Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-10-05

From The BroolSIyn Eaale.


IN oPPoSitiun 10 tne Saratoga convention, at
forded great consolation to the New York
Courier and Enquirer, the Buffalo Commercial
Adpertiser and the Register, and the Silver
Gray papers generally, The Saratoga papers
resolved that Eve now take our ground dis
tlnctly on the principle, that all territory of the
United States MUST henceforth be free territory,
and all States hereafter MUST come in as free
States" The Wing convention simply de-
clared that they were forever released from all
obligations to admit into the Union any State
which sanctions or permits saveryn-reierring
to the obligations involved in the compromises
which are nowlat an end Here was distinc-
tion-a distinction with difference broad
ditch of separation.
But suddenly Governor Clark, placing his
hands on the shoulders of Whiggery, leaps over
its head and lands clear into the Anti-Slayery
quarters.
Raymond follows, and after him comes Fitz-
hugh and Bovine. In the words of the New
York Courier and Enquirer, the governor leaps
it fully and cordially; = the lieutenant leaps
II ITO the fullest extent !" the canal commits
sioner leaps it with unqualified assent and
approval;" and the State prison inspector
comes down upon the Saratoga convention, not
only with hearty appreciation and endorsement,
but with the round assertion that he can stand
on no other platform than that which has for
ats object the overthrow of that institution which
holds it TO be right to enslave any class of our
fellow men,"
The Wing party, astonished, looks over in
wonder to the other side to which the vaulting
ambition of its leaders, Overlapping itself, has
fallen. 1t asks, where are they gone !? 1t is
puzzled to know whether it has lost its candi.
dates or its identity. The Courier and En-
qairer asks:
Now, how is this. A week ago we saw
four men erect and smiling on the Wing plat.
form they moved about as if they were per
fectly at home there, and they were greeted on
all sides as Whig-platform candidates. We
now look again and they are gone. They have
jumped away. At bound they have ieaped
clear of everything from Syracuse to Auburn;
over the heads of old Wings with whom they
have served many year, into the loving EN-.
brace of I" w. c. Bryant and John July, com
mittee." Now, gentlemen, we tell you plainly
that this strikes us as very pitiful work. Ifyou
did not think that the Syracuse platform was
good enough to stand upon, why did you al
low yourselves to be put upon it If yousdid
not mean to keep it why did you take it2 In
accepting the places of candidates on that
platform, you, as honorable men, accepted the
II. I
your nominations have received the universal
sanction of the Wing party throughout the
State; and yet that sanction is no sooner
given, than you simultaneously commit your
selves to q principle and a policy, which Won
know tens of thousands ofethe Wings who had
ratified your nomination could not and would
not sustain. This is decidedly q new feature
in the relations between candidates and their
parties. Heretofore it has been supposed that
the acceptance of nomination implied
pledge to stand by the manifesto of principles
whereupon it was made; and though support
might be rendered by other parties in differ.
emit position, that il was not permissiye to
move away from the first ground, in order to
obtain 1t. Candidates, after being made candi- |
dates, have hitherto been held bound to stand
IN their tracks; now, it seems, it is otherwise
But the game of leap-fog, properly played,
Is series OF sequences. Clark, Raymond,
and Bovine leap over the Saratoga convention,
the Wing convention, and two Of the Auburn
conventions, to land at the extreme end of all
factions. Then Raymond jumps over Clark,
and Bovine over Raymond. But the conven-
ton can now begin in turn to leap over the
candidates. The Wing press sets the example
Here goes a flying leap from the New York
Commercial Advertiser.
1t pains US inexpressibly thus to write.
But the letters Of the candidates which we pub
lished yesterday, endorsing the Saratoga reso-
lutions, are not the acts of the party in any
sense, or a majority Of the party, or even mi
nority of any recognized organization of the
party, but Of four gentlemen set apart as rep
resentatives of the party, on the express I'M
derstanding that they should recognize no other
platform, endorse no other resolutions affect |
,ng vital and national questions than those
adopted by the Syracuse convention.
Messrs. Clark, Raymond, Fitzhugh, and
Bovine have departed-we doubt not uninten-
tionally, and for lack Of duly weighing the i'm.
port of words-from the Wing platform, 10
which they were pledged, and had better re
trace their steps, as soon as possible, and as
publicly as they have erred, unless they are in
different 10 the support Of the conservative por-
ton Of the Wing party"
Here goes the Troy Wig:
"The New York Courier takes serious
view of the jump Of our candidates from syria
cuse to Auburn. We are quite certain the
foregoing, quoted from its columns, reflects the
ssnnd Wing sentiment Of the State"
Ths New York Express is preparing to
Jump:
"The couns.y editors, out Of this State. we |
- WIN OuE AuUuIU cOn- /
ventions. Can't uno,~y,and them. Don't |
know what they are after. Everything mixed |
up. Temperance with Nebraska. Nebraska |
with Freesoi, and Freesoil with Hard and Soft |
soap. The politicians, too are all turned Pro. |
lenses. They are one shape to-day and ano- !
Their shape tomorrow. Hard to catch, and
when you catch them you can't keep them.
Nay, they are not only Protean, but Janus
ALSO with as many faces az there are points in
the compass. But. never mind they are oblig-
ing fellows, all Of them. II you are a temper |
ance man, they 20 for the Maine law, just to
please you. II you go for the liquor, they will
liquor too. Cry on, no more slave States, and
they will echo mo morer In short, the poll
tics and politicians Of Our day seem TO have
degenernted into the merest cheap Jimmies.'
You can have anything on the board for four !
cents"
Trouble among the Know-Nothings--Their |
Lodges Disbanding.
That Know-nothingism is ephemeral In its |
character must be evident to every rejecting
mind. II necessarily carries within its bosom |