The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-17

hsch they occupied on the occasion Of the enact
emit Of the Fugitive Slave law. For that Law three
IL representatives in Congress voted; against its
pol . number of their leading presses took Do
Il Win be seen from the following extract from an
iitOrial Of the Petersburg Intsiigsneer that that
Auential wing journal proposes the holding Of .
cuthern Wing Convention 70 meet at Columbus,
eorgia, next fall or spring-lGiyen abovel
higs have been "deserted" by their Northern
rethren tells the truth, but not the whole truth.
he northern wings not only deserted those Of the
outhon the passage Of the Nebraska bill but they
ave Indignantly and insultins.y repudiated all con-
ectien with the Latter because Of their support Of
hat bill. They have unwhigged, so TO speak, the
reat body Of the Southern wings, loudly proclaim
- 1g that they will have no further connection with
hem. We see not then, what course is left for the
higs of the south but to consult for and by them
elves as to their future action.
We wait, with some interest," to hear the
espOnse Of the Southern wing press to the sugges-
/ What cay the Savannah Republican, Milledgevilie
Qse0rder Macon Messenger, and other wing journals
4 Georgia?
From the Lowell Journal Courier, (whig) June l2l
SHALL WE HAVE A NEW PARTY?
Some days since, in advance OF our contempora-
les, we announced ourselves in favor Of an immedi-
te and radical reconstruction Of parties on the ba-
DIS of the new and paramount Issues arising out OF
ne passage ofthe Nebraska bill, wiTnout regard 70
Suueetion broaching this scheme, were intended as
eelers to sound the public mind, and to call out the
7Oice Of contemporaries Of the press. More than
| Was anticipated has been realized. In this city,
There are not three hundred legal voters who would
not Join with alacrity in such q movement. In all
The circumjacent towns, where our paper extensive
circulates, the project has met an uncounted host
Of responses in hearts warm with the sacred fire of
| reedom, which throb with deep and holy aspira-
lions for the All Hail Hereafter of Universal Liber-
~ The wing press of the State we know to be with
| the movement, heart and hand. If the cautious
(poiicy OF far-seeng prudence has prevented some
fom becoming 30 ubilant, it is not in consequence
Of any lack OF sympathy for any feasible scheme to
restore to the constitution its true construction and
TO Nebraska and Kansas their pristine purity from
the footprints Of slavery. Every moderate free soil
paper, every sensible and sane free soiler is soci
t0us for this wishedfor contamination. OF the lead
ing democratic journals throughout the free States,
many-very many-espouse the project also. SO
suspicious are the omens which loom up in the fu-
tule.
We think it is patent to the observation of every
man, that the old issues Of the political world can
never determine the result of any future national
election-that the old parties have accomplished
their mission and can hereafter live only in history
The democratic party, as it was, is dissolved, de-
ihorazed and defunct The democratic party, as it
with Southern principles, Southern fugemen and
with the exception Of few thousands who will re-
main democrats In order to fill the national Offices
In the free States, Southern members exclusively.
The wing party Is in no better condition. in mere
y national point Of view. The Southern wings who
voted for the Nebraska bill, and the Southern
presses Of the cidevant wing order, who sustained
themselves and by their new allies of the democratic
party that Ia to be- There is but little to hope
that any considerable wing strength can be rallied
IN the slave States, so long as parties remain on
their present footing. The forlorn hope cherished
BY our esteemed contemporary Of the Boston dhas,
that Houston, Bell, and the antiN Nebraska Congress-
men of the South, will be able to rally anything like
. respectable party to act with the wings of the
North, Is too illusory to cling to- Indeed our first
thought on reading the article in which this hope
was expressed, was, that "drowning men catch at
straws" The fact is, we are in transition state.
Let u.s. therefore, in the full consciousness Of what
must come, prepare ourselves for the issues of the
future. Forgetting the past, let remember that
New occasions teach new duties.
In view then of the fact that reconstruction of
parties, more or less radical, must accompany the
eventuaties OF the present transitionary political
lance of speedy combination Of those political
elements possessing kindred afinities and cognate
tendencies, we now declare ourselves in favor Of
grand mass convention Of all in Massachusetts, who
are disposed to make the issues of the Nebraska
scheme the cardinal issues of their future political
action, irrespective of past party connections or
tecedent affiliations Let such convention be con-
'vened at once in some central city or town. Let
oil the towns send their delegates. Let an address
TO the people be prepared, setting forth the objects
IN view. Let the repeal of the Nebraska bill and
the restoration Of the Missouri compromise be made
The two grand parts of the new programme. Let
rs all pledge ourselves to sustain those men (and
none others) who will support this platform as para
mount to all other political aims And, under those
nur deep and abiding conviction the North can be
sayed from her present degraded state OF vassaage,
The constitution from corruption, the Union from
dissolution, the cause Of liberty from decline Let
Nth MS cod who against us. Let the curtain
Gse-let TIE great drama of 1856 begin.
Prom tie Boston Courier, (national whg,) June 14.]
THE NEW WHO PARTY.
A viter, under the signature of Nathan Dane, in
the Iias Of Saturday and Tuesday, proposes re-
construction Of the wing party. It is to be so re-
constructed as to embrace among Its fundamental
principles, these two:-First that no territory be
heeafter annexed, which is not dedicated to free
dm beforehand. Second, that the Fugitive Slave
hn be 80 modified as to secure trial by jury. The
new party is to admit to it's Fellowship the whole
free soil organization, and as many Northern demo
eratsas II can get. OF the South in this new for
NATION, it expects nothing.
To dissolve, or reconstruct on new party princi-
pies, and for new party aims an existing national
party, not Of recent origin, which has given at
least two Presidents to the country-a party
whose members, from Maine to California, have
heretofore supposed themselves united on princi-
pies, and for aims, broad as the united American
Horidmis , pretty IT, grave proceeding. One man
nor one State convention. They may fan off;
may adopt any personal opinions; but the body
alone can dissolve ITSELF or change the fundamental
articles Of its creed. chatham Dane" however, or
amy other individual is Of course quite competent to
propose and advocate such thing. We will take
The liberty Of submitting to him and his readers
thought or two.
It Ia certain, then, that the proposed step annih
hates instantly the national character and functions
Of the wing party. As Q national connection It Is
dissolved: The party which is to take its place Is
party Of the free States The free States, as such,
are to unite under the name Of wings for the pur-
suit Of objects in regard to which the country di
yides sectonally. Not one man, of course south Of
Mason and Dixons line can unite with them.
Passing over, for the present, all higher and
deeper considerations, let US ask is Nathan Dane"
quite sure that his new party viii win power3 He
goes for success. Is he sure Of that? The spectacle
Of two great sectional parties in the field for the
government of this country would be sufficiently
deplorable. But we shall not see it.
Reorganize the Northern wings and free soile g.
into sectional party, under the name Of free State
wings, or wing free sellers, or any other name tru-
b describing its objects-and what then would you
seef Opposed to II party wholly national; the