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


THE NEW YORK WING nIANEUvRE
The political history Of the country does nj
furnish parallel to the bold deprayity whic
has been recently exhibited by the Wing leat
ers Of New York. The composition and pre-
ceedings Of the Fusion convention at Saratogs
of the Wing convention at Syracuse, and Q
the adjourned Fusion convention at Auburn
when considered in connection with each othe
and perfectly understood, cannot fail to excit
public adherence. Political movements equal
ing that Of New York in dishonesty, may hav
been invented in secret conclave and paine,
off upon the people by means Of thick dis
guises, cunning contrivances, and plausible
excuses; but we cannot call to mind an in
stance in which the public intelligence was s,
openly insulted and public opinion SO openl
condemned by such an indecent exhibition o
political immortality.
We do not denounce the mannuvre by which
the Wings, Freesoilers, and Abolitionists wer,
united in New York on the authority of preju
diced evidence. There is no necessity to do SO
for the statements Of the Wing candidate fol
the Office Of Lieutenant Governor is amply suffi
cient to sustain what we have said, with regard
to the iniquity Of the transaction. The Whig
candidate for Lieutenant Governor was wei
informed of all the proceedings, for he was a
prominent actor and he can have no motive
to place them before the country in an unfa,
vorable light. He was delegate TO the Flu.
sion conventions at Saratoga and Auburn and
holds the second place on the ticket nominated
at Syracuse.
The New York Times, which is edited by
that gentleman, states most distinctly that the
Wing members of the Fusion convention con-
sidered themselves to be "pledged as Whigs
to tie schole Wing ticket" That ticket was
nominated at Syracuse in the interval between
the adjournment Of the Fusionists at Saratoga
and their re-assembling at Auburn.
When the Nebraska bill was first passed,
prominent Wing leaders, and among them the
gentleman whom we have mentioned, de-
nounced the Nebraska bill, and we're active in
getting up the Saratoga convention. The peo-
pie Of New York were excited by infammaiory
appeals, and they were told that the time had
come when past political differences should be
forgotten, and when new party should be
formed to resist the encroachments Of the slave
power by repeating the Fugitive Slave law, re.
storing the Missouri restriction, and by forbid
ding the acquisition of slave territory or the
admission Of slaveholding States.
When prominent Wing leaders took this
ground, and were sustained by prominent Wing
presses declaring their willingness to abandon
the old Wing measures, and 60 into the new
movement, the Freesoil and Abolition factions
Of New York readily assented to the proposed
convention, and primary meetings were held
for the purpose ofseleeting delegates to it. The
Wings were active, and Of course controlled
the primary meetings, and sent sufficient
number of delegates to Saratoga to regulate
every movement. Amongst the delegates thus
sent we recognize the editor of the New York
Times, the Seward candidate for lieutenant
governor, and the notorious Horace Greedy,
the editor Of the New York Tribune, acting in
concert as file leaders to the Wing element of
the convention.
Whilst these movements were being made
under the pretence Of fair fusion of the anti
slavery forces at Saratoga, the Wing leaders
were at the same time preparing for an un-
mixed Wing Convention at Syracuse. This
fact would have given timely warning TO the
FreesoiIers and Abolitionists, had their vision
not been obscured by their hatred to the South.
But like yipers, they were blinded by the vim
lence Of their own venom, and, after adopting
the resolutions Of Messrs. Raymond and Gree.
ley. which committed them 10 discard former
political divisions, permitted an adjournment
until after the regular Wing Convention should
assemble and make its nominations.
The Wing convention did assemble at the
time appointed, and one Of the delegates TO and
prominent actors in the Saratoga convention
and who was thereby pledged to the new Anti
slavery movement accepted a nomination as
Lieutenant Governor. He thus showed that he
still adhered to the Wing Organization whilst
he was, in conjunction with others, seducing
the Freesoilers and Abolitionists with the idea
Of new party to be constructed BY fair
nnion. He was but type Of othcrs-for when
the Fusion convention reassembled at Auburn
Il was told, according TO the statement Of the
New York Times, that the Wing members
considered themselves bound by the action Of
the Wing convention at Syracuse, and that
they we're apledged as Wligs 70 Tie ichole Rhig
ticket" These gentlemen had been activepar-
iicipators in the Fusion movement; they had
ta,ren prominent part in the proceedings Of a
convention called for the purpose Of obliterat-
ing old party lines, and for the construction Of
a new party; and yet they announce, in the
calmest possible manner, that they owed
service 70 The Wing organization, and we're
"pledgsd as Whiss % the ,chole Whig ticket
Nor is this all. Whilst the Wing members Of
the Auburn convention acknowledged their
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