, 1856-11-28
The Wing Platform Of 1852.

Company Spit UpOa-Hs Principles
upon The Slarery Questioa Identical IVith
that Of tie Democracy. I
The eighth section Of the Official Plat.
form of the Wing National Convention Of
1852, is as follows:
8. The series or actsoft the 3lst Congress,
commonly known as the Compromise or
Adjustment, (the act for the recovery of
fugtives from labor included) ore received
and acquiesced in by the Wings Of the
United States as final settlement in prin-
ciple and substance of the subject to which
they relate, and so far as these acts are
concerned, We will maintain them, and
insist upon their strict enforcement, until
time aud experience shall demonstrate the
necessity of further legislation to guard
against the evasion of the laws on the one
hand, and the abuse Of their powers upon
the other, not imparing their present ef-
ficency to carry out the requirements Of the
Constitution, and we deprecate all further
agitation Of the questions thus settled as
dangerous to our peace, and will discounten-
ance all efforts to continue or revive such
agitation whenever or however made, and
we will maintain this settlement as essen
tial to the nationality OF the Wing party
and the integrity Of the Union" @
We wish to draw the attention Of our
readers TO the above section Of the Wing
Platform, for the reason that it is daily
denied that the Wing party ever stood on
such platform, and for the purpose Of
pointing our the significant fact, that the
Democratic party now, as in 1859, occupy
in effect precisely the same plank, and
avow the same principle. t
The Missouri restriction was virtually re-
pealed in 1850. It's abrogation was one
of the Compromise measures Of that year,,
it was one Of the questions "tlus settlsd,"
and 10 disturb which the Wing Platform
denounced as against the nationality Of
the Wing party, To the truths Of this
position let the facts speak. UJl
The law organizing the Territoryof Utah
was one Of the Compromise measures Of
1850. That territory lies North Of 86e
9O' the greatest portion Of it embraced In
the Louisiana purchase and blythe Missouri
Compromise. That law declares that the
same is hereby erected into a temporary
government by the name Of the Territory
Of Utah, and when admitted as State,
the said Territory or any portion Of the
same shall be received into the Union, a0itb
Or a0ithOHt siaUcrg, as their Constitution
may prescribe at the time Of their admis-
sion.n taas. a
Who will deny that the above recited
provision Of the Utah act, rendered the
Missounicompomise auh and roid as regards
that Territory And who doubts that,
had bills for the organization Of Kansas
and Nebraska passed Congress in 1850,
the same provisions would have been en-
grated in them? Consistency would hare
reqnired that the three Territories, Utah,
Kansas, and Nebrska, should have been
organized in precisely the same manner as
regards the slavery question.
The Utah bill settled the question Of
Congressional non-interference in tho Ter
ritories, and was so regarded at the time
Of its passage. The Kansas Nebraska bill,
when FIRST inotrodneed into the. Senate,
contained the Utah provision, word for
word, and it was in regard to that bill and
that provision, that the Abolitionists Ia the
Senate put forth, by the hundred thousand,
theiraddresses, charging "violation Of
faith" swindle, &c, &c, upon the sur
porters Of the BILL
Henry Clay considered the Missouri
Compromise as passed away. Hear him
in 1850: ~
Sir, while l was engaged in anxious con-
sideration upon this subject, the idea Of
the Missouri Compromise asst has been
termed, came under my review, was con-
sdered by me, and finally reieeied, as in my
Judgment less worthy Of the acceptance Of
both parties Of this Union, than the pro-.
ject which offer to your consideration.
In regard to the principle Of ncn.inier-
vention, Mr. Clay said:
The true principle which ought to re-
gulate the action Of Congress in forming
Territorial Governments, is to refrain from
all legislation on the subject 50 long as tits
IN the Territorial form, leaving the people
Of SUCH TERRITORY, when they have attained
to condition as State, TO DECIDE FOR
THEMSELVES the question, Of the allowance
or prohibition Of slavery.
Mr.. Clay enunciated the precise princi.
pie Of the Utah bill, and the precise princi-
pie Of the Kansas Nebraska bill. and rec
] lognized the principle as regards slavery in
4 the Territories, Of the Compromise Mea,
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