Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-02-25
THE SCOTT PLOT THlCKEN1NG.

THE SCOTT PLOT THlCKENING.
1t is becoming more and more apparent that Gen.
Scott will be the next Whig candidate for the Pres-
dency. We copy below from a letter Of one the
Washington Correspondents of the New York Her.
ald some sPecuations and aets the subject, which
may interest our readers:
From the developments which have come to light
during the past fortnight the following deductions
may be made in relation to the prospects Of the
wings: .
l. That Mr.. Webster is entirely out of the ques.
ton. as his friends R admit, unless the ID can be
kicked up generaIl stis time and mex. fall,
and Union party mafsha1ed under cover Of the dust
tor the Secrearys special benefit. Probabilities Of
this, small.
.. That Mr.. Fillmore has not the most remote in.
ten,ion of running on his own hook. He will even
.uaily surrender to w. H. Seward for the benefit of
Gen. Scott; and all he now hopes to do, is 10 sell
oHt ~ government infoeace as high possible to
Seward l. CT: f"' &c :. - =
3. That Gen. Scott does expect to be nominated.
Mr.: Fillmore expects he will be Mr.. ebs,er ditto
Mr.. Seward. ditto; Messrs. Jones OF Tenn. Ste.
phens and Toombs of Ga, S,anly of North Caroli--
ma, ditto. Che four last named have agreed to sup
port Scott it is understood. although he the
cePted candidate Of the Northern abotionis,s more
than year ago.) The whig party here, generally,
expect he will be; as does likewise your humble
servant.
4. Notwithstanding their total rout in the late State
elections, the knowing ones among the Wings are
confidently expecting 10 carry the next Presidency
with General Scott. They already working
shrewd game. Depending upon the confidence of
the Democrats for success, and the existing conen.
ton among the Democratic aspiants, they have al.
ready gone seriously to work 10 use them up. MI.
Seward is. at present, pulling the wires the North
to conciliate the free soil influence. He rolls him.
self all over in the Kossuth excitement, while Gen.
Scott is very carefully kept out of -not appearing
at the Congressional banquet, not calling upon Kos
suth, nor in any wise committing himself either for
or against bis doctrines of intervention. Seward
takes care Of all this and committee man No.
l at the North. Ex-Governor Jones Of Tennessee,
now in this city, eectioneeriDg to be the Wing
didae for the Vice Presidency, has taken upon him
self to act % Gen. Scott's committee man No. at
the South. The Governor said, in a public conver-
saton with Senator Douglas, at the National Hotel
the other evening, that he had been to see General
Scott, and inquired his views the Compromise,
stating distinctly tina, he (Gen. S.) could not carry
Tennessee without he endorsed it. General Scott
Piled that he should sustain the Compromise and the
Union. However, he wiA probably aoriie letters
endorsing the Compromise; that Is, # Se,oard can
prevent IT, Nor do Messrs. Jones, Stephens $ Co. Dish
him to.
have said that Governor Jones was expecting
the whig nomination for the Vice Presidency. He
has already succeeded in procuring nomination from
the Wings in the Maine Legislatures very small
endorsement, to be sure if they acted independently
of the free soilers-but. nevertheless, their number
is large enough to get up caucus. Governor Jones'
may therefore be said 10 have been first put in nom
nation in the East. He will, doubtless, have strong
for his organ. This paper. you will recoliect,
the first in New England to come out for Gen. Scott
more than a year ago. Lawrence hoe the most mon
ey, and Jones the brains but the wings gen
orally think more Of the former than Of the latter
and as Mr.. Seward probably fnces that he himself
purposes of the next administration. providing ii
should be Whig am rather inclined to predict that
Abbott will come out q" first hest" and be the whig
candidate for Vice President.'
The foregoing contains several statements and
revelations upon which Southern Wings may reflect,
with profit. But the fugi,ive-slave law. says the
New Yo.k Trbune-one Of Gen. Scott's organs-is
in the way of elecng Wing President How I!
Why in this, says the Tribune: The Wings Of the
South have made that law a test of soundness Gen.
Scott and tie Northern Whigs are opposed to 1t; the
strength of the Wings lies in the free States, and
the Southern Wings must, therefore, give way on
this question, if they expect succeed in the Presi-
DENTAL contest. The Tribune is firmly Of the OPin-
ion that even Gen. Scott could carry single free
[ Wing Stale, as the dVOWe0 advocate OI hiS law
Does not that statement, coming AZ it does from u
press 60 we'll informed the Tribune is as to public
sentiment. speak volumes in relation to the soundness
of the Wings in that quarter on this law!
Under these circumstances, and with the almost
absolute certainty staring them in the face that Gen.
Scott will be the aominee, how can Southern Wings
reconcile it with their interests and duty to 60 into
National Conveptioni
WAsHlNaroN. The following interesting paragraph
appears in the January number of the International
Magazine:
"It will crafty every reader of American history
to learn that to have three phases of the
character Of Washington. presented by men SO emf
nent as Daniel W ebster, Mr.. Irving. and Mr.. Ban
croft, Mr.. Webster, we have reason to believe, has
nearly completed his Memoir Of the Political life of
the great Chief; Mr.. Irvng's work, which has been
| some time announced, will make US familiar with his
personal qualities, and Mr.. Banc,oft's History of the
Re vou,on will display his military career as it has
never before been exhibited as it can be presented BY
noue but our greatest historian. The first volume OF
Mr.. Bancroft's work on the Revolution is passing
through the press, and will. doubtless be published
early in the Spring. 1t has been kept back by the
authors failure to obtain, until within few weeks
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