The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-06-23
From Washington.
Correspondence Of Charleston Mercury.

WASHINGTON June Id.
The Wing delegates to Baltimore are
pouring in and buzzing about as their Dem
cratic brethren did week ago. The noise
and confusion among them seems to be
greater than ever, and it is doubted by many
of the knowing ones whether their cohesive
power " i'll be as strong as that which tied
into one fdggot tic various crooked sticks
of the other Conve.. lion. As preliminary to
the proceedings, conference of the delegates
have been held here and and at New York,
by the Southern and Northern Wings res
pectively. At both meetings ominous symp-
toms manifested themselves. The majority
of the Northern Delegates go in for Gen.
Scott uDtrammclcd by resolutions of any
kind, and in this they are backed up by
Southern men of the Mangum, Bolts and
Stanley stripe. Whereas the great body of
Southern delegates are obstnately bent,
and some of them bound by instructions, on
having the platform laid down in advance of
the nomination. This will open the ball at
once in that body, and show what the chan
ces are. Such are the Georgia instructions,
and they will be backed by their Southern
Constitutional Union brethren from Alabama,
Mississippi, &c. In the meantime the friends
of Mr.. Webster, few but firm and faithful,
are watching the strife between Scottites
and Filmoreittes, with hope of appropri-
ating the strength of the former, and por-
tiOn of the latter, and thus securing the Ex-
FOUNDER the nomination. Financial and ma
terial aid will not be wanting to effect this
result, for Mr.. Webster, more fortunate than
most political eXponcnts, has friends whose
pockets can be relied on as we'll as their
tongues. He will have a prodigious out
side induence from New York and Boston in
attendance; and the fulcrum on which to
rest his lever will not be wanting. AS be-
tween the two, however, the changes are
greatly in favor of Gen. Scott His nomina-
ton may cause n schism if the South stands
up to her threats, and in that event the scce-
dcrs will possible adopt the democratic nom
incc, and thus make the real division of par
ties a sectional one after all. For should this
tack be taken, the supporters of Scott would
be compelled to throw him on the North
for support, and to do this Sewardism would
have to rise in the ascendant This result is
seriously contemplated and anticipated by
many astute politicians and it would be the
strongest po 'sible practical commentary on
the sagacity of those who have predicted
that to this complexion things must come at
last. In the Southern Press of Saturday
appeared an editorial. giving daguerroetypes
ofthe three heads of the Wing party. They
have been pronounced very Just, and the
characteristics of each one well portrayed
in them. The Press has not yet pronounced
1t probably will after the Wing Convention
The correspondent of the New York Herald
says that the silence arises from n difference
between the Editors as to the proper policy
to be pursued. There never has been any
difference of opinion on questions of princi-
pie between its conductors, but the recent
course of the States Rights representatives
has opened a new vista. Before n sentinel
fires he must hail the person approaching,
ana , await his answer. In these times it is
o''Dcu't 10 distinguish political friends from
Toes. Inc rress acts wisely IN not moving
precipitately. The course of South Caro-
una IS iookeo 70 WIN interest 1t is general
" S"PpoSe' 'n"' Sne VIII go IN, and such
seems TO DC 'ne OPINION OF the delegation,
,no"gn no member OF II except Mr.. Orr