Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-06-26
/" Under which King. BeIzoni ~

A few weeks SINCE, when Scott stock was
running pretty high, our neighbor of the Tri
bune came out with right-down good clincher
for the old General. It's columns had copious
extracts of GLORIOUS demonstrations, sold
soldier meetings in the West" &C., but all
of sudden, "change comes Ger the spirit of
our dream and all is silent This is satisfac-
torily explained, however, BY recent conduct.
The administration influence was set at work.
and we now find disposition manifest on the
part of the ''by authority press TO "avoid
making too hasty decision, as TO the availa-
biliiy of candidates. 1t is very certain that the
present incumbent will be in the field. and
then there's the ''God-like" become again the
subject of petition. In this triangular contest
very short corner may be turned with Scott
We agree with our neighbor that it would be
well mot 10 forestall public opinion"
A pretty warm warfare is being waged
among the two wings in Massachusetts,, as APP
pears by the following from the Boston Cou-
rier. 1t is only a specimen of the harmony
prevailing in the party.
1.-THE great policy of the Alias is TO keep
the wing party united; but the purpose of
this is that the I'nrty may go into national
convention TO nominate n President. This
being done. we know who The candidate will
not he, if the Atlas and those who concur
with il can have their wav. 1t will not he
the man who has saved the Union from dis
solution, and arrested civil war Nv his
courageous PATRIOTISM. IL will not he the
man who is the most fitted 10 be intrusred
with the administration of the constitution
the most elevated above sectional and local
objects, and the most wise and far-seeing
statesman of his time. 1t will be General
Scott, or some other general selected upon
that beautiful principle of availability which
| has governed the wing convention for The
last twenty years, and which as EXPRESSED
in the formula ofthe Atlas. consists in nom
mating our most popular 'man' This is the
| great point, 10 attain which the wings of
Massachusetts are exliorted to keep together.
10 put wing governor in the chair, and 10
keep down The rising monitiuns of their
hearts and consciencss on the great oues.
tons of the day. For this, the whir party
of the State is kept iongue-tied upon those
great salvation measures by which Mr. Fill
more's administration whiy admioi.,ra>
tioE-rescucd the country from the brink OF
ruin, and the support of which still involves
the peace and safety of The Union. For
this, men who belong to the whig parry :
who desire still TO continue 10 belong to il,
and to hold up respectable heads in it-are
left wholly uniformed, and unable 10 say
whether their party is for the constitution or
against it-for the laws or against Ihem-fo
a fair. ard honorable, and upright support OF
The national administration or against it,
For lhis-namelv, in order hat the presden
ual question NAV he STAYED off into nation
al convention, there 10 be juggled and man
aged by wire-pulers and. politicians. and
that, out of the species of lottery which is all
ways carried on there, our ropular man
NAV he urned ont for The suffrages of the
people-the wings of This Stale are exhorred
still to keep themselves neither fish nor flesh
upon the great questions that concern the
national we'll being at the present moment
and that consriintethe 9roundon which the
battle for the Union is 10 he fought, and on
which alone u,can he won.''