Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-05-17
masters for the North has been greatly arrest

Ii We know that our candidate Is sound,what
do We care for the abstract opinions OF Mr..
Seward and his associates upon the general
principles Of the Compromised III the law was
not already on the statute book. there might he
some show of reason and good sense in re
curing the North to yield their idiosyncrasies
before we would cooperate with them; but
when before was it known. that our party. or
any other party, objected to AbolltIon'sts. Free
Sellers. native Americans. Democrats or
Wings, helping them 10 elect their own csndi-
dates in Presidential or other elecfionl-
What party or candidate ever yet complained
that those Of another party would help them,
to SUGGEST If Mr.. Clay were now before
the people, do not doubt, he could get
large Free Soil, Abolition, and Democratic
otc.and would he or his friends complain of
or make it an objection 10 liml And why
should we object to their support Of Gen Sc"tt.
If he should be the nominee nf the partyl For
my self | can say, however it may be with 9th
ers) that hen ! have been candidate. was
never SO proud or foolish as to object to any
good vote could get. This absurd cry in the
South against the Abolition vote for Scott, in
dicates a want OF candor that is without par
aliel. or it betrsys want of reason that amounts
to foolery. 1t only serves to create prcjudices,
that we ourselves may be called on i'll few
weeks to remove, when. In the mean time. We
have put the weapon in the hands of our ad
versaries to be used against US. The truth is,
all the Democratic candidates. and all their
friends, " ant the vote, and because they cant
get it, they unite in a complaint against Scot,
because he can. They know that none of them
can be elected without it. These sa,ne &c nile
men could do great deal to get it for Mr.. Fill
more, and the Democrats would move the
every stones Of Rome" TO carry it for their
candidate, shocked as they profess 10 be that
the Wings should trust any man for whom
they would vote. For my part, | hope Mr..
Fillmore, Gen. Scott, or Mr.. Webster, which
ever may he the candidate may get every Free
Soil and Abolition vote IN the country, with
smart eprinkling of the Democracy, and l
should not apprcliend that either them would
thereby become either Abolironist or Demo
crat. But so far from Mr.. Stewards leading
and managing this matter. he is only following
current Of public sentiment that he has not
the power to resist, and he is striving by this
means to get bark himself into the Wing ranks.
By the way, let me ask who are the agita
tors nowl No matter which section presents
this question, the other must, and will oppose
it; now suppose those in favor of the repeal of
the law, we're to omit no opportunity when
Northern and Southern men were collected 10
gether, 10 introduce resolutions declaring the
Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional and I'M
satisfactory and that it ought TO be repealed
would they not lie denounced by the South as
gi,ators and disturtcrs If the public peacel
And if, on every like occasion. the South " i'll
persist in presenting resolutions Of an opposite
! character. do they not themselves become the
asitators and dis,urhers of public rrpose7 As
long as We have the law and it is executed we
should lee satisfied. What more should we
ask What more have We a right to dcmanii
OF one thing-I feel perfectly assured. and
that is. that We coud have no safer man on the
Compromise than Gen. Scott; not because he
is more in favor of it than some others, but he
cause he is as much in favor of i, as any oMer;
and because he is as fixed and static in his
opinions, (sef-wilicd if you choose) and as lit.
tie likely 10 be under improper and undue In
fiuences. as any man now before the Country.
The fare up of the Seceders here is Of no
great nomeni-it mus, die an early and
natural death. L. can produce no serious effect
What consequence rejecting men attach
to i'll In the first place. they give no sarisfac,o
~ reason in their address for tie course thew
have pursued, and there are very few of them
that are known TO have been at any time par.
'icularly friendly to the Compromise. Take
Morton of Florida. for example. He voted
in the Senate.trum first TO last gainst the Com
promise, and he progresses 10 make. not the
Compromise itself test, but the written and
published declaration Of General Scott in its
favor test Of lis political orthodoxy Take
Chngmarl. of North Carolina. for anoter He not
only voted against the Compromise out and out,
but within the last two weeks. he voted against
Hylier's resolution declaring it permanent
settlement Of the questions involved, and that
they ought not 10 be agitated or disturbed.
He Then goes into Wing caucus called for
the purpose Of fixing the time and place of
the National Con, enlion and because a resolu-
ton similar to that he had just voted against is
ruled nut Of order. he indig nantly secedes, and
uutes in the publication ola manifesto against
the Wing party. Again, how can Cabell throw
suspicion on tho character Of Scott, when in his
speech made only few " eeks since, he said
"he happened 10 knoW Genral Scotl's views ON
the Compromise, and he was entitled to the
support of every Compromise man in TIE
country"
My own impression is, that it is quite time e.
nough 10 dishand the Wing party, ard throw
the administration ofthe government into the
hands of the called Democrac,-when it
shall have done something essentially wrong
and not for refusing to agate the question Of
slavery again--lor whenever and wherever
that subject is introduced hereafter, bv either
section TO the other it must lead to agitation:
while the North is for the most part willing 10
acquiesce, they are not prepared in body, (e-
ven those who d" acquiesce,) to endorse all the
principles of the Compromise; and for one, l
am satisfied With Northern acquiescence.
though from the South would ask for some
thing more. In my judgment they should ap-
prove.
You are not to infer from any thing that
have said, that write as the partizan of Gen.
cral Scott. l write as Wing, to do Justice
to the position of "a true Wing that has Ieen
traduced and slandered; one that we MAJ be
called upon in few weeks to support as The
ca ndidate of the party; one against HON PIE
JUDGE has been 6ercely at work, and one who
will receive my ardent and earnest support If
nominated by the National Convention. As a
delegate TO that Con, ention, l shall sunport
the manthat upon consultation i,h Whigsf from
every part of the Union. shall believe to be
the strongest and most certain to bring victory
to our flag, and defeat TO the other side. am
partizan ofno mani 60 for The party, and
the principles of the party. and not for men