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Letter Of Mr.. ". d. Lucas,
To tie Wings cf the Second Congressional
District of Alabama.
Having acted as oae Of your Delegates To-
the National Whig Convention, Just adjourn
ed, deem it proper to give you some ac-
count Of the manner in which the duties as
signed inc we're discharged. From first to
last, through City odd ballots, I voted for
Willard Fillmore, butt did so without hope,
and under the full conviction that be would
be eventually sacrificed. VIM. Fl. Seward
and the tribe of unprincipled politicians Of
which he is the head, demanded victim,
and l never doubted that they would obtain
what they asked. 1t is true that majority
conceded to the south platform of princi-
pies in most respects unobjectiOnable; but it
would be as rational to expect to chain the
Numidian Lion with threads of gossamer as
to expect the higher LdW politicians Of the
north to respect platform which was wrung
from them solely BY the fear of losing the
nomination of their favorite candidate. No
northern member of Congress will pay the
least regard to it. No one will feel himself
precluded by it from advocating any heresy
to which his inclinations lead A sound ma
tiOnal man in the Presidential Chair is worth
all the platforms ingenuity can devise. An
unsound man will pay little respect to such
fimsy restraints. This was we'll understood
by those who nominated Gen. Scott, and
who must elect him if he is elected at all.
Believing that the influence of his Office
would not be used against them-hoping that
it would be used for them-they have selec-
ted Gen. Scott almost entirely by a sectional
vote, as the standard-bearer of the Wings of
the Union. True, he has accepted the NOM
ination with the resolutions annexed, but
he knows we'll to whom he owes the position
he now has, and he would not be human if
his feelings did not incline him strongly in
that direction. 1t is easy for him to add to
the consequence of Freesoilers and Adolf
tionists by placing them in places of public
trust, it will be equally easy, in the event
of the passage of bill to repeal the Fugi-
tive Slave law, to withhold his veto, and
take refuge under the doctrine that the will
of the people as expressed by Congress ought
not to be thwarted by the Executive. I'm
fortunately, this is already too widely recog-
nized as Wing principle The excitement
created by the singular course of John Ty-
Ter, caused its Incorporation in our chart of
principles of 1874, and it is still adhered
to, although many of our most prudent men
have long been willing to reject it as the
foolish offspring of passion and prejudice
Al, -, IL
will insist that he is, and always has been,
in favor of the Compromise. 1t may be SD,
but what do you or | care what his indivd-
ual feeling may be so long as he is so tram
melled and hampered by Freesoil influences,
so as to prevent him from enforcing to the
fullest extent the Constitutional rights of
the south? At best We can only hope for
his neutrality
The past furnishes US with conclusive ev-
idence that nothing more is to be expected
When Mr. Fillmore was exertiug the full
amount of his official influence to give quiet
and repose to the cOuntry-when Mr.. Web
ster was employing his alrRpst miraculous
powers of reason and eloquence to quiet the
tempest which was raging in the north, Gen
Scott was mute and dumb Fixing his eye
upon the Presidency, and trusting to Free
soil support, he failed entirely to rebuke the
lawleSs and dangerous course which Seward
and his co-workers were pursuing. Fol
such a man | cannot VOTE You | have
pledged to nothing. left you, without pro-
misses of any sort, to pursue the course your
own judgment might dictate. The fourth
resolution of the meeting to which l owed
Al,
81. ReSolUed, That our Delegates make
known to the Convention that they are not
authorized to commit their constituents to
the support of any man for Office who is not
pledged by life, and by open, explicit de-
claration to the Constitution, and faithful
execution of the laws which have been pass
ed, or shall be passed, to give effect to its
provisions; and especially those embraced in
what are usually termed the Compromise
measures"
have acted in accordance with that reso-
luton, stated distinctly in the Convention
that had no authority to pledge you for or
against the nominee. My course is deter
mined on. You will make up your own
minds according to your best judgment of
what duty and patriotism require. l have
been Wing always; l hope still to find
myself acting with the great body of the
southern Wings at least; but if it should
be otherwise, l have only to say that owe
a higher obligations to country than to par
ty. 1 believe the election of Gen. Scott
would be fatal to the best interests of the
Republic it would revive dangerous
sectional agitation, and force the south to
look for protection for its property beyond
the limits of the Union. Believing this, l
should be recreant indeed, if consented
to support him. W. 81. LUCAS.
june, 90, 1852.
CLAY, CALHOUN, AND WEBsTER.-The