The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-27
NORTHERN WINGS vs.. SOUTHERN WIG
"WHERE ARE THEY TO Coz"
Political Journals, North and South,
Taking Soundings.
R>eks, Breakers and sandbars All Around,
HIGHLY INTERESTING EXTRACTS.
FIR ST P AR T.
THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE QUESTION.
From the Hartford (Conn.) Communicating
SEPARATION OF PAkTiEs

There are periods in the history of our country,
when, under the operation OF some great exciting
Cause, party lines appear To he almost obterated
and the allegiance 10 party dictates forgotten Such
seems TO be the case at present. The new issues
that have lately presented themselves have pushed
aside the old ones and rev principles OF political
action are becoming motive powers In our elections.
There b almost oImemDerment OF the old parties,
and the country Is ID ssate of eGervescence pre-
paratory TO the REORGANIZATION OF new political as
eociatioDs.
The democrats in some states have irreconcila-
My split, and nothing bat new Issue will produ
an ania!gamation. N some instances this fermen-
5ation aud decomposition have been produced by
BONE great question OF moral reform, as in Maine.
In some, ID in New ork. il il mere question of
Che division of the spois winch bas terminated in
feud too bitter for reconciliation. The interference
of Pierce and his cabinet III the politics of the
6tatcs-the anomalous action OF that Interference
and the utter incapabhy Of h!s administration OF
ruling for national purposes have produced these
divisions in many places Such Is the weak SELFISH
unprinoipIed character Of Franklin Pierce and his
cabinet that none but the office seekers remain
their jealous adheents, and even they despise the
hand that feeds them.
But the principal cause OF this disorganization Of
Che democratic party has been the repeal of the
Missouri compromise and the innate love OF free
dom which is the Inderlyin stratum in the charac
ter "a every true Amen ,an whose principles have
not been corrupted by government patronage. Very
many Of the democratic party-men who voted for
Franklin Pierce in ls52-are now ready to break
away from the support OF the measures OF the ad-
which, indeed, is the case with all men, more or
less They not willing openly to join wing or
ganisa&ion. under that name. They have been
fighting IL too long for such submission. Hence
the importance of some new party, that will unite
all the opponents OF the extension OF slavery into
one homogeneous mass.
But IL is not the democratic party that alone is
disOrganized. Although the late divisions of our
party in New York are quoted. and the whole
Northern whig party never more united than
they are at present. union produced by SINH
laEity Of feeling the Nebraska bill-still as
tionsl party they are weakened, perhaps we can
say permanently weakened by the separation OF the
Southern wings. Our opposition to the extension of
slavery has driven the mass of Southern wings to
leave rs. The Petersburg Inteliigencer, leading
wing paper in Virginia, recommends the calling Of
Southern Wing Convention, to separate that Sec
ton Of the party from the North, and to act, If
cessaIy entirely With the Southern democrats In the
measures essential to Southern interests Such q
union is very easy one, FIR the subject of slavery
overridee all other questions Of national politics.
1t will thus be seen that the Northern and Southern
sections Of the wing party can never hope to act to-
gether again. We regret the necessity that leads to
this rupture We regret that the breach of contract
Of which the South has been guilty in the repeal Of
the Missouri compromise has forced this separation
But we love the principles OF freedom better than
the success Of party. This regret Is deepened by
the sacred memory of Henry Clay, and by the re-
menbrance Of the patriotism OF many WING from
the South with whom we nave acted. Bat liberty
Ia more valuable than friendship, and right must
soften regret.
What shall we do, then, as whigs9 Shall we re
main together as an organized party shorn Of half
our strength, when the united posses sion OF the
the whole was hardly able to produce victory! Or
shall we seeka new organization, with a new name,
by uniting with those who agree with ms on the
principle of more slave territory Ii il ques-
tion for Northern wings to settle, and II must be
done soon.
IFrom the SprinHcld (Naes } Repubhcnn-~hig1
Uukr Ann THE WINGS OF MASSACHUSETTS TO Dor
The Springfield Republican, in the course Of a long
article recommending coalition bet ween the wings
end free soilers, in reply TO correspondent, SAYS:
Who is afraid Of being cheated? Are we making
q bargain Are we buying and sellingi Are we
trading in Offices and prDciples2 If we propose to
do any thing OF the kind we ought to be cheated
But we propose such thing. If we are to go into
this movement as wings democrats and free soilers,
and not "a men entertaining one sentiment, pos
sessing common principles and feelin g., aud bound
oreetly and determnedy, then let the matter drop.
Cheatingl Shall we cheat ourselves2 Shall we cut
our own throats? Shall we throw away the advan-
tages we shall all gain?
What are the wings of the South doing at this
very moment They are taking steps for holding q
Southern Wing Convention. The Petersburg Intel
igencr, leading wing paper in virginia IN
making call for this convention, and in speaking
Of Southern whigs says :-"Upon one great subject
they can act with the democrats OF the South
Upon that one great subject they have acted with
the democrats OF the South, and always will. The
South is unit upon that subject Shall the North
be divided while compromise lines are being brush
ed away like cobwebs, while free soil is being in
vaded by the blasting foot Of slavery, while South
ern oupidity and dough faced perhdy are fastening
Their graphing irons upon Cuba, while incipient
steps are being taken in the United States Senate
for re opening the slave trade, while law remains
upon our statute books that makes the whole North
hunting ground for slaves, turns our courts of JUS
fice into elave pens and our people into slave
Catchcrs and all this in the face of free constitu
tlon, and in the light of the most enlightened and
Christianized age the world ever saw God forbid
nj fha alma nf
pondent We know him to be candid man. We
know also, that he has had to do in hand to hand
conflicts with unprincipled demagogues whom it
Is hard to forget and to forgive. But those dema-
Eogues do not represent the free soil party or the
democratic party. II Is from those very men that
opposition may he expected In the movement that
doom is sealed. Their occupation will be gone.
Break down party lines and you kill them, their
schemes and then ambitions, and the sooner the
demagognes of all parties are politically dead and
under the turf the better. The people want chance,
and we hope they may have 1t.
Iron the Albany Regster-Fnmere- Anti Seward whg ]
THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.
The question to who is to be Governor, what
his location, and what the platform upon which he
IL TO rum is constantly recurring. This question is
much more easily asked than answered II i doubt
less true that party adhesions are being broken up,
and party afinities much weaker than they have
been for the last ve.snd-twenty years The disci-
pine Of politics, the power of drilling, are much less
cfacacions than they have been in times past, and
men are beginning TO act and talk with a fearless
independence which a very few years ago would
have been regarded "a rank treason. The passage
Of the Nebraska measure through Congress has
Toused tho antislavery sentiment Of the North and
given II vitality and energy which have surprised
great many people. Indeed, the discovery has been
made that chat sentiment is so pervadng at the
North that II may be regarded as universal, and
therefore cannot he made the basis of State orga
nizations, for It ia common to all minds. We say
he favw tho oAv nd he Nah cEo
bill in this State, can amount in numbers scarcely
to an exception; whig and democrat alike repudiate
and condemn the abrogation Of the Missouri com
promise and the possible extension of slavery.
Hence there can be no two parties organized with
refei ence TO that measure. The old organizations
remain with the anu Nebraska sentiment pervadng
both.
The question ~ to who shall be the wing candi-
date for Governor u one of deeper interest than
most politicians are willing TO admit Names have
been suggcsted In plenty, scattered all over the