Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-06-15
The Wing Party.

Truths Confessed. MIR. Stephens IN. C.)
of Georgia recently confessed that the Wing
party was shivered by Slavery, and boldly
declared tina, no party can exist without Ia
king open ground on that question. For a
Southern man and a Slavocrat, this is can
did. lie, il be remembered -Slarery shirtr-
ed The Whig party. Why should not those
Wings, who justly appreciate the noble prin-
ciples aad purposes of the Wing party, see
that the first step towards success is TO shirer
Slavery? While Mr.. Stephens is at tue
confessional, we should be pleased 10 have
him tell ,rho shvered the Wing party. We
have distinct remembrance that one Alexan-
der II. Stephens OF Georgia, and his doleiul
brother Toombs, and some dozen other
Southern Wings, together with few North
ern Doughfaces, made and published, short,
ly after the last Compromise" solemn
pledge that they would not support any man
for any national or state office, executive or
Legislative, if he was not a supporter Of the
Compromise measures Of 1850, the Fugitive
Slave law included. That was the mortal
blow, and the men who aimed 1t were the
ussassins of the Wing party. Something
like that seems to be the view of Mr. Stew
art of Virgins, a member Of the last Wing
Cabinet, who recently declared to the Wings
of Virginia that =" ire they hare abandoned
The aboidionizei Whigs Of The North
We record these admissions for the consid.
Grafton Of those Wings, if ony there be
who have lingering hope Of the Nationals
ty of the Wing party. Until the Slavery
question is settled, that is an utter impossi-
bilily, as MI. Stephens his frankly and truth
fully declared. The Democratic party, the
controlling power in it - its President. Cabi-
net, and majority in Congress-is and has
been Slavocratic and that fact has made
the party omnipotent in the South. For
years the Wings Of the South struggled
manfully, under the lead of HENRr CLAY;
but they could not succeed, for the very rea-
son that Siarery was against them and him,
and for its supple tools, the Democracy but
they yielded to Slavery, under the lead of
Stephens and Toombs, and undertook to out
run locofocois.n itself in the race for savo-
cratic favor, by proclaiming hostility to eve
ny body who would not surrender his con-
science, his Judgment and his humanity, a
willing sacrifice 10 Slavery. As consequent
ces, the Wing party, as National party,
was destroyed, Mr.. Stephens, however, could
get his elections easier than ever in Georgia,
and the ambitious Mr.. Toombs, with a little
locofoco aid, succeeded in jumping into the
United states Senate. At the las, National
Wing Convention, the Southern leaders sue
ceeded in their platform, hut were defeated
in their candidate: and at the succeeding
election, they, and their Northern allies, took
their revenge by defeating Cen Scott
Now, will the Southern Wings yield their
proslayery ground' Nobody believes that
Stephens and Stewart show that il is impos-
sible. VIII the Wings of the North yield
TO Slavery? Look at the elections Of 1854
there is the answer. What shall be done
then? There is but one way. Meet Slave
ry face to face meet it boldly-nnd stick
TO it until it is driven to the wall, and ore,
the wall into It's own enclosure, never more
to encroach one hairs breadth upon soil &C.
qured by the blood and treasure of ireemen
When the Slavery question is thus met and
thus treated, il can be settled. Then, and
not till then, can there be National Whig
party.