Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-08-18
TIE LAST STRUGGLE.

The remnant Of the Wing party of Yer
mont held estate Convention at White
River Junction on the slh inst, the proceed.
ings Of which VIC find reported in the Boston
1 Courier. We hive copied in another column
all Of the proceedings published with the cx-
cepiion of long string Of resolutions, resolv-
ing that the Wing party cannot be abandoned;
that the Wings cannot unite with sectional
parties; that il Is n source of considerable re-
greet that some Wings assisted to repeal the
Missouri Compromise; that its repeal was the
work Of tho administration and was not there
fore sectional; that il has been the means Of
''the great augmentation of the Abolition and
Freesoil parties of the Norih;o that the Wing
party is the conservative party upon which
the Union rests for its preservation; that
"Whigs Of to-day will not depart from the
compromises Of the Wings who adopted the
constitution; and that the Wing banner shall
wave while a single Wing remains alive in
Vermont" The last resolution is SO unique
we give it entire;
"Resoirsd, That we have the fullest conf
dence in the men we have to-day nominated
for state officers, and know them to be among
the pure-t and most modest men in the state.
Under the most favorable circumstances we
know they would i,e reluctant TO accept such
nominations, aud of course win insiinciively
shrink from them now, when the Wing ranks
are 50 meagrc.n
From other sources we learH that only five
or six persons were present at the "Whig
State Convention" and the names appearing
in the proceedings are those Of certain persons
in Orange County who ARE such conscientious
Wings that they refused TO support Gov.
Royce last year, because the Wing convention
that nominated nim adopted stringent anti
slavery resolutions. The Courier, which ia
like manner bolted the Wing nomination for
President in 1852 and lent tsinfluence for the
Pierce ticket, but now claims to be a genuine
Wing organ, seems to he n proper medium
for the publication and endorsement of this
convention.
There is no such thing as a Wing party in
existence in Vermont at the present time, I'M
less il be in the imagnations of such ultra
conservatives as belong to a fossilliferous pc
Rod in political geology. The prevailing
sentiment among the opponents of the admin
istration in this State is in favor of union
for the more eiiectual preservation of our
cherished political rights against the encroach-
mcnts Of the slave power. Names are moth
ing; principles everything. Those who have
been "burning aud shining lights" in the (
Wing party, those who have been known dis 1
tinctiyely as Freesoilers, together with many
who have acted with the Democratic party
down to the present year, are in favor of such
a fusion as shall concentrate the forces array
ed against the administration of Franklin
Pierce. And, if from any local causes for
division this year, such fusion shall fail of
becoming perfectly cemented, we believe that
before the time for the next presidential cleo
ton we shall present united, impregnable
front to the sham Democracy of the present
age. Those who remnin so intensely Wing
that they cannot join in this movement will
so over to the Administrations
The distance is but short and the grade is ca.
~. Where their treasure is there will their
heart be also.