The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-07-22
tFrom the Albany N. ~ Evening Register.l
Where are we Drifting!

lay, for a convention of delegates from the
different assembly districts Of the State, to
meet at Saratoga, for the purpose of giving
of the popular sentiment against
he Nebraska and Kansas measure recently
passed by Congress. Surprising the object
10 be simply to speak in concentrated lam
guage the universal opposition OF the North
arn people to that measure, and seems the
names of good and true men to the call, we
signed 1t. But we have reason to believe
that the movement, or rather the originators
of it, have something more than we supposed
in view and that their object is nothing
more or less than to brake up present poiti-
cal organizations, abandon all other issues,
overlook all the great principles that UNDER
lay parties as they now exist, and build up a
great Northern party, passed upon the anti.
slavery sentiment alone, and, relying upon
the superior numerical force Of the free over
the slave States, strike for supremacy in the |
Union through the power of sectional pre-
JUDGES. We yield to none in our opposition
to the Nebraska measure; we have denounced
it from the beginning, 10 language strong as
we could command. We have regarded it
as the wickedest violation OF faith, the vilest
piece Of demagogueism that ever dishonored
the political history Of the country. This
sentiment we believe is universal among the
people of the North, prevailing all cases, and
all organizations, political or social. 1t is or
ganic in the Northern mind. But the very
fact Of its universally shows the folly OF an
attempt TO organize party, passed upon that
sentiment alone. Being common to all par
ties, no such organization can be needed, nor
can any such be sustained.
Believing as we do in the wisdom and pat.
riotism of the Wing creed, the soundness Of
Wing principles, and the value OF the Wing
party, we are entirely opposed to seeing it
disbanded. IL holds the raine of power in
the State; it has The Legislature and State
officers, and will continue to have them with
the Executive ID Department for years to come,
unless il casts them away by its own madness
and folly. The Whigs,if they will but re-
main true to themselves, will carry the Union
in 1856. The weakness OF the present Ad.
miIstraton, its usurpatiOns, its misrule, the
hopeless discord prevailing in its ranks,
the contempt into which it has fallen, has
palsied the power of the Democratic organi.
cation. and opened the way to the restoration
of right principles, and permanent triumph
for the Wing party. What s:upendous folly
is it then to abandon its organization and
throw away its principles and it's strength!
| But there is great wickedness in the Sec
tlonal organizations; for whom il shall be &C.
complished, when the North and the South
shall stand in distinct bodies over against
each other, divided by geographical lines, the
Union will be practically dissolved. This
sectional division, embodying sectional pre-
JUDGES, and rouslng sectional prejudices, aud
rousing sectional amin ,sities, is, what the
great Washington saw as the chief danger
TO the future of this country, and with pro-
phetic earnestness and solemnity he warned
his countrymen against it. That there has
been much to rouse the spirit of the free North
we admit There has been folly and great
wrong perpetrated by the South through the
fundamentally of Northern demagooues
traitors alike to their constituents and the
honor OF their country. But for this, the
whole South is not to blame. There are in
the slave States, thousands and hundreds o
thousands OF good Wings, and good Demo.
Gratis, too, who gave no sanction to the in
EQUITY which gives rise to the excited state of
the popular feeling Of the North. II it were
not so, what good can possibly arise from an
abandonment by the Wings of their party or
ganlzation, and rushing madly into an abol-
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by possibility be gained by it! Will it change
one feature OF the wrong of which the North
has such abundant reason to complain! Will
an Abandonment by the Wing party of its
principles, and its organization, add one vote
IN Congress from the State Of New York,
against the exte nsion of human slavery! Can
one man be elected to Congress from this
State, now or hereafter by any party whose
opinions are doubtful on that question! We
suppose not. II the salyirg cry of the new
organization is TO be repeal, what, by any
possibility, can it accomplish Before such
measure can be perfected, the territories
will have settled the question themselves by
coming into the Union as States.
The Wing party is stronger to-day than it
has been for years. The discussions here.
tofore existing have passed, or are passing
away, its ranks are last closing up, and lift
rejects this cunning device TO tempt it to its
destruction it will present firm and compact
front, as Of old, with renewed strength and
augmented numbers. 1t can carry the cleo
ton OF Governor and Lieutenant G Governor.
1t can elect large majority ofthe members
OF Congress. 1t can elect two State officers
and large majority of the Assembly. 1t
can do all this under its present rganization,
and what more can be accomplished by aban-
donlng its organization, and coalescing with
the fragments of scattered Democracy.
forming new army of Abolition propagon-
dsts. The day may come when the people
OF the free North will be compelled, for self.
protection. to unite in great political or
ganization against the people of the South,
but certainly that day is not yet. There is
no overwhelming necessity such as should
exist to justify IN organization so full of evil,
SO pregnant with dscord and angry conten.
ton, so Immediately dangerous to the integ-
rity and perpetuiiy of the Union. II the OBJ
Ject OF this convention at Saratoga therefore
is simply to embody and express the popular
sentiment Of the State against the Nebraska
measure il is all wrong, and we are against
1t. We regard such a course as the purest
madness and folly on the part Of the Wings.
As great wickednese and wrong on the part