Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-11-06
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The Whig Party and the rresiaeu

The Whig Party and the Presidency.
The result in the elections in Ohio and Penn
sylvana, has fell like bomb into the Wing camp, and
shattered fragments all their hopes Of the availability
or Gen. Scott. identified he Is with the Lancaster
platform, and the party that promulgated and supported
the doctrines there enunciated The citizens ol these
influential States have declared in the solemn
and emphatic manner their devotion the constitution
al rights OF the other members OF the conlederacy and
their determination TO oppose any man set OF men,
who venture stake the perpetutY harmony OF the
government the issue Oi trading scheme to catch
the of such dangerous and corrupt faction the
higher law politicians have proven themselves TO be.
This feeling against the nomination Of Gen. Scott, will
also be strengthened by the tone oi political sentiment
that pervades the South and which has begotIen the
victories in Georgia aud Mississippi, and which
terlay changed the complexion Of the ultra secession
feelings in South Carolina. The healthy of the
National Democracy IN the North, has shown 10 the
people of the Southern States that it is them they
To look for yindicaon OF their rights, and while the
Wings of that section O the Union may not find it with
in the scope and duty of their political conscience
support the Democratic candidate for the Presidency,
still they will aid to elect who is openly committed
to the and doctrines they despise
The whole scheme of the Scott party both in this
State and Ohio, identify him with the success,
they then thought of the Governors OF these two
States and then by the force OF these circumstances to
compel the party accept him their candidates. and
us rely upon Northern entirely elect him.
This WAS the ma attempt that made for the first
time the history ol the country of onenly drawing the
geographical line, and excluding tn, entire Southern
choice of the chief executive officer oil tile Union. Ii
in view of this wild attack upon the rights OF the
other sections OF the cOnlederdcy tnat made OF the
leading Wing politicians OF the South, publicly disclose
their of confidence the Wing party OF the North
and their determination not 10 meet with them IN Con-
veutoH, II their atrOcOus sentiments not fully pur
ged from the political book This game oil Seward
and others bold one, and based upon The military
renown of Gen. Scott would have been dangerous
one ii suffered take hold upon the public sentiment
of the North. But baled by the crosshre OF
the friends Of Webster and Fillmore, who saw it dan
ger their aspiratonbut the peace OF the Coun-
try, it exposed in the Wing Convention at Lancas-
ter and defeat has followed like bloodhound upon its
track The people let into the of this ina-
attack upon the rights oil different portion oil the
Union rallied to their support with power that was
rrcsiStabie
! Tnus stands the Wing party now and their hopes oi
Northern dynasty through the agency of abotonsts
and Gen. Scott. The main body Of the forces beaten
and flying IN confusion before the victorious National
Democracy. their only hope is In the reserve, beaded
either bv Webster or Fillmore Ii the former be select
ed all his previous reeso and abolition speeches and
tendencies will pass before the people like Banquos Is
and them be deceived; if the latter,
will be remembered that before his accidental accession
to the Presidential Chair he had at all times, acted
Sympathsed with the people lie contemns, and was
recognised in his native State as belonging the free
>o and abolition wing Of the Wing party. Thus are
they caught in the pit they dug for another and alte
spending years in rearing this temple Of Abolition folly
aud Madness il has fell upon and crushed them beneath
its ruins. In the North, they have lost the confidence
and support of the popular feeling; and, in the South
they looked upon faction that would make u.s.
Of any means to attain object, crafty ambition
They may mask their features with the cry of tariff ant
home industry; but the defeat of Governor Johnston
the chosen gladiator OF the molly band In this State, ha
placed them position from which there is escape
The Presidency, like all the great interests OF tn
country, is in the control of the Democracy of tn
Union, and they will select such will relec
the national feeling with fidelity.