Washington sentinel., 1854-06-24
THE wHIG CONVENTION OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE-ABOLI ALLIANCE.

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The wings of the north are beginning to ex.
ecute the designs which we have heretofore
attributed to them. They are preparing to
unite with the abolitionists and form a sectional
organization which shall follow the flag Of anti
slavery agitation. On the goth of this month
the wings of New Hampshire held State con-
vention at Concord and adopted series Of res.
olutions as the platform on which they mean
to stand. Those resolutions do not even alude
to the principles Of federal orState policy wLich
thewhig party or which the wings ofNew Hamp-
shire have hitherto advocated. Theyrelate to the
Nebraska bill alone and urge its repeal as the
test measure.
The New Hampshire wings have thus for
mally abandoned their old organization and
entered into public alliance with the aboli.
tionists. Discarding all old issues as unwor-
thy even of mention, they have offered their
alliance to all those who will unite with them
to restore the Missouri compromise, prevent
the acquisition of slave territory, and resist
the admission of States which may be formed
of territory to which that restriction applied,
unless slavery shall be forever excluded there
from. Having announced their platform, de.
nounced non-intervention, and resolved that
the fugitive slave law should be so modified as.
to provide the writ of habeas corpus and trial
by jury, the New Hampshire wings close up
their series of resolves by inviting the cooper.
alton Of all those who agree with them in their
sectional principles and purposes. and tender
to all such their Cooperation in the cause of
freedom" and their confidence to all WHO are
weak enough to confde in them.
This, we believe, is the first open and public
abandonment Of the principles of the whig
party for an open and public alliance and flu.
sion with abolition on purely anti.slavery
ground. Principles of constitutional construc
ton, questions affecting agriculture, commerce,
manufactures, labor, capital, finances, all are
discarded for new basis of party acton-for
new platform supported only by an anti
slavery sentiment. The doors are thrown
open. All political opinions are admitted and
the only qualifications required is "a promise to
| toment sectional strife, and to enlist in a cru
| sade against the institutions of the southern
States This movement does not surprise us.
Indeed, we foresaw and predicted it. expecting
that 1t would manifest itself at an earlier pe
Rod. The wings of the south ought to have
severed their connexion with the wings of the
north long ago, for the abolition tendencies of
the northern wings have been plain to unpre-
JUDGED eyes for many years. Now no man
can fail to see them, prominent and apparent,
whenever he looks towards the north.
We do not deprecate the movement which
is being made by northern wings, as indicated
by the proceedings Of the New Hampshire con.
vention. We regret that there are selfish, mis-
chievous, fanatical men led by sectional ideas
in any portion Of the Union. But as there are
such, we are glad to see them unmasked and
forced to abandon the bushes and swamps, and
take to the open field, where the honesty and
patriotism Of the people can reach and destroy
them. We always thought that the repeal Of
the Missouri restriction would have that effect.
and We are happy to know that we judged
rightly. Soon the sectional men will be fully
organized, and then they will be speedily de.
stroyed.