New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-09

and in the Wing Eeni0l On debate and on division
IN which only sxfysx deiegates Totei IN the negative
We are content with this compliment 70 our political
sacsetyT-snd are quite prepared 70 part company
win al fhsi class Of politicians who Ike the writer IA
The Tri5znS, n1shing II no. Aboirsnisss.
Remarks.
Short settlements they say, make long
friends; and We propose nov to settle &C
counts deliberately and thoroughly with The
republic and tie clique for which it speaks. We
have therefore priRted It's article entire, and
viii thank it 70 let its reade5s see this reply.
l. The Republic deliberately and wilfallg
misstates the vital matter in issue between us
in saying If party is TO be built up and msin-
tanned on FOurierism, Mesmerism, Maine Liquor
laws, Spihtul Rappings. Kossushism, &c. ,&c.
The Editor is perfectly aware of our lifelong
and earnest protest against bringing these ex-
traneous and irrelevant matters to bear on
the organization and action Of the Wing party.
They have no business there and he who in
PRODUCES them is . deadly foe to the success Of
party was formed 20 accomplish ends and based
on avowed and definite principles which have
10 bearing on these topics A Wing may favor
or oppose Fourierism, Mesmerism, Maine
Liquor Laws, KOssuthism, &c, without making
him one whit more or less Wing; just as he
may be a Presbyterian or Unitarian, Roman
Catholic or Nationalist, without at all affecting
his orthodoxy as Wing and just as r. NJ.
L. Hunter and Horace Mann, Robert Toombs
and Joshua r. Gddings, were equally ac-
counted and treated as Wings untn they saw
fit, in obedience to their antagonist repulsOns,
TO withdraw from the party.
Tile Tribune has from first TO last cOntended
for the old landmarks-for the hitherto recog-
nized liberty to differ on all questions not es-
sential to the platform on which the party was
founded. That platform, as proclaimed by the
Wing National Conventions of 1882 and lSi4,
and tscitly acquiesced in by those Of 1889 and
1S48, affirmed the policy Of encouraging, de-
veloping and diversifying our Home Industry,
improving and extending our channels of Inter-
communication, and generally dffusng and
promoting the Arts of Peace. In other words,
it affirmed the policy Of Benefcence and
Peaceful Progress, as opposed TO NegatiOn at
home and Aggression abroad. On that liberal
and comprehensive platform We have always
stood, and, standing there, whether in tr-
umph or disaster, We hoped to live and die a
Wing.
But anew departure was taken by a portion
Of our party in lS50-l, in common with a much
smaller fraction of the adverse party. It's
avowed object was the making of acqucscence
in and support Of the Compromise Measures
Of 1850 touchstone Of Political orthodoxy
Now We had supported the most important of
these measures while they needed support
though the shape ultimately given to some Of
them and the fOisting in of others which had
properly nothing to do with the difference
to be adjusted, did not meet the approval of our
judgment. That they were in the nature OF
things most unlikely to be ever disturbed, we
always supposed. But We protested from the
outset-we could not bit protest-against max
ing any opinion with regard TO these measures
a test of Wing orthodoxy. They had received
quite as much support from, and been at least
as acceptable TO. the adverse party as to ours
and we might just as sensbly have been called
upon to make support of the Nicaragua treaty,
or the enforcement Of the Garay Tehuantepec
Grant, a Wing principle, as fidelity to the
Compromise Measures
So far as the ascendancy Of Wing principles
was the paramount consideration, this was felt
and acknowledged But there were men in
our party, some of whom had gained for
tuitOus and unhappy prominence through Gen.
Taylor's death, who had grudges TO wreak,
ambition to crafty and plumber to gain, by ini
citing the accidental President AMI bis advisers
TO Il course certain to divide and destroy US.
They wanted the places TO which Gen. TAYLOR
had appointed more efficient Wings and better
men and they could only obtain those Spells
by drawing new lines of demarkatiOn through
the Wing party and insisting that all who were
not Compromise men should be prescribed
and eyicted from Office. Their success was but
limited-Mr. Fillmore refused TO crafty them
10 the extent of their desires-but be made
number of important changes which clearly
drew the line contended for, and virtually os.
tracised the majority Of Northern Wings as
heretics.
In this state of distraction and depression
We were called 70 embark in new Presiden.
tial canvass Three eminent names were pre-
sented TO the Wing party in connection with
the Presideney-those of Messrs. Fillmore.
Webster and Gen Scott. For either Of these.
under other circumstances, We should have
cheerfully lsbOred and voted But Messrs.
Fillmore and Webster had been driven-re-
luctantly, We believe. but still andeniably-