New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-16

Wbie speech AGAINST II. This aroused party feeling,
enabled the leaders to beat the party drum In favor Of
Annexation and ultimately push the measure through
Had there been fewer Wings in Congress or had those
who rers in been born without tongues, the measure
would probably have been lost
The Oregon Boundary difference excited much appre
bension about that time soon after lie POLK Bal
timore Convention had impOsngy resolved the reoe-
Duration Of Oregon great American question, now To
be settled and the party press and oraos quite gener
ally gave out that the election OF Pok nVoVed the al
tentative If 1920 or fight" Even The UaiOa took
I'D the strain and proclaimed that Mr. Polk had thrown
stone over the Rocky Mountains in some fashion that
involved the concession 70 Us OF all Oregon or there
would he bloody fight If there had only been Wing
Congress now even Senate Democracy would have
vebeueutly demanded the whole or none aud de-
noupeed a. traitors every advocate OF moderation
but the Wings we're too weak restrain its super
fuous energies 50 Democracy obliged 10 under
take the holding in fer itself and succeeded very
well in the undertaking II came down from 81 40 to
49o az meek as Moses and conceded to Grea, Brit
ain 10 much Of Vancouver Island as lies south Of 49,
without one WY face or other unseemly antic. The
whole difficulty settled easily and completely, as 1t
could Lot Rave been if Democracy had found any one
to hold it.
friend Of other days related 70 US an incident
that occurred at the execution at Buffalo OF the three
brothers Thayers for the murder of Love- some forty
years AGO There was of an immense concOurse
present for in those days the champions Of Hanging did
not fear daylight Among the crowd friend espied
near him en- unattended woman who had elbOwed her
vav to post or block some two feet high, from which
she overlooked the and enjoyed the spectacle
a.. - t.rvN
as the culprits were fairly swung Of and cacua-
ting to fall over upon and have me catch her; So
.prepsred myself and when she fell with a loud shrek,
stepped nimbly back and let her her length
in the mud. / rather like delicate nervous ladies
.myself but | do think they are out OF place at
hanging"
If the Wing party can find better business than
that Of holding back and refining in the Democracy so
as to keep from doing great mischief it might better
adjourn without day There will be a great many
mischievous, rapacious schemes pushed on by dema-
eorues who rely on Wing resistance to stop them the
critical moment than there would be if we gave them
notice from the start that should let Democracy
hold itself hereafter
But do we imply that there is no function for and no
need of great party adverse to that which yaunts rs
superIatve Democracy BY no means. The Coun-
Try does need such party but not as mere OreAA OF
drag on the appalling momentum of Democracy
The true action Of the Wing party (whatever it nay
be called is affirmative, negative; creative, not
merely critical and csyitng We too are the adyo-
Gates Of Progress but home rather than abrOad-by
Improvement, not coDquest-thrcugh Peace, not War
Let US do our own proper work and not stand shverng
with terror lest our sdyersares should OverdO theirs
The proper aDtidote to Filbusersm of all sorts is
the urgent and vigorous advocacy of THE Pacific
RAmRnAD.