Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
NEW YORK WING RESOLUTIONS.

dress. 1t thinks that they leave those who are so
disposed free to oppose or admit slave State and
that the resolutions of the Democratic Convention
(Sof) left the same liberty to those who adopted
them. The Post continues:
"We must allow that, take them altogether the reso
lutons Of the Wing Convention have the usual fault Of
solutions adopted at all party conventions held in
the free States since the slavery question has been ag
ated they drawn up with great deal Of ingenuity
The panks Of the platform laid far apart from each
other to give opportunity for politicians who desire
it to slip through the spaces between
We see what is the construction which the friends Of
Mr. FLLMoRK the Silver Grays put upon the resolutions
They friends Of the fugitive slave lawwe that
law in fact to Mr. FmLMoREs agency-and they tell US
that they find nothing in the resolutions to withhold them
from putting that law vigorously in force They may
take fancy to the policy Of the Nebraska
bill by admitting slave States the Territories to which
relates and they declare to that the resolutions do
not contain word from which it be inferred that
those who adopted them at perfect liberty to do
SO. Shall we never have resolutions from any party
relating to this question that wster-tght"
Since the apparent utilization of the Wing candi-
dates for State officers in New York with the Free
Democracy the most reliable of the Wing papers
have shown disposition to g stand off" They
consider that their candidates have made very
unnecessary divergence from the Wing platform.
Among the most decided and plain-spoken on the
subject is the New York Commercial Advertiser.
It truly says that no man in public or private life
can be sincere Wing and at the same time believe
the Wing party to be thing of the past or de-
sire that it should be swallowed up by another orga
nization The thing is moral impossibility."
Referring to the "unusual confusion Of parties,
interests, and votes likely to prevail, the Com
mercial thus takes its ground, at liberal,
servative, and national:
"We have not scrupled to soy where shall be found
amid this wreck of the political world in gallant EN-
pre State We shall stand upon that platform Of sound
principles which, up the close Of the Syracuse Conven
tion recognised and approved by both candidates
and people No rush of mpetuous men, borne forward
by undue excitement will drive from that foot
hold We stand there with the conviction that those
principles jusust the free States and unjust
none; and that however popular opinion may aucuate
under this that temporary excitement the sober Sc
cond thought of the people will bring them back to full
and cordial approval Of those sentiments Their truth
their strength and will be their justification They
sert is true in strong language the rights Of the free
States and among those who earnestly believe that
is high time those rights should be boldly asserted and
vigorously maintained. While we would in wise inter
fere with the rights Of the slave States, indulge any
but faterna feelings to fellow citizens Of the South
would have it made apparent that too have
victions, and interests and institutions for which
claim respect and in the maintenance Of which we intend
| to be resolute and unfinchng.
Whatever was said in this journal on the day after
the Convention at Syracuse is in accordance with the
nd nv daclar wa INST ohide Wa
should not desire to take back single word of that
mendaton had candidates remained in the posi-
ton in which they then stood. That they do not,
Wing regret than ourselves. They have gone
whittier cannot follow Them and have sought polit
cal associates with whom cannot fraternize They
did politically wrong in throwing themselves off the Wing
platform the turbulent abyss of the Saratoga Con-
vention in deserving the clear and open path which
their had opened before them for the du-
bous and rackless waste Of at least ncpien Abolition
ism. Nor find any mitigating circumstances in
their They we'll knew with what care the Wing
resolutions framed how the Convention pressed
and embarrassed by the general indignation against the
South for its breach Of faith in the matter Of the Mis-
COMPROMISED and that it the wish of the party,
represented in the Convention, while asserting the
principle Of non-extenson Of slavery and rebuking the
breach of faith which the South had committed to
clear of that Abotonsm from which in an evil hour
they (the candidates) have sought succor
"The only hope that remains for US is that Messrs.
Clark, Raymond Ftzhugh and Bovine did not put upon
the Saratoga resolutions that Interpretation which every
man not placed in their peculiar position would naturally
give to them although the very of the gentlemen
with whom they correspondent should have led them to
them with critical eye. Giving them the benefit
however, of our supposon it would be perfectly hon
orable their part to publicly disavow the abol
ton tendency Of the Saratoga resolutions and thus set
themselves right with the party who honored them nom
nation. Thus only they repair the mischief wrought
by their mprudence They assured that they
not draw the Wing party after them into the mire Of abo
onsm We doubt whether the abolition party, by
the aid of its more respectable allies the friends Of
perance is strong enough to elect them but they
their elections they will not they cannot have the
confidence Of the true Wing party for ills national and
not sectional party.
The exaltaton humiliation Of the Wing party Of
this great State just in the hands Of these gem
temen They cannot it is true destroy it, but they can
PROSTATE it for When they consented to be-
come its candidates the prospect almost without
cloud OF its ut the-ballot box not its
opponents for a moment doubted. Those who had pre-
diced that its Convention would 20 abotionism
be split into hostile fragments by contentious that
point, had been proved false profits All harmony
and and the party not aboonixed The whole
Wing heart breathed freely and received cordially its
confidence the candidates the Convention gave them
7hen we repeat, all was pleasant. With fair wind and
cheerful crew, the good ship Of making her