New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-14
POLITICAL BoDy-sNATCHERs.

They had Wing State Convention up in
Vermont the other day; but whether the per-
sODs in attendance numbered five or six does not
seem yet to be settled. Probably there were
FIVE who took some interest in the doings and
one other who dropped in as spectator. The
Convention and its candidates are of that small
band in Vermont who have always hated and
opposed every effort in resistance of the ag-
gressiODs and usurpatiOns of Slavery who
fought Gen. SCOTS nomination to the bitter end
for no other reason than because Gov. Seward
was understood to favor it-and whose con-
federates in this and other States, having
been beaten in the National Convention, avenged
themselves by knitting" the ticket at the fol-
lowing election. Very naturally they ordered
the publication of their proceedings in The Bos-
ton Courier-a journal which, though protesting
to be Wing, did its best to defeat Gen. Scott.
Of course this sort Of politicians want the
Wing party raised from the dead-why shouldn't
they They have once enjoyed the luxury of
beuaying ard stabbing it to the heart and they
can't kill it again unless some semblance of life
is breatbed into its Wondering corpse. Hence
IDelr recent SOuicse as tho
Witch of EndOr's, and not half so potent.
The Wing party was in its day one with and
for which patriot might proudly struggle and
brave the caprices of fortune. If its aims were
not the highest, they all contemplated the coun-
try's physical and material well-being. We
" stood by its cradle"-we " followed its
hearse"-giving our best years and our best
efforts to its service, and still deeply regret that
its well-meant endeavors to promote the public
welfare were so frequently repulsed and bafiied.
But it was that party's misfortune to be born and
christenei under the impulse of a just pop
ular repugnance to Gen. Jacksons high-handed
and arbitrary removal of the deposits,
under circumstances which identified 1t,
in the minds of the less intelligent,
not merely with the general policy OF
maintaining National Bank, but with the re-
charter of the Philadelphia mammoth, and
thence with all the knavish and foolish qusck-
cries of Mr.. Nicholas Biddle. Soon after he
stepped out, Capt. John Tyler began to cut up
has didoes then came the Philadelphia Conyen-
ton with its virtual remuneration of Wing prin-
ciples in rejecting Mr.. Clay and nominating in
bis stead one who had never committed himself
to Wing measures nor cast Wing vote; and
the last blow was given by these who at
Baltimore forced "a Pro-Slavery plank into its
platform and immediately set to plotting the de-
feat of its candidates-neitber voting for those
candidates themselves nor permitting others to
do so. When the Election Of so was over and
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seven ont of the thirty-one States, the Wing
party was done. Nothing remained oft but car
cass, which it was every way expedient to bury
out of sight and scent right speedily. Aud every
subsequent attempt to rally party and carry an
election by waving the Wing standard has been
absurd or impudent. There IS no Wing party
how could there be, when the most eminent
Wing Statesman of the North would probably
be mobbed if he should offer to speak on the
topics of the day in any Wing city Of the South
How can there be, when so many prominent
Wings led by Webster did their best to defeat
the fairly chosen Wing candidates in the last
Presidential Eleetionl A party whose mag
mates will support its candidates only when
their personal preferences or aspirations are
gratifed in its nominations, is no longer party
it lie ghost--a shadow-an anschronism. Let
its name be no longer used to couture and de-
ceiye. but let it rest from its labOrs and be num-
bered with the things of the past.
We speak of the dissolution of the Wing
party-we speak to its assassins-without Bit
terness, almost without regret. ln our delb-
crate judgment, no party in free, progressive
country, should endure more than twenty years;