New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-16

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But " let us first appeal to that portion Of the
Southern people who are still faithful to time
"boucred covenants" &c, says the Governor.
Appeal have we not appealed Have not at
least such moderately conservative men As tie
Governor been appealing these eighteen monthsl
and baye not most OF the Slave States mean
time chosen new Members OF Congress How
many of these will actively and openly cooperate
in uDdoiDg the "gIeat wrong" in averting the
unpitigated calamity" We need reinforce
ment in the Senate-will Gov. II. be good
enough to name the Slave State which has chosen
or will choose to the new Congress a Senator
who will vote sith us to restore the Missouri
Restriction and exclude Slavery from Kansas
Can he name half dozen Members of the House
from the entire South who will do SOL We can
not name four. And if the South will give US
no votes, what does the good faith or good feel
ing Of these conservative" SOutherners amount
to- And while the South presents one solid
phalanx on this question, how can we OF the
North divide and contend without in effect giving
up Kansas to Slavery
Gov Hunt tells as that our State has chosen
to the next Congress Delegation unanimously
in favor of the reclamation of Kansas to Free
dom. We should receive this information with
more joy # We were able to put implicit faith
in it, in view Of Mr. Walks manifesto and Of
the attitude deliberately taken by the official
representatives Of New-YOrk in the late Know
Moth ing Convention at Philldelp hia-in view Of
the natural gravitation of the Hards to ward
SlaVery, and of the SOfts toward obedience to
the bebests Of the Federal offce-holders-we
shall be glad to find thirty of our thlrty-three
Members sound and thorough on the Kansas
question. Please make Tote of this, and re-
member that saying they are for Freedom and
acting so as to surrender the Territory to Slavery
a;e quite compatible, and by no means unpre-
cedented.
Gov. Hunt, We will not doubt, desires the
triumph of Freedom in Kansas. But how is it
to be achieved Suppose we all say as he vir
tuolly Goes, 1--WE are for the Wing party first,
"and no Slavery in Kansas next" is it probable
that we shall save the new Territory? All men
can see that the South, as represented in Con-
gress, is for Slavery Extension first and Party
afteIward- we hope to reverse this order
and yet rescue Kansas from AtchisOn 4 Co.
" If the thing is to be done" said Webster to
Hsyne, 6 the gentleman can tell hoD it is to be
"dOne." Let us suppose our friends in Con-
gTess try to elect Wing Speaker and Clerk and
secure Wing Committees, and the Democrats
who love Freedom shall likewise 90 in for a
Democratic ascendancy-who can fail to see that
the issue will be Pro-S.avery organization,
whether Wing or Democraticl In that case,
we have still go much affection for the old cause
as to eDtreat that the Slavery ascendancy may
not call itself Wing.
Gov. Hunt deprecates abandonment of
Wing principles as though any Wing of the old
time had ever proposed it. We, too are in ia
yor of the "great and cardinal principles he
as cur columns abundantly show. Our
earnest conviction is that they can best be pro-
NOTED by manifested willingness on the part
of their supporters to unite with ali Others who
will Join them in uphOlding the faith of solemn
compacts and the Rights of Man. Let us settle
the Kansas question as it ought to be settled,
and we shall be in good position to ask or vic
torious allies to unite with us in settling the
Tariff, River and HarbOr, and other questions
of National Policy, on a basis of moderation and
benefceIce, which will command public ap.
prevail and defy hostile assault. We were at
work for Wing measures when some who now
glorify them were active in opposition, and we
have no idea of abandoning them. Time will
decide whether our or Gov. Hunts manner of
supporting them is most cOnsiderate and ef-
fective.
1t is the maintenance of the Wing organiza-
ton, not of Wing principles, on which We take
issue with Gov. Hunt. Where IS that Wing
party of which he speaks Does he include in
it the Twenty Thousand sometime Wings of our
own State who secretly stabbed us and subject
ed him to such humiliating defeat in 1887
Does he count those Wings who gave Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New-Jersey, Ohio, Louisi-
ana, North Carolina and other naturally Wing
States, to Frank Pierce, and tried hard to give
him Massachusetts,, Tennessee and Kentucky
also, because Gen Scott was our nominee for
PRESIDENT Or does he, in making up his jew
els. count in the Hundred Thousand ex-
Wings who voted for Ullmann and Scroggs
last November Or those who, in all the
Southern and most of the Northern States,
have carried over nearly all tina: was left Of
the Wing party into the midnight Councils
of the Know NOthings In the name of Justice,
where is Gov Hunts Wing party Kentucky
answers, "None here :" Tennessee responds
4" None here" all gone over to the Americans"
and just beaten on Col. Gentry, who refused to
vote for Scott and did his best to give the State
10 Frank Pierce. Vermont, we all know is Re-