The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-14

sardsna towards tienefsi Taylor's hominaiioh By
that convenlion
Let us look at the position OF things. The rival
ry between General Taylor and Mr.. CLAY. COM
mencing between themselves, is already spreading
all around through the ranks of the wing party,
throughout the country. Mr. Clay will have in the
Philadelphia convention over one hundred support
ers, who will stick TO him at all hazards, and who,
II they can't get him nominated, will certainly do
the best they can to dislodge General Taylor, and
make him do what he did not do in the battlefield
OF Buena Vista-that is, surrender at discretion.
AT all events, the chances now are that there will
be violent and bitter contest IN the wing conven-
ton, and that the strength OF Mr. Clay, In that
event. will be at least sufficient to prevent any
dial union of the elements in favor of General
Taylor, or ultimately to settle down third can
didate. Now, who is that third candidate TO be
From the appearances of the political horizon, and
the arrangements making among the private and
special friends of General Scott, we have every
reasonto believe that old Chippewa, or old Fuss and
Feathers, or whatever else he may be called, will
be very prominent man before the convention in
less than three weeks; and the chances are, that if
the New England delegates work their cards as
they appear to be doing, Gen. Scott may yet be the
nominee of the whig convention. Now, although
General Scott, from his hasy soup correspondence,
has made himself the laughing stock Of politicians
throughout the country, yet it may be doubted
very much whether, if he should go before
the masses of the people, that would affect him
much in the material part of voting Gen. Scott
is hero, beyond question, on the battle field. He
may be silly in writing letters and in courts mar
| al nd cnrip hut b,r
knocks, in regular fighting there can be no mis-
take but that he has courage capacity, and talent;
and these are precisely the qualifications which
sink deepest into the public mind, and make the
most secure Judgments in that quarter The mass
of the community may ridicue his letters; but they
still can do him justice in the article ofvoting and
in that respect, we think he will stand as well as
any other man, although the politicians may find
him hard to deal with in any way.
Such is the position of things at this moment
II the correspondence between Mr.. Clay and Gen
Taylor should be brought out, as we think it will
be before many weeks are over, it will increase
the bitter hostility between the friends of those two
gentlemen, and tend still further to drive the whig
convention into the nomination of some third man;
and this man would probably be General Scott.
On the other hand, if the democratic con-
vention should nominate Mr.. Polk, and turn
out the barnbumers, these latter chaps having
already shown a strong liking for General Taylor,
and should they take him up and make him their
candidate, we should not at all be surprised to see
the democratic party throughout the country aban-
don the regular nomination. and rally under the flag
of the bambumers in support of General Taylor
against General Scott and make the regular Baltl-
more convention regular an abortion as the IA
nous Tyler convention few years ago. In that
case, ii would be the prettiest fight imaginable
General Taylor on one side, and General Scott on
the other-the mass of the democracy raying un.
der General Taylor, and the mass of the wings raj
lying under General Scott.
Such would make it capital fight, and just such
fight as we would like to see. We really hope
and trust that it will come to that point