The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-25
The Duty of Whigs-The Baltimore Convention
-Tha National Intalligencer.

ton, was in anticipation justly regarded as
one of the most important features Of the cam
paign. 1t was known that the old Wings Of
the Union would be represented fully in this
National Convention, and that the result Of
their deliberations would in a manner be bind
ing upon the great mass of the Old Wing par
ty. On the day of the Convention, much to
the surprise ofeven the most sanguine, Dele
gates were found present from nearly every
State in the Union, and strong in the good
old spirit as when in days bygone they assem-
bled in National reunions. Among these
Delegates were the following from Indiana:
VIM. X. Edwards, Jas. Z. Blythe,
Chas Groverman, Thos. E. Garvin,
Geo. G. Duy, Samuel Summers,
DIR. Milton Henderson, L. Q. De Bruler
John Shanklin, John Mcintyre,
Urbin Mars, Hon. j. Van Trees,
John S. Hopkins, Daniel Woolsey,
Hon. Samuel Hall, S. S. Early.
We received by telegraph, and have pub
lshed in full the resolutions adopted by this
Convention as their Address to the People
From these resolutions we extract the follow
ing:
ResoLUed, That in the present exigencv Of
public affairs we are not called on to discuss
any subordinate question Of administration in
exercising the constitutional powers of our
Government-it is enough to know that civil
war is raging, and the Union IN peril, and to
proclaim our earnest conviction that the res
toration of Willard Fillmore to the Presiden-
tial chair will furnish the best, if not the only
means of restoring peace to the country.
This resolution was adopted after due de-
liberation as the voice Of the Wings of the
National Convention. As old Wings, as ma
tional men, their path of duty was plain, but
we feared that outside influences might pre-
vent them from taking any decided posito n.
But the above resolution is conclusive. II
anything more were needed to exhibit the
true feelings of the Wings assembled at Bal
timore, the nine enthusiastic cheers for Fill
more which closed the Convention, might be
considered sufficient
Now this Convention has plainly pointed
out the duty of Wings although to many of
us old Whigsit seemed unmistakable before.
That duty is, to lend Fillmore and Donelson
in our power to secure their election. The
only objection which can be reasonably made
by any old Wing against supporting Fillmore,
is that offered by that respectable and conser-
yative Wing sheet, the National Intelligencer.
1t had declined taking position in favor of
Fillmore, because he was the nominee Of
party of different name from that with which
it had always affiliated and had as yet receive
ed no formal endorsement from any body of
men representing the old Wing party of the
Union. But at the same time the Intelligent
Ger sympathized in no possible manner with
either of the other two parties. Yesterday,
we published telegraph dispatch from Wash
ington, stating that the National Intelligencer
had dropped its neutrality, and is now sup
porting Fillmore on the basis of the Baltimore
Wing Convention. Thus have we the Ma
tional Intelligencers practical opinion as to
the duty of Old Wings during the present can
vass. There is or should be no higher author
ity with old national Henry Clay Wings, than
the Intelligencer. 1t was not only the lead
ing paper of the Wing party from its birth to
the day when its enemies proclaimed it dead,
but after the asserted death Of the Wing party,
the Inteligencer still maintained its old con-
sentative position, and refused to affiliate with
any other party. We have now its opinion
as to the duty of Old Wings, and that opinion
precisely accords with the opinion maintained
by the great mass of the old Wing party over
the Union, and which many of US old Wings
have been proclalming during the entire can
vass, as the true duty of Wings 1t is to sup
port Willard Fillmore. Let no man who calls
himselfa an old Wing longer hesitate as to his
duty. lie cannot as an old Wing support a
purely sectional party-he cannot support that
party against which, while the Wing party had
existence, he zealously opposed. His path Of
duty lies between the extremes-in the only
course that can be travelled by national union
loving men. To step out Of that path is to
unite himself with sectionalism.
The Baltimore Patriot, another old eonser-
vatiVe Wing paper, at the close of the Wing
National Convention, ran up the names oil
Fillmore and Donelson, and thus remarks:
FILLMORE AND DoNELsoH-This day we
formally unfurl the old Wing standard to the
breeze, ftly emblazoned with the names OF
FILLMORE AND DONELSON. The unan-