Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1852-04-07
a III yvith Southern wigs.

A.suuniY Mat wing national convention
is to be h. Poms time during the ensuing
sumner for ne selection Of candidates for Pres
ident and Vice President. it is evident that
collision of sentiment is quite likely to occur
touching the new issues which have recently
been engrafted on the politics OF the country
Let us take an observation. therefore, and see
where we shall stand respectively
h.. We Of the North, who are faithful to the ira
ditfohs and sentiments Of our fathers, propose
no action respecting slavery, desire none what
ever, from any wing national convention. We
know and acknowledge that on this subject
there is diversity Of views and feelings be-
tween the North and South, and We see no use
in plastcrine over that diversity with empty
and ambiguous words propose 70 leave it
where it has been left by all former wing ma
tional conventions, untouched. We hold, as
We ever have held, that the wing party Of the
nation was organised upon certain vital prin-
ciples. and in support Of certain sfandanental
measures, which have nothing TO do with sla.
very or abolition. A wing in Albania may be
decidedly Ho.slavery, as one in Vermont may
be earnestl fnti-slavery. yet both be true and
sound WHIP and they may act cordially to-
gsther in support Of whg principles and
measures If. ,ssa - question shall, B. car.
: =. llrtonals- sodsVsa,iosrle =
, disturb and Dist it. the North will be
bamsless His contspt with the old platforms
! and cd Isddmarks of the party. 1t asks moth
ing irregard to slavery in this connection but
that be let alone.
Whatever of new tests, or frebrands, or
'isms shall come into that convention will be
j. ihrut in by the South and its train bearers
:. by tk same force that laid the Wilmo, Proviso
!, SO ftly on the table of the last national con
:. venton. That convention was largely in ia
vor,f said Proviso-the laying on the table
imried that the subject had rightfully no place
in ,eonveution Of the wings of the entire I'm.
=. ion
:. Shoud the subject Of slavery be nevertheless
thrust into the next national convention, how
can othe: subjects of interest be kept out2 The
:. freedom If the public lands. sympathy with the
,ramped millions Of Europe, and other such
, matters, are worthy of attention; if slavery gets
: its ak grnnd, why should liberty aud labor
stand baG?
g Well: Suppose your game wins. gentlemen,
= and maprity of the convention is dragooned
into enclosing the fugitive slave law-what OF
h it? Will ole man who previously detested that
- law. thereafter love it? Will one journal which
previously denounced 1t, thereafter uphold it?
What will our rattle be worth. supposing you
get it?
n Is anythng to be Won by it? Let the general
aspect of or recent southern elections give an
!. swer Consider especially the late contest in
Virginia. which the wings fought under the
is banner Of Fillmore and the compromise. which
4. wing congressional caucus had just endorsed
while that q the adverse party had wisely ia
n bed it. The whig candidate for Governor was
e decidedly aler and more popular than his
d antagonist. md yet the former was beaten some
e seven thousand votes a1nI6apState carried
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