New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-01
PARTIES AND THE TRIBUNE.

The Commercial Adrertiser pauses before
tensions based upon our article entitled 81 Pol
itcs for 1858" 1t sees therein certain start
ling revelations" of deep and dark de
signs on our part, which must have had an
origin and shape anterior to the late Pres-
Dental Election We entreat our easy-gOing
neighbOr not to hesitate, not to TO pause, not
to shrink appalled,, nor any thing of the sort.
1t ia and has long been our conviction that
permanent parties are erils, and that all exist
ing parties should be broken up and remelted
every few years The older they grow, the
more corrupt and pernicious they are likely to
become When, therefore, Democrat
says to us, "Our party has existed and borne
its present name for half a century or more,
while yours has been repeatedly broken up,
'remOdeled and renewed we reply-'If
what you say were true, it would go far to
prove yours the more corrupt and mischiev
Gus party of the two We have Abraham
TO our father said the Jews, and pressing
this cOnceit against their eye-bals, they shut
ut the light which must otherwise have pene-
trated them as it beamed from the face and
radiated with the words of one greater than
Abraham.
Our venerable contemporary is quite mistak-
EN- in asserting that The Tribune has intmat-
ed an intention of introducing the Anti-Slavery
element as a future Uhig ISSUE" and we will
thank it, when making any charge of the kind,
to quote our language from which its charge is
deduced, and let us see just what it is that it
stands upon. re are Anti-Savery, and expect
10 continue so, just as we are for Free Homes
to the Landess and for the Maine Law; yet
we do not insist that either of these shall be
made Wig issue But if il be attempted 10
commit the Wing party against either of the
Reforms we advOcate-tO make Anti-Slavery
or Land Reform, or advocacy of the Maine
Law, a bar 70 Wing fellowship or a ground of
Wing prescription, then, you See the case is
brayely altered, and we show fight.
The Commercial thus peTplexes itself and
distresses it's readers about something it fan
cies awkward in The TribpRe's ayOwals,
viz:
Our nerhbor apparently deliberately asserts that il
has IoHg been It's SERTED coRricoH that political parties
OUGHT TO be broken up every four years H0n long
are not told but we suppose that twelve months, or six
months certainly, would be accounted short time %
entertain settled conviction 20 that are forced
10 conclnde that before the last Wing Convention at
Baltimore-snd how long antecedent 20 that we know
not-TRe Tribune entertained settled conviction that
,ha .itta1
ND Now The Tribune processes % act MP 70 It's cOnvc
lions The inference unpessantone but il is really
unavoidable. think contemporary must itself
admit With such c0Hrictt9Rs how could i honestly ed
yocate OF desire the election Of the Wing candidate
which would have consolidated and perpetuated the
Whig party And does il not supply certain WHY'S
who have denounced IL course with a very plausible
justhcaront
We beg leave 20 assure our nelghbOr that II
il knows anybody who suspects, OF is una
yoidably forced to conclude " that The Tribune
didn't do It's utmost for the election of Scott
and Graham, then We are very sorry for that
body's lack OF gumptiOn, but We really can't
stop 70 undertake his desperate case. We
supported Gen. scott because We deemed him
more deserving OF and better qualified for die
Presidency than any other candidate who
stood chance of election, and because We
deemed the principles on which he was sup
ported far sounder and more benefcent than
those Of his antagonists. But we did not sup
port him mainly for the sake Of consolidating
and perpetuaring the Wing party" nor did we
deem that 81 Objee, worth the efforts We made
in the late canvass. OF tho Two great parties.
We decidedly preferred, as We ever did and pro-
baby ever shall prefer, the Wing but if they
were both bloIred out of existence and the
People left TO form new aggregations and COM
binations as freely as if these parties mad never
existed, We believe il would be blessed thing
for the Country. And this is no newly formed
opinion, but has been deliberately matured
Let The COmmerciGL make the most Off,
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