New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-28
MIR. WILLIAM DUR,

Mr.. Duer has been nsk'I ard printing speech
intended to explain and justify bis present political
attitude, with all its compile stioDs. That speech
is long al d plausible, when It might better have
| be short and honest Ii NJ. Dusr had said, 10
substance, /" lever was hostile To Slavery, even
q when war advocating and voti0g for the Will
" mot PrOvisO, ard XII dred prOposti ns; true.
| 4" bad to pretend TO be 10 order to get into and
d" keep 10 office; bat seized the very first oppOr.
tuDty, at the death of Gen. Taylor to rat to
% the ride to which 1 WAS at heart attached all
4" the time; and sDce then, 1 have fought those
who warned me into public life with sieepless
" malignty, except for little the when in San
Francisco | needed their votes tn give me a very
lucrative office, ard secured those votes by pro-
g LESSONS VIII n i am low violating, and which
q never meaut TO seep"-be would have told the
whole story and it need not haze taken him ten
minutes. As 1t is, no consumes an hour ia show.
il how be best fuiflls bis old Anti Slavery pro-
frssiOns by meTgil his own with other decsying
factions in one great Pro. Slavery combination or
Fu.iop, whose triumph will be hailed with wild,
d,lirious exulta'ion by every jobOer in human fe'h
from Baltimore 10 Galveston. Mr. DGer does not
| deceive himself by ali bis f-e words. He is a
smart, cunning lawyer who hates every form Of
practical hostility to the Slave Power-hates it all
TIE more that for time be was constrained by
love of power to deer to and seem TO share that
sentiment He now kicks the mask he formerly
wore all the more venOnOusly that ne is compelled
10 hate himself for having once worn and since
discarded il.
"WbO killed the Wing party1" il question
on which Mr. Duer wsstes many words while We
Gao dispose Of it in very few. He saJs the Wits
cart, was betrayed and ted 10 1895, when Its
CrgsnzauOD in tn State was formally merged m
thst of the Republican party. But Mr. Duer
Knows great deal better than this. He knows
that be, for exam le, bad slresoy at that moment
abandoned the Wing standard and merged hlusett
in the Know-Notbing movement He kno 3s that
the Wing party mortally wounded IN 1852,
v hen the Silver Gray or Pro-Slsvey element In
that party, after haviog forced 40 cbaohiou' pit
firm upon its Anti-Savery wiog at The Baltimore
Convention, turned square about AID secretly, by
treacbeIy most foul, defeated Gen. Scott the can
6.dae nominated upon and who had in good faith
accep pied that Platform. When that contest was
tuOtO WIN uoiciJ ~" y ava WV w Us
Candidates, every one must have realized that the
gloiy had departed -thst the Wbig party was but
a name. Defeat nigh, have been borne, disaster
overcome; but defeat 80 crushing, disaster 30 stun
mig, effected by systematic aud allpervsdins
treachery, was fatal.
And set one chance Of recovery vas afterw,rd
sf0r led il by the insane efforts of ambitious Dem.
oerstic aspirsDts to the special favor OF the
Slave Power. When, in 1854, the Missouri Com
pact wss asseiled aud finally sbrcgated tie Wing
party, ar SUCH might have Ieganed yit4ity and TT
conquered power by 3 firm, unanimous resistance to
that moot upjusiifable aggression. The golden
moment passed unimproyed. Nay; Mr. Dusr him
self tells us that the rst man TO formally propose
that great wrong was Mr.. Archibald Dixon, then
Kentucky Wing, now, in the course OF nature,
Douglas Democrat. Had the lev Southern Wings
then in Congress taken ground boldly, decidedly,
thoroughly hostile 10 the Republication 'hey might
have revived the proudest days Of the Wing psrfy'
How that crisis was met by Clayton, and Badger,
and Pesrce, and (slas y John Bell, the records OF
CONGRESS shog. And The few Southsru Wings
Theodore T.. Hunt, Emerson Etheredge, William