Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-10-23

According to Southern Wing testimony we answer |
NO! Gentry, Williams Foster, McNairy, Faulk-
ncr, Lyons, Jenfer Merrick, Long, Marshall, Toombs
White, Abercrombie Johnson, Stephens, Clingman
Caldwell, McClung Brooke, Conrad, Clayton, Cabell
Landry, Moore, Outlaw, Strother, Purdom, and host
of Others whose are high in the record of par
ty history South, have long since answered, No. in
voice whose tones have yet ceased reverberate
in the vaes and gens and the hilltops of the
ny South. What claims has his friends-we mean, of
course, his peculiar friends, the Greeeys, Stevens
Stewards Johnsons Posses, Foggs g. Co., on the vote
of the South. He is the nominee of the abolition and
freescil interest of the North. He was enabled TO
secure only SEVENTEEN SOUTHERN VOTES IN
the nominating convention The first impression a.
mong Southern men, on receiving the of his no.
mination, was, to abandon him. Thousands declared
opposition against him. And why Because they
discovered his most ardent and enthusiastic friends in
the convention-the to whom he is indebted for
his nomination, were of the school of Greeley, Ray
mond Seward & Co. They the wishes, almost
unanimously expressed of the South set aside They
saw the oftheir choice, and they were willing to
conceed to the North Northern man, put side,
and for what, and by whom ! Messrs. Fillmore and
Webster, both known Compromise men, were not on
! ly pushed aside, but the men who opposed them in
convention, had assaulted them with ferocity almost
unparalleled before the meeting the convention In
all the elements that constitute true whig they
deficient in 1t true, they both had said that
they regarded the Compromise Measures as Finali-
ty, and intimated determined purpose to stand by
the enforcement Of those measures, the Fugitive slave
Law included. This, then, was their crime 1t was
for this and because ofthis that they degraded
1t for this that the whole fifteen Southern States
desired the nomination of one the other of them
But No, aboltiOnism must degrade the South. 1t
must strike her down through her delegates. Her
wishes must be unheeded her voice senced, and she
must submit, ah tamey too, take the candidate the
Stewards the Greceys, and the Johnsons selects for
her. Look at that convention. Sixty-six northern
reesoil abolition wings vote against the platform. An
other set, spit upon, defy, execrate it. Again look
For 50 ballots the South stands to her
ants at least not enough, to let the abolition free
soil champion in. Then comes the 53rd ballot and II
Southern men had been gained oUer for Scott. How
happens this What means used to work this
change Was there promises OF pay-offer of offices
or what were the appliances employed Who can
tell Did the N, Y. Courier and Enquirer tell the
truth, WREN it charged the Tennessee and Virginia
delegation with having contaminated 'iaiquitOas
IbGrgain'? We shall not say.
Gen Scott then stands before the country, not as
the choice of the South He is before the country in
open, almost universal opposition to her voice. He
was thrust upon her by the North; by the men who
have en- all occasions denounced, and refused to ac
quesce in the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave law
What claim, then, have they or has he, the South
He is the representative, the candidate oftheir views
and opinions.
But aside from this there is another view propose
to take ofhs claim not only upon the South, but up
on the people whO desire government, freed from al
The trappings incident to a military oligarchy. Gen
Scott is the first candidate for the Presidency who il
: the history of this country, has deemed it proper t
engage personally inthe canvass. He has, according
J to the accounts received made ThrtyTwo Speeches
e Washington resigned his commission, and retired Il
+ Mount Vernon and no opportunities could draw hin
i from his retreat Jackson had long prior his candi
ID dacy, laid down his military commission; he eve
withdrew from the Senate that he might be charg
i ed with having connection with public affairs Gen
Harrison had long been engaged in the pursuits of
l. rculture, when he drawn into the POLITICAL
a as candidate. Gen. Taylor, though retaining hi
commission refused to mix personally in the -contes
c. and remained at his home. Gen. Cass retired fror
in the Senate upon receiving the nomination of his part
IN and remained his home until the contest dec
ne ded. Gen. Scott of all the Presidential candidate
or not only retains his commission, which keeps him
no the head of all military men, but he has stepped
re the personally, and has, under the guise
cl wecomngs taken part in the contests, by thrown
ut his inane puertes into the face of the crowd al
a "dividing his heart among the people," What do
cal this mean Has it to this, in this free and e
Is ghened country, that great party, pretending
Nationality and stern pure Republcanism, is forced
en- push their candidate into the canvass, and attempt
a. these exhibitions, to among the milf
to ry mania, and carry their chief through popular CT
no contest on the huzzas of his military renown, and
'n- upon those civil administrative qualities which alo
aw are required Is this attempt to up militia
enthusiasm intended blind the eye to the lack of
ue those essential elements constituting Statesman,
their candidate Is intended to draw public eng
me ry from the man. the party, and the employ
zen foist him upon the country If this system of ell
ION toneerng shall prove successful in this instance,
len precedent will have been definitely established,
- the influence Of the military of government,
ew glide into future contests, and shall witness the
led scenes of strife and bloodshed that emnently
ere, dsgracefuy characterized the declining days of
ave Roman Republic. The contentious for the Cons
asn ship, were conducted mostly by the stPendared MT
one and pretorian bands, who employed by the
tne las, Marus and the bloody Triumvirates. This mi
70 has obtained firm footing in the Republics OF So
rom America and in Mexico In France it had sig
and extraordinary rum after the fall ofthe Thermi