New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-20

So we said when announcing Gen. lay
lor's nomination so in due time we did, and
shall do again. We have sometimes felt
constrained to throw away vote for some
minor post when neither Of the candidates
within reach Of it was personally worthy
but this is no such case. Let there be no
pretense this time, as there was no ground
for pretense before, that we propose to help
the Sham Democracy or maintain an lng'orI-
GUS neutrality.
But while our profound convictions OF
the necessity of Protection and Of the COL
lateral measures will impel us to support
almost any Wing candidate for President,
there are many thousands Of Wings in this
State whose position is materially different
from ours. These support the Wing party
more especially for other reasons than ours
many because they deem it the humaner'
ulster, more conscientious of the two great
parties, and especially because they believe
its instincts more favorable to Universal
Freedom, and adverse to the shameful IN
Justice and cruel debasements to which the
African Race is subjected among US. These
must in good part be lost to us by the nOmi-
nation of a proscriptive champion of the
Fugitive Slave Law, mainly because OF
such championship, as the Wing candidate
for the Presidency.
Such, gentlemen of the South is our
position. 1t becomes you to look it fairly
in the face. If you see fit, after all, to in-
sist on Mr.. Fillmore's nomination, you are
bound, in good faith to your party, to see
where the votes are to come from which
will elect him. If Virginia. South Caro-
lima, Alabama and Texas are ready to vote
for him because Of his devotion to the Fugi-
tive Slave Law, go ahead But if ne can
only poll the Wing vote in these, and
be beaten in most of the Southern States,
then you ought to allow these States which
the Wings con carry to be heard in the
selection of candidate.
For, be it ever considered, we are not
asking you to support Higher Law can
didate-an opponent of the Compromise.
Your organs are never weary Of asserting
that Gen. Sect was an early, efficient and
most Jealous supporter of the Compromise,
which we have no reason nor wish to deny.
All that we ask of you is the selection and
presentation of candidates on the old and
common Wing Platform, and that you re-
frain from prescribing and denOuncing those
without whose votes no Wing can be
elected. II will be time enough for you to
turn US out of the party after you shall have
used US, rather than just when you most
need US. If you get reliable Compromise
men for candidates, what more can you rea-
sonably ask9 Why seek to interpose OBJ
staeles 10 their elsctiona What do you
propose to gain by prcfarrinG defsst W vi1-
DRY?
What We have said of Mr.. Fillmore
applies, though less forcibly, 10 Mr.. Web.
ster Is well. He, too, has been engaged
in the prescription of the great body Of our
Wings, for reasons which ought not to have
been reasons to him. The man who pub
licly declared in l94S that hitherto there
had been South, West, and other sections
in this confsderacy. but no North, and
trusted that hereafter there wiH Be a
North ought to have been ready to par
don something to that spirit Of Liberty
which he had been potential in awaking.
Still, the sense of betrayal and wrong as to
him 10 not 30 keen and vivid az it is with re-
gard to his official superior; and there are
many who, in admiration Of his Intellectual
greatness, would be tempted to forget the
wrongs which they could not pardon in his
colder blooded superior, for whose elevation
they had struggled through many years,
only to be stung by him at last. He might
carry New.Yxk, though we could only
hope for it.
Such, Wings of the South and South
West is the case fairly laid open before you.
Act wisely and temporarily with regard to
it; fer only wisdom can secure an ascen
dancy, where folly will suffice for it, over
throw
II WILLIAM e. ROBINSON, Esq, will
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