Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-10-13

PRESENT POSITION OF THE WINGS OF MAINE AND
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Dispensing with any further exposition Of our
own views (ulready sufficiently known in regard
TO the late spirited action of respectable portion
al least CT tue Wings of Maine, Massachusetts,,
AMI New York. we are glad to he able to place
before our readers so clear aud persPicuous view
Of the position Of those OF the two frst-nameri
States, proceeding directly from themselves, rs is
ticle from one of the papers which have taken
the lead in this revival:
From the Boston Courier OF October 8.
The Int Wig Contention and the Present Posi-
tim of the Whig Party Of Massachusetts.
The conviction has for some months been gain
ing ground arong intelligent and rejecting men
in this commonwealth that our politics have been
made TOO exclusively 10 turu upon considerations
relating to the institution Of Slavery-nn inSitn-
ton wholly unknow 10 our laws, existing only i'll
part Of the States of this Union, and being en-
tirell beyond our COntIol or responsibility. The
belief has also been increasing that the repTeSen-
tations which have been made 10 us OF purpose
on the part OF what is ca led the slave power 10
absolb every inch Of territory belonging TO the
National Government and TO subject that Govern
ment TO schemes hostile tn the interests OF !Tee-
dom; are false and calumniouS.
| Taking advantage OF an act of had faith in re-
ference to one OF the Territories, peTpt rrnted by
the Democratic party for party purposes, aud NJ way
originating with ordemandeh by the South as . sec
ton OF the Union our politicians have wrought The
natural Indignation Of OUT people into state
| OF great excitement, which has been directed
not against the real authors OF the Nebraska act
but against the whole body Of slavehel derS.-
In the midst of this excitemrE. kept alive Tor the
most selfish aud unwor by objects, nrw ruTiy l.
inaugurated for the Osenslbe purpose oil resisting
hat called the aggreSSlons OF Savery-i watch
word sure to rally together not alone these who
desire To offer constitutional resistance 10 UNI
constitutional measures, but every fanatic, every
every hOtbraIutd zealot, every nnprncIPled polltI
can who desires to combine all the elements OF
opposition 10 slavery INTO general assault upon
the institutions OF the South. IN every Vulnerable
and invuderable point. This parIyt he Wings Ot
Massachusetts have been solicited and coaXeG Ia
join, and they have been, and will continue to be
hullIed and Threatened aud brow beaten iOr their
refusal
The answer has been made manfully, firmly,
and with precision. They say that they will have
hing 10 do with an organization that must OF
necessity array one half OF the Union in angry hos
Utility against the ether half. They say that the
subject of slavery, in any all Of lis aspects or
relations, is unfit TO be the basis Of political par
ties in this country; and that basis Of pUlitI
cal action, winch is TO involve other questions
or issues. they will have nothing to TO with ill.,
They say that if such party Shall succeed IN
Tying the free States the Government cannot be
administered by ii, and the machiur Of the CniOn
must stop.
! We put it this day to the sensible rejecting
people Il Massachusetts to say W neither the Wings,
in this amSw 10 the demands Of fusion. not
right. Let us suppose, lie Republican party
with its one idea, with It's deliberate exclusion of
all other tests and of all conformity other QmeS
OnS OF policy and egiSatInu, has Obtainei a
majority in the lower house Of Congress. The
party SO formed aud 50 united, is Il majority upon
one single topic. Upon all other topics, lie in
slant Inry rise il must be Shivered INTO hnndre,
mlnCrIIieS. There is no common political faith,
! no community OF principle among them upon the
various questions that are PerpetuallY arising Ia
The legislation OF Congress that require constant
action, and that are absolutely necessary To be
ted upon by majority in order That the Govern
ment should discharge It's functions. How is such
party to obtain II requisite ma oriy in Congress
| To d" single thing that does not involve the one
| principle of their association! They have not
| got the elements OF such ma jority III theIr own
ranks, fer they have taken TO have
lnTmiIy Of opinion upon anything but Slavery.
win they look for such majority TO the South,
with when they have no conformity OF opinion
even un single point. aud whom they have ularm
Ell aud irrrlated by the very object which has
brought them upon the floor oil Congress! They
| may lObh IOI II unlll uOOHlSuay.
The truth is, aud this is the lmpregnable
position of the Wings Of Massachusetts, tits ut
teyly impossible to carry on a popular repreSen
tative Government like that of the United States
through the inSlrumentalily ola party united up
on any one sentiment or opinion alone, no matter
what 1t may he. If iEefe S 10 be legislation, If
there is to be government, If the manifold inter.
eStS Of society TO be protected, tzre must lie
MS iIury who think alike and mean to act con-
SStently upon all the genrrl doctrines oil cnTSlI
| tuonal power and the main questions OF public
policy arising III Il daily action Of the legislative
body. The idea of overlooking and pUSIpunlnS all
the other interests of the country, making no pro-
vision Cor thtm. and utterly dyUIcing them lrum
party politics for the sake of u hat IS called. in
the caut OF the ,av. the ''paramUmmt ISSUE" re-
minds Of that notorious Sentiment which threat
rmed to divorce tue Government for paramount Oh
iectS ut It's own from the Interests OF the people.
| Who has forgotten the grand Indignation OF our
Webster at the inpuleml folly of that sentiment!
Yet IL was no worse than the idea which fusion
is based hen carried practically 10 its. results.
| The p-orie Of the U. States would be mad indeed
/ it, with their immensely diversified Interests, ILry
Were Ia send INTO Congress puIltica! party that
all Just one Sentiment III common, aud OIL all 9th
CT subjects had no opinions al all! OF hone that
! were known, or none tIat were alike. But, il
there is any thing That could aid 10 the folly ul
SUCH a course, it would be 10 send such party
iuUo Congress hose idrn related the inSiI-
tutinnS of avery. Yet lhiSS object, and the sole
| object, oil fusion and the Republican part:.
These, so far as they have acted upon national
subjects, were the main ideas expressed by the
WhtgS of Massachusetts through their rrcent Cen
veEtum. There is one prtucIplt ground on which
they have planted themselves. They say that tile
approaching election involves nothing but the do
nestle ln,ereSS OF the stare; that to put men Inlu
State Offices on account OF their opinions o. probes
slons on he subject Of slavery, or to put party
III power IN the State who wish 10 connect them
selves with similar pa:ty in other States totm-d
upon tie single question of slavery, Is false
principle of action aud they repudiate it. They
say that party constituted. and led by inIivId-
ualS who have already placed the State in tea
sonable attitude wards the Union, cannot safely
be entrusted with the State Government, and
shall not be put there by their votes. They say
that men who ENACTED an oppressive lazy, which
besides being oppressive, has Leen positive inju-
~ 10 The OF temperance, are unfit to legis-
late on That subject. They say that upon Wing
principles, AMI with Wings who are true 10 the
Union, the legislation of Massachusetts can be
made 10 conform 10 what the Interests and hunJr