New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-07

Ths wing Caucus and the seceders.
tits widely known to the country that at
recent caucus held BY the whig members .
Congress, Messrs. Brooke, Morton, Moore, Mar
shall, Gentry, Cabell, Outlaw, Landry, ant
other wings, felt compelled to secede The reasol
Of their secession, it is now known, was TIL,
failure Of the caucus to endorse positively AM
peremptorily the proposition that none othel
but Compromise man should be brought befor.
the Convention. A proposition was made by
Mr.. Humphrey Marshall, Of Kentucky, that the
parties acting in the Wing National Convention
should enter it as avowed Compromise men
This was virtually the substance Of his PROPOSE.
tion. The propositions was ruled outqof order
and hence the secession Of many prominent
wings. Il N . @
We're those seeding wings right or wrong
The question is delicate one, and needs a
calmer and more dispassionate consideration
than will be generally accorded to it.
We confess frankly that our sympathies &C
with the seceders We coincide fully with then
in the necessity Of distinct and positive decla
+ rations on all subjects embraced in the Com
promise measures. We coincide fully with then
in the belief that the most positive and peremp-
tory verdict should be given against all sectional
opinions. We fully agree with them that the
truly national position Of the Administration
upon the Compromise measures well deserves
the eulogy and support of the country. With a
Northern man at its head, it has faithfully and
unhesitatingly maintained the constitutional
rights Of the Southern section of the Union
We regret that the Chairman should have
thought it necessary or proper to rule the mo-
tion of Mr.. Marshall out of order. Once made
it offered distinct issue which should have been
distinctly met We are noH clear but that
technically the motion Of Mr.. Marshall was out
of order. We arerather inclined to the opinion
that according to parliamentary rules such was
the case A meeting called for specific object
can not take into consideration any subject
foreign to the nature Of its call In this view,
Mr. Mangum may have been, and probably was,
correct. We believe he was to some extent
justified in his course. We mean technically
justified, nothing more
Behind all these technicalities, sensible men
look to facts-to cause and consequence. We
give MIR Mangum the benefit of the doubt of all
his technicalties, but we then ask what does
sensible man see beyond them. We answer,
policy-not a fair, manly, independent policy
but an irresolute, selfish, intriguing policy The
design was plainly to coneliate Northern sec
tional prejudices. The technical right to rule
Mr.. Marshall's resolution out of order was only
q fair shelter in the premises.
We confess that we could have wished that
Mr.. Marshall's resolution had been put into
some other form. 1t would have been better
had he stated in it, for the appreciation of the
Wing Congressional Caucus, that it would sup
port no Presidential candidate not known to be
unquestionably a compromise man. To equiyo-
cate in sectional matters, is to encourage sec
tional pltraisms, to breed sectional disorders.
1t lis certain that no one not expressly in favor
Of the compromise measures can be successful
in the opening Presidential campaign; because
the South, and we hope good patriots everywhere,
believe implicitly in the following clearly stated
and philosophical proposition:
So far from opening agitation upon the slavery Dues
TONS our 2vowed obj is and the effect of the PROPOSE
ton assert must be, to terminate agitation by ASSUME
ing as starting point for the canvass that the entire
exists and maintains the Compromise measures as final
settlement Of the exciting questions they embrace How
is posslble that tls position can afford basis for
neWeu agitation teSs there determination mt abide by
that settlement The principle may avowed as
the opponentsof the Compromise
by those whose exerons enacted them When partners
have litigated questions arising in their former dealing
and decree has been rendered asserting the true Of
their account would it be considered insulting or unfair
that In opening books one should demand Of the
other that the decree be accepted the basis which
they renew business %
If gentlemen are not prepared to abide by
the Compromise, if they positively say that
they cannot acknowledge an acquiescence in it,
what do they propose to do' The question is
important. We believe we are Of the class of
conservatives, and we feel therefore the more
resolute to insist upon a satisfactory answer to
50 important question. Not vainly will the
appeal of these seeding members be put before
the country, though we hope it will result in
the advancement of strictly national principles