The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-06-30
From Washington.
Correspondence of Charleston Mercury,

/ WASHINGTON, June Z2.
Of course, the Wing Convention and
it nominations constitute the exciting to-
pics of yesterday and to-day. The know
ing ones were certain of SCOTS nomina-
ton all the tune, and were somewhat sur
prised at the strength shown by Fillmore
Had the efforts to stife the old jealousy
between his friends and those of Webster
prevailed, either could have been nomina-
ted, to all appearance. But appearances
are deceptive, and there are many persons
who do not scruple to say, that had such
combinations been made for the benefit of
either, the Fillmore support would have
crumbled away in the same proportion,
and the result been finally the same
Tho jockeying displayed by the Scott
men, open and secret, was of very supe-
rior character. They kept up appearan-
ces with great skill, and inflamed the par
tisanship of of the threatening seceders, by
giving them platform first, and the chance
OF success afterwards. So soon as the
game had been played out, sufficiently to
ensure the imposibiity of their boiling,
the gate was shut and the race run in
earnest-Soott not distancing but fairly
beating his competitors. The adroitness
of the play is shown in this thing, that
the issue was made on matter which
the practical North regards as immaterial
namely, the Platform. Even Seward
smiles blandly when endorsement of the
Compromise is insisted on as great safe
guard to the South. Yet this was the
lame and impotent conclusion to which
| tho Snpthar,, "h,,, Al.
Senator Dawson trailing arms in the rear,
and Gentry alone standing firm. Your
South Carolina delegation went into the
arrangement too, and ratified it, though
doubtless the masses ofyour people would
as soon shave brooked the Eternal Devil
to keep his state" in Carolina, as for Gen.
Scott to be President. The closing har-
monies Of the Convention were more dis
cordant to true Southern ears, than its
opening tumults; for it was another signal
of unconditional surrender on the part of
the South-a triumph to Seward and his
myrmidons. APPLY has the image of the
oyster and the shells been applied to the
whole transaction. The North takes the
oyster in the nominee, known to be its
most devoted servant; the South takes the
two shells, of the Platform and the Vice
President and clatters them as noisly
as though they were castanets, and its
stomach not empty. The thunders of the
seceders have sunk into whimper first,
then changed into horrible and ghastly
grin for they feel that they have been
duped, but must not admit it. Take the
boasted platform, which is to be the equiv
alanf for ,,,poh Loot a,l L.
what does it amount TOT Why string
of generafties, ambiguously and cautious
ly worded, to catch all sorts of Wings or
neutrals, and copied closely after the Dom
ocratic model of two weeks before. Take
both platforms and put them in parallel
columns, and you must marvel at the
amazing family resemblance existing be-
tween them. On the Compromise matter
the Wing resolutions are decidedly the
strongest, and the smile of Seward deep
ems into broad grin while he reads that
in relation to the dead letter on the sta
tute book-the Fugitive Law. No ra-
tional man in the country believes it will
ever be faithfully executed until the North
ern heart is radically changed, yet the
simple assurance give huge delight to the
easily satisfied exponents of the South in
Convention. Well can Seward and Co.
afford to swallow few unpalatable words,
and when every body know them to be
words, and nothing else. An effort was
made in the Convention to afford an of.
set 70 the RANToUL case, by the election
of Raymond, of the New York Times.
from that body. But instead of proving
worm, he turned out to be regular
freesoil copperhead, and Kissed and stung
so severely as to Illustrate the attempt.
Mr. Cabell, who made the effort at the in
stigation Of Col. Webb and others, did not
succeed very well, but was we'll spattered
with free dirt by his opponent. So on
this score, the Democratic Convention can
claim the merit in case of RASTouL which
the Wing cannot in the case of RAYMOND.
The free soil game in this instance Is sim
ply the reverse Of that practised by Pres
ton King and Van Buren,. The Wing free
soilers will support the candidate with en-
thusiasm, for that is their share. With
Horace Greeley in the Tribune, they asay
No" to the platform, as di sixty odd Of
the Convention when the vote was taken
upon it. -"
Upon the whole, the scism in the Wb;g
party seems to have healed up, and the
Compromise made at the Convention will
probably re-unite the party; at least for
a time. The voting was so strictly sec-
tonal, and the Northern free soilers 80 pre-
dominate in the party, that there ia pos.
sibility OF the Presidential contest takino
distinct sectional complexion. ShouI5
this be so, even the triumph of Scot. would
not infiict so much damage, as under anv
other circumstances. Let that issue ba
made and understood, that the terms
Whis end Derocrat wc-s gcnersII.,
convertible into Northern and Sou,bs.y
and the b,a'ds Of the old parties would be
loosened forever, and the opeuing of a new
era dawn upon us. To such complex
ION may this controversy yet come. u