Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-10-05
WASHINGTON HEws ARD GOSSIP

WASHINGTON EEws ARD GOSSIP.
New York Politics We and more or lee.
OF the conservative Wing journals of New
York, speaking out in meeting" They are
manifestins commendable sign. of indignation
ut the eagerness displayed by the nominees of
the recent Wing State convention to subscribe
to all the requirements Of the different wing.
OF the Abolition faction, who have nominated
them since they were originally nomin atea BY
the wings. Our sstimable neighbor Of the
inteiiigenoer has treated this subject very gin.
gerry, having evidently persuaded himself tina,
~ have gone hardly further over to the
Abolition platform, than their Democratic on.
ponents. Unfortunately, he seems to. be able
only to find newspaper facts, in this oonnes
ti0n, which 90 to substsntiate this erreneous
view. He has lately treated rs to extracts
from the Commercial Advertiser and New York
Express, upon this very subjest, which did
those journals great credit, indeed. A yet,
however, he does not seem to find In them the
real pith Of their views on the points in issue.
Thanks to our perhaps sonewh at closer reading
OF exchanges, We have managed to fab up that
pith. Thus We find the following in those pa
pers-the Commercial Advertiser and the Ex-
preas-sf tho day before yesterday. Of the
present position Of all the Wing State uomi.
nees, the former says:
"W hatevsr was said in this journal on the
day after the convention at Syracuse 10 in ao-
cOrdance with the above, and by those decla.
rsdons We must abide. We should not desire
to take back single word of that commends-
uon hsd our candidates remained in the same
position in which they then stood. That they
20 not, no Wing can regret more than our
selves. They have gone whittier We cannot
follow them, and have sought political asso-
ciates with whom We cannot fraternize They
did politically wrong in throwing themselves
of the W hig platform into the turbulent abyss
OF the Saratoga conventiou-in deserving the
clear and open path which their fellow W higs
had opened before them, for the dubious and
tracklsss waste Of Ut least, incipient aboli-
donism Nor can We ind any mitigating cir.
cumstances in their error. They we'll knew
With what care the Whie resolutions were
framed; how the convention was pressed and
embarrassed BY the general indignation against
the South for its breach Of fail in the matter
OF the Missouri compromise; and that it was
the wish Of the party, ~ represented in the
convention, while asserting the principle of
concentration Of slavery, and rebuking the
breach Of faith which the South had Gem
United, TO steer clssr of that abolitionisn
from which, in an evil hour, they-the eandi-
dstes-have sought slccor."
The Express says--
Eight tickets are already in the heid for
State officers in New York Myron II. CLARK
Il on i've, and Mr. Raymond on four-Whig,
anti Ns6raska, Temperance, and one of the
Secession Gni-Nebraska tiekets-Mr. Clark
being In addition on "the Free Democratic
ticket" Having accepted 50 many nomina.
uous, and approving of 20 many platforms,
some OF which are as unlike as light and dark.
ness, the question is put to as in several quar-
tiers, to whom and what are our candidates o. u
mitted? Are they bound by one convention
more than another, Or are they not equally
bound to all? The voters must answer these
queries Ter themselves. There are eight
tickets nov in the 1eld, with the Women
Rights Convention to be held, and Lucy Stone
b Co, already wan: to know if ''tbe way train"
intends 10 stop ct their station to take frsixht
passengers and baggage for Albany Gentle
non, Are yoa in favor Of conforrips equal
rights upon women? Arc you ia favor of
granting them the right to vote-ths right to
prsash-ths right to cit upon juries the right
to dog their hasbands-the right TO race hor-
sss-the hight to be presidents, governors, may.
ors, Regulators gsugsrs, custom house in.
spsgton.
Re- "We don't know how ANYBODY
can be all things to eli men, and Ne don't
know how men can expect to succeed who are
q the same time. Aontaguss, Capuists, Ian.
casters, forks, or Of any house, COLOR com.
plsxton, or stripe, which, for the time. NAV
be uppsrmoss But these are peculiar times
and men, like the waters, flowing from man
fountains, merge into the sea. fusion il the
order Of the day, and II politicians do make
strange ssdfsilows, what . kicking and crowd.
ing there must be in times to come"
The truth =, oil the State nominees Of the
New York Ststs Whig Convention hav. dslib.
srassly hoistsd the olask fsg of abolisionism
70 gain saa-aavsry votss, and the proof of the
fact LES in tt sxposurs, in sash sssshing terms
BY the two ancient and respected WAig party
journals from which We quote above This
has not been done by the Democratic nominees,
nor any one Of them. On the contrary, all
New York abolitiondom 10 bitterly opposed to
them on the ground that, one and all, they
sustain the Nebraska bill, and all tho princi.
pies involved in it. The consequence is, that
M Preston King long since washed has hands
Of them. So, also, has VIM. Cullen Bryant,
the editor Of the Evening Post, which our
nsighbor Of the Intelligenssr seems to have q
mania for calling Democratic" because it
processes to be . ''fres Democratic" Journal.
Some ten years ago the Post WAS In afilis.
ton with the Democratic party Of New York
Ever since then, though occasionally support.
ing . Democratic candidate in this or tina,
contest, it has been irst 4" Independent" then
Van Buren, free soil, and nox o. ultra and
rank in its abolilionisn ~ the paper Of Gar.
rison or that Of Pred Douglass. In this cleo.
ton, unfortunately for those of the Wings who
resist the current tendency Of their affairs, il
il Wig, 20 far ss giving hearty support to
all the nominees Of the Wing State convention
il concerned. Yet our respected nsghbo,
will persist in speaking Of the Post a. Demo.
cratic or Soft "organ." It would look quite
a rational to see the venerable editor Of the
Intslligsnesr himself elasssd among the Demo.
Gratis Of these times, because, as will be re-
Numbered, during the last war with Britain,
10 was identified with the Democratic party Of
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