The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-07-01
NEW SERIES, VOL 8 NO 10.

cess Sir, | do not claim to be prophet,
but predict, with entire confidence, that as
soon as his northern supporters see that be
can carry no southern State, and they can
not hope for cooperation in that part of the |
Union, they will appeal to the anti-slavery
sentiment common to the people of the North,
and give a sectional shape to the Presiden-
tial canvass. They will throw him into such
a canvass as that; and the cry will be re-
peal Of the Fugitive Slave law, and the sup
port of General Scott as the representative
of that idea Whatever may be his individ-
ual sentiments and purposes that will be the
direction of the canvass. Already we seel
that the editor Of the New York Tribune
heralds to his readers the nomination of Gen.
Pierce, by tho Democratic Convention, as
follows:
FFThe Union does not contain bitterer or
more proscriptiye pro-slaverery bunker
than Franklin Pierce. For years he has
been foremost in sitting eveFgaspiration for
freedom among the Democracy of New
: Hampshire. He insisted that John p Hale
should be ostraeised and crushed because he
refused to vote for the annexation Of Texas
without stipulation that some part of its
immense unsettled territory should be secur-
: ed for free SOIL The Post has more re-
Gently seen this same Franklin Pierce de-
prive John Atwood Of his nomination for
Governor, and drive him out of the party
for nothing else than expressing repug-
, nance to the Fugitive Slave law. In all
New England, slavery and slave-catching
have had no more INSCRIPTIONS thick-and
+ thin servitor than this same Frank. Pierce. "
q Honor to General Pierce, if the Tribune
q truly states his position, as believe it does.
!. Now, with what face can southern man go
7 before southern audience to oppose the cleo
ton of General Pierce to the Presidency OF
Y the Uuited States, if he shall be opposed BY
:, any man who does not stand as unequivocal-
i ly upon the same ground denounced by Mr.
y Greeley in the Tribune, and described in the
. article from which / have read3 Why, sir
"a you may talk about Bridgewater, and Lun
% dy's Lane, and Vera Cruz, and Cerro Cor.
q do, and all those battles in vain. You ge
f nothing in reply but bitter laugh of scorI
/. and derision from the southern people whel
: you stand up before them and try to recon
6 Gle them to such state of facts, with sucl
i miserable hhtbdggery as that. They vii
50 despise you, laugh at you, and spurn you
to You will fail as badly as Kossuth failed i
- his southern campaign. The people of tn
ST South cannot be thus humbugged.
ne believe, for those and other reasons
at which l will eudeavof to state if my time a
,ct lows me; that the nomination of Gener,
to Scott now, under existing circumstance
on whatever resolution may be passed by Il
es- convention, whatever letter he may writ
he will result either in the immediate disru
md ton of the Wing party, or in its final abo
iel tionization. / believe he cannot get the vo
the of single southern Saate. He will be mol
lot mated, if nominated at all, by section
len vote, if indeed, all the representatives Of {
i'll South shall be true to the trust confded
am them; and he who fails to represent southe
Tr. sentiment and southern feeling in that CO
axe vention upon those high issues, let him 10
,m- dent of the United States, with all t
rec to it-let him look to it 1.-The has positiC
be hope, or prospects at home-if his hopesa
mi not directed elsewhere than at home, let b
lie look well to it. He who betrays the tn
ion confded to him by any portion of the sout
let ern people in that convention, and unC
hat existing circumstances-ac4u Id,
ired gives his consent to, the nomination of Gt
res Scott-if am not very much mistaken, v
fern be branded with brand of infamy that v
mot dishonor him through life, and be reproa
iced to his children when he is in the grave.
feel Bat the abolitionizing of the Wing pa
the will not be the only evilresult accomplish
ieve by the nomination of General Scott at 3
was timore. wilfp William II. Seward
fact the same relation to the Wig party of
not Union that he now occupies in reference
tie the wing party of New York, and the gr
may States adjoining thereto, and, indeed, to
iane, whole wing party of the NORTH most
Cha fuential and controlling position, Nj
ave- men, know, are acting under his inHUer
that and guided by the engines which he {
tisfy trolls, who do not know from whence Coz
tons the power that moves them. lie has re;
ed aposition of power and influence at
North that gives him an almost absolute
ard troll over the northern whig organization
bnt He is the focus at which concentrate all
mn. hopes of that class Of mercenary polite
n5nk1 who act in politics only with view to
Il of sOnal and pecuniary advantages. He
ROOT for years controlled the patronage of
And great Empire State Of New York-vas
TacL' amount-and has occupied a position
. to enabled him, to a very great extent, to
l;+orv troll the patronage Of the Federal Gov
;s J ment here, In reference to citizens Of .
;nLoJ York. He is looked to as probable P
neo. dent of the Unise@ States at some future
tbo;r Iby his partisans, and that fact gives hin
! = i the power incident to sdeha position.
ano a. can concentrate, WELD, and:command a 3
hooo er number of energetic men,, TO- accom-
those any object which be DESIRES than the /
f anv patronage which he disposes. That i
:. vt position. Such is his power and infu
! Inv Sir, do not undertake to Judge the
avail tives aud objects Of any man, except 81
Ise-T1as those objects and motives are Revealed
e it. displayed by his acts. Trying bins By
Csc at trule as a public man, in the performanS
80 what ] esteem to be a public duty, ! ha
49, 1T to refer to his position and inquire
49, 6iis ol;eess and purposes. Such lnqu
.l.... in reoay5 - the ,.,hieess and purposes Of
turn man, address theuseIvee 9 's's al -
ne the Republic ii b always a PAM "a :
= RIM to me to be obliged To- specify any iRdl
,gor. al 10 public debate, and nothing but /
~ sitv would induce me to do. so now.
, tbst1sir, say that Dir. Seward, when &c
orr .a Scott IS nominated, will be inaugurated
$ Can phatcally, into the position Of ruler AM
IS tie troler Of the wing party Of The nation,
under Why do j express this opinoin2