Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-13
NO CHANGE OF POLICY.


NO CHANGE OF POLICY.
In one Of our articles on the organization OF
the friends Of Freedom, we pointed to the re-
construction Of the Wing Party, now every
where in progress, and to the danger that po-
litical Anti Slavery men or Independent DEM
ocrats, in their zeal to battle tho Nebraska
conspiracy, might inconsiderately suffer them
selves to be absorbed by that organization.
They were right in desiring united demon
stration against that mischief, but this could
be accomplished without sacrifice OF their
own organization. Cooperation not Fusion"
was their true policy This would meet the
demands Of the present crisis, and secure the
immediate good, 30 important to the interests
of Freedom, and at the same time preserve
their independence Of an organization, which,
acting nationally, has always been snbservient
to the Slave Interest. And we added:
eOur Free Soil friends must take care lest
they find themselves carried as g,ia TO the
Wing mill an operation for which the New
York Tribune, with all it's real Anti-Slavery
spirit and its Independence Of party, ID admira-
bly, adapted, the more 30 because it acts from
a kind of constitutional instinct, rather than
from cold generalization"
The Tribune replies
GAS to the Wing mill of which the Era
speaks we are not aware of any such intent
as is implied. Whenever the Anti Slavery
grist can be better ground in the Democratic
mill, we would have it carried thither. We
object only to the policy Of waiting for new
and vastly superior mill to be built, and mean
time letting the grain mould and the would-be
eaters famish. Better have the grist indiffer
emily ground, than not atall."
That is to say-better have the Anti Slavery
grist ground out at the Wing mill, in the shape
of such products as Clay, Taylor, Fillmore,
Webster, Scott and Everett than not ground
at all-wherein wo decidedly differ from the
Tribune. Such milling is worse than none.
But the Tribune has lsbored article in ro-
ply to our views, in which, AFTER having freely
INDUCED in vague generalities about Party and
Parties, it frankly admits all that we have
predicted o. to its future course. The follow
ing extract leaves no room for doubt as to the
policy Of that journal on the question Of Sla-
very:
ave certainly are not particularly devoted
to tho Wing organization. On the contrary,
when we saw Gen. Scott ignominiously defeat
cd by men who boast Of being Wings par er.
oellence We thought the time had fully arrived
for the dissolution Of the party. We blame no
man for openly and manfuily siding against
the PARTY with which he has hitherto acted
IL is ut all times his right often his duty, to do
80. But when a large and previously leading
portion OF q party procaims that il can no
longer concur in the action nor support the
candidates Of that party, then it seems TO us
high timo that the party should formally dis
solve and be reconstructed. Apart from our
conviction that all party organizations necessa-
rily tend, as they grow DID, to become corrupt
and tho shelter OF corruption, and that il would
be well for the country if each party were
formally dissolved and broken up at least once
in twelve years, we believe that there was spe-
cial reason for the dissolution Of the Wing par
ty after the disaster OF so, and that its break
ing M at that time would have been nation
nj blessing.
"But, while we care little for tho Wing or
ganizati0n, we cherish on abiding faith in and
devotion to the great ideas on which that or
ganization was founded. lB devotion to peace
and the arts Of pcace--to the diversifcation of
industrial pursuits and proccsses--to improve
ment at home rather than conquest and ag-
grandizement abroad--to the supremacy Of
law over brute force-to tho policy which
unites distant States by iron bands, and makes
our Union closer rather than broader--theso
cannot be given mp nor dispensed with. Nay:
we believe the prejudice Of theignorant against
the Wing party presents tho strongest If not
the only obstacle TO their speedy and unquali-
fed triumph and hence that the dissolution
Of the Wing party would be the shortest and
surest road to the practical predominanco Of
Wing principles"
0fconrsc, this ia mere exposition Of thcphi-
osophicaI tastes Of the Tribune in the abstract.
No matter what il would have preferred, it
knows ~ matter Of fact that the Wing
Party was not dissolved, is not broken up, but
is now in process Of reorganization, on the
old basis, in the old form, with the old MACH.
merry.
The only question Of practical interest is,
what does the Tribune intend to do as things
ares Tho answer is given in the following
paragraph:
q But we do not make parties; we do not
seek to subvert them. Always asserting and
exercising the right OF avowIng ana MAINTAIN
ing our own opinions without abatement, we
are prepared hereafter as heretofore, TO do the
good thai is practicable, rather fhan attempt the
ideal better aohich is undtfninable. We dislike
National nominating Conventions and would
rejoice IL none should evermore be held gel
,ce mag pevy probably support candidates Dho
shall haze been nominated By such Conventions
We detsst all saeh platforms as that showed an
der Gen. Scott al baltimore IN '52 }, yeti glory
in our ardent support Of the candidate IN spite
of the platform. SO II mag be again. And, AZ
70 Fusion, Cooperation, and all that wo are
quite indifferent to terms or names, and only
tenacious ms to essential results.
we trust the upholders Of the Missouri
Restriction ia Ohio, indiana Illinois, Michigan
Wieconsin, and Iowa, are about 10 desist from