The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-11-01
THE LIVE WINGS"

"How are Goals ?" once asked a British
nobleman, of the dealer who usually supplied
him with fuel. "Ah, my Lord" said the pro-
wider of carbon, with a low genuhexion, "coals
is Goals this year." 81 am very glad to hear it."
grufly responded the customer; for mine
last year were half slate"
A few of the men who have devoted their
energies for the last six or seven years to eff.
fectualy killing the Wing party assembled
yesterday in Constitution Hall, to see if, they
could not do more mischief by pretending that
it is still alive. But their weakness in number
and standing exceeded all anticipation 1t did
not compare in any respect with the similar
Convention of Delegates, without constituents,
which Frank Granger got up after his bolt from
the Wing State Convention of 1850. The rea-
son We suppose to be, that most of the old Sill
yer Grays had 30 identified themselves with the
Know Nothings, and are so hopeful of getting
Office in that connection, that they did not like
to pretend any more to be Wings, even to help
the Hindoo cause, lest they should be either
misunderstood by their new associates or mis-
represented by rival office-seekers. There has
been no summer since l849 in which Mr..
Granger could not have assembled at an hours
notice, in his parlor at Saratoga, stronger
gathering of Silver Grays than this at Constitu-
ton Hall.
When Alexander l of Russia was crowned
Emperor, some bitter observer has remarked
that he had the assassins of his father in front,
with those of his grandfather on either side,
while those who were to be his own assassins
brought up the rear. If Mr.. Hamilton Fish, as
well as Mr.. Washington Hunt, is behind the
scenes in this "live-W Wing" movement, as is
commonly asserted, then he, as we'll as Mr..
Hunt, may note on the lists of this Convention
the names of men who raised all manner of
rows in the Wing party, because it meditated
his elevation to the lofty station he has so &C.
ceptably filled. Yes, the men who tried hard
to beat Mr.. Hunt in 1850, and who did Meat
both him and Gen. Scott in 1852 with those
who did their best to disorganize Wing Begis-
lature in order to defeat Hamilton Fish's alec
ton to the Senate-stigm him as a man
of straw, unfit, incompetent, mere puppet,
&c.-are now the master-sprits of the live
Wing" movement We give Messrs. Hunt and
Fish Joy of the company they have chosep and
shall be glad to hear that they do not dissgree
with the faction which has eaten them.
We presume the great body of the meA who
sat in Constitution Hall, yesterday, will not pre-
tend that they voted the Wing State ticket last
year. Many of them are we'll known as hay
ing done their utmost for Ullmann; some of
them wisely thought it would be more elective
to vote for Seymour, and did so. Had toy all
done this, they would have beaten Gov. Clark,
as they were particularly anxious to do Their
present object we presume, is to cor~ert
course of action which will throw all the votes
whichever way seems most likely to beat the
Republican ticket. Let them make TIER Sc
lection openly and manfully, and we have moth
ing more to ask.
"Give me but light and Ajax asks no mor,7
A Convention of the whole Wing pArtv Of
our State met at Syracuse on the % ult,
each Assembly district being representel !, with
very few exceptions. That Convention, CON-
posed of such men as Moses H. Grinn,ll, Ed
ward Dodd, E. d. Morgan, Z. G. Spaqlding,
&C., decided, after careful deliberatioa, and
with only five dissentients, that the time had
fully come for union of freemen to save Kan.
sas to Freedom, and resist the grasping en-
croachments of Slavery on free soil 10 that
decision, the Wing masses have enthus;astical
ly responded. They had only murmured that
the action it contemplated had been delayed SO
long. Mr.. Bonds teaparty at Constitution
Hail knew this perfectly well if they did not,
they would have nominated ticket. 1nstead
of this, they resolved to work in the dark, and
give what few votes they can control to the
Softs or the Know Nothings. Is not this a plain
confession that their Wing party is clearly
dead-very dead indeed?
N. T. Tribune, Oct. 81.