New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-02


tie old Whig City Of Boston gave him plurality
of votes in lc52, it is not strange. perhaps, that
such An obfuscaton Of intellect should possess them
Az should hinder their seeing that there any incon
sist. ncy in Wings voting the Border Rafiian ticket
and vet remaining good Wings all the time. And,
in point Of fact, there is no difference between
this wing Of Fillmore Whigs aud the
Buchanan Democrats 1t is not dlfsr.
ence Of service, but OF uniform merely.
The object Of both factions is to preserve
tie status quo of Slavery as the dominant power In
the nation. II Benedict Arnold had continued to
wear his buff AID blue uniform after he had taken
service with the British, we apprehend it would
not have msde him any the less traitor. And we
conceive it would have been thought rather cool
in Count Rumfords regiment Of Tories to have
christered themselves by the name Of Whigs, espe-
cially if they had ever professed the principles of
the Revolution they were engaged in trying TO put
down. 1t is no more desertion Of Whig princi-
Piles to yoe fer Buchanan than for Fillmore, only
it il a greater humiliation, nas.ier business, 70
fswn upon deserter who has kicked them as he
turned bis back upon them, than upon one who has
always opposed to them an open front OF unqua-
fed hostility.
The Wing party Of Massachusetts, was once an
Influential element in a great national party. 10
none more than to leading Wings there is it owing
that that party has come to an iglOmnious end
The Wings professed principles respecting Slavery
ard it, extension in respect differing from those
Of the Republicans. Many of these very Boston
Fillmore Wings accepted and reiterated the doc
tripes, since incorporated with the Philadel 2hia
Platform in Faneu Hall, at the meeting to protest
against the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise,
presided over by Mr. Samuel A. Eliot. and ad-
dressed By Mr. EIillard and Dir. Winthrop, and
which passed resolutions very plainly implying the
alternative Of the Dissolution Of the Union, shoui
Slavery be permitted to cross the line Of lo2O.
Had the leading Wigs been honest in
their profession Of faith, and had they
been willing to put themselves at tho
head of the national movement against the
extension of Slavery, the Wing party might have
been at this moment in vigorous te, with the
prospect Of obtaining the power of putting their
principles into practice. But, unhsppily for thcm
their denial of their faith throughout the country
and now here more than in Massachusetts, in 1850,
aud their blind sacrifice Of themselves and their
principles to the empty hope Of Mr.. Websters Pres
idency, had eaten out the core of their hearts aud
left nothing but hollow shell, which could not
make blood enough to give them the needful
strength and courage. II must be bitter thing to
men like Mr.. Everett and Mr.. Choate aud Mr.
Winthrop to reflect where they might have been at
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| and then to reflect where they are, with no hope
but that of tripping it up that Slavery may work It's
will on themselves and on US all.
| That there are honorable men yet clingng to the
| rsme of Wings in Massachusetts, and elsewhere, 1t
were absurd to deny-men would not be
passed over to Pierce In 1852 like gang
| If negroes, VINO would shrink with horror
| from tho idea of giving aid and comfort to
| the robbers, m1rderers and slayebreeders of the
Missouri Border, and who have all alOog hoped
against hope for the resurrection Of the party Most
OF this category have found their natural place In
| the Republican ranks But that there are Others
who still hold the old Whig dociiues as to
Slavery ard It's extension, that have not yet shaken
off the dust Of their feet against the party is plain
from Mr.. Hillards including Mr.. Fiemont's friends
In his large charity as we'll as those of Messrs.
Fillmore and Buchanan. This last remnant of
honest Whigeery can hardly stand the attrition of
the coming election, and we believe the precious
will be efectually separated from the vile of
the remnant of the Wings None who are capa-
be of consecutive reasoning can fail to see the den
tiiy Of the Republican party in creed and confes-
sion of faith with the Anti Slavery Wing Party
Of ten years ago aud the identity of the Fillmore
Wings with the most abandoned Of the Slavocrahc
Democracy of the days Of Polk and the Mexican
war. The men who belle their loud mouthed pro-
fessiOns then by their subserviency to the Slave
Power now, only prove that they were deceivers
from the beginning, and made those professions to
decri7e the people for their own aggrandzement.
Tlere is something amazingly comical in this
outstr, tched mantle Of Wing charity thus held up
By Hr. Hilsrd to al who have watched the course
OF Wbie history in Massachusetts,. And yet it is
not inconsistent with it. That whole history
for ten years past, has been succession of read
ingsout of members Of the party for their fidelity
to its principles. Thus it vas that Charles Sum.
ncr snd Henry Wilson, and Charles +. Adams, and
John G.. Pelfrey, and hosts Of others found them.
selves in l54o, outside Of the Whg Church for
having honestly received and acted upon its creed
And 30 at nore recent crises. SO thas 1t is no in
consistency in the remanent dregs of the Wing
party TO fraternze with Democrats with whose
vital principle OF loyalty to Slavery they have
always sympathized even when they made show of
hostility to it. 1t is said that there is degrada
tion like that Of once honorable 10 profession
snd fair In charhctar Who taksa To evil cnnrses