The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-08-22
The Scott wings and the Administrati ton.

As the canvass goes on the deadly feud in the whig
ranks grows and manifest. The Scott organs
beginning 10 abuse the administration and its adhe-
rents in good earnest The charge they make is the
charge OF treason. The higher law" men OF The party
having got the control and the nominee insist that Mr.
Fillmore and Mr. Webster and their friends come
into the movement cordially aud support the nomination,
(" higher-lawism" and all. or else be denounced as
traitors
AS specimen OF the treatment which the administration
and friends receiving at the hands OF the lead.
ing Scott organs, we subjon the following article
from The Cincinnati Atlas, which to have been
called forth by the appointment OF the Hon Hum
phrey Marshall as commissioner 10 China. We are at
loss to understand wha, grounds the Atlas can Justify
its coarse abuse OF MIR MarshaPs letter. That letter was
quite the of what the Atlas describes il to be-
was a calm, temperate, aud able statement of MIR Mar
shars reasons, whig, for declining to support
Sewardsm and its candidate II was as we remember,
neither evident" personal nor Inconsistent"
but had force and logic enough in it to strike home
We concur, however. with the Atlas in thinking that
the administration has shown clearly enough that looks
very coldly upon General SCOTS nomination II is
equally clear that great numbers OF the wings all over
the county, who haveb strong supporters OF Mr..
Fillmore and Mr. Webster, would greatly prefer To-
row to see General Pierce elected rather than General
Scott
These wings, as we gather their views from their
leading organs, hold
ls, Tha, General Scott is not qualified for the pres
dency.
3D. That he is in the hands and under the control Of
a very bad set OF men in the whig party.
II
reopen the sectional controversy upon "hgheraw prn
cples thereby secfionaiising the wing party for the
future.
4h That would bring in restoration Of Galphinism
5h, And that in general the experiment OF wbig rule for
the last four years has been bad failure that il has
ed with abuses that il has done very little for the country;
that has placed the executive and legislative departments
OF the government 10 opposition TO each other; that IL
has caused great OF money to be spent very little
good purposes thatt has exhibited the spectacle OF
executive government in all its policy, but especially in
its foreign policy entirely without sympathy with the
American people and that, upon the whole, this state
OF things has now lasted about long enough and that it
is time that the government put fully and fairly into
democratic hands in its executive well its legis
lave department.
Such we think from present Indications are the views
operating upon the minds Of many wings, who were
yet willing to support Mr. Fillmore, mainly because
Sevsrdism was deadly hostile to him.
II we understand the Atlas, that Journal in the follow
ing article, substantially admits that the present admins
traon, at all events has shown itself hostile TO the cleo
ton Of Gen. Scott: ..t
"ArroNrWU HuwrHsEY Administrators or
tbs ADmrMsrRAToS.-The Hon. Humphrey Msrshsl of
Kentucky has recently been nominated by the Executive
OF the United States the important position OF represent
alive Of this government in China The selection OF this
gentleman, whose only claim notoriey consists in let
ter written several months ago in which he attempted mo-,
merely to the nomination Of General Scott to the
presidency by the conv.u ton a. Baltimore but nerpose
obstacles In the way Of his election Ia case he should be
chosen as the candidate II seams to u.s. be looked
upon In any other light than intimstion that the
President OF the United Sstes and his advisers
than Indifferent the Of the party to which they
prosscdy belong and the election Of him whom II has
chosen ss the exponent Of its principss urss.s rs
" N this thing done in cornerf the sot and esp-
suucuon were not equally open and apparent to all the