Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-30
FUSION AND CONFUSION.

FUSION AND CONFUSION.
New York has always been distinguished among
her sister States for the number, variety, peculiar
nomenclature, and nearly unnteligible distinc-
tions and shades of difference into which her po-
Itical parties have been split up Recently, how
ever these divisions have been subdivided or have
undergone new combinations, to an extent OF COM
plexity never before reached. We would fain keep
our readers, in duty bound, posted up in the
political affairs of that great and influential member
of the Confederacy, to make clear to them the diff
ferent aims and principles Of its various parties
but it would boa difficult task, and hardly worth
the labor if it could be accomplished. The diff
Guilty would apply to the Democratic party as well
as to the Wing Indeed the former party appears to
be in the greater confusion Of the two as an evi-
dencc of which we may mention that leading
measure of the Administration Nebraska bill
is supported by the Democratic opponents Of the
Administration and disapproved by its supporters.
In regard to the movements of the Wings of the
Empire State, however, it is due to our readers
to afford them the light reflected in the following
articles copied from two of the most reliable Wing
journals in the State
NEW YORK COURIER OF THURSDAY MORNING.
We believe have reached the end Of the State Con-
ventions Seven, with all their various oggery have
fled before the public eye-the Democratic Hard, the
AntN Nebraska, the Democratic Soft, the Democratic
Whig the Independent Democratic, the Adjourned Anti
Nebraska, and the Maine Law It is possible We shall
have yet another for have nothing yet of the
white and black squad who 60 by the of " The Lii
berty Folks Surely with their immaculate valor they
ought to be In motion
The three Conventions which have just dispersed at
Auburn have not materially added to the personnel Of the
Two of them indeed nominated ticket entire
ly in all respects the candidate for Governor
but, after ALL 10 endorsing this most important nomina
tion, they gave virtual sanction to the whole ticket
which, its practical resulta will be about eecual
that sanction had been full and formal There
is why one of the Wing candidates should
ceve the Freesoil vote which does not apply equally
well to all. They have each and ALL their sig
natures sgnfed their approval of the resolutions Of the
first Nebraska Convention, and have therein put
themselves upon far advanced platform than that
framed by the Wing Convention at Syracuse
The Saratoga Convention resolved that we now take
ground distinctly the principle that all territory
of the United States henceforth be free territory
and all States hereafter in free States
The Wing Convention simply declared that they were
forever released from all obligations admit into the
Union any State which sanctions permits slavery re-
ferring to the obligations involved in the compromises
which at end The Anti Nebraska Conven-
ton marches into the very heart of Freeso and takes
everlasting possession the Wing Convention simply fell
back from the Frustrated compromises upon neutral
ground not committing itself any specific principle in
regard to the admission Of Staes but holding itself
at liberty to deal with each case on its merits.
Here certainly is broad interval And yet every man
of the Wing ticket at the invitation of 'W c. BRYANT
and JOHN JAY committee is willing to leap it, and does
leap it. The Governor leaps it "fuly and cordially;
the Lieutenant leaps it to the fullest EXTENT the Ca
hal Commissioner leaps it " with unqualified assent and
APPROVAL and the State Prison Inspector comes down
npon the Saratoga not only with hearty appro
baton and endorsement but With the round assertion
that he ''can stand no other platform than that which
has for its Object The overthrow Of that institution that holds
10 be right enaps any class Of ny teloto-,nes."
s Now, how is this? week ago four men erect
and smiling the Wing platform; they moved about as
If they perfectly ut home there and they greet
ed on all sides Whigplatform candidates. We
look again, and they gone They have jumped away
At bound they have leaped clear Of every thing from
Syracuse to Auburn the heads Of old Wings, with
whom they have served many year. into the loving
brace OF" W. 9, BRyANr and JoHN JAY, committee"
Now, gentlemen, W. tell you plainly that this strikes
very pitifu work IF you did think that the Sy
platform was good enough to stand upon why did
you allow yourselves to beput upon I'll you did not
to keep it. why did you take it? In accepting the
places Of candidates that plaorm you as honorable
men, accepted the principles therein forth 1t is thus
that your nominations have receiver the universal Sane
tion Of the Whg party through the Sate and yet
sanction is given than you simultaneously
init yourselves to principle and poli>y which you
knew tens of thousands Of the Wings who had ratified
your nomination could not and would not sustain This
is decidedly feature in the relations between par
ties and their candidates. Heretofore it has been s-
posed that the acceptance of nomination implied .
pledge to stand by the manifesto Of principles whereupon
it was made, and though support might be rendered by
other parties in different position that it not per-
INVISIBLE to away from the first ground in order
obtain it. Candidates. after being made candidates. have
hitherto been held bound stand in their tracks now
seems, it is otherwise.
A turbid eddy, like that at Auburn, collection Of
atoms " multiform and mix, whirled about in empty
space by their evit jostling together by num-
berless points Of repuson and tossed with all their off,
cous projects and airy predictions is not the place for
the candidates of the great Wing party of New York
cast their fortunes in They have made mistake in
thinking so.
FROM THE N. Y. COMMERCIAL THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
The Courier and Enquirer speaks positively upon
subject at which We but briefly limited yesterday full
endorsement Of the Saratoga resolutions.
There is great deal OF truth and justice in the
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