New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-24
TIE LIVE WINGS

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How arc co,ls ," once asked British nobleman
of he dealer who usually supplied him with fuel
All. INV lord :" said the previder of carbon, with
low eenuhexion, " Goals is Goals this year -
Am very glad to hear it," gruffly responded the
customer: &" for mine last year were bali slate
Af.v of the men who have devoted their ener-
cies for the last six or seven years to enectuah!
killing the Wbig party assembled yesterday in Con
stituton Hall TO see if they could not do more
mischief BY pretending that il is still alive but
their weakness ia 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 reason we suppose to be that most of the
old Silver Grsys had SO identified themselves
with the Know Nothings, and sre so hopeful Of
getting Office in that connection. that they did not
like 10 pretend any more to be Wings, even to help
the Hindoo cause, lest they should be either msun-
derstood by their new associates or misrepresented
by rival offce-seekers. There has been DO Summer
since lS4S in which Mr.. Granger could not nave
assembled at an hours notice in his parler at Sar-
atoes stronger gathering of Silver Grays than this
at Constitution Hall.
When Alexander | 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 Lis own assassins brought up the
rear If Mr. Hamilton Fish as well as Mr.. Wash
ington Hunt is behind the scenes in this live
"Whig" movement as is commonly asserted, then
he as well 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 be
has so acceptably filed Yes, the men who tried
hard to beat Mr.. Hunt in 1850, and who did beat
both him and Gen. Scott in 1852, with those who
did their best to disorganize Wing Legislature in
order TO defeat Hamilton Fish's election to the
Senate tigmatizing him as man of straw, unfit,
incompetent, mere puppet, &c.-are now the
master.sprits of the " liye-Whig' movement We
give Messrs. Hunt and Fish JOY of the COM
papy they have chosen, and shall be glad to hear
that they do not disagree with the faction which
has eaten them.
We presume the great body of the men who sat
in Constitution Hall yesterday will not pretend
that they voted the Wing State Ticket last
year. Many of them are well known as having
done their utmost for Ullmann; some of them
wisely thought it would be more effective to vote
for Seymour, and did So Had they all done this
they would have beaten Gov. Clark, as they were
particularly anxious to do Their present object,
we presume is to concert course OfactiOn which
will throw all their votes whichever way seems
most likely to beat the Republican ticket Let
them make their selection openly and maniully,
and We have nothing more to ask.
Give me but light, and AjaI asks no more"
A convention Of the whole Wing party OF our
State met at Syracuse on the Goth ult.-each As
sembly District being represented, with very few
exceptions. That convention, composed of such
men az Moses Ii. Grinnell, Edward Dodd, f. ID.
Morgan, +. G. Spaulding, &c, decided, after care
full deliberation, and with only FIVE dissentients
that the time had fully come for Union of Free
men to save Kansas to Freedom and resist the
graspiDg entertainments Of Slavery on FreeSol.
To that decision. the Wing masses have enthu-
siastically responded. They had only murmured
that the action it contemplated had been delayed
so long Mr. Bonds tea-party at Constitution
Hall knew this perfectly well ; if they did not,
they would have nominated ticket. Instead Of
this, they resolved to work in the dark and give
what few votes they can control to the SOfts or
the Know -NothiDgs. Is not this plain confession
that their Wing party is clearly dead-very dead
indeed