Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-13
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.


dates, and elect them by triumphant majori-
ties, in the elections Of the current year and
whether they shall be called sWhigs,' Free
Soilers' or something else-whether their &C.
ment shall be pronounced Fusion Co-opera-
ton, or called BY some other name--wo DO not
care one button IL is enough for us to know
that they can carry their States, IF they aoiH, to
fix their line Of duty Woe 10 him sohose per-
sonaf aspirations or bigoted attachment to any
party i0atchaD0yds shall iaierpose impediments 10
a cOnsummation so eutry ipdy desirable! And,
icheD TIE smoke shall haze cleared afcoy from
the triumphant battle fields Of iS54ya mil then
De easy to discern qchat are the duties OF 90 ana
SO, and By soAGt means, under chdt auspices,
ihey are 20 be performed most .Dcienny ana
succesyuliyn
We have italicized the noticeable parts Of
this extract.
General Taylor, without single qualifca-
ton for the Presidency, except that he had dis
tinguished himself by his bravery and success
in war, held by the Wing party to be unnc-
cessary and wicked, was the Presidential can
didate Of that party in 1913, and the Tribune,
as anti-slavery and anti.war then as it is now,
supported him. He was elccted--he died
Willard Fillmore, the Wing Vics President,
succeeded, under whose auspices the policy OF
slavery restriction was waived, the Wilmot
Provso given up, the Fugitive Slave Law
passed, and the popular excitement on the
subject Of Slavery alIayed to such nm extent,
that both Wing and Democratic parties soon
after made adhesion to the measures Of his
Administration test Of party orthodoxy.
The Tribune does not repent of tho policy
that secured such results, bat "may very
probably pursue ii again.
In 1852, the Wing party took up another
soldier, whose availability as candidate was
his military renown; and he openly avowcd
his concurrence in their creed, adopted at Bal
timore in which they declared their determi-
nation to abide ~ and faithf lilly carry out the
Legislation of $780, which left the Territories
Of Utah and New Mexico open to the irruptions
of Slavery, and provided for the reclamation
Of fugitive slaves, at the expense Of State Sore
,eigniy, IF judicial dscorum, Of habeas corpus
and jury t,ial and secured to the Slave Inter-
cst sioay orr the public councils and public
mind it neper before ererted
The man, boldly and alphabetically avowing
his devotion to this creed, was supported by the
Tribune which was then just az anti-war and
IA Anti-Slavery as it is now. 1t spat upon the
platform, and embraced him who stood upon it.
1t abjured the creed, and advocated him who
adopted it. Yes" we glory" it cries, Tin our
ardent support Of the candidate, in spite Of the
platform. So d may be again!o
We never had any doubt of this, but many
Anti-Slavery men have been deluding them
selves with the notion that the Tribune, and the
Anti Slavery Wings it represents, would here
after go for independent political Anti-Slavery
action. We knew hotter, because we under
stood the Prinaple of the Tribune's policy, and
it's Prej,ldices. That Principle is embodied in
this declaration:
ave are prepared hereafter, as heretofore,
TO do the good that Is practicable rather than al
iempt the ideal batter trkieh is unatfainable."
Those Prejudiess ara revealed in the follow
ing paragraph:
But while we care little for the Wing or
ganisation, VIC cherish an abiding faith in and
devotion to the great ideas on which that Or
ganization was founded. Its devotion to peace
and the arts Of peace-to the diversication Of
industrial pursuits and processes--to improve
ment at home rather than conquest and ag-
grandizement abroad-to tho supremacy of
law over brute force-to the policy which
unites distant States by iron bands, and makes
our Union closer rather than broader-theee
cannot be given up nor dspended with. Nay
we believe the prejudice Of the ignorant against
the Wing party presents the 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 predominance Of
Wing principles"
Under the influence Of these Prejudices,-for
what but Prejudice is the notion that the Wing
Party is in favor Of Peace, and the Democratic
Party, of War; or that the Wing Party is in
favor of Pacific Railroad, and the Democrat
10 Party against it the Tribune will always,
when the two organizations are arraycd against
each other, support the Wing candidates, in
preference to the Democratic, because Wing
Ideas on the whole are preferable to Democrat
10 and il will always support tho Wing candi-
dates against those of small organization,
with no prospect Of immediate success, no mat
tor how sound its doctrines, how glorious its
aims, how worthy its mon, because prepared,
anow as heretofore, 10 do the good that is prac-
ticable, rather than attompt tho ideal better
which ia unattainable."
This is the Tribune's philosophy and prac-
tice-this is tho philosophy and practice Of
nine tenths of the adheronts Of the Wing and
Democratic Parties, 80 called, Of the North.
We are wearicd sick at heart with pointing
10 their legitimate results as shown, in the
extension Of Slave Territory, the naturalization
Of Slavery, and tho supremacy Of tho Slave
Interest over tho non-slaveholding population
Of the South, tho Executive, Legislative, and
Judicial Departments Of the Federal Govern
ment, the old Political organizations Of the
North, and hitherto over the religious mind Of