The Whig Swindle For '48

Since lbo adjournrnent of tho last Con gres?, the Wliigs of the North have pro f'essed to regard ihe VVii.mot Proviso os the pole stnr of hope, by wlwse guidrtnoe the country was to emerge f rom the thick gloom with which our war of conques has clouded it. They have taken it foi granted that new lerrilory was certninl} lo be acquired, and that the only queslion was, whal relations shall it sustain to slavery and freedom - shall it bc cons'.crat'-d lo lihtrly or abandoned to slavery? They have professed to regard the Proviso as settling ibis solemn question - have plerigd themselves to stand firmly bv its provisions - have gloried over the unitc' Nurtl'.Prn Whi vote in Congress in ts favor - linva claimed to he its spf-cinl patrons nnd ch.nmpions - hnve exTesed thfïir belief thnt the Northern Damocraoy would bnsely desert it in the hour of trial and hnve denounced as factionistl and impracticables all nbolitionists, who would notndmit it to belheonly and all suf?ici?nt nnti-slavery issue which otight to mingle in the appronching presidential contest. Now, who but Liberty party men nnd tho leaders in the Whig party, would ïavftbelieveJ, six months ago, that in August, 1847, nine-fenths of the Nort'iern VVhigs would ba found in the atlitnd of making up their minds to ahanrion and dencilmee th is very Wiltnot Proviso? Who, wesay, vrould have believed ihis but Liberty party men nnd lf-ailing Whigs - the former, becnuse thy kr.pw by bitier experienon that VV'higism could not he trustpd wilh tlie intere.sts of the anti-slavery caus, and the latter, becanse thcy npvor intened to use the Proviso any longpr than wns ppoesary to deceive and w!;eedle the anti-slavery portion of their party. But Boch is the fac'. As if bj' a coneeried mnvpmenl, the lparling Whig pr?s?es of the North - the Boston Atlas, the Albnny Joorn il, the Ph'lade'phia North Amfrican, and othpr ïnfluential Nortliprn aewspapsra - aotine in conjunction w'tli the Richrnond Whig, the L-rtlisvil'e Jnurt.nl, nnd other Ifading pienses of thñ Somh - are repudinting thft Proviso, anH prepiring the puhlic mind for the great Whig swinífe of 1349. The cry nnvv is, ".vo mors tkrmtory - xo mohf. teriutory - hero is rotnmin ground. on which the Whigs of ths Nonh snd the South cnn rally and nvoid the vp.xed que---tion of slavery - liurrah for O!d Rough and Re-idy - go it blind." Is therp a sine man in the country who dnps not bp.licve that this crv of "no more tprritory" i worse than dplusive - thnt New Mexico and Cnliiornia at lent are virtually annexprf to this Union, nnd can no more be .shnkfn o(T than c'.ntlippxperisrs or lhe reanlity tha Mexiran wnr ? Then is not this rry a sheer deception, a known (rntid; and dops it no; dpsf rvp the enithet we lvivp bp'i'owed np. on it,TflE GREAT WHIG SVV1NDLE for 1848? W'e arsawnrf that wo are nsing plain Innguag". But we are SO re that the ipod ers to he followcd hy ninp-tenths of thp rank and file "f the Northern Whig, in oidor to concilia'e. the Southern whigs of the par'y, and bún both seciions up tn the support ofT:iylrr, are about to abin don the VVilmot Proviso, and rallv under the banner of "no m.ire tern'tfiry." thus seouring the objpct Ofbotb divisions.viz : sijccess; and the poor. ceated nnd b"f (oled North will try to n)pense its conscience by crying "no more territory," while the cunnisg .lave-liolding VVhigs will con-iPnt to let their Northern dupps bawl themsplves hoarse so long as they can ro!) Mexico of her territorv nnd hl-ster its soil with the curse of slavfrv. WpII, we have one favor to aak of the Whig leaders and thnt is, that if they should happen to fuil in consummát'ng thf ir fraui, they will have the decercy not to abuse the Liberty par;y for refüsingto bp entr.npped into the great Whig swindle of 1848. But, good reiders, do not believo that the whole VVhig pnrty of the North can. P ir the sakfi ofllie loaves and filies of officp, be made to viólate solemn pledges, and repudíate o-dny iho recorded vows of yes'erdnj'. Inour preceding remaras, we have spoken of the leaders of the pnrly as the swiiidleis - tho VVebsters, the ansps, 1lie Sewaids, among iis or; tors, and the VVeerls,;he Greeleys mid the Schoulers among its rdilore. They wül be followed we fear by iiine-tenths of the party, the mnjoriiy ofwhom in their green simplicity will fundly hope thero are to be no more arinf.xations, becnuse VVebsler grovvls out " no more territory." Rui one-tenth of the pnrty,nnd we think morp than thnt, wül not join n perpetra! ing so gross a fraud under so flimsy a covering. 'I'hat ono-tenth, numbering in its ranks we hope such men as Giddings, Adams, Palfrey, Hamlin, Summer, and the like, wit'i the honesl men among the democracy (and we trust there will be not a few of thesejwijl, with the Liberty party, tilute llie rescrved corps of Freedom ■n the conflict wliich is approucliing. -