Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-05
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

tuAb act OF nO5tillty o&u hAou6 restore pence !,
confidence in Southern honor and manliness of
character had been forfeited, and it were best
that the Wings OF each section should pursue
their separate paths"
Turning attention to the Wing press Of the
South, we see indications of similar anxiety !:
no wonder. In the slave States the Wings arc
In . hopeless minority. Their characteristic
measures Of public policy are not generally
popular in that section; and on the question OF
Slavery, they cannot surpass the ruling Party
there in fanatical devotion TO the peculiar in
stitution. United with the Wings Of the North
they stand with Party whic'l at times com
mands majority Of the American People, and
from 1910 to 1852, inclusive, carried two out
Of four Presidential elections, and would have
carried third, bnt for the vacillating course
Of Henry Clay on the subject of Texas annex
alton, which in all probability cost him the
State Of New York
In such party, there was field for the
ambition of aspiring Southern Wings; but
alienated from it, what can they hope? All
told, they cannot command three hundred
thousand votes in the South, and left alone,
would soon become powerless in every State Of
that section. Such men as Badger, Bell, Clay
ton, Pearce, and Jones, would be obliged to
retire from political life, or, like Messrs
Toombs and Stephens, take their chances for
the crumbs that fall from the table Of their
old political opponents.
Some of the Hotspurs of the Press, taking
their cue from their swearing Senators, have
proclaimed the dissolution Of tho National
Wing Party. They cannot endure the associ-
alton Of men who voted against the Nebraska
Bill-these are but Abolitionists, and as such
should be eschewed by the South.
The following appeared in one of the lead
ing Wing papers in the South, the Petersburg
(Va.) Inteiigencsr, on the 29th Of May:
The Whig Party.--To any one of the slight
est observation it must be very apparent that
what was once known as the Wing party has
ceased to exist The name now used signifies
nothing and represents nothing in q national
sense Of the word. The so-cslled Wings Of the
North have not one feeling in common with the
Wings Of the South and it is idle for sections
80 antagonistic to attempt to unite in electing
candidate for the Presidency. These facts
have much against our will been forced upon
us by the action of the Wings of the North
"The Southern Wings having thus been de-
serted by the hypocrites of the North, who 30
long played double game with US, the qnes-
ton will necessarily arise as to what is our true
policyn eve sincerely wish that
the suggestion we sre about to make had come
commended to the party by more age, expert
ence, and position, than we can boast of. Hum
ble however as we may be, our advice is the
prompting Of heart devoted to cause for
which we have privately and publicly struggled
for the last seventeen yearH~Hdd which we will
never abandon We throw out, then, for the
consideration Of our Southern Wing brethren
the suggestion Of holding Southern Wing
Convention in some central point of the South
say Columbus, Ga, for instancc-either during
the coming autumn or in the next spring, to
consider of the policy and duty of the Wings
Of the South. Although the Wings of the
South may never be able to elect Wing of
their choice to the Presidency, they can exer-
cise an influence most potential for good. Upon
one great subject they can act with the Demo-
Gratis of the South. They can cooperate in
the acquisition of Cuba, and thus place two
slave States in the way Of Northern agrees
sion, while it would throw open to Southern
enterprise and Southern cities the trade of the
most fertile and beautiful island of the ocean"
While the IntetIigeneer finds Wings enough
in its section to concur in its views respecting
the dissolution Of the Wing Party, its sugges-
ton of Convention 80 far meets with no gen.
erol response
The Richmond Wing, the most insolent
press of the South in its bearing to the
North, is always bitter towards those who used
to be it's Northern associates, but is not pre-
pared to recommend any other course than
that Of mastery inactivity" It says:
"Thst parties at the present time are in a
state Of utter confusion, no observant man can
deny. That there is q high probability Of their
entire dissolution before a very great while,
seems to be equally certain. We are not pre-
pared, however, even to conjecture what is to
be the ultimate result Of their Acknowledgement
Neither can we tell, unless they are to be re-
constructed upon strictly sectional grounds,
what principles or views are TO constitute the
basis Of the new organizations which are to
succeed them. 1t is better at present, we
think, TO let things pursue their natural course
they viii come to head in due season. When
prcphIetiOub UcRtu bO Oe mhue HOf announcer
Presidential contest, which is yet two years Of,
we can then determine, with all the lights be-
fore us, what is best TO be done for the protec-
ton of the South and the general welfare Of
the country.
CAS- Southern Wings however, we cannot
shut our eyes TO the fact that in the late con-
test involving simply the recognition of con-
stitutional right, the Wings Of the North de-
serted US without q solitary exception in either
House Of Congress"
The same journal dcnounccs tho Massacbu-
setts Wing Address, and says of its closing
paragraph, q II expresses doubt whether the
Wings Of Massachusetts, can now satisfy them
selves with the simple repeal Of the Nebraska
bill, and seems to conclude that they ought
not; but to resolve, in addition to the recovery
Of what 1t alleges is lost to freedom, upon the
erection Of impregnable barriers against the
extansion Of Slavery; III this intimation IL