The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-22
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Il r Olub on OF M Baac us sssS wing
,tate Conyen ion recently h Id in Boston, and
he signifc mt roceedngs of he Anti. LAYER .
Coalition Convention whic, was held on the
anne da at S ratoga Spri gs satisfac' .orly
sta Ii b our udgmen t. iutnre ..olicy of
he yhi AIRY OF al the Northern, stats in
.ef rtnCe t the vi gu on Of Southern
slavery. Tie N III m VIII = a ty is Seward
zed, aboitiOaize an, hav>ing cast all COM
proms to he W nds, it ia. y, Idly throwing it.
self orwa as lie ms. N army in the new aad
general crusade resc.fv, upon sg,int the
South In one Old, he Norther, wing party
is henceforth tAe great an,islavery party Of the
North
The heading o ators at the Massachusetts,
Wing Convention re right. No new organi-
cation for the wings in the Northe Sites is
required to " enable them to make head against
the age re, si,ns o. the slave p,wer," as they
call it. They have on y to abandon the con-
servative principles Of Daniel Webster, and the
reluctA tly ADOPTED doc rine- of the Baltimore
Scott plat form Of 1862, and they are ready for
the work. 1t only then remains for the outside
tions Of the day to hitch on - mercenaries,
skirmishers, forugers ard oampfollowers ofthe
wings, to render the projected holy antislsVery
alliance complete in oil its appointments, from
stem to Stern.
In the abandonment Of all the conservative
resolutions which have heretofore served to
unite the wings of the North and tic South,
the wings Of Massachusetts,, with an emphasis
which admits of no armistice, have led the way
in their anti-slavery declaration OF war. 1t is
substantially as follows
/. That 70 long IS the Northern wing party remains
true - Dow to hsss.y constitution and sas Un.0n 1t
evinced in their constitution and ordinances, was
ayerse 70 slavery and rc0mpromisngH hostile to its
g. That the Nebraska act terminates the era Of com
Nc slave Stctes, exteneiea Of slavery over
territory now free.
s. vndieation OF tho rights of Northern citizens in
Southern States.
The repeal essential modification Of the Fugitive
Slave law.
Encouragement. Of free emigration to the new Ter
ritories
s. As means 10 all these ends tho overthrow Of the
present unSise and unscrupuious administration.
Commenting upon this platform, the Roches-
ter Democrat, q leading end influential wing
paper of Western New York, says that ito this
platform all wing conventions must come back"
meaning, Of course, ali Northen whig conven-
tons; and that "there il 20 other alternative if
the party is to be preserved" The meaning Of
this is plain enough. 1t simply means that the
whig party Of the North is so thoroughly dyed
in the wool in the anti -Netraska bill and anti
slavery sentiments that it will be broken to
pieces on any other than thoroughly abeli-
tion platform. The deca alton carries with 1t
also the consoling suggestion that in an out
and-out anti-slavery war against the South, the
Northern wings win secure such a fusion from
all The outside anti-slav ry factions as to rem
der the party a'l-poUersrl in the approaching
Northern State e ections and in the Presiden-
tial campaign of 1856.
Hence the Massachusetts wings hold on to
their party organization, fully satisfied that the
anti-slavery societies win pc content with the
adoption Of their principles. Hence the Sara
toga Convention waved the nomination of a
| State ticket awaiting the action Of the New
York Wing State Convention at Syracuse
Should that convention appoint satisfactory
State ticket upon satisfactory platform the
second convention Of the Saratoga coalition
(appointed to come or six days after the whig
affair at SYRACUSE will have nothing to do but
to ratify the action of the wings, and fall into
line. Eut if the wings should fail, they are to
be coerced into submission.
Will the wings at Syracuse revolt against the
dictatorial dtings at Saratoga From all the
indications around us, mol They will sgr-
render-they will nominate State ticket, sud
adopt such resolutions as win be acceptable to
the Saratoga coalition. Tn same ageats Of
Seword. and his erani programme Of sectional
agitation, sediton and disunion, that uled the
proceedings at Saratoga, will rule the roast at
Sy racuse, whatever may be the consequences
to Seward or to others The Saratoga Conven-
ton was a preliminary VIII 9 movement, for the
especial benefit Of the Van Luren softs OF the
Buffalo stripe, and other outside c iques and
coteriea Having secured them, under the
plausible disguise Of q new parry, the whole
batch are to be turned over t, the wings at
Sy racuse, with the SIMPLE cond ton that tue
wings Of New York sha fellow in the wake Of
the wings Of Massachusetts, or of the Saratoga
Convention, which is the same thing.
VIII the silver grsys at Syracuse rebel and
secede if this programme should be adopted7
The Rochester Democrat (whig), says that
some dry and d. al wood will break of under
the weight of such strong scntimc nts; but tie
tree win sill be sound at the core, sturdy in
its trunk, and shoot out in vigorous growth.
When wing administrations endeavored to ig-
more those sentiments (Mr. Fillmore), and pro-
scribed those who held them, there was no
more unity; nothing but defeat and disgrace
And SO the New York wings arc resolved TO
have nothing more to do with men az expo
nents of their principles but to define their DO
icy in unmistakeable language" And we ex-
pect this language will be spoken in the whig
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