The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-27
General ses,,'s Mammalian In View York.

General SCOTS Nomination In New York.
The nomination Of General Scett as the whig
candidate for the Presidency, by the Pennsylvania
state Convention, has created profound sensation
in this community. The public, the Politicians
and the press, have in some measure been taken by
surprise at the proceedings Of the Lancaster Con-
reption. This surpriso-this scnsa.ion-has been
sawcd as much by tho announcement Of the plat
form on which General Scott Is to run as a candi-
date, a. by ,tc nomination Itself. The Journal Of
CoBmooe'is disconnected and disappointed; the
Courier and Enquire i thundcrstruck and silent
the Tribune the special organ Of VIM. II. Seward
l. fatsied with the platform, and i resigned to
Scott in silence; the Express submits % the nomina
zion, but grumblcs Al the practical understanding
put BY Governor Johnston on the platform Of the
convention which nominated him as candidate for
the goyernorship.
The nomination Of General Scott and the con.
ptruction Of the platform on which Il vas made,
snder the circumstances in which the country i
now placed, ought not, however, BY intelligent and
Ear seeing people, to be looked upon a. "a hasty
plate 81 soup IN political movements. Il Is no
such thing The events Of the last fifteen Or twenty
years have been tending 70 such new direction
70 such new era as this country has now reached.
half 4 century, the antislaycry states Of this
Unicn-or IN other words, tho free Statcs-pos'sss,
snder the new census, vital AMI decided ma
jority in both branches Of the national Con
gress For half q century or more, the policy
q the general government, both domestic ani
foreign, has been shaped and formed by the
Statesmen 81 the southern states change,
however, has been gradually Effected ny the extra
The admission Of California, withou. the rccogu
.ion Of tho line Of "a 30, was the commence nent
ef q revelation in the elementary powers Of the
government, which gives The equilibrium hereafter
10 the Northern and Western anti slave States.
The two great iraucnces-that Of the North and
that Of the routh-hayc been contondng tor the
mastery IN various ways, for the last City years
Prom the time # Jefferson - the present lay, tho
power II the royernmcnt-the shaping q the
action II the goyernmcnt-kas yibratcd between
these two influences like the pendulum il .
vacuum, until {. bas finally swung from The Soath,
and settled down in the North.
The nomination q such popular man AZ Cen
Scott and he probable .uoccss il the Northern or
anttslayery states win b The b ginning q nev
movement in the history ii this republic; but how
Il viii cHd, when We look Al the couutcracting i'm
pulses and tcudcncic. IL the south, NJ ono caa
predict. The defeat Il Gov. Johnston, ia Penn
.sylyania, i ar,ady predicted n that state. S1ch
defeat, however, viii not alter the character
u tie tendency u The great fact which looms
~ before tho country, Ii The construction 4 The
new platform. and Ii The nomination q cen.
scott ~ the whig. "a Pennsylvania, and the pro.
liability q hs getting thc electoral votes of most =
ihc Northern states The state Convention of