New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-08

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conclusive, leaving them only the old resort OF
defeating the party they could not control
The second attempt of the kind was made by
the opponents Of Gen. Seott's nomination In
the last Baltimore ConventiOn-with what sue
cess. has been told in the succeeding canvass
and its result
Another extraordinary feature of the late
canvass was the virtual combination of the
magnates and usual managers of both the great
parties, powerfully aided, though not with such
evident malice prepense, by those of the ihlrd
party, to hunt down and crush single indi-
yidual, and he no candidate for Office and no
wise connected with the dspensatiOn ofspoils.
/ Gov Seward not only holds no post of power or
/ influence under the present Administration, but
he stood expressly pledged 10 refuse any under
the next, had Gen. Scott been chosen. No
matter what might have been the result OF
the recent contest, he would have remained
what be now is and for three years must con-
! tnue TO be-a Senator from the State of New
| York. And yet against him have the batteries
of the now victorious host been pointed
throughout the canvass; the fire of the traitors
in the Wing camp has all been aimed at his
/ devoted head Members of Congress, Electors
of President. and various orders Of ex-nOtabes,
have renowned the Wing party by which they
have hitherto been hOnored and cherished,
with no other ayowed reason than this-that
Gen. Scott was the Seward candidate, and
therefore must be crushed. Seward = Sew
ard y Seward has been the burden of our
adyersarie5 song from the Outset-the theme
on which the Satanic Press has expended half
its venom and on which the journals subslsting
on advertisements of women and children for
sale have expatiated with unequaled persist
ence and fcryor. The Wing potentates who
have given their means and their names toward
the promotion and support of Webster Union
tickets have done so to feed fat their grudge,
not against Scott but against Seward; to that
end have mercantile Wings by thousands either
refused 10 vote for President at all or voted
plump for Pierce and King-ready not merely
to defeat but to annihlate the Wing party if
; they might thereby demOli,h Seward To this
I eud, too have extra exertOns been put forth
! by the Barnburners, who feel that their re-
! creancy and shame can never be eiiaced from
the public recollection so long as Gov. Seward
remains in the Senate, faithful TO the princi-
pies and convictions which have rendered his
name dctested by every trafiicker in human
sincws BY every porpetrator of legalized viz
lainios, throughout the civilized world.
Well: the conspiracy of Aristocrat with ia
Goblin, Slave-Trader with Agrarian, Pearl-street
with the Five Points, has been crowned with
unmeasured success. Gen. Scott is over
whemngly defeated, and the Wing party not
merely discounted but annihilated. We have
no prophetic ken, and make no pretensons to
reading the future but we do not see how the
! Wing party as such can ever be rallied again.
/ Defeat is but an accident, TO which any party
may be subjected; but defeat based on COM
preLensive, systematic treachery, like that
just experienced, can hardly be other than con-
elusive.
For it must be considered that even those
Cotton journals and politicians which finally
yielded reluctant support to Gen. Scott, had
taken such course preparatory to the Wing
National Convention as TO neutralize and par
alyze their subsequent acquiescerce. They
set out with the assumption that Gen. Scott
must not be nominated, since his nomination
would be a Seward triumph, which all the
| South and Conservatives everywhere must re-
pudiate. When, therefore. they came round,
| and undertook to commend the nomination
which they had so unsparingly denounced in al
vance, their adyersares had only to quote
against them their own diatribes, hardlyyet cold,
TO prove that on their own showing, Gen.
Scott should be opposed and defeated because
of Sewardism.' Thus they had taken tho pre-
caution to render their support of Gen. Scott
anullity before they could be required to prof
fer it. The result, it is now obvious, could
hardly have been other than il is.
- But, says one, how does oil this prove
the Wig party annihilated Why may it not
regain its former strength by eschewing OF
avoiding Sevardism p
We answer-If you mean simply that the
Wing party car rally AID regain its former
power by merely purging itself of al that IS
stigmatized as Sewardism, We entreat YOU to
go ahead with the experiment There is
nothing more TO risk or lose now, and there
can be no harm in trying this GA and trying it
out We whom you call 'Sewardtss are
tired, ard viii gladly rest awhile and let You
go ahead as yOu see 6t. Whether your anti
Progressive PrO-Slayery Whig party would be
stronger than that which has just been routed,
or would resemble on trial the tragedy Of
Hamlet with the part of Hamlet omitted, can