Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-09-28
THE FILLMoRE wHIGs.

mere party names, in place of party principles,
for their guides it is cheering to know that there
are some in the Wing ranks who regard names
as but shadows, and look upon principles alone
As solid, substantial, and reliable. Among
these we may number the Richmond Whig,
which will not suffer itself to be imposed upon,
md misled by those political organizations at
the north that assume the name of Wing, while
they at the same time hold abolition senti,
ments. That journal in its issue of the Goth
instant, holds the following manly and patriotic
language:
"We cherish the hope that the Fillmore
Wings of New York, throwing all other consid-
erations to the winds, will unite with the
. Hards," and cordially sustain the election of
Bronson. We make this wish, not as parti
sans, Of course neither as sectionalists but
as the well-wishers and lovers of the Union.
We 60 for thorough amalgamation of all
parties, North and South, who are for standing
irmly upon the one great issue of upholding
the Constitution and the rights of the States
against the assaults of the Abolitionists and
fanatics. That is the question beside which
all others sink into comparative insigni6cance.
We have been, and still are, strong and jealous
party men; but we trust we are incapable of
cherishing single thought of parry when the
country, perhaps, is on the eve of a contest in
which the Constitution, the Union, the rights
of the States, and republican freedom itself,
are all involved. Wings and Democrats alike
we account as common enemies, if they rally
around an anti-slavery standard, arouse the
ires of sectional conflict, and make war upon
he institutions of the South their aim and OBJ
,ect'
Much as we approve the spirit evinced in
The above extract; much as we commend the
Wing for its judicious sensible and patriotic
Wings, candor compels us to say that its par
iality for that division of the New Y ork Wings
has betrayed our Richmond contemporary into
mistake. 1t enormously supposes that the
Silver Greys, who formed part and parcel Of
The Syracuse convention, objected to the pro-
eedings of that convention, and refused to be
bound by them. 1t enormously supposes that
hey still hold themselves aloof from those
Known as the Seward or Freesoi Wings The
act, however, is, that their acquiescence in the
resolutions and nominations of that convention
is clear surrender to their former adversaries.
They have become merged in them. They have
swallowed their resolves, and their ticket, and
IRE as much bound BY them as are the Seward
Wigs themselves. Not one single lSilcer
Frey journal has come out since the conyen-
non took place, and denounced and repudia ed
rs platform and its nominations. On the con-
rary, they all sustain and approve them.
Those very resolutions that our Richmond con.
'ondemns, have been accepted BY the Silver
Grey Wings whom it advises to vote for the
Hard nominees. That the tone of these
.esolutions was somewhat modified in order to
'onciliate the Fillmore Wings, we do not
10 BIT; but they we're, even in their modified
run, so strong as to induce the Richmond
Wing to declare that the northern Wings in
DOPING them, had "cut off all possibility Of
'otthern Wings co operating or Sympathizing
pih them"
The article in the Buffalo Advertiser which
be Whig cites to show that the Fillmore Wings
ire f" conservative on the slavery question" was
written one day in advance of the Syracuse
Nhig convention, and not after it. True, it
Contained the following declaration
IF the convention shall saw, Without qtalif-
cation, that we must admit no more slave
'tates, we will not be bound by its dictum ;
Or although we were, at the time, opposed to
NJ admission of Texas, we recognise and are
ready 10 fulfil the obligations the country in.
Cured in the consummation Of that act We
consider our obligations to the country snpe-
nor to our obligations 70 party, and we do not
hesitate to declare that we will lend ourselves
as aceomplices in no scheme for the uphoding
of party at tie expense of public faith and
public honor"
Mark the words "withom qualification"
which we have italicized. These words indi-
Gated that some tact would be necessary in
drawing up the resolutions, and when we're
New York politicians wanting in tact2 The
views Of the Advertiser we're met by the resolu-
ton which declares that the Wings are forever
released from all obligation to support any
compromises with slavery, or to admit any
slave States into the Union. The failure Ia
studied omission) to say that they will avail
themselves Of this release, or right, cr what
ever they choose to call it, is the thing which
reconcilcs the Express, and the other Silver
Grey papers to it. The platform, as it passed.
was accepted by the whole onvention--Silver
Greys and Woolly Heads, Fillmore Wings and
Seward Wings
We are thus forced 10 the conclusion that
there are no conservative Wings left in New
York, and that the good and patriotic advice Of
our Richmond contemporary is addressed to
deaf ears and stony hearts. We thank the
Wing for doing justice to the only true politi-
cal organization in New York-the National
Democrats, or Hards. We wish that we could
return the civility by mplimenting that division
Of the Wings called Silver Greys; but we can.
not conscientionsly do so. Ifthere be any strag-
glers from the great Syracuse encampment if
there be any individual Fillmore Wings who
shall refuse to surrender to Freesoiism, as the
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