Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-06
THE WING PARTY-Is IT. Or is IT NOT
DUTY OF FREE.soILERs.

THE WING PARTY-IS 1T, OR is 1T N0T3
DUTY OF FREE.SoILERS
The action of Mr.. Badger and his associates
in the Senate, and the conduct Of the Rich
mond (va) Vhig and other Wing journals Of
the South, seemed for a time to have alienated
Southern Wings, as body, from Northern
Wings, to such an extent that reunion ap-
penred impossible. But, it may be doubted
whether an impossible gulf has been placed
between the two sections. We cannot shut
our eyes to the fact that even those Southern
Wing leaders who are most desperate in their
advocacy Of the Bill to repeal the Missouri
Compromise and contemptuous in their Ian
guage to the North, refuse to affiliate with
Southern Democrats, and continue their oppo-
sition to the Administration, thus evidently
holding themselves ready to consider any over
lures that may hereafter be made to them by
their late Northern associates. Nor must we
forget that the course of John Bell in the
Senate, in opposing the Nebraska Bill has not
been disapproved by the Legislature of his
State, or provoked severe criticism in the col
umns Of the Wing Press of Tennessee; that
several leading Wing papers of the Slave
States, such as the Raleigh Register, the Louis
vile Journal, and the New Orleans Wing Press
have deprecated the attempt to repeal the
Missouri Compromise; that, the National In
teiligencer the central organ of Conservative
Whiggery, whether Of the North or South, has
labored earnestly and consistently to defeat it
that several Of the Southern Wings Of the
House of Representatives have already avowed
their disapproval of the Bill, and while eight
of them voted against referring it to the Com
mittee of the Whole on tho state of the Union,
six voted for the motion.
These facts are not without their influence
on prominent Wings at the North. They en-
courage the hope that the Wing Party, organ
lied as it has hitherto been, on what is called
a National platform, may be revived, and again
come into power. Hence, the strenuous efforts
made in Congress to augment the Southern
Wing opposition to the Bill Hence, the dispo-
sition everywhere apparent to cling to the
Wing name to Wing organization, to Wing
candidates--and to claim victories over the
Administration Party, won by Wings, Free
Sellers, and disaffected Democrats, as' Wing
victories We think we can discover deter
mination to reorganize the Wing Party of the
North, aad make the Nebraska Question sub
serve its purposes, and then, when the time
shall come for another Presidential election,
Join forces with Wings Of the South, for the
elevation to the Presidency of some National
man. so called, not obnoxious to Slavery -
Sisyphus as Of old, rolling the stone up tho
hill, to see il roll down again
In the returns, for example, from New Hamp-
shire, we heard much Of the Wing vote, little
of that of the Independent Democrats; and
now we have Wing victories announced in
Connecticut and Rhode Island, when, in fact,
they are Anfi-Nebraska yictorics Hear Mr.
Chandler, Conservative Wing member Of
the House, of high rcpute, from Philadelphia:
@Ho appealed to the Wings to give no heed
10 the sneers that the Wing party was rent
in twain. A party founded on principle would
exist a. long a. there were measures to bring
that principle into action. The Wing party
had more TO fear from the crumbling ruins OF
the Democratic party, than from any elements
Of discord within its own ranks.
"The gentleman from North Carolina Mr..
Clingman referred yesterday very commiser
atingly, to the decay Of the Wing party in the
East - n party in which that gentlemen was
reared and by which he had attained his we'll
worn honors The gentleman was ignorant at
the time, probably, Of the election news which
came flashing over the wires from Connccti-
cut.
9Mr. Clingman. ! had heard it.
"Mr. Chandler. Then il was an unfortu-
nate speech Laughter IL was not the life
30 much AZ the mission OF a party which ought
to DO considered nor would any difference Of
opinion on this question prevent union on an
other. The party which had been led by Clay
and taught by Webster had loftier aims than
expediency and nobler ends than mere self
preservation. They were ready to declare, and
act on tho declaration, that the duties Of life
we're greater than life. As for himself, and
those who labored with him in the Wing cause
pasking their hands Of all necessity Of associa-
fion ,rifh those of another party they should
vote for whatever they deemed right without
regard to tho effect IL might have upon them
as party men IL they had 10 fall, there would
be inscribed upon their graves the Spartan
epitaph: I'VE lie bore in obedience to the com
mands Of our country"
Now respectable az may be the Wing and
Democratic organizations, and important ne
may have been some Of their acts, we cannot
forget that they were never instituted for the
purpose Of dealing with Questions Of Slavery ;
that while their Southern sections have uni
formly made such Questions paramount their
Northern sections have considered them Of