The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-17

explain and define it--he has not, in his person
al character, those attributes and qualities which
make the people love him as they loved Jack.
son, Harrison. and Taylor. They admire him
as military hero, but that is the beginning and
the end of IT, The idea of his availability will
turn out to be the greatest possible mistake
He will prove to be the weakest man ever run
tor the Presidency lie will be more over
whelmiugly defeated, in my opinion, than any
man VINO has ever been placed in that position
by any considerable political organization. Why
is 1t that the Wing party cannot uationalize it.
self by running him for the Presidency! Be
cause Of the auspices under which he has been
made candidate, and the course b has thought
proper TO pursue.
The distrust of the Southern people cannot
now be overcome, aud when il is seen that he
can get no Southern Statee, no Northern sup
porter of his will have the slightest confidence
in his success; and he is indeed tyro in poll
tics, who does not understand that such be-
lief as that would deprive his supporters of that
zeal and energy which is necessary TO success,
even in those States OF the North, where under
a different state of things, he might reasonably
hope for success. Sir, | do not claim. to be a
prophet, but | predict with entire confidence,
that as soon as his Northern supporters see that
he can carry no Southern State and they can
Union, they will appeal 10 the ant-slavery SEN
timent common to the people Of the North, and
give sectional Shape to the Presidential can
vass. They will throw him into such canvass
as that and the cry will be repeal of the fugi-
tive slave law, and the support Of General Scott
as the representative of that idea Whatever
may be his individual sentiments and purposes,
that will be the direction of the canvass. AL
ready we that the editor of the New York
Tribune heralds to his readers the nomination
ofGeneral Pierce, by the Democratic convention,
as follows:
"Ihe Union does not contain bitterer or
more pFoscriptive pro-savery bunker than
Franklin Pierce. For years he has been fore
most in stfng every aspiration for freedom
among the Democracy of New Hampshire He
insisted that John p. Hale should be ostracised
and crushed because he refused to vote for the
annexaionuo of Texas without stipulation that
some part of its immense unsettled territory
should be secured for free soil The Post has
more recently seen this same Frank Pierce de
prive John Atwood Of his nomination for Gov
ernor and drive him out of the party for no
| thing else than expressing repugnance to the
! fugitive slave law. In all New England, slavery
and slave catching have had no more unscrupu-
| lious thick and thin seryitor than this same
| Frank Pierce"
Honor to General Pierce, If the Tribune truly
| states his posi- i'm, as | believe it doe. Now,
with what face can Southern man go before q
Southern audience to oppose the election of
General Pierce to the Pre- deucy of The United
States, if he shall be opposed by any man who
does not at nd as unqnvocally upon the same
ground denounced by Mr. Greedy in the Tribune
and described in the article from which have
read. Why, sir, you may talk about Bridgewater,
and Lundy's Lime, ami Vera C,uz, and Cerro
Gordo, and all those battles in vain. You will
get nothing in reply but bitter laugh of scorn
and derision from the Southern people when
you sand up before them and try to reconcile
them to such state of facts, with such misera-
BILE humbuggery that. They will despse
you, laugh at you and spurn you You will
fail as badly as Kossuth failed in his Southern
campaign. The people of the South cannot be
thus humbugged
| believe, for those and other reasons, which
will endeavor TO state if my time allows me,
that the nomination of General Scott, ,,op,
under existing circumstances, whatever resou-
lion may be passed by the convention, whatever
letter he may write, will result either in the i'm
mediate disruption of the Wing party, or in its
final Authorization. believe he cannot get
he vote of a single Southern State He will
be nominated, if nominated at all, by sectional
vote, if indeed all the representatives. of the
South shall be true to the trust confded to
them; and he who fails to represent Southern
sentiment and Southern feeling in that conven
ton upon those high issues. let him look to it
let him look to it If he has position, hope, or
prospects at home--if his hopes are not directed
elsewhere than at home, let him look well to it,
He who betrays the trust confided to him by
any portion of the Southern people, in that con
tinv
quiesces in, or gives his consent to the nomina
ton Of General Scott--if ! am not very much
mistaken, will be branded with brand of nlamy
that will dshonor him through his life and be
reproach to his children when he is in his
grave.
But the aboliloniaing of the Wing party will
not he tho OILY evil result accomplished by the
nomination of General Scott at Baltimore 1t
will place WILLIAM Fl. SEWARD in the same re-
lation to the Wing party Of the Union that he
now occupies in reference to the Wing party of
New York and the great States adjoining there
to, and, indeed, to the whole Wing party of the
North-a most influential and controlling posi-
ton. Many men, know, are acting under hi
influence, and guided by the engines which he
controls, who do not know from whence comes
the power that moves them. He has reached
position of power and influence at the North, !
the Northern Wing organization. He is the
focus at which concentrate all the hores of that
class of mercenary politicians, who act in poll
tics only with view to personal and pecuniary
advantages. He has for years controlled the |
patronage of the great Empire State of New
York-vast in amount, and has occupied posi-
ton that enabled him, to very great extent, to
control the patronage of the federal government
here, in reference 10 citizens of New York |
He is looked to as probable President of the
United States at some future day, by his parti |
sans, and that fact gives him all the power iuci-
dent to such position. He can concentrate,
WELD and command greater number of ener
getic men, TO accomplish any object which he
desires, than the President of the United States,
with all the patronage which be disposes That
is his position, Such is his power and influence
Sir, do not undertake TO Judge the motives
and objects of any man, except 50 far as those
objects and motives are revealed and displayed
by his acts. Trying him by this rule as public
man, in the performance of what esteem to be
public duty, have a right TO refer to his posi-