The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-05
THE REPU BLIC.
From the Signal.
WINFIELD SCOTT.

SoA'oiiloii loT tuc selcCtiOl Vi TTeSl-
dental candidate, we had occasion to
speak of General ScoTr. The WHO'S of
Oneida county, in the State of New York,
through one of their organizations, had
adopted resolutions suggesting his name
for the Presidency, coupled with the ex-
preston of determination to abide by
the decision of the Convention. In COM
menting on this movement, we expressed
the opinion that public sentiment had set
tied upon Mr.. CLAY as the next WIG
candidate, and we added, what may not
be improperly reproduced in this connex-
ion:
"But Notwithstanding our conviction
that Mr.. CLAY is the first choice of a
large majority of the Wings, we are well
saware that other candidates have numer-
'ous friends and supporters. Of this
number is General HARRISON. Nor has
any one more ardent and attached friends
{ than General ScoTT and we have no
doubt that he will one day be elevated to
the Presidency, and discharge its duties
with infinite honor to himself and salts
faction to the country. This belief we
edo not now express for the first time !;
{ and we shall hail with joy the day that
witnesses its accomplishment. We are
'gratifed, therefore, with every indication
of public favor towards this distinguished
man and if there should appear in the
Convention an unexpected change in
what now seems a settled public opinion,
and General SCOTT should 60 into the
Convention with majority Of the Wing
members from the Wing States, we have
no doubt that the party without solitary
exception would yield him most hearty
and cordial support. Such also will be
the case, we have as little doubt, in the
'event of the selection of Mr.. CLAY;
selection that now seems almost beyond
| & the reach of contingency, and that seems
better calculated than any other to de-
'velope the full strength of the Wing
party.
GAS long as the friends of the respec-
{ tive candidates express determination
6 to abide by the decision of the Conven-
ton, we care not what resolutions they
adopt, or how early they prepare for the
'contest. Give all the candidates fair
field and fair chance-let no Wing en-
{ list his sympathies too warmly for any
sman but let every one hold himself in
"a position to give cordial support to that
candidate who shall be the choice of ma
'jority of the Wing party as represented
in the Convention. We may have pre-
objections and partialities, but we must
renounce them. We may prejudces
and antipathies, but we must lay them
aside. There is disposition among the
Wings, growing disposition, to act upon
these principles. Wherever there are
'Whig votes to be given, the feeling is
universal and the only dissent from it
is in some quarters where the Wings are
8 in hopeless and helpless minority. Dis
affection or perverseness in such quarters
can neither governor the course Of the
Wing party, nor impair the prospects Of
the Wing candidate.''
The sentiments thus expressed were
believed to be good WIG doctrine in
1889, and will be held, we doubt not,
equally good WIG doctrine in 1852.
WINFIELD ScoTT is now before the Amer
lean people as the candidate of the WIG
National Convention for the Presidency
of the United States. He has been nomi-
mated upon a declaration of principles
made by the Convention and accepted by
the candidate. In his person he repre-
sents the opinions and the policy of the
great WING party, and we doubt not that
he will ultimately unite all the members of
that party in his cordial support. Some
expressions of disappointment and disaflec-
ton we have expected and have heard.
Such expressions we should have expect
ed and have heard, whoever had been
the successful candidate. Time heals
and reconciles the differences which gave
rise to them. The first ebullition of feel
ing gone-and the sparks struck out by
the collision of conflicting opinions and
interests are soon buried in the ashes of
the past.
1t is not,our present purpose to compare
the personal merits, services, and claims OF
WINFIELD SCOTT with those of the oppos-
ing candidate. 1t is sufficient in this con-
nexion TO say, that General SCoTT is a
WIG of the school of Henry CLAY and
that General PIERCE is Democrat of the
school of JOHN. c. CALHOUN. General
ScoTT is the friend of discriminating
tariff of protection !; of the improvement
of our harbors and rivers and the distri-
button of the public lands or their pro-
ceeds for the common benefit of all the
States. General PIERCE is opposed to all
national improvements to all protection
of domestic labor against foreign competi-
ton and to any other use Of the public
domain than the appropriation of its reve-
nue. to the ordinary expenditures of
Government. General SCoTT is the friend
of the time-honored policy OF. WASHING.
TON, with regard to foreign nations; Gen
eral PIERCE, as his policy is unfolded by
his great champion, Mr.. DOUGLASS, casts
a longing eye upon all the islands on both
sides of the continent, to the "middle
channeP' of the Atlantic and the Pacific
and desires that the Gulf of Mexico and
the Caribbean sea shall be regarded as
close waters, designed solely for Ameri-
can occupation, and excluding all the rest
of the world.