The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-23
A MAINE WHIG.

On the 26th OF july letter was addressed 10 the Hon.
W. Farley of Maine, by the chairman Of the committee
appointed for the purpose by Union Morrill, and free-so
convention, previously held at Belfast AS Mr. Farley is
candidate for reelection the letter written for the pur
pose drawing him out to the cant phrase of party
of making him defne his position the slavery question
He asked if he would vote to repeal the anticom
promise portion of the Nebraska bill to repeal the fugitive
slave law oppose the admission ofany slave State
abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia and the
present Territories and oppose the acquisition of any
slave territory To these direct questions Mr. Farley makes
indirect answers 1t very evident that he likes abolition
votes but he seems to think that formal solicitation of the
might him to lose caste with the wing party
proper; and he therefore, after little special pleading
gracefully refers his querstsin the true od-fashoned
buncombc and befogging styeto MS speeches for his
opinion of the constitutional power Of Congress sa
very in Territories This is not only evasion, but it is
cruelty sor what sane manlet alone chairman of po-
ltca commitee-~syer attempted to wade through the
forgotten speeches of member of Congress Of respectable
but ordinary abilities?
Mr. Farley is either behind the times, he is at
tenve reader of the is about the
thing As evidence of this, make for the
Guiding paragraph of his reply to the letter aforesaid
"a shall adhere to the organization Of the national wing
party because believe is sounder than any other this
question of slavery and other great issues and comprising
it does nearly and half million of voters cannot aban
don it. think the best hopes Of the country depend upon
continuance as political organization. These
my mind sufficient to all appeals To TO
leave that organization and ally myself with any other
Mr. Farley will adhere, he says, 'to the organization of
the national wing party" Where is ~ OF what and
whom it composed? Who its chosen leaders? who
its orthodox expounders? The members Of the Massachu
sets State convention which assembled Boston, on We'd
ncsday last in the face of the almost dying declaration of
tho amened Webster that the wing party disbanded
wished to be distinctly understood that they were wings
wings of seasons growth but wings who had been
watching the threatened Liberties Of their country
ever since the adoption of the federal constitution fheirs
party not for day, but for all time, As to the
mountain of whiggey going TO the Mnhonst Of abolition
ism it not only absurdly impossible but it down
right insulting. The aboonists, doubt very
worthy respectable useful bcrtyovng sort of people,
and deserved bn not encouragement at
the expense Of the integrity OF the gfeat Eationa wing
party Of Massachusetts, That party mus be preserved
sacred and nvoiae The principles of its founders must
be handed down. pure and unde6led to their children and
their childrens children
Will be credited that this pure unadulterated wing
State convention of Massachusetts, actually adopted the
identical platform erected by the Belfast aboonsts and
upon which the timd Mr. Farley afraid to be seen by his
political friends and associates Such is tue fact, and
is fact recorded with much visible perturbation of spirit
There no wing journal in the Union more disposed to
WAX at the eccentrictes Of its brethren in the bonds of
whiggery than the amiable, forgving and courteous In