Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-07-24
More Whig Testimony.

The Boston Courier-the home organ of Mr..
Webster and the Oldest whig journal in New Eng
land-thus refers to Gen. Scott and the influences
that secured his nomination. 1t likewise points
out the imposture of the Platform
"Does any man wonder that the nomination of
Gen. Scott is received with forbdding murmurs by
great portion of the whg party, when it is seen
who did the deed, and how it was done There
are some persons, indeed, who deplore the folly
and deprecate the consequences of the transaction,
but recommend acquiesence, simply on the ground
of its being a'''regular nomination" The choice
of the candidate, they tell us, was fairly made
Now, what is fairness in a business like this >
Nobody denies that the ballots fairly written,
fairly dropped into the boxes, and fairly taken out
Fairness such as this, there certainly was-me-
chancal fairness -arithmetical fairness-an the
act of balIotinq But the true character of the
transaction lies much deeper than this, and covers
much broader ground. The thing should be not
only fair the face, but fair underneath-fair in
the beginning as well as fair IN the end There
should be be no corrupt influences, no fabrication
of public sentiment under the mask of an arthmet-
i,al majority; forestalling of opinion no
springing of traps, or taking of undue advantage
no circamvemtion, no juggling no secret snares );
no crafty beguilings, making up Fictitious senti-
ment, without any true expression of the general
will. If there has been vitiating process of this
character running through the whole transaction,
which has led in the end, not to the accomplish
ment but to the defeat of the great object for
which the Convention was designed, can any man
say the thing was fairly done ? To bring the fair
ness of this nomination to the real test-one that
will be Ineligible to the common of every
common man, let any man ask himself-Has the
Convention done what the people desired it to do?
Has it done what the people in their hearts ap-
prove? We need not answer these questions, the
people are speaking out everywhere. He that hath
ears to hear let him hear.
There are those who disapprove of the whole
business, but are disposed to submit-though
with exceeding reluctance and msgiving, to the
nomination of Gen. Scott, because of the platform
We admire the easy temper more than the wis
dom shown by such acquiesence. No position, as
it appears to us, can be more inconsistent. The
platform IS already discarded by those Uho contrib
ed the nomination, and they aOW not be bound By It,
They have told US with the brutal coarseness and
ferociy of language characteristic of the Freesoi
and Abolition class of politicians, that although
they support Gen. Scott, they ''defy, erecrate and
SPIT upon" the whig platform Now, these spit
| ting cats, in whose amiable company we de-
sired to 90 into the struggle, the 0ery men oho
surround Gen. Scott, mho managed the Convention
so as to bring about has nomination, and who will
possess his ear and direct has counsels IN aohaever
public station he may occupy He is emphatically
their candidate and IS idle to sag he oW not be
used for their special purposes. Can the wings
have any confidence in such men any hope for a
business carried on under such auspices