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

without gaining the first one, and committed
the party 20 the Compromise in its Pro-slaVery
seceptarion. We believe there was at no time
majority of the Convention in favor Of these
suicidal devices for driving votes away from
the Wig standard; bat circumstances secured
them majority of the vo-es, including many
who dared not offend them lest they should DC
suspected of infdelity to Fillmore or Webster
and many more who acquissced in them lest
their hostility should prejudice the nomination
/ OF Gen Scott.
These green planks in the Wing Platform
caused the overthrow which followed. Our
| Hunkers were not coneiliated by them, Tor
! they knew they we're unmeaning, while many
were disguised and repealed By them Thus
VAS the Wing array distracted, demorallzed
and ultimately routed. And so it Will be again
whenever attempts to eliminate the more Llbe-
rsI element from the Wing party are attended
with such apparent though unreal success. We
do not know that there ever will or viii not
he another President elected as Wing; but
NE do know that none will ever be elected
standing willingly and heartily on the Platform
ofhestility to Emancipation at home and frigid
Indifference TO the fortunes Of Freedom abroad,
which was put forth at the last Baltimore Con
yentiOn.
And now TO minor matters:
The Tribune has not pretended to speak for
1.-THE Wing party" Why should it, twas
not called into existence by the accession Of
that party to power; it has never lived on
the luscious drippings of official patronage;
il has never been indebted for It's subsistence
to the activity of Whig officials nor calculated
on the reluctant or grateful subscriptions of
post masters and tide.waiters. Itspeaks au-
thoritatively' for nobody but itself, and the
means it proposed TO contribute toward the
transformation of The Republic were never
drawn from the Treasury.
The Republic names Mr EVERETT as one quail
flied TO represent " the views and feelings Of
the Wing party Very good 1t was in lSil
that Mr.. Everett was fOrmidably opposed in
tie L. s. Senate, when before it for condrma-
tion IS Minister to England, on the ground that
he had avowed, in a letter to the AbOtionists
OF Massachusetts, when a candidate for their
sufrages, sentiments respecting Slavery sub
stantially like those for which The Tribune is
now read out of the party. Then it was that
Henry CLAY toek and forcby maintained in
the Senate the right Of Northern men to hold
and express Anti-Slavery sentiments, notwith
standing "the Compromises Of the Constitu
tiOn," and insisted that the rejection of a quail
fed nominee on the grounds alleged would be
virtual dissolution of the Union. To that
Wing party of which Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Everett
were leading opponents in Al, we certainly be-
longed, but Of The Republics parry We neither
claim nor covet the position Of exponest or
representative.
AS to Gen. Pierce, we only desire, for the
sake of the Country which has elevated him to
itsmost responsible station, that he will prove
himself a man, and not mere football to be
kicked hither and thither by Faction. If he
sees fit TO prescribe half his own party in organ
ling his Cabinet, il is none of our business,
and we have no desire to influence his course
Our protest contemplates only the Bullying and
cOnspiriDg of outsiders to drive him out of his
own Judgment and reduce him to a nonentity
II he prefers an entire Union. saving Cabinet,
we insist on his right To form such one if
be prefers different cast, we object to all con-
niying and combining TO oyerawe his choice.
Partywise, We should desire that he would
follow in the footsteps Of his illustriOus pred.
ecessor, and undertake 10 dispense with the
support and confidence of half those 20 whom
he owed his elevation. But on the whole we
prefer the Country wisely and ably ruled to
the immediate reinstatement Of the Wings in
power.
The Republic talks of The Tribune and its
friends as among or affiliated with the fanatics
who proclaimed that Slavery was to be abol-
ished over the ruins of the American Church
and the American State" OfcOurse it knows
better. No such sentiment as The Republic |
quotes was ever ayOwed by any party with
which We have or ever had any affinity That
expression was used by the non-yoting CARR /
sonian tribe, who are quite as hostile to the
Free Soil as 70 any other party, and regard
The Tribune as an eminently proslayery jour. /
nal. 1t is by such mean appeals as that above
quoted TO popular ignorance and prejudice that |
such sheets as The Republic contriye to exc out /
miserable existence. Ne look 70 the Amer /
lean State and the American Church for event. /
ual aid in securing freedom to every human
being.
The Republic admits that those who deserted .
and defeated the Wing party last Fall we're
not of our school bur ia own They tried TO
PET their biz into our ,,ouths ~ tb. pst,;,,ox