New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-11

intelligent pOiltlclan, that no sucn nope eau
ne,r be cherished. The defeat of Bolts,
Goeein, Flournoy, Raymond, &C., the
election of thirteen Loco-Focos to Congress
out Of fifteen land one of the two Union
Why's elected has since bolted and gone
in search Of the Baltimore Plattorm) with
the subsequent discontinue of the eloquent
and popular Summers by far inferior can
didaie, " ho was chosen Governor over him
by Six Thousand majority, have fixed the
political attitude of Virginia beyond ques-
ton. If We had George Washington alive,
ard in the full vigor of his powers, to run
for President. she would turn her back
upon him, and vote for any County Court
lawyer and whsky-drinking demagogue
in whose behalf the cry of Resolutions
of %" should be raised. Virginia will
nerer be Wing State so long as her chief
marketable export consists of the Labor
ers born on her soil, and in the absence OF
a system of thorough Common School Ed
ucation.
We will say nothing about New York,
because Mr.. Fillmore's friends think he
could carry it, and we can only argue with
them from premises to which they must
concede authority. Yet the facts that our
Wing Members of the late Legislature, by
very large majority, designated Gen.
ScoTT as the man for the crisis, and that
the eight Delegates hitherto elected, from
so many different and widely separated Dis
tricts, are all in favor of Scott, are indica-
tons of decided significance. With but
two parties in the field, this State is al
ways sharply and closely contested; and
| in 1S44, with the names OF CLAY,
FILLMORE and FRELINGHUYsEN at the head
of our tickets-the first almost idollzed
bv the Wings, and both the others resi-
dents of our State and eminently confided
in-we we're beaten in spite of superhuman
exertions-Clay and Frelinghuysen by
5000 and Fillmore by 10000 majority
Neither Polk nor Dallas had one particle
of personal strength in our State, and In
fact were hardly known by name until
nominated by one-tenth of those who gave
them the vote of this State. And we are
likely to have new candidates against US
| now.
But we put New-York aside and ask
such Wings as Mr.. Gentry whether they
hope to carry Ohio or Pennsylvania for Mr..
Fillmore. If they do, on what Is their
hope based Have they considered the
vote whereby Mr.. Vinton was beaten in
Ohio last Fall! Can they seriously be-
Ieve Mr.. Fillmore stronger in Pennsyl-
vania than Gov. Johnston! II not what
is the doom to which they would lead us -!
We say, Let each State speak for itself.
Ohio has spoken; so has Pennsylvania.
With a unanimity rarely witnessed, and
which had no parallel in 1910, nor '46, they
say, 1--WE can triumph with Scott; we
must be defeated with any body else."
And we insist that they know best what
they can or cannot do.
That in order to secure success, there
will be obstacles to remove, differences to
adjust, chickering's to harmonize, even should
Gen. Scott be nominated, we readily con-
cede; for we do not regard any nomination
as equivalent to an election. But we in
sist that, with candidate for whom three
of the four great States can be confidently
counted on, the work will have been very
well begun. We cannot forget that, at the
Harrisburg Convention in 1889, we had
unanimous Delegation from the Southern
States protesting that, should any other
but Mr.. Clay be nominated, the whole
South must be given up as lost; and yet
Gen. Harrison, who ,cas nominated, OBJ
tanned far larger Southern vote, Electoral
or Popular, than was ever given to any
other Wing candidate, and carried several
States which never voted for any Southern
Wing candidate-not even for Mr.. Clay.
And we believe that, if Gen. Scott shall
prove unpopular In the South, 1t will be
because such Wings as Messrs. Marshall,
Outlaw, and (alas, that we should be COM
PEELED to say it y Gentry have labored to
make him so.
We submit the whole subject to the
calm good sense of the Wing party of the
Nation. If they shall see fit to impose
sectional tests and exact Slavery or anti
Slavery pledges of their candidates, they
will probably succeed in defeating them;
for uniformity of sentiment respecting Sla-
1oac