The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-29

the Southern Wings divide between him and
any Northern man, and of that there can be no
doubt; or, vice versa, if the Southern Wings are
united, Mr.. Fillmore or Mr.. Webster will be
the man. If General Scott is nominated on
Mr. Mangum's programme, it is wisely calcu-
lated, in these dinner or supper caucuses of
which have been speaking, that he can carry
the Northern States, with some lone only)
Southern State. Even such State as Mary
land is given up on the canvass have seen
Ohio Pennsylvania! and New York! with
their solid columns, are set down for him sure
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Louisiana, are
utterly sacrificed in this calculation. 1t is felt
and known that, with such able men from
Tennessee speaking, as Mr.. Gentry is reported
TO have spoken the other night in the Wing
caucus, or such as Mr.. Outlaw, of ~ c., speak
ing with the energy he is reported to have done,
there can be no possible hope of these States
Mr.. Mangum's programme, therefore is a
wise one; utter abandonment of the COMPROMISE
bills, and The permission 10 run Gen Scott an the
free States, iOith the repeal or virtual annuIent
Of the Fugitive Stare Law upon eueru Wing
banner. His strength in the free States will be
determined by the candidate the Democracy
run against him but it is obvious already that
in Ohio, Central and Western New York. Aboli-
ton Democracy will beat Wing Abolition in
this scheme, two to one. The best Wing dis
tricts in Ohio have been cut out by dema-
goguing Democratic Abolition and in this race
OF demagoguing there is nothing that can equal,
much less eclipse, such men as Rantoul in New
England, or the Chase and Giddings Free
Democracy of Ohio.
have no right to advise you, Messrs Edit
ors but the programme | have marked out
for myself | may ask you to publish for others
to see. AS Northern man, shall go, nay,
must 60, with the Northern Wing party, even
with this threatened new inscription on it:
"The practical notification of the Fugitive
Slave section of the Constitution ~ simply be-
cause | have nowhere else to 90, save into the
arms of Democracy. three-fourths of whose
presses in the State in which | reside 90 for
the very same thing, and almost everything
else besides. No single man, or single set of
| men, can breast the flood of AbolitioniSm when
| such men as Mr.. Mangum take away their
dykes. He who attempts it would only be
drowned in some Zuyder Zee. The Wing
party is dear to me, and cannot abandon it
now, even with these its great faults, to cling
to something worse. General Scott if nomi-
mated and elected by US, is man whom, of
himself we can trust and we must live as well
ces that will have nominated and elected him.
They doom us all to prescription, to utter pro
scriptOn, We see, know, and feel, as like inhu-
ences did under General Taylor; but what men
suffer are things unmportant as long as
principle can be maintained. Parties are never
perfect and man must make choice of the
best of them. Under General Scott, as under
General Taylor, if General Scott is faithful to
the influences that make him President Mr.
Webster must hang again around ante cham
bers, as he hung before, repulsed or frozen, and
Mr. Fillmore must be sneered at as not having
the power to get even clerkship for a friend,
or Mr.. Clay be denounced, as denounced he
was when he introduced his Omnibus bill
The future is big with events No human
being can foresee or control them 1t seems
to me an utter disruption of all old parties is
portending