The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-07-28
The Plot Thickens.

"'''i'S u"ys, tueIe mas Deen great TuSh
OF wing documents from Washington City, for
gratuitous distribution. They are piled up in
certain quarters mountains high, although the
under-strappers, are driving most active dis,ri-
button in both City and country
From the following article, which we take
from Washington City paper of the 18th inst.
we find that Col. Fitz Henry Warren, who has
been for some years notorious in this State, for
his Hog drioing propeusitics, who once hurried
ly escaped out of back door, to save his back
from the lash of an injured man, and who fails
to unite the confidence of his own party in This
state, is daily and actively employed in the dirty
work, OF the wing committee at Washington
attempting we suppose, by his personal efforts.
to redeem himself in the estimation of Scott and
Seward, for the loss of the Iowa Delegation in
the Wing National Convention, which he had
previous to the meeting of the Convention
pledged for Scott.
This political scavcnger, has got a heavy
weight of responsibility to answer for. when tho
time arrives for making up his long running &C
count. But to the article in question. Here
it is.
The Movements of the Enemy.
The committee to conduct the Scott canvass
has commenced operations and the first move
ments made by 1t indicate the inscriptions pol
ICY 1t means to pursue. Our readers will remem-
Der that the Hon. Truman Smith, of Connections.
directed the action of the whig e,ectioneernu
committee OF lS4S; and they cannot lave for.
gotten the character acquired tor that committee
by the manner in which the campaign was
conducted, whereby one section of the Union
was defrauded Of its franchise. We are inform
ed that the Connecticut senator is at his old post
actively dischargng his old duties, with the
cooperation and assistance of MIR. Fitz Henry
Warren, one of the chief councillors of General
Scott.
When Gen. Pierce was first nominated. the
National Era attacked him on account of his
hostility to abolltionlsm, as manifested in his
public career and by his votes in Congress. He
votes TO check abolition petitions by disposinp
of them sumarlly without reference to a COM
mittee or report on their merits--his opposite
on to Mr.. Hale when that gentleman resisted
the annexation OF Texas because it would add
to the consequence of the South, and to Mr.
Atwood when he entered into an alliance with
abolitsm-were dwet on particularly, in order
to Ini1ame the anty slavery sentiment and array
it against him. That attack Of the abolition
| organ has now been endorsed by the Scott CON-
mittee, acting here in the presence of General
Scott tor the committee has republshed it in
pamphlet form, and has sent thousands of CO.
pies to the North and Northwest in order to
bring to the support of the wing ticket all those
hues and shades of abolition fanaticism which
do not obey the commands of Mr. Seward The
adoption OF the abolition appeal by the wing
committee exposes the worthlessness of the
wing platform, by reviling the accredited
agents of the wing party actively engaged in
fomenting the anty slavery excitement am he-
newng agitation on those subjects intendedto
be settled by the Compromise This is the
lie of policy pursued here in the city of WASH
lngton, IN the very presence of General Scott,
by men who hold daily intercourse and consul
tation with him. When considered in connect
ion with other circumstances, it shows plainly
that General Scott, and those who now control
the movements of the wing party, base their
hopes upon sectional vote, and that they are
bending all their efforts to build up a sectional
party by forming frmer alliance with the alb
olitionists, utterly reckless of the inevitable
consequences of purely sectional canvass. 1t
is humliating to see how far the prompting of
ambition or the hopes of personal aggrandze-
ment will lead men to imperil the public safety
We have just passed through one of the sever
| est trials to which we have ever been subjected.
The dangers which menaced us, and the fears
of the best and firmest men among Us, are fresh
in every mind, and yet we see a political orga-
nization, from thirst for power and the emo
luments which flow from power, deliberately
recalling the dangers which have just passed by
US, and imparting new vigor to be bafiled enc
mics of the republic. The eighth resolution of
the Baltimore platform is held up before the
eyes ofthe people in order to conceal the dang
erous purposes of the wing party. South ofthe
Potomac GeneralScott is spoken off as aVirgini-
an one whose birth, whose education, and
whose sympathies make him alive to southern
rights and southern honor and his acceptance
of the platform along with the nomination is
held to be sufficient evidence Of has desire for
The restoration of peace and of the nationality of
his political ideas At the North he is spoken
of as citizen of New Jersey whose prominent
supporters constitute the worst element of
northern politics, and whose chief advisers, and
associates the foes of the Compromise and
the friends of agitaton In the mean time his
political managers, in his very presence, have
adopted the abolitionist attack on General Pier
ce, and by so doing have indelibly imprinted
the hdeous features OF sectionalsm on Gen.
Scotts cause, and have given such character
to the canvass that the defeat of the wing tick
ct. and the overthrow and dispersion of the band
of faction which support it, have become to be
absolutely indispensable to the permanency of
the Union.