Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-11-17

would not have been announced thus early, if Gen
Scott had been elected. Southern men, read AM
ponder:
tTaIIiane II. SesOard and the late Ezectson-C Con
LESSONS Of has Oryan-Movenaent for 1856,
From the New York Tribune Nov. 81
| STEWARDSHIP
whoever shall write the history of the late poti
cal contest will have to record the disastrous failure
otan attempt to enforce upon the whg party an out
ward uniformity of opinion and action with regard tc
human slavery. For this uniformity there is no foun
daon either in fact in traditions our Northern and
Southern people have always regarded slavery with
very different eyes. and, long it shall exist
among us, probably always will. In no national
convention, In congressional caucus in no assem-
biaee claiming to speak in behalf of the wings of the
whole Union, was there assumption of DOW.
er TO create declare uniformity this subject pri-
or to this present 1852. Messrs. Toombs and Ste
phens did, indeed, attempt to force such
In the congressional caucus of December IS49, but
their repulse signal and conclusive lea vino them
only the old resort of defeating the party thew could
not control. The second attempt of the kind was
made by the opponents of General SCOTS nomination
in the last Baltimore Convention-with what success
has been told In the succeeding its result
Another extraordinary feature of the late canvass
was the virtual combination of the magnates and
usual managers of both the great parties, powerfully
aided, though with such evident malice prepense
by those of the third party, to hunt down and crush
single individual, and he no candidate for Office
and no wise connected with the dispensation of
sPolls Gov. Seward not on y holds post of pow
er or influence under the present administration but
he stood expressly pledged TO refuse any under the
next, had Gen. Scott been chosen. N matter what
might have been the result of the recent contest he
would have remained what he is and for three
years must continue 10 be-a Senator from the State
of New York. And yet against him have the Bate
res of the victorious host been pointed through
out the canvass the fire of the traitors in the whU
camp has all been aimed at his devoted head. Mem
bers of Congress, electors OF President and various
orders OF ex notabes, have renounced the whg party
by which they have hitherto been honored and cher
lshed, with no other avowed reason than this-that
Gen. Scott was the Seward candIdae,'' and there
fore must be crushed. "Seward 80 '' Seward :"
Seward ~ has been the burden of our adversaries
song from the outset-the theme which the Sa-
tanlc press has expended half It's venom, and on
which the journals subsisting advertisements OF
women and children for sale, have expaliated with
unequalled persistence and fervor. The whig po-
tenates who have given their means and their name
toward the promotion and support of % Webster
Union" tickets have done feed fat their grudge,
not against Scott but against Seward to that end
have mercantile wings by thousands either refused
to vote for President ALL voted plump for Pierce
and King-ready, merely to defeat, but to annihi-
late the wing party, if they might thereby demolish
Seward. 10 This end, too, have extra exertons been
put forth by the barnbuFners, who feel that their
crearcy and shame never be efaced from the
public recollection so long Gov. Seward remains
In the Senate, faithful 10 the principles and convic
tons hch have rendered his name deteste by eve
ry IFathcker in human sinews by every perpelrator
of egaZed villaines, lhroug hout the civilized world
Well the conspiracy of Aristocrdt with Jacobn,
Slave Trader with Agrarian, Pearl street with the
Five Points, has been crowned with unmeasured
success. General Scott Is overwhelmingly defeated
and the Whig party not merely discounted but ami
hilated. We have prophetic ken, and make no
pretenons TO reading the future; but we do not see
how the Wing party as such can ever be rallied
again. Defeat is but accident, 10 which any par
~ may be subjected ; but defeat based on compre
hensive systematic rreachery, like that just expert
enced, can hardly be other than conclusive.
H. H. th.f fE,o
journals and politicians which finally yielded re-
lucant support Gen. Scott, had taken such
preparatory the Wing National Convention to
and paralyze The
They set out with the assumption that Gen. Scott
must not be nominated, since his nomination would
be s. Seward triumph, which all the South and
everywhere must repudiate When,
therefore, they came round, and undertook TO COM
mend the nomination which they had so unsparing-
ly denounced in advance their adversares had only
quote against them their own iiatrbes hardly Yet
cold, to prove that, on their own showing, General
Scott should be opposed and defeated because OF
s. SewardisIn' Thus they had taken the precaution
TO render their support of General Scott nuty be-
fore they could be required 10 proer it. The result,
is obvious, could hardly have been Other than
it is. .-.--
But says one, show does all this prove the
wing party annhated Why may it not regain its
former strength by eschewing or avoiding Seward
ism 20
We answer-If you simply that the whig
party rally and regain lis former power by merely
purging itself of all that is sIgmatised Seward
ism,'' we entreat you go ahead with the expert
ment. There is nothing more TO risk or lose now.
and there can be no harm in trying this and trying
it out We whom you call Is Sewardites - are tired
and will gladly rest awhile and let you go ahead as
you fit. Whether your anti-Progressive, pro-
slavery whg party would be stronger than that which
has been routed, or would resemble trial . the
tragedy of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet omitted
can better be determined after than before trial.
There be no reasonable objection TO that.
But if you mean that those, TO spite and destroy
whom you have just broken down.the party, will fol-
low and sustain you in restoring and Teesablish ing
it, it'll the understanding that they to be aliens
and servors therein, until they consent to suppress
their convictions and profess your views, We
would advise you TO invest either efforts hopes
in so wild speculation. They in no hurry to
move AT al when they do take part with you in
another canvass, twill be your equals and nothing
short of it, They are net going into convention with
you again, have your notions folsted into the prr
~ creed, and their candidate then beaten by you not
withsianding his acceptance of your PLATFORM They
will not consen nj thai candidates avowed determine
ton TO regard and oil wings with equal favor
whatever their views of the last Baltimore platform,
shall be deemed sufficient for his defeat al
your hands, If they to he prescribed, they pre-
Ter to suffer hands of their avowed and conss
adversaries rather than at those OF superficial
but treacherous compatrlots.
But we speaking of I" Sewardism"
The speeches. addresses. arguments and messages
of William II. Seward. now in process of prep
aration for the press by George E. Baker, Esq,
been deemed by the editor desirable that the work
aSoir1 uOfIp