The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-07
THE RFsusoITATIoN OF wHIGIsM IN NEW YORK.

By the late fusion convention az syracuse was Then
and there soemnly assumed that the wing party was dead
and accordingly the only act left be done was to give
a decent burial The wings who met in New York on
Thursday evening" the 4th instant deny that they
dead and object stenuousy TO being buried alive We
admit that whether dead or alive they talk very
much like living wings formerly talked when they rallied
under the old Clay banner.
Such spectacle has never been exhibited before
great political party, which extended to every locality
however small in the whole Union which had the strength
for many years, and often successfully the as
tendency Of tho democracy every county ana State
well as in the whole confederacy, and which boosted Of
more than full share Of intellect and talent and wealth
and learning party suddenly and simultaneously dis
appeared after the last presidential election dsbauded O
gsnaton and allowed lis members seek and strange
associations-some With ahoons,s, some with know
nothngs and of the better sort with the democrats
until the very no-existenee of such thing whg par
" or such men wings had almost ceased to be matter
of dispute Of sudden small voice is heard from the
far East from the State of Maine affirming confidently
that whigism still had enough OF vitality in it to be
citated That voice feeble, and came from State
where whgsm had been buried deep beneath abolition
ISM acknowledged, and Manelawism that it scarcely
met a response from any quarter
the admitted fact that the dsenthralment of that noble
State was effected by the hearty cooperation of national
democrats aud national wings inspired wings other
States with courage undertake throw or the yoke Of
aboonsm In Massachusetts the effort promises TO be
nearly as successful it in Maine, whilst in New
York the ball is put in motion with spirit Of
which augurs well for tho result
Whilst the wings of Maine and Massachusetts, and New
linda NJ
abotonsm and knownothngism, the wings Of Pcnnsyl-
yania have been content with the deep deg
dstion to which they had already been sunk but sougha
still lower deep by again surrenderng to abotionism and
know-nothingsm. We gratifed however to observe
that there stil whgs in the Old Keystone who repel
the dsgraeefa imputaon that they belong such
lition and that thousands of them viii act out
their opposition to the fusion next Tuesday
But our object to call the attention Of readers
the address and resolutions the oldne wings in the
city of New York We copy from the Times follows
There meeting of 'the old wing party" last night
at Constitution Hail. No. $50 Broadway. Over the
small Transparency informed the public that te old wing
party refused TO be fused band played music toll
eraby well, and attracted ordinary crowd. Within the
appointed for the meeting about three hundred persons
assembled consisting mainly silver grays nohings
and political strkers.
The meeting called to order soon after o'clock by
George H. Dean, who nominated Hon. George Wood
den and long list OF vice presidents and secretaries from
the different wards, who, however, did make their ap
pearance Mr. Wood, taking the chair explained the
objects of the meeting to repudate the ticket and platform
Of the Syracuse He against republican
party ashington bad told that party spirit dan
gerous to the republic and he Mr W. would further say
that sectional parties still dangerous. He then
warned the assembage against abolitionism and dnon
and in the strain The following address and
! resolutions then adopted:
! 7oMe Whigs Of Nee York.
We betrayed transferred and offered up cattle in
the SHAMELESS to mock democrats and abolitionist They
who have had hold Of the machinery OF party have dis
posed machines and have thought of
transfer hundred forty fifty thousand human
beings than they would have thought selling hoes
harrows spinning ennes The old time honored and
secrated principles Clay, Webster Harrison, Crit
tendon Graham, Choate, Everett, Vinton, Bates
Evans Hunt Granger, all declared dead, and
invited to funeral procession to bury ourselves y
ing, in the graveyard Of ectionasm abolonsm and Of
great republican party be bounded the south by the
State of Delaware the north by Niagara Falls and east
by Cape Cod Cape Ann nasmuch Maine has declared
given inviting this party and
yet in it's u.s. that the South has repealed the Missouri line
of slavery demarcation. when northern President sixteen
from the North helped do and wien the line Of denar
cation itself in the State resolutions Of these New York
new-ight republicans declared lega" The Father Of
his Country thus wrote to you ia his Farewell Address
pecay against northern, southern Atlantic western
l
pie is dear to you. But it is easy to fore
that from different and from different quarters,
much pains will be TAKEN articles employed weak
| en- in your minds the conviction of this truth
1t is OF infinite moment that you should properly estimate the
immense value of your national Union your collective and
individual happiness; dscountenancing
whatever may suggest even suspicion that it can in any
be abandoned and Indignantly frownng upon the FIRST
dawning of every attempt to ALLEVIATE portion Of
the enfeeble the sacred ties which
link together the various parts"
The great father of party Henry Clay, foreseen
the geographical ambition of certain this attempt to
merge the wings of the North in abolition party cried
out from Kentucky in 1850:
If the whig party is to be merged into contemplate
abolition party and aboonism Is to be engrafted upon
the wing creed from that moment the party and
cease to be whig go yet astep further If am alive,
will give my humble support that for the presidency
by natcism rather than to who crying that he
wbg maintains doctrines utterly subyersive of the oon
tuition and the Union"
This attempt separate parties tho North and South
is not the first attempt in country il attempted
in Columbia, South Carolina and in Nashville Tennessee,
and in the famous Hartford during the last
but the people OF the country the advice of Wash
ngton have discountenanced and put down all such at
tepts Northern and southern churches of tho de-
nomination OF Christians exist jeoparding,
but not dismembering the Unon they look
common Tod and have common Bible, but northern and
southern political parties must begin with abandoning their
common country and end in aboshng the federal conssi,u
tonihe common political Bible Wings of New York
the ocaed fusion convention has thrown
wing principle that under Clay Webster
been struggling for these last twenty five years 1t silent
upon all wh2 measures and upon all wing policy II
SCENTS itself before the country for tho
past having been fighting for sham and only cheat the