The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-02-17

PoLlrlcAL SpEcuLAmoN.-.lhe Nash.
ington c,r'esp, ndclt of the New York
Herald says .thut from the develop
ments which have come, to light du-
ring the. past fortnight the following
deductions may be made in rclationt to
fShc prospects Of the wings:
] Il. That Mr.. Webster is entirely
out Of the question, as his fticnds now
admit, unless the ID can>~bc Kicked
~ generally, bctweGa, tIis time and
next fall, and u, Union party mar
shalled under cover of the dust, f,r
the Sccrctary's special ben, fit. Pro
liabilities Of this, small
':a That Mr. Fillmore llns not
the most rcmatc intciitfon OF running
on his OWL hook lie will eventually
Surrender to w. II. Seward, for the
benefit of Gen. Scott; and all he now
hopes to 90, is to sell out the gov.
crnmcnt influence as high as possible
to Seward & Co.
70. That Gen. Scott does expect to
be nominated. Mr.. FILLMORE expects
he will be; Mr.. Webster, ditto; Mr..
,ss;w,a3rd, ditto: MaSssrs. Jones, errfTIcGr;n,,
Stephens and Toombs, of Ga, Stanley.
of North Carolina, ditto. Cl'Ec tonr
last named have agreed to support
Scott, it is understood, although he
was the accepted candidate Of the
Northern abolitionists more than q
year ago. The whig party here, gen
elally, expect nc will be, a,' does like
wise y3ar olGdest. scsyal.t..
4, notwithstanding their 70 al rout
in the late Ssate elections, III, knowing
ones among the wings arc Confidently
expecting to carry tie next Prcsidcn-
cy with Gen. Scott. They arc already
working Il shrcwd game. Depending
upon the democrats for success, and
the existing contention among dem
ocratic @:pJGnts, they have already
gone seriously to work to uso them
up. Mr.. Seward is at present pulling
the wires at the North, to conciliatc
the free soil influence. He rolls him
self al over in the kossuth cXcitc,r cnt,
while General Scott is very Ec5rc;aiiss;
,snEt ont of it-not appearing at the
Congressional Banquet, not calling
upon kossuth, nor i'll any wise com
hitting himself either for or against
his doctrines of intervention. Seward
takes care Of all this, and acts rs cy,a
mittee man No. ] at :hc. Nou:t Gx
Coy. JQncs, of.Eehlcssee, now, in this
city, elcctionecriilg to be the Wing cam
didatc for the Vice Presidency, has
taken upon himself to act us Cen. Scott
committee man No. 3, f,,r the South.
The Governor said, in a public con-
vcrsation with Senator Douglas, at the
National Hotel, the other evening,
that he had been to see Gen. Scott.
and inquired his views on the com
promise, stating distinctly that he
(Gcn. S. could not carry T.mes see
without he cndorsclit- General Scott
replied. That lie should, sustain the
conpro,nisc and TIC tNiq;,. Hon
eyer, hs Will probable write no letters
endorsing the comrromisc-that is, il
Seward can prevent it. Nor do Mcssrs.
Jones, Stephens Il Co. wish him to.
81 have said that Governor Jones
was expecting the Whig nomination
tGr tAs Nice Presidency. lie has
already succeeded in procuring anon
ination from the Wings in the Maine
Lcgislature-a very small endorse
nient, to be sure, if they acte indie
IDENTITY of the trccsoi!crs; but, never
thclcss. tAgir numt1F = ..,s2e enough
TO get mp caucus. Gov. Jones may
therefore be said to have been first in
nomination in the East. He Will.
doubtless, have . strong opponent ia
Abbot Lawrence, with the Boston
Atlas for his. organ. This paper, You
will rccollcct, was the first in New
Eng land to come out for General Scott
more than :. Year ago. l.awryl.... L.;ls
the most money, and Jones the most
brains; bEt as the Wings generally
think more of the former than of the
latter, anl as Mr.. Seward probably
tancics that he himself possesses
brains enough to answer all the
practical purposes OF the next admin
istration, providing it should be Wing.
am rather inclined to predict that
Abbot will come out first best and
be the Wing candidate i,r Vice Pres
idcnt.'