Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-02-14
The Wing Party.

NOT DEAD but (dlsgulsed) sleepeth. In
three of our exchanges, aside from those of this
State, the past week, we find signs Of life in the
Wing party that are unmistakable. at still
lives" The New York Commercial has an ar
ticle, which the Boston Journal says is GO well
considered" pom the Wing National Conven-
ton. 1t says:
"We wouldsnot advise that such Conven-
ton should be called at any very early day
There are many reasons why itshould be delay
ed until all the nominations of Presidential
candidates have been made. 1t is quite proba-
BILE that our only means of making ourselves
felt in the next Presidential campaign will be
as balance power party. Ii we can do
nothing else. we can give our strength to the
best man put up by our opponents"
Referring to the National American Conven-
ton, it says;
Upon the action of that Convention the old
line conservative Wings cannot look without
the deepest interest. 1t will be full of omens
to us Something too will depend upon the
platform which is provided for the candidate
The true, constitutional Wings arc American in
sentiment and feeling, but because they are
Americans, they can enter into no coalition to
ostracise men for their religions sake; and
whom the Constitution accounts citizens, they
also will account citizens, and in good faith
treat them as SUCH
In other words, we cannot become Know
Nothings and there mnst be some affinity of
political creed, and something besides Know
Nothingism in any candidate to whom the cd
line Wings can give their support Yet if cir
cumstances are favorable, the sound conserva
tive Wings can evnce IL numerical strength
which few are willing to suppose. Of this we
are well assured. And it may be to the inter-
est of the KnowNothing party to place them
selves upon such a platform, and to nominate
such a man as not only Wings, but conservative
men of every class can cordially support for
undeniably the name is legion OF those conserv-
ativc, upright, national men in this Union who
can not and will not, even at their party's die
tation, support franklin Pierce, or any other
Democratic candidate that has a chance of the
nomination, and who are equally determined
not to support any such sectional man us the
Republicans will, from both necessity and choice
put in nomnation-if they nominate at all. -
These being the facts Of the case, it bebooves
the Know-Nothing or American party to be
careful not to outrage the good sense Of their
own best men. and of their friends outside the
party, by nomination dscreditable to them
selves, and tending to distract from the dignity
Of the Presidential office.
A bid for the Southern or National Ameri-
cans. And as is intlnated in another article,
preference for Fillmore. 1t is plain that II
union of the Wing and American party is con-
templated.
And as further evidence, we have the follow
ing from the Journal
"No intelligent observer can fail to remark
the affinity which exists between the old Wing
party, and the youthful American party in GER
tain leading principles 1t is the natural con-
servatism Of the Wings, and the radcalism of
some of the measures of the new party, mora
than any real difference on leading principles,
which they keep apart. The American party
wants just the clements which the Wing party
could furnish, should they be brought to act in
unison in the approaching Presidential cam
paign. 1t wants "a more liberal infusion of the
conservative element. 1t wants more liberalty
and toleration-more dignity and stability, and
more available talent. union of Wings and
Americans to elect President could indeed be
formidable combination, and it would proba-
bly, be the only one by which the reelection of
Gen Pierce could be defeated. Even this might
fail of attaining result so desirable, if the
Southern Americans insist on retaining the
twelfth section of the Philadelphia platform
And while the tendency of the Republican
press, which originally supported the Fillmore
Compromise, is toward tho Wing measures it is
well to be aware of their schemes. Should the
the proceedings Of the Wing party effect an
understanding between the two wings of the
American party upon National grounds, we
may expect to see the " measures which have
hitherto distinguished Them" again enacted.