Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-09-24
WING.
no NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Union OF the opposiuon Elements.

We have read with pleasure the recent proceedings OF
the Wing Central Committee of the State of New York.
aud commend the broad patriotic catholic spirit which
pervadcs them. This Committee is the representative
aud organ of large and influential body OF conservative
aud national Wings in the Empire State, and their sent
ments and purposes touching union of the Opposition
elements in the next Presidential election, in strict
unison with those entertained by their Opposition broth
rem at the South The Wings and Americans of New
Ior and Of the Northern States generally not tana,
lea agitators sectionasts hut they are truly
and sincerely national in all their opinions feelings, par
poses. and hopes Having had agency in producing
the mschicvous sectional agitation which has prevailed
in the land for the last five years they yet patri-
and Unionloving men, disposed to contribute all in
their power to suppress it, and the people
and to patriotism With these views and objects,
the conservative Opposition in New York and through
ont the North are anxious as the Southern Oppos
tpu to bring about union of the Opposition elements,
North aud South for the purpose of defeating the De
mocracy and securing the election of conservative
tuual Union-loving candidate to the Presidency.
Il is he doubted that overwhelming majority
o. the Opposition at the North, including the great
of the Republican party itsearc tired of sectional strife
aud citation and ardenty desire to return to the qui,
and safe state of things which happily existed prior
the unfortunate and unwise repeal of the Missouri Com
promise That portion Of the Northern Opposition,
headed 10y Seward and other ultra aud ambitious Repub
lcan leaders who are looking alone to elEpromotor,
nre struggling prolonG the existence of the Black Re
publican party distinct political organization, and
TO throw difficulties in the way Of union between the
Opposition at the South and the Opposition at the NORTH
We are ready TO admit But that the efforts of these
inscriptions agators and hucksterng politicians
will be attended with success, shall no,
Ill F,I Iv
shaded that outside OF New York the Seward faction is
comparatively insignificant both point of numbers and
influence We disposed believe also that Seward
himzcfi- aware of the imposibty of his election to the
Presidency even should he succeed in obtaining the
nomination of Black Republican Convention. For, h.
extreme aud aujacouS views, enunciated in hs
Rochester speech epudiated, he well knows, by
uinc-teuths of the Republican party itself Not in
hundred perhaps, Of the members OF the Republican
party either leaders followers endorse the odous and
mserahlv false doctrine of Stewards Rochester manifesto
tha there is irrepressibe conflict between the
Institutions Of the North and the institutions of the
South Not one in a hundred of them believe dream
il possible that the United States must and 'r
or lact become either entirely slave-holdng nation
or entirely free labor nation" Not one in hundred
thousand of them believe conceive it possible, that
either the and rice fields Of South Carolina and
the plantations OF Louisiana, VIII ultimately he
titled v free labor else the rye fields and wheat fields
OF Massachusetts, and New ork again be surrender
lion of slaves None of them We repeat TSposc tie
slightest confidence in the happening of any impro-
blb!c and impossible event Seward himself belle, Is
no, one word OF what he has asserted this subject
And his declarations thereon only to rhetori.
cal flourish resorted to in the hope OF keeping up the
spirits Of his fanatca followers in view Of the fact that
the settlement Of the Territorial question has taken from
the Black Republican party its only foundation its only
prop. He wanted to make issue but the event
proved that he has been sadly disappointed in his ex
pectatons. Indeed, consider Stewards Rochester
speech fortunate thing for the peace and hap
puess of the cOuntry-for il has laid Seward himself m
reircyaby the shelf and robbed him pretty nearly of
all power for mischief In short, we think the archag
pretty nearly dead cock in the pit and that is
chances for the Presidency, il he obtains the nom
nation Of bic party are not a great deal brighter than
ours.
There stands now, then, formidable or serious oh
slcc 10 the way Of union OF the Opposition elements
North and South, If ordinary caution is observed and
prudent counse prevail among the leaders of the Oppo
ston forces And sincerely trust that the patriotic
and admirable spirit manifested in the proceedings Of our
Wing brethren of New York will dTuse itself among the
entire Opposition at the North and result in the cosol
d,ou Of National Opposition party which shall sweep
the country from Maine California in the approacbir
Presidential contest.