New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-10
WASHINGTON.


~;r~~ . Northeru and a Southern wing. Inc
uorth.,u division is opposed to Slavery, and al
~. h.s been. The Southern, Of course, upho!ds
NAT institution. The previous jars and the pre-
,pt divisions of the party have arisen out Of the
eonA;cts of the two sections on this subject. Be-
Sveen them there has been, and is, an inevitable
.ntasonism. These divisions and the consequent
eubansssments have been for two or three years,
and are now. greater than common, from the cir
eumstance that the party has been, and s, in pow
Or in the Executive Department Of the Govern
nent and the necessity has thus devolved upon 1t
Of presenting line Of action for the whole party
upon this question.
The Administration Of Gen. TAYLOR adopted the
III alone policy. 1t proposed to have nothing TO
DO with the subject of Slavery. Ii said, Leave
Ahe Fugitive Law alone, leave California and New
MEXICO to come in as States when they get ready,
and leave them to settle for themselves all ques-
lions Of Slavery arising within their own bounda-
sics." This was the policy of the Wing Admins
>ration of Gen. TAYLOR on the Slavery question
Under Mr.. FILLMORE the policy was changed.
The present Administration insist that the line OF
aston of the Wing party on this subject, shall be
what it never was before, viz a perfect agreement
ssd concurrence Of opinion and action upon u,
1y both divisions or sections ofthe party. While it
. fact that the two wings never did agree before,
on the question Of Slavery it is proposed that noto
hey shall agree. course of policy for the whole
party il thus laid down on the Slavery question.
Certain measures have been passed by Congress.
Chief among them is the Fugitive Slave Law. and
the law establishing Territorial Governments
without restriction as to Slavery. The doctrine
u that the Northern Wings as well as the South
srn Whigs shall sustain those laws just as they
arc. And not this only they shall also agree and
declare that the Slavery question is finally adj
iusted that there is to be no more talk, no more
action on the subject. Slavery is to be hence
forth tabooed question in the party. 1t is the
"Pot Rock" in our political navigation, to which
our Wing Administration profess to have been
che Mons. Maiefert, blowing off all its dangerous
prominence. II is to be hereafter considered sunk.
This is the present position Of the Wing Adj
ministration on this subjcct-a subject that has
long divided it, and long been regarded a question
On which the two divisions of the party were to
be allowed to differ; upon which, in the very ma
ture of things, they could in fact do otherwise
than differ.
1t s, in a word, very plain attempt to make
Northern Wings take Southern ground on the
subject Of Slavery. 1t is an attempt to destroy
the old divisions, by making one side surrender to
Che other. II does not say to the North, Hold
your own opinions on Slavery, whether it comes
in the shape of the right Of petition, as in Mr..
ADANs's time in that Of the Proviso under Gen.
TAYLOR's Administration, or in that Of the Fug-
tive Law under Mr.. FMLMoRE's." But on the
contrary, it declares that the Northern Wings
shall take ground against all petitions on Slavery
against mooting the question of the Proviso,
against expressing dislike to the Fugitive Law,
against ALL agitation Of every kind whatever, on
the question Of Slavery. We certainly do not
overstate the case. The idea of adjustment ~
and finality," goes the whole length of this.
Now we wish to ask our Southern Wing friends,
In spirit Of candor and in a spirit of philosophy
also, If there is any good reason to suppose the
Wing party can be fused and made one, upon this
subject, on such a basis as this y We admit the
simplicity Of tho plan, and it is very easy for MIR.
KIT" WILLIAMS, and Mr.. HUMPHREY MARSHALL,
and Mr.. f. CARRNeroS CABELL, ct I genus
smne, to insist that the Wing party cannot con-
tinue to endure upon any other basis. Nothing in
the world is more easy. But, looking at the nature
of the demand, and of the plan, under the light Of
the experience of the last fifteen years on this
question of Slavery, and regarding the ordinary
laws of human action, we ask, if it be probable
that such settlement, or adjustment, is likely to
be ratified and sustained by the Northern division
of the Wing party The action Of given COM
muuty, sustaining given relations, and furnishing
q given experience of many years duration, is
problem to be solved irrespective Of all political
and party considerations, and in this case it does
not seem to present any great difficulties of solu-
ton. 1t can be solved easy, in our estimation,
- any sum can be done in the rule Of three. 1t
seems to us just plain as the stars in the sky,
or the nose on mans face. 1t we are not greatly
ut fault, the solution is equally plain and palpabe
TO every man Of sense, no matter where he halls
from, whether it be North or South. 1t seems to
~ that the convictions of every sensible mans un-
dcrstanding, no matter what his works or his
hopes must be that the expectation is utterly fall
lacious. This CONCLUSION is to be drawn from the
very nature Of the human mind, our knowledge of
the laws Of it's operation, and experience on
this subject in particular. Herein is to. be
found the basis Of MIR. CALHouN's judgments on
this question. The idea that Compromise" or
vote Of Congress on this question, altered the
real relation, or judgment, or would influence tho
action Of the Northern mind in regard to it, was
transparent folly that his eagle glance always
pierced in an instant. Oh green and verdant gen.
Ncnen Of the House Of Representatives yc
Who vainly fancy that carrying the Compromise
Measures through your illustrious body is great
political stroke, even a triumph over an ever ac-
i've principle in the heart of man; it is time YOU
were resolving that the Sun shall stand still on
another Gideon. II time you erecting
stage under the ends of the rainbow in order to
upike II ON To the skx IL IA time xnu had ne snlxed