
Member of Assembly from the lst and lid
Wards OF our City, lies dangerously III Of EVsi-
pelas the residence Of his mother, and will no. be
able attend al the opening OF the Legislative SEES
sion.
u Hon. ARCHIBALD DIXON, who has Just