New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-18
THE WING PANTY.


Truths CosrEssrp.-Mr stephens IN. C., Of C,sot
gis recently confessed that the Wing party shiv-
cred by Slavery and boldly declared that no party can
exist without taking open ground on that question.
For Southern man and Slaveocrat this Is candid.
Let II be cmemberpd- SiGrey stipcrsd tie jYAig
party. Why should no, those Wings who justly sp.
IETScate The noble PRINCIPLES and purposes Of tho
Wig psrty tbst the rst step toward success Is To
shirr Stdrryl While Mr.. STEPHENS is at tbs con-
iessona We should be pleased to have him tell yts
shiv'red the Wing party. We have Distinct reu,en-
brarce that one Alexander II. Stephssss Of Georgia
and his docful brother Toombs and some dozen o,her
Southern Wings, together with few Northern dough.
frees, made and published, shortly after the last
"Compromse,' solemn pledge that they would noe
support any mani for any National or State Office,
cuiiyo or legislative, II he was 10, supporter Of tho
COMPROMISE measures of ls50, the Fugitive State Law
il cludsd That WIS the mortal blow and the men who
aimed il were the assassins OF the Wing party. Some
thing like that 20 he the view Of Mr. Stewart OF
Virginia, a member OF the last WhiR Cabinet who ~
Gently declared to the Wings Of Virginia thu. "rs
"nlcyl hare abandoned ne ob0'itioai.ed Ways Of
ths North We record these admissions for the
siderson of those Wings, If any there be, who hsve
lingering hope of the Nationality OF The Wig party.
Until tie Slavery question is settled fas ia utter
inrossibiliy ss Mr. Stephens has frankly and truth
fully declared. The Democratic party, the controlling
power in tits President Cabinet and majority In
Congrfss--s and has been Savocraic; and that TACT
has made the panty omnipotent in the South. For
wears the Wings OF the South struggled manfully I'M
Ger the Iced Of Henry Clay; hut they could not sue
coed, for the very resson that SfGrery was against
.hcm and BIN and for iissuppe tools the Democracy;
bat they yel5ed 10 Slavery underline lead Of stephens
end Toombs, aud undertook 10 outrun Loco-Focolsm
i,sf in the for savocraiic favor, by procaiming
hos aity to everybody who would not surrender
bis constance, his judgment and his humanity, a
wilIirg sacrifice 20 Slavery. As a consequence, the
Wing p.rty as a Rational party was destroyed; Mr..
stephens however, could get bis elections easier than
ever ia Georgia and the ambilicss Mr. Toombs with
little Loco Eoco aid succeeded in Jumping into the
United Siaes Senate. AT the last National Wing Con-
yeniion the Southern leaders succeeded in their plat
form but we're deeatein their canSidate; and at tho
succeeding election they and their rhern allies took
Il cir revenge by defeating Gen. Scott Now VIII tho
soutl ern Wigs yield their Pro-slavery groundf No
body believes that; stephens and Stewart show that
IL is impossible VIII tho Wings Of the North yield TO
siavoryl LOOK the elections of 1854; there Is tho
al swer What shall be done then There is but one
way. Meet Slavery face to feee-meet it botiiy--and
stich 20 il until IL "a driven to the wall, and tho
Wall into its own inclosure never more to incroach
one hairs breadth upon soil acquired by the blood and
treasure of freome1. When the Slavery question ia
thus net and thus treated il can be settled Then.
and not till then, there be National Wing party.