The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-07-20
THE SARATOGA CONVENTION.

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! call as q matter of course, is irrespective of
! party, and will doubtless meet with hearty
| response from all honest opponents Of the Ne
braska iniquity The number of delegates is
to be four times the representation in the As
| sembly.
We are unacquainted with the objects of the
Convention, except as they are generally stated
in the call General consultation and specific &C
tion so far as to secure the election to Congress
of mon imbued with the free spirit Of the North,
and having the nerve and integrity to with
stand the Establishments of power and place,
will doubtless be among the first, If not the
most important duties Of the Convention. II is
possible that the formation of new party. to
resist the encroachments of the slave power
and confine the peculiar institution to the
States wherein it now exists, may be entertain
ed by some; but such a movement at the pres
emit time, so far as this State is concerned, is
not necessary, and would be of doubtful pro-
priety. So far as it may be necessary to secure
the election to Congress of reliable anti-Ne-
braska men, we would be willing to forego
party preferences at the ensuing election; but
there are great questions of State policy which
| cannot be safely confded to other hands than
those of the Wing party.
On the recurrence Of another Presidential
election, there viii very likely be general
breaking up of old party organizations, to be
replaced by new ones having more direct ref
erence to the Slavery question; but until that
time it strikes us that it will be safest and best
for the Wing party to stand by its colors, and
await the progress of events
Still, so far as we understand the objects of
this anti Nebraska gathering, we approve Of it;
and as there are no committees to arrange pre-
liminaries, we trust that the friends of the
movement will not be backward in taking the
ELL
from Steuben in the Conventions texbsn
Courier.
Having found the Wing party of the North,
on all occasions and in every emergency, the
most efficient and reliable organization, both
to resist the aggressions of Slavery and to mp
hold the cause Of Freedom, we concur cordially
with the Courier that it is best now and ever,
"for the Wing party to stand by its colors.n
There are, however, occasions and questions
which warm other agencies into action. This
wanton and wicked Nebraska swindle stirs the
| Indignation of thousands who are not ordinari-
| " active as parsisans, but whose sentiments
and sympathies prompted the Saratoga move
| ment. 1t contemplates, we understand, q gath
ering of freemen, irrespective of party, to give
| embodiment to expressions of dissent to this
shameful violation of compacts and compro-
| misses which secured portion of the Territory
as far as may be, the election of Representa-
tives to Congress who viii labor fearlessly to
repeal that swindling statute. The assem-
bling of an enlightened, patriotic Convention,
| with such views, cannot fail to exert saluta-
| ry influence.
But that Convention can in no manner or
sense interfere with the duties or lessen the re-
sponsiblities Of the Wing party The cause
Of Freedom may be essentially aided by auxili-
airy efforts. By combining the SURFACES of all
who deplore the Nebraska outrage, an almost
unbroken vote in the next House of Repre-
sentatiyes might be secured. This surely is an
object worth aiming at.-AlbGay EUe. Jour.
The National InteHigencsr opposes these
popular movements at the North, and is at
pains to record every instance of disaffection
to them among leading Wing politicians in
| the Free States Tho Southern Wing Press
begins to use soft words, begs to assure the
Northern Wings that it does not consider
| them all Abolitionists, and the Nebraska ques-
ton shall not be forced upon them as test-
and then, it proclaims the determination of the
| Southern Wings to wait and see what their
| Northern friends intend to do, before they de-
eide the question Ct dissolution of the Party.
| The IntelLigencer and Southern Wing Press
generally, tacitly assume that the National
Wing Party still lives, but they insist more or
loss peremptorily upon acquiescenee in tho re-
peal of the compromise, as condition to its
continued existence.
A few Hunker Wing papers at the North
are for acquiescence and peace, and grow fer
vent in their appeals for Nationality. Other
Hunkcr Wing papers keep talking pretty
feroely against the Nebraska BIll--what a
scandalous thing it was, what an outrage, what
a fraud-the South need not be surprised at
the indignation of Northern People, &c, &C.
| But. they take good care not to commit them
selves to any course of measures leading to the
redress of past wrongs, or prevention of future
ones. Both of these classes oppose all practi-
cal action--all popular movements, designed
to accomplish something-any union OF the
People against the Slavery Propagandists.
Both, then practically stand upon the same
ground as the Inteiligcncer and the Southern
| Wings. who of course Will graciously permit
their friends to grumble, provided they sub
NIT
These classes of submissionists might easily
be disposed Of They do not represent the
| People - they do not command the sympa-
thies Of the masses of the Wing Party in the
free States-they could not control their &C
| ton. But, there is another class of Wing poll
ticians. with whom it is time to have clear
understanding. They arc represented by the
journals quoted above--by such papers as are
supposed to sympathize more particularly with
Mr.. Seward. They assume that the Wing
| Party-the Party that gave us Fillmore, adopt
ed at Baltimore in 1852 resolutions on the sub
iect of Slavery as hateful and wicked as those
of tho so.called Democratic Party, and in
| State Convention, in New York, and other
| States. solemniy affirmed acquiescence In the
LEGISLATION of 1850, and which never, as a
National Party, in National Convention, has
| dared to raise voice against the Slave Power
or ;ts aegressions-is quite sufficient for this
/ crisis ia Anti Slavery enough, has always been
sseadfastly opposed to the aggressions OF Sla-I
very, has a perfectly clean record, must there
fore be kept up; will condescend now and them
in State elections, to accept help from anxila-
ries. but never to surrender It's name, It's organ
ization, or its old issues.
Now, this is all very pretty and cunning. 1t
will not do to oppose these general movements
of the People for new, clean, vigorous organ
ization of the opponents of Slavery, from all
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