The southern press., 1851-07-01
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Tbs nomiustion OF General Scott, AS the
Why candidate for the Presidency, by The
Pennsylvania State oonsention, has created a
profound sensation in this community. The
public, the politicians, and the press have. IN
Yome measure, been taken by surprise al the
proceedings Of the Lancaster convention. This
surprise--this sensation---has been caused as
iDpch by the announcement of the platform on
which General Scott is TO run as a candidate. as
by the nomination itself The Journal of Co,a-
merce Is dIscoDtented and disa pointed the
Courier and Enquirer is thunderstruck and ST.
lent; The Tribune, the special organ of VIM III.
Seward, Is satisfied with the platform, and is re-
signed To- Scott In silence; the Express submits
10 The nomination, but grumbes at the practical
understanding put by Governor Johnston on the
platform OF the convention which nominated
him as candidate for the governorship.
The nomination of General Scott and the
construction of the platform on which it was
made, under the circumstances in which the
country is now placed, ought not, however by
intelligent and far seeing people, 10 be looked
upon as ga hasty plate of soup" in political
movements. II is no such thing. The events
OF the last fifteen or twenty years have been
tending to such new direction--to such a new
era us this country has now reached
Let us taste the new soup. For the first time
in half century, the anti-savery States of this
Union--or, in other worde, the free States-pos-
sess, under the new census, vital and decided
majority in both branches of the national Con-
gress For half century or more, the policy
Of the general government, both domestic and
foreign, has been shaped and formed by the sta
tesmen of the Southern States change,
however, has been gradually effected by the ex-
traordinary increase of population and territory.
The admission ofCalifornia, without the recogni-
ton of the line of SO. 80, was the commencement
OF a revolution in the elementary powers of the
government, which gives the equilibrium here
after to the Northern and Weston anti-saye
States The two great influences--that of the
North and that of the South-have been con-
tending for the mastery, in various ways, for the
last fifty years. From the time of Jefferson to
the present dny, the power of the government
the shaping of the action Of the government
has vbrated between these two influences like
the pendulum in vacuum, until it has finally
swung from the South, and settled down in the
North.
The nomination of such popular man as
Gen. Scott and his probable success in the North
ern or anti-slavery States, will be the beginning
of a new movement in the history of this repub-
lie; but how it will end, when we look at the
counteracting impulses and tendencies of the
South, no one can predict The defeat of Gov
Johnston, in Pennsylvania, is already predicted
in that State. Such a defeat, however, will not
alter the character or the tendency of the great
fact which looms up before the country, in the
construction of new platform, and in the nomi-
nation of Gen Scott by the Wings of Pennsyl-
vania and the probability of his getting the cleo
torial votes of most of the Northern States
The State convention Of Vermont, without any
knowledge of what was doing in Pennsylvania,
constructed like platform, and put forward
principles similar to those in Pennsylvania who
flung General SCOTS name to the breeze
Both conventions have avowed their adherence
to the high protective policy, and have construct
ed an anti-slavery sliding scale, or movable plat
form of agitation, which opens the doors suffi-
ciently wide to admit the Abolitionists of every
hue and grade in the Northern States
These movements in Pennsylvania and Yer
mont form a fresh triumph to William II. Seward
and his political associates, and an overwhelming
defeat to Daniel Webster, Milliard Fillmore, and
all those who have been travelling about the
country endeavoring to construct national plat
form out of the compromise measures. A new
race of statesmen, and new policy, hnve been
planted throughout the free States, and both
houses of Congress will be governed and regu-
lated by influences springing from anti-slavery
impulses, for all time to come. The conse-
quences of this new condition Of public affairs
we may calculate at our leisure. Sufficient for
the day is the evil thereof
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