Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-09-26
THE RICHMOND WING ON THE NEW
YORK WING PLATFORM.

The Platform of the New York Wings,
adopted at Syracuse, receives small favor at
the hands of the Richmond Wing. That jour
nal condemns this platform in the strongest
language, and declares that the New York
Wings hare cut off all possibility Of Southern
Wings cooperating or sympathizing ~ith
them"
The attempts of the New York Express,
Courier, and other journals to explain away
the Freesoil resolves of this Convention, are
idle and ridiculous. The Wing takes the proper
view Of them. 1t says:
"The candidate for governor, the Herald in
forms Us, belongs to the Seward school, and
so does Raymond, the editor Of the New York
Times Such being the complexion Of the
New York State Wing ticket, we are justified
in denouncing it as Seward Abolition ticket,
and, as such, deserving the support of no man
! sincerely attached to the Constitution and
earnestly desiring the preservation of the Union
J as it is.
"But if we object to the ticket, we have
much more reason TO condemn the platform.
But one idea and one sentiment pervades it
! and that idea is Abolition, and that sentiment
/
! The first resolution, to be sure, pirates grandil.
oquently Of their cordial and immovable at
| tachment to the Federal Union and to the Con-
stitution, but the subsequent ones only show
| that such profession is fraud and cheat,
with which Southern Wings, we believe, are a
little too wise to be gulled. Upon nearly every
/ point connected with the subject Of slavery,
these New York Wings, according to their own
published declarations are rotten to the core,
and not to be trusted. And so far as this ques-
ton is concerned, they have cut off all posi-.
| bility Of Southern Wings cooperating or sym
! pathizing with them. We regret that il is SO,
but they themselves have done the work, and
the blame and consequences Of it can never be
4 Justly laid at our door. We have admonished
demonstrated, and protested, but all to no pur.
pose. We have begged them not to commit
themselves to the foul heresy of Freesoilsm,
and thus force upon us the necessity of sever.
| ing our connection with them-not to make war
upon the institutions Of the South, and the
rights and equality OF the States, and thus put
in imminent jeopardy the existence of the
Union ITSELF We have earnestly and solemnly
! appealed to them TO abstain from all such
grave injustice and folly-to be patriots, not
| factionists; national men, not sectionalists
true Union men, and not its deadliest foes
/ Dut We nave dpptaleu Weli-nlRn III VAIL lney
have gone of after strange gods and it is
needless for us 10 say that we can worship at
no such altar.
"What we object TO most in this platform is
not the opposition it avows to the principles Of
the Nebraska bill, although that would be
enough to elicit our warmest reprobaton
But it is the determined hostility it expresses
10 the extension of slavery and the admission
Of new slave States into this Union-the spirit,
in short, Of undying hatred to slavery itself, as
il exists in the southern States Of this Union
! That is the prominent feeling that pervades
almost every resolution in the series. And Il
that idea and that feeling It is the duty o.
Southern Wings, independent Of party and al
other considerations, to oppose stern and
manly resistance. We, for one, shall never be
found willing to sacrifice further one jot or tit
tie Of the rights Of the South for the sake Of
keeping on terms with any party; and we are
not apprised that we stand alone in this deter
mination. 1t is the sentiment if we mistake
not, Of the entire Southern Wing party; and
we avow It boldly, that the Wings Of New York
and the other Northern States may not be de-
ceived as TO their true position. Union or dis
union, that is the ground upon which we stand
not, indeed, that we love the Union less, but
that we love fhe South more"