The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-11
AN APPEAL TO sUBMIssI0NIsTs.

dream that the old Wing Party is not dead,
remarks, with charming simplicity "here-
tofore it has been the pride of the Wing
Party, that its members were banded together,
not for the spoils Of victOry but for the preser-
walton of sound principles of government"
Who does not know the proud contempt for
Office which characterizes politicians? Who
ever heard of a Wing office-seeker?
at was the restraining, conservative quail
tiles OF the Wing organization, that kept within
bounds the radical and destructive elements
incident to all free governments
Yes, the Wing organization did act, as q con-
sentative, IN a certain acay. The Democracy
would enact bad laws, and the Wings would
maintain them. The Democracy would play
the devil, and the Wings would acquiesce.
Too weak to prevent declaration of war
against Mexico, which they denounced as
wicked, they were strong enough to prevent
popular opposition to it, and to make Presi-
dent out of it. Too weak to prevent the pas
sage of a base Fugitive Slave Act, they were
strong enough to sanction and enforce it. Too
weak to prevent the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, they are now called upon by the
htelligencer to secure submission to the out
rage. The truth is the National Wing organi-
zation has always been conservative, not of
Liberty, regulated by law" but of Slavery,
fostered by enactments incompatible with Lib
erty. Whenever a Pro-Slavery aggression was
proposed, its Southern section united with the
sham Democracy to consummate it, and then,
its Northern section, under the hypocritical
plea of nationality and conservatism, was
persuaded to denounce resistance to it. as
disorganizing and destructive" This game
was played down to the time of the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise. Then the Wings
of the South separated from their Northern
brethren, and, allying themselves with a de-
sructive Administration, consummatcd that
and betrayed, assumed an independent posi-
ton, and feeling that it was time that Liberty
should have the benefit of their conservative
action, declared their willingness to unite with
all the opponents of repeal in measures of re-
dress. The effort is now made to win them
back with honeyed words, and to use them, as
of old, in ratifying the Infamous wrong. The
Intelligencer appeals to their conservatism, to
their love of the Union, to their devotion to
"Liberty regulated by law" What bitter
mockery! Borrowing its rhetoris from ap, ths
recollections," Of their keeping step only to
the music of the Union," of :" the Wing fire {"
not "qucnched," of the cold Wing bugle," of
standing by the flag of the Union," and I" the
good work of their revolutionary fathers"
All this simply means" Come, good Wing
brethren of the North--the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, and the invasion of Kan
sas and the violation of the rights of its settlers,
and the acts of its spurious Legislature, and
the appointment of Governor Shannon, are all
very bad, but they cannot be helped to at
| tempt to undo the mischief would only make
trouble, and, as for electing an Administration
of your way of thinking, the South viii. not toll
crate it-so, submit with your customary grace,
reunite with your Southern brethren, nAaintain
the laws, put down resistance, and, although
the great wrong may pass into precedent,
take consolation in the reflection that you have
prevented disorganization, and kept time to
the music of the Union.'"
Sound, then, the old Wing bugle, and see
how many good, old-fashioned Wings you can
march under the yoke and make tributary
again to Southern masters
We tell the Lnte1igenccr, there are no longer
any Wings in the Free States. Those of them
who had selfrespect and clear appreciation of
their duties as freemen, have become Republi-
cans. Of the rest, some have become Know
Nothings, some, National Democrats, some,
Straight-out Whigs,"i in other words, Straight
out Submissionists. To use the Wing name in |
application to such men, is fraud.