Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-04
VIEWS OF A NORTHERN wHIG.

The subJoined article on the position OF the wing
arty in the North is from the Albany Register, a
purnal as distinguished for ability as for sound
entiments While we cannot concur in all that is
ut forth as the distinctive principles of the con-
ervative Wing party Of the North, we have no
oubt that the article may be regarded as true and
rank exposition Of the views generally entertained
y that party gs
Position OF THE WHIa PARTY.-There are in every
Immunity whose enlarged field ofvsion takes in the
hoe country, and every part Of whose passions and
selngs to their and judgments who
sincerely attached to the Constitution and the Union
nd these always LIBERAL national and conservative
nd opposed -mndedness sectionasm their
olitics There other in whom is swayed
passion whose short sighedness excludes from their
Jew oil that lies beyond the community in which they
I've and move; who have seen their country but
parts and they usually selfish ilberal, and
fbnal as politicians. As men cannot live in society
without the continual of charity and forbearancc
twards their felow-men SO neither can communities
nr States live in peace amiy without the exercise
d the christian virtues.
The Whig party was originally made up of the sober,
enlightened, and thinking of the nation and their
orators and presses habualy addressed them through
their understandings instead of through their passions
and prejudices. Such party, led by such as
Clay Webster and host Of others scarcely inferior to
them could not be otherwise than national and enlgh
ened in its policy; and accordingly may point with
pride the DOCTRINES principles and practices Of the old
Wing party filling of the brightest pages in the
political history Of the country and Whg statesmen
as the greatest and noblest men Of the nation.
But unfortunately that party long time in the
minority. The foreign vote, habitualy thrown in upon
the other sde continually turned the scale against
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place and power inasmuch the naturazed citizens
would not the Whigs made the abortive at
tempt carry the Whig party over them The morals
of the party little damaged by this operation and
nothing gained to compensate if indeed any thing could
compensate, for their deterioration.
The Wing party in the State of New York received the
next damaging shock from the attempt the part of
some of its leaders to make it subordinate the schemes
of the anti Renters with view gain them and
shift the balance Of power in the State elections. But
this policy always too grossly corrupt and demoralx
ing to receive the appreciation of any considerable
Der of the Wings of New York. and was universally
probatcd in all other parts of the Union. Some of its
members had fallen from its high standard of intelligence
and political moraty but still the great Whg party Of
the nation through all perils and temptations preserved
its integrity When it had triumphed at last in 1840
and then was betrayed, it spurned the bribe of official
patronage and marshaed its forces for the greater
act Of 1874 Some fourteen fifteen years before few
restless spirits at the North had commenced anti
slavery agitation which received with small favor
first, but had gradually extended and added to their
strength till they took the form of political organiza
ton under the of the Liberty party The project
which started Of annexing Texas and bringing in
slave States increased their number much that
in 1874 they held the balance Of power and used it
defeat the Wing party and the acquisition of
m.
efforts to seduce Wings from their party allegiance and
induce them to vote for BRKEY who stood no chance of
receiving single electoral vote and elected Mr. POLK
the Texas candidate. However short-sighted it may
seem they calculated that the defeat of the Whg party
would result in its speedy dissolution, and out of its ma
terals great Liberty party with such men as BIRNEY
and TAppAN for leaders, would be formed and get con-
troll of the Government and its patronage. But though
their ranks broken and shattered the greater body
of Wings still stood firm and unshaken. Then came the
Mexican war; under Mr. PoLKs administration to extend
still further the of slavery and the acquisition Of
territory ultimately resulting in failure to attain
that object, but producing for the time being, power
full antislavery agitation which ended with the compro
misses of 1850.
While it lasted certain would-be Whg leaders and po-
Mticans abored with zeal worthy Of better to
convert the Wing party Of the North into abolition
party and array it against the South But better
sells prevailed and the National Whg Party met once
more in general council ut Baltimore in 1852. But it
suffered another signal overthrow in the ensuing cam
pagn
The repeal Of the Missouri compromise by Congress
has renewed the antsavery agitation and introduced it
again disturbing force among the political elements
and the effort is being made to disintegrate the Wing
party of the North and combining with it divers rag
ments of other parties, odds and ends, it into
sectional abolition party and drive it with crushing
force against the institution of slavery at the South The
Wing party cannot yield to this temporary impulse
without abandonment Of all its former opinions pri
cples, and practice. M
No sectional party gain the ascendancy in this
Government accomplish any other object ofmporance
except perhaps the dissolution of the Union And there
is no occasion for any such organization While the Wing
party Of the North has been continually exposed the
assaults Of aboltionists and agators it is and has
been sound upon the slavery question 1t has prov
ed itself constitutional Union, law-lovng, and law
abiding party 1t has stood by the compromise Of
the Constitution. It is too enlightened sanction the
business of stealing few negroes from their masters
and running them off underground railroad in the
expectation Of essening the evils Of slavery hastenng
emancipation.
The Wing party of the North proposes interference
with slavery in the States where exists but in the Ian
guage Of Mr. WEBsTKR in his speech upon the compro
mise, is, and alwass Aksbeen,
TO THE EXTENSION INTO TERRITORY NOW FREE
1t opposed to the annexation of Texas it was OPP