Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-07-02

We Published YESTERDAY. frsn the Wilmington
Herald series Of resolutions parpoTtIng 10 be the
Whig Platform. as reported By The Committee on
resolutions and adopted BY the late Wing ConEen-
ton at Baltimore The resolutions Is given N the
Herald and copisd By Is also pnbsbed IN the
National lntefIieneer in its report Of the proceed
ings- they were published in the report made By the
Baltimore Sun-ibey we're sent to. and commented
up,n- By The New York papers; and were uniFer-
sally known as the resolutions reported BY Mr. Ash
nun Of Mass on behalf Of the Committee and pass
Cd bv the CoaveHtion without anendnens-they
constitute The only published platform which Gener-
al Scott eou,d hare seen when, Monday last he
teIegrapbed to the Convention thai he accepted the
nomination and platform Thns matters stood in
the Convention and ont Of until tuesday, morning
after the Convention had adjourned and The noni-
nation been accepted when. To- and behold out
comes an oEcial platform in which 1t appears
thai the original eighth resolution Of the Platform OF
the Southern caueas relating the compromise and
the Fugitive Slave Law Is reinsfated, and even
strengthened, and sererai other changes Of minoa
importance This official platform bears the sigma
TIRE Of all the officers Of the Convention, and is.
far authentic.
Altogether. this is 2 strange affair The Platform
as have published Il emitting the word = fnai;4
IN regard to the Compromise etc, published in
every daily paper in Baltimore that which passed
the Convention 1t was published in the way
in the Republic and National nteligeneer at Wash
ington both Of which papers had accurate reporters
On the spot Indeed it published precisely alike
in every paper throughout the country. and no 9TH
er yerson dreamed Of until the day after the adjourn
II i DT,I
form came ont
This is the exact state Of the case, SO far as we
can discover it and deem II due ourselves and
to the other papers which have published the Plat
form as ii passed and reported to advert TO it
The :. OfFc7cl PCtforE-' is TO all intents and pur-
poses that Of the Southern Caucus The actual Plat
form passed, is very different differences might
easily be drawn. and We may in future draw them
At present we conne ourselves 70 the plain Rarra-
tive and hGf speaks for itself ifit says anything.
it says that there is screw loOse-sonething
wrong-somebody to be cheated. Either the North
the South, both-or perhaps the candidates or
everybody in general 1t is certainly one of the
mysteries Of that most mysterious body--the Wing
onyention.-Do'ig Journal 25th inst.
Rather too hast-xo Thunder wa tied after all.
As we stated yesterday, there has come out since
the adjournment of The Wing National Convention
an official platform which we shall publish at our
earliest convenience, perhaps On Nonday we have
no wish to DO injustice to any man body OF men.
and we will 20 still farther, and say that from the
high personal character Of many of the gentlemen
whose names as officers of that convention, ap-
pended to this platform, and who also appear as
vouching for It's accuracy there good reasons for
supposing that it is accurate We think however that
good taste alone, to say nothing of sheer justice:
should hereafter seal the lips and restrain the pens
of our whig contemporaries from finding fault with
any remarks which the Democratic press has felt
called upon make with respect to the ghth reso-
luton it appeared every wbig paper throughout
the country, from the National Intelligencer down.
and it was commented upon By very many papers Of
that party. We copied the platform which We pub
lished from the columns of the Wilmington Herald
the editor of which was member of the Conven
ton If the Convention itself did not know better
in regard to the resolutions when passed, fo1
four days after--nor then until officially instructed
how in the name of wonder were we outsiders tt
know what official statement the officers were going
to make. If the resolutions read to de
ceive the whole body of trained reporters--wbicf
| Oath, the natural inference is that the unframed
convention was also deceived, and that the resolu
tons were passed under that deception. Such wa
evidently the actual state of the case
But the change between the unofficial and the ''of
fetal = has nothing to do with General Scott Tina
gentleman was in such hurry to clutch the nomi
nation that he telegraphed his acceptance even be
fore Vice President chosen to be put upon tn
ticket with him. His acceptance Of the nomination
and platform read in the whig Convention a lit
tie after midday Monday, when the only plat
form promulgated was that emitting the words Q
compromise fnality, etc. The Official did no
appear until next day. So after all, there has bee
no thunder wasted since it is evident that it wa
Platform No l, upon which Gen. Scott jumped 81
nimbly. His hurried acceptance. contrary to tn
usage in such cases. struck as being rather has
ty plate of soup business at the best.
Daily Journal, 26M inst.
Not Alone.
Our neighbor of the Commercial is bv no mean
alone in his refusal to support Gen Scott as will
! seen by the annexed extract from the August
Chronicle and Sentinel one of the leading Wing pa
: pers in Georgia:
1t will be by reference to telegraphic des
patches. that Gen. Scott and the Hon. w A. Ora
t ham have been nominated by the National VIII
> Convention as their candidates for President an
: Vice President The nomination of Gen. Scott un
der any circumstances would not have been accepta
bic to the people of Georgia 1t is not, therefore
he wondered at, that the of his nomination yes
terday was not only source of deep and heartfelt