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was an excellent indication. AS for the aboli-
tion OF Slavery in the District no allusion what
ever was made to it. This was another excel
lent indication. We may add, that no resolu-
.ion was adopted involving q pledge to oppose
tae future admission of any slave State into the
Union. The members of the Convention, in
their fourth resolution, declared, that by the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise they were
released from their obligation to admit. any
more slave States into the Union, but they
made no declaration that they would not vote
Tor the admission of such States. The support
ers OF the Missouri Compromise in the North
feie themselves obligated by the terms of that
compromise to vote for the admission of slave
states into the Union south of SO deg 80 min,
III the population Immediately interested prefer
red Slavery, and undoubtedly the repeal of the
compromise released then. from its obligations,
but the New York Wing Convention have not
saia IN any OF their resolutions, and we trust
their party in New York will never say. that
| tney Will oppose the future admission of any
slave States
"On the whole, there is quite as much mod
Grafton In the resolutions of the New YORK.
Wing Convention, as we anticipated. We
nope and believe that the nominees of the Con-
vention will be elected
1t is clear, that had the candidates selected
by the Convention continued to stand upon this
platform, and this alone, Southern Wing senti-
ment would at last have been satisfied, and the
chances Of holding Wing National Conyen-
ton, with full representation from the South,
would have multiplied. Unfortunately for this
healing process the pressure of the Anti-Sla-
very Sentiment in New York was too strong.
The Wing platform was below its demands,
and the candidates placed upon it found it ne
cessary to jump upon higher one. The Con-
vention assumed a position of armed neutrali-
ty: the candidates pledged themselves to open
and active hostilities. In reply to letters ad-
dressed to candidates by the Committee of the
Saratoga Convention, they promptly and en-
phatically affirmed their determination to car
~ out its resolves. They put themselves dis
tinctly upon high Ant-Slsvery ground, and
pledged themselves to the Maine Liquor Law.
The result was, their adoption by this Anti-Ne-
braska State Convention, and the Temperance
Convention; while Mr.. Clark, the Gubernato-
rial candidate, received not only the nomina-
ton of these Conventions, but that of the Re-
publican and Free Democratic Conventions.
AS might have boon expected, this conduct
of Mr. Clark and his associates has given um-
bragg to the Conservative Wing press, which
had found 80 much comfort in the non-com-
mittalism of its State Convention. The New
York Courier and Enquirer, after showing, in
the paragraph above quoted, the difference be-
tween the Syracuse and Saratoga Conventions
says:
"Here certainly is broad interval And
yet every man of the Wing ticket, at the invi-
tation of wv. c. Bryant and John Jay, COM
mittee,' is willing to leap it, and does leap it.
The Governor leaps it fully and cordially: ,
the Lieutenant leaps it to the fullest extent .
the Canal Commissioner leaps it with unquaI-
flied assent and approval - and the State
Prison Inspector comes down upon the Sara
toga concern, not only with hearty approba-
ton and endorsement but with the round as
sertion that he can stand on no other platform
than that phich has for ats object the overthrou
of that institution that holds 1T to be right to
ensIaue any class of my feliov-men'
"Now, how is this? A week ago we saw
four men erect and smiling on the Wing plat
form they moved about as if they were per-
fectly at home there, and they were greeted
on all sides as Wing platform candidates We
now look again, and they are gone. They have
jumped away. At q bound they have leaped
clear of everything from Syracuse to Auburn,
over the heads of old Wings with whom they
have served many year. into the loving en-
brace of w. c. Bryant and John Jay, commit
tee Now, gentlemen, wo tell you plainly that
this strikes us as very pitiful work If you did
not think that the Syracuse platform was good
enough to stand upon, why did you allow your
selves to be put upon it, If you did not mean
to keep it, why did you take it? In accepting
the places of candidates on that platform, you,
as honorable men, accepted the principles
therein set forth. It is thus that your nomina-
tons have received the universal sanction of
tho Wing party through the State; and yet
that sanction is no sooner given, than you
simultaneously commit yourselves to q princi-
pie and policy which you knew tens of thou
sands of the Wings who had ratified your NOM
ination could not and would not sustain. This
is decidedly now feature in the relations be-
tween parties and their candidates. Hereto
fore it has been supposed that the acceptance
of nomination implied pledge to stand by
the manifesto of principles whereupon it was
made, and, though support might be rendered
by other parties in different position, that it
was not permissible to move away from the
first ground in order to obtain it. Candidates,
after being made candidates, have hitherto
Deen Q6lQ DOunQ 10 Sb2nO Ii tuelr braCKs, low,
it seems, it is otherwise
GA turbid eddy, like that at Auburn, col
lection of atoms multiform and mix whirled
about in empty space by their own levity or
jostling together by numberless points of re-
pulsion, and tossed with all their ofieious pro-
jects and airy predictions, is not the place for
the candidates of the great Wing party of
New York to cast their fortunes in. They
have made q mistake in thinking 3d."
The New York Commercial advertiser fol-
lows this up with an article, in which it en-.
treats Messrs. Clark, Raymond, & Co., to re-
trace their steps, to fall back upon the Wing
platform, unless indeed they are Indifferent
to the support of the conservative portion of
the Wing party"
IL is clear that these papers will tolerate no
action that will interfere with union between
Northern and Southern Wings. What prao-
tical course they propose, remains to be seen.
They and the Conservative Wings they repre-
sent, agree with Mr.. Bronson and his friends
in their views of State policy generally, and in
National politics. They are opposed to the
Maine Law: so is he They are opposed to
the agitation of the Slavery Question so is
he. They are opposed to any movement dis
turbing the Fugitive Act: so is he. They
are in favor of appropriations by the Fed
eral Government to steam company monop-
olies: 30 are his friends. They despise the
Administration 80 does he. Though Con-