The daily union., 1852-11-11
A Family Quarrel.


der 10 exhibit 10 readers the spirit in which the
conflict is being waged. For the purpose. and for
the further purpose OF illustrating The sentiments which
The who rallied around General Scot, really enter
tain for each other. present below few extracts
from whig journals.
The hope Of victory no longer unes the whig party
with promises of spoil, and that party struggled
only for the emolumens OF Office is dsinlegrated by
defeat and its different fragments in open hostility
with each other When marauders are disappointed OF
their prey, each is apt 10 throw the responsibility
of failure upon the others. and conflict ending
in total dsorganzaon is often the result The whig
party in something like the attitude since It's
defeat the second Of this month and in more than
one quarter movements having for their OBJ
ject the formation OF new party with new name.
Marauders. disbanded by disappointment and It's re-
sultng strife, may form themselves into bands,
but those bands will be bands of maauders and
associations OF honest citizens The whig party. disor
ganized by defeat, may form organization but
the old virus will pervade that organization, no
matter what name il may take upon itself.
The New York Express says;
We here, again and again, how impossible 1t is for
wings with prime pies like TO with OF the prin
ipes and school Of Weed. They will have peace
The noment election is over-on which we have laid
full strength, in doors and and though in
hopeless have just such official blast this
We put il on record for the present, without remark"
The Albany Evening journal, edited by Mr. Weed, re-
plies
Nothing is more likely than that men and print that
have been work three dividing and dslracting the
whig party find it impossible TO with us.
g The moment the election over the Express at
tackled according to its custom, wings who had faithfully
endeavoed to elect Gen. Scott. The blast of which the
Express complains was thus provoked.
The Express PROCESSES have worked hard In hope
less cause That print certainly did now, hereto.
fofe bolt the whg ticket But why The senior Brooks
wanted reelection to Congress. That kept the Express
from openly manifestng its hostility Gen. Scott
and Gov Hunt II had, il ever has. selfish for
its course
The Albany knckerbocker springs into the melee,
and begins by belaborng Mr. Fillmore after this fashion
" The great of General Scott's de feat Mtard
Fimore's pusillanimy. Had he administered the gov
eminent with much courage asis required 10 face
bnlIush, he would have secured to the whg party pres
tge would have stood like Gibraltar between Old
Churubusco' and defeat.
If his cowardice Spain caused the wings with
overwhelming defeat in New York, Blltimore and New
Orleans his retention of Tom Cowin drove from ranks
the honest yeonanry fOho.
''The moment Corwin's connexion with the Gardiner
swihdle discovered, he should have had given
him to retire.
The Independent Whg published at Lancaster. Penn
sylvania, also strikes Mr. Fillmore blow under the
6fth rib, thus:
'.Some Fillmore foolish enough to claim that,
had Fillmore been the candidate instead of Scott he could
have been elected The only for anticipating
in that s that the rends of Scott would have been
true their allegiance, would have betrayed their
party. deserted the whig nominee, and thrown the govern
ment into the hands of The bitter enemies OF whg pn,
cpies."
The friends OF Mr. Fillmore and Mr.. Webster return
intprest attributing defeat of
General Scott 10 the baIeful influence OF Sewardsm and
they speak OF the Seward leaders without searching very
carefully for courty phrases. The article which we
published on Tuesday from the New York Courier and
Enquirer gives the Webster and Fillmore estimate Of The
Tribune and Times and close extracts for to-day
by second article copied from the same journals
:" We took occasion day two since TO upon
ihe different manner in which two city contemporaries,
whose avorte candidate Winfield Scott, supported
his nomination during the and now treat the dis
asrous result Nothing could have been a proper
subject for public comment nasmuch its manifestation
was public its consequences public and public opinion
was to pronounce upon it. A public newspaper may be
inpersona but 1t s not irresponsible II is moral agent,
and sIe it has rights which il forfeit, and duties
which IL should eysds. Liberty Of conscience and lib
of speech its naienabe prcrogatves No earthly
power justly the ofts honest convc-
tons Il has influence Of its exercise, and a
character OF its maintain Bat yet 1t Is servant Of
the public, and is bound 10 be faithful 10 the public inter-
II ognise the authority of TRUTH and must
its in reference kind of fixed pfnci-
Pile If guilty Of duplcity tergvesaon It wrongs all
who trustit and lis character pay the penalty.
Now. have charged upon the Daily Tunes the gross
Inconsistency in regard its conduct before, during
and after the political which has just closed We
have said that laborcd prevent any promugaon OF
principles by the Wing National Convention that did Its
promote the nomination of General Scott that
during the repeatedly vile reproach upon the
OF Daniel Webster that it wautonly calumnaied the
ntary honor OF General Pierce that dsavo1ed the
binding force of the Com promise and OF the Baltimore
utions affirming III that 1t acclaimed vehementy
pom the Of the election until the prospect OF the
nominee grew dim, aud that then It's spir,
grew and its fidelity unsteady that a the result IL
abused General Scott, commended General Pierce lauded
Daniel Webster denounced the ant.lavery spoke
voaby of The Comp and affected consider that
was quite well for the county that the contest
as did Surely there here which worthy
of some kind OF efutaon II either pos
sbe But they met simply by two paragraphs OF sting
less ponte aimess abuse, which is only be-
ncs Ia contempt in itself, but has the least ostensbe
come ion with tho matter under consideration Oar co.
temporary. bound to presume has degree OF
sci Prospects but should suppose that tho least particle
OF such senne would have sulced to keep IL from
bnmiaring Blank silence would have been
decent she'er in comparison so foul The only
part this efosion which has any bearing upon sui
Gle is which purports describe its import Ii reads
rs follows
He weighs. with and con .cientious ac.
cuacy in his high poised scales of Justice the epcotive
claims his adm mifson and endorsement Of the Tubnn.
and the Times and after duly weighing the 'outspokep
snrsavery, and frank rad'oalism Of the one with its
ghtforward adhesion TO party lines, against the mod
and greater political of the