The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-11-25
VOL. VI.

North. National Wings In New York o,.
it is stated in the Tribune, voted outricb. r'
Gen. Pierce. ain the moment of our t,;..
in this city," says the New Orleans Coyy,,, i.'
should not be forgotten that many Wb,.
ing from the highest and most patriotic mo-, UT
voted the Democratic ticket In the bn,aw
part we took in conducting this canvas. -
addressed ourselves almost exclusively 70 ~,
Wing party, and urged upon them the opD;on,
and arguments of influential men who belo,,,s
to their own party The result thus far sbeu,,
that this course was not pursued in vain ana
that the arguments Of Gentry, Williams len;
fer, Lyons, and others, did not fall on stoDv
and unproductive soil. They were address,
by us to intelligent and patriotic men in tbo
Wing party of Louisiana, and the return, Show
with what effect"
The tone of the National Wing" press too
is exultant. 1t is evidently pleased at the ovor
throw of its party. Hear the Albany Repig,,
one of the Fillmore papers:
awe have no hesitation in saving tbot E.
ourselves, we derive great consolation n, i iot
our defeat, from the conviction that it has Looa
caused by an honest instinct of the naorIo ~
their love for their country, and their deterr;
nation to maintain the Constitution in oil -.
/ integrity and its honest spirit 10
"Nor do we hesitate to say that we find o,
other source of great consolation in tho Ent
that Abolitionism and rebellion. their ir.t;,o
tors and promoters, and particularly their hish
priests in this State-Seward, Greeley and
/ Weed-have received a death-blow from which
they never can recover. They have PLAYED ont
their desperate game with the aid of Others
who detested their principles and their objects
and yet they are in hopeless minority. in a
| political oblivion"
! The New York Sunday Times is very com
plimentary to the Hunker Wings Hear:
"The result was not altogether a Democrat.
ic triumph; for, viewed from some points il
was a victory achieved by the conservative
/ Union, Constitution, and law.abiding portion
of the Wing party, over the black flag of Abo.
litionism. That flag was brought into their
ranks, and its bearers insisted on leading the
van but those who drove it out, although thew
lost the day, indicated their attachment to
the Union, and shed the highest honor on them.
selves, by sacrificing their party to their cOun
try"
We shall not inquire at present whether the
philosophy Of these Hunkers be sound it is
enough to know that it is their philosophy
that they appear to believe whatthey say-that
they are triumphant and lfconfdent-that
they act as if there could be no question that
the reins of power are in their hands-that the
policy of an unrelenting prescription of all who
favor Anti-Slavery agitation is openly avowed-
that Hunker Democrats will prefer the fellow.
ship of Hunker Wings to that of radical Or
Anti Slavery Democrats, as Hunker Wings
will prefer the ascendency of Hunker Demo
Gratis, to that of liberal or Anti-Savery Wings,
Thus the Boston Post is inhexibe in its hostil-
ity to the coalition of the Democrats with the
Free Democrats Of Massachusetts,, although it
knows, that should its hostility prove availng,
the Wings will obtain the control of the State,
secure the Governorship, arrest all Democratic
reform, and send brother Wing to the Sen.
ate of the United States,
On the other hand the National Wings are
determined, in recognizing their party, to ex
clude Seward, Greeley, Weed and all other
Wings who have become notorious for their
Anti-Slavery feeling. They were hostile to
Scott, not SO much because they distrusted his
soundness on the Compromise, but because his
election would have given ascendency to the
Anti-Slavery element in their party. The tri.
umph of Hunker Democracy was preferable to
this Their party being in ruins, they propose
now to reconstruct it on the true pro-slavery
basis
Here are two extracts, one from Wing
journal of the North, the other from Wing
journal of the South, which clearly elucidates
this policy:
There are those who, from selfish motives
would counsel the abandonment of the Wing
organization, and would endeavor to spread
despair among its members. Feeling that they
are themselves hopeless of rising in the ranks
of a National Wing party, and desiring to de-
stroy the organization for the purpose OF build
ing upon its ruins sectional structure in which
they can rule supreme, they affect to believe
that the present blow is a fatal one and coun-
sci the open adoption of those side issues which
alone have comprised the temporary ruin OF
the party 1t is perhaps scarcely necessary to
caution true Wings against the intended treach-
cry of these crafty politicians. Their charac-
tiers are now known, and the disasters which
they have entaled upon us already are sui
fcient warning against their future machiha-
tons
1t is necessary that the organization OF the
National Wing party should be maintained
Their duty will now be to cast from them the
policv which, for the aggrandizement of indl-
10 a of tbnir
ored and conservative principles, and to take
their stand once again on the true platform upon
which have gathered the greatest men and the
wisest sages our country has produced-upon
which so lately stood the lamented Clay and
Webster-upon which now stand the leading
statesmen of the land TO this platform, pur
fed as it now is from the filth which had been
suffered to defile it, should every National poll
tician, every lover of his country, flock.
Buffalo Commercial Adrerti@r
We shall feel no regret at seeing Senator
Miller made to walk the plank for his ree.Soil-
ISM His colleague Dayton shared the same
fate, very Justly, and very much to our sincere
qualification. The Wing party needs purging
of all such elements, and the sooner it is ac-
complished, the sooner will it return tc the old
conservative landmarks when conservative men
can conscientiously, and will cordially rally
under its standards. Just now the signs are
propitious for such return, the necessity tor
which the late election has very powerfully ana
conclusively demonstrated fact which the
more sagacious and candid journals OF the
North are now owning up. They begin to see,
when it is quite too late, that Free Sollism Das
destroyed for the time the power of the party
and they are making the acknowledgment
Whether they have the manliness and mae
pendence, however, to shake Oft the influence,
remains to be seen. Certain it is, they have
heretofore in their party action, in too many