Southern standard., 1851-03-08
The Sectional Nhig Organization.

Ihe SeCiiGEaI hhIg Organization.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvania says Th,
movement of the Wing leaders of the North, in fa
vor of Gen. Scott as the next Wing candidate fo
the Presidency, cannot have failed to attract the
attention of the country In New York it is in the
hands of Mr.. Seward in Pennsylvania, it is com
mltted to Gov Johnston and Thaddeus Stephens
while In Ohio, and in other western and north west
ern States, the allies of these leaders, are secretly
and actively pushing it forward. In our own State
several Wing meetings have already been held in
favor of General Scott and one of these which
assembled at the Capital actually placed Governor
Johnston in nomination for the Vice Presidency on
the same ticket with Gen. Scott At Washington,
nearly all the active Northern Wing leaders are
embarked IN the movement and any reader of
such sectional papers the National Intelligencer
Greeleys New York Tribune, Webb's New York
Courier and Enquirer, Thurlow Weeds Albany
Evening Journal, cannot but see the full scope of
the combination, and the character of Its aiders and
abeters. Gen. Scott is himself located at the seat
of Government, consulting with and taking counsel
from the unscrupulous men who have surrounded
his person in order to carry themselves into power
There Is, however, feature in the drama which
cannot have been overlooked by careful observers
1.-The political operators who advocate General
Scott for the Presidency base the success of their
scheme upon the hope that he ecU seceep tie North
ere States, and can do cithou tie vote Of the Souh
Upon this idea they have proceeded from the be-
ginning. To this end all their efforts have been
directed To this end their efforts are now direct
ed. They expect, by making an exclusively sec
onal selection, to carry enough free States to elect
their candidate; and in order ''to take a bond of
fate, and to ''make assurance doubly sure, they
will give the Vice President to Pennsylvania if by
doing so, they secure, as they suppose that
staunch Democratic State for their candidate The
proofs are overwhelming. What Presidential can
dIdate that numbers among his supporters such
boastful and bitter foes of the South as Seward
Greeley, Stephens, and Weed, can ever hope to
get Southern electoral vote ? 1t may be answer
ed that the South gave its vote to Taylor, all these
agitators supporting him. True. But it must not
be forgotten that Taylor was himself a Southern
man, and that, since his election, all men in the
South, have united upon the common and impreg-
nable ground of unceasing and determined opposi-
ton to every party, not openly, directly, and en-
tirely committed to the support of the broadest
Constitutional principles, including, of course, an
equally open and direct support of the guaranteed
rights CT the South, and the most resoute resist
ance to and degradation from all free soil and abo
lition agttators This at first sentiment is now
a fact This, at first the wachword of a few, is
now the principle of the whole South-the unal-
terabe condition which all parties in the slave States
VIII insist, and rightly and rigidy insist shall be
complied with by any man or by organization seek
ING for their sufirages This is notorious and
none know it better than the reckless men who have
resolved once more to gain the national power, no
matter at what hazard, at what cost.
''To state the present design of these men is to
show at once its dangerous tendency That it is
and that the initial step-the Who
lomnation-may be said to be on the eve of con-
ummation-is believed in all intelligent political
;rces. In word it is the only way that the
Wigs hope to retain the patronage of the general
government. And what game it is 1t is in eff {
ect a virtual dissolution of the Union because If
Ooks to the practical degradation and disfranchise
nent of the Southern States ! 1t is to obtain pow
rs by combining the fatal sentiment of hostility to
he South, and hatred of the Constitution it is q
y rallying section, the stronger, against ano /
her section, the weaker. The moment such ma Q
hinations as these succeed the knell of the Re- t
ubEc Is sounded, and the few years during which p
may hnger out a sickly existence will only add e
D the misery 1t has brought upon ITSELF shame and II
ne Indignation of mourning world. For the first
me IN our history, this dark and iendish game is u
tempted fifty begun too, by those malignant -
gtators, who have vainly toiled for ysars to un ~
ermine the enduring foundations of our political R
lbuc-Deteated in their effort, they have now "
esolved upon one which they hope to make sue a
essful by appealing to martial enthusiasm, section ca
feelings, hostility to slavery, and personal cupi al
ty. In this crusade upon our institutions they "
ave entrapped great soldier, who, in his ambi- -
Gus longlngs has not yet measured the conseouen- %
IS that may grow out of conspiracy in the last de
egree unworthy and dangerous. We state the ci
Use plainly, and with no desire to alarm Exam he
1t as you must the impression it leaves is the
me, and sophistry falsehood can gloss over ia
e object of those who the principals in the OF
ot. South Side Democrat. as
DEATH OF GEN. BRIscoE.-We extract the fol- III "a
wing announcement of the death of General "
armenus Brscoe, from the Port Gibson Herald tb
the 31st ult, the news was brought by citi- w,
n of Port Gibson, just returned from California de
Mr.. William Wilson, of this town, arrived gil
om California yesterday and brings intelligence =
the death of General Parmenus Briscoe, on the J,
ig Montezuma off Acapulco, Western coast of TN
exlco, on the 7th December hl dn
Mr.. Wilson fellow passenger, and says ms
at General B. previous to leaving San Francisco ge
d slight attack of Cholera, followed by dar- As
oea. The immediate cause of his DEATH how ma
er, he thinks the inflammation of the lungs in
n Briscoe was one of the oldest and most ocl
ointment citizens of our county, and the news res
his unexpected demise, on his return from dis
1t land, will be heard with much and sincere no
gret.