The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-24

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The Great q ne stson OF The Day.-The Action
Of the Wing and Democratic Parties in
New York.
The great question Of the day, which has absorb
the attention Of Congress and of the country large
for The last lew years. and which still continues
sgitate the public mind, and TO influence and coa.
troll the action of political parties ID the question o.
slavery, and its final adjustment by measures &
coDpro mise and mutual Cancellation, agreed upon by
the distinguished leaders of both the whig and deu
ocratic parties in Congress. adopted By large
jorty Of the Senators and members Of tho House OF
Representatives in 1850 and Welcomed and ratified BY
overwhelming majority oft0e people of the United
States. II was hoped by every patriot in the LIND
that these measures, devised b. the wisdom of she
great statesman Of Kentucky, the sage of Ashland
now no more-by Daniel Webster, the sage Of
Aarshhcld, by Lewis Cass, Daniel $ Dickinson, and
the other leading minds in the councils of the
ton, would have given its qo;e.us TO the ati-slsve
~ agitation which had divided and distracted IA
country from North to South, and from East towess
e,al Union, ntetJine war and carnage aad the ult.
mate destruction of the frest fabric Of civil govega
ment ever raised by human intellect By The ps..
sage of these laws, the danger ayertcl for 5he
TINE, and i, was believed that, by an honest
desire to cary them out, recurrence Of the
perions crisis would be for ever prevented. But,
unfortunately, the agitators re-openea the question
in connection with the Fugitive Slave Law, to which
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to bloodshed and murder. In this state of things,
the two national conventions for the nomination VI
candidates for the Presidency, were about 10 b.
held at Baltimore, and were looked for ward 10 with
great anxiety from every section Of the Union The
question was, what these conventions would do 10
reference to the compromise measures-whesaer
they would sustain, repudiatc, or Dodge .hem. The
democratic convention held first, and it fully,
unrsseryedly, and unanimously, endorsed the peace
measures Of Congress, and pledged the democratic
party TO their cordial support The candidate
lected was well known to be thorough frieni OF
this policy, and not only did the convention bat
the whole democracy, harmonize upon him With
degree Of unanimity such was never witnessed
before.
The whig national convention mex, held,
and al we're impatient to what course il would
pursue II well kno VI that the whig party. aAt
tho whig convention, were divided upon these very
compromise Ineasures-one section led by VIM. h
Seward being strongly opposed to them, and TIE
other, represented by Webster and Fillnoo,
being strongly in their favor 1t was gene
rally supposed that the convention, to avoid
the difficulty, would preserve silence on this
question, and adop. ncncomnittd plat.
form, embracing internal improvements aud
or two other ad eoptaRdunr points The pressure
from without, however, was too strong, aud ths
subject had too much agitated the public mind mad
the democratic convention had too recently adopted
their platform, TO psrmit this artfuldodge policy
On the other hand, 1t would never do to openly Co.
nounce the compromise measures, for that would
lose the wings Of the South and Considerable p1r
ton Of the vote Of the North. VIA. was to De
done 1t was at length arranged TO adopt plat
form in favor Of the compromise measures, but to
have candidate who was believed 70 be under in.
fuences unfriendly TO them-in other words, Tia
candidate of w. H. Seward.
This contradiction between the platform and the
candidate did not 60 down we'll With the honest pof
ton Of either of the two extreme sections, though
the trimmers from both swallowed tho compound
pill as ths only alternative. Accordingly, neither
the platform the candidate had the hearty sap
port Of the convention Sixty six voted against
the platform. The seventh ballot for the candidate
stood thus, on the fourth day Of the Convention
rmncre. l33
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WebFtf. 70
This was the vote also on the first ballot. Here
a plurality for Fillmore, and . majority against
Scott, evidently showing that the hero Of Lundy's
LaIe was not the choice of the convention. This
vas Saturday; and the foregoing vote was only
sixih ballot, ss follows;-
ecott ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. t,..t..t..,.... 1N
rluihoie la
webster 81
Sunday vas spent in cancusDg, and at she Atty
third, or final ballot, on Monday, the numbers stood
thus:--
Fnlmofe ilt
webster OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Fl
Hero then even on the 6nsl ballot, Scott hsd only
even Up to the Ay-6rst kslotbeisg only two before
the snai one--W.bsscr and Fillmore had united
their forces they osght TO have done. tner pdn-
cpes being the ssns SCOTT would have been rejected,
and one or other Of she two Compounds add Uaon
candidates would have boon the pomioee Of the
convention. The nomination Of SCOTT BY no mems
gave general satisfaction TO the party outside; On
ths contrary, the Union section saw that the game
vas 1885, ana from that day 10 th every attsmp. to
exo'te military enthusiasm, any other kin Of co.
tbnsiasm, has heen compscts failure In toe mean
tims the ssrars party. particularly in this State.
having sot their candidate nominated with sush
tyennondo0s difdculty took tia arak op,.n~.nr,.