The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-08-24
The Canvass.

There are now four Presidential candi
dates IN the field General Pierce, SUP,
ported BY the national democncy-Gen
Scott supported by the frees soil wing Of tn.
whig pany-Daniel Webster. supported b,
the auii-SeOu whiss sc.:h .=l 81 ccs;.-..
supported by the abolitionists. Il is not
known whether they will all run through.
The only one who viii be likely to with
draw is Mr, Webster; but even he has
years ago declared. that the Presidency is
a station not TO be sought or refused
The friends Of the great ~expounder are fixed
aud determined in their hostility to the Free
soil nominee-and will doubtless use every
e-xertion to hold him to the track. Mr.
Wel'sters position is like hat which the
indian says the white man has placed him
~ ~ fegsf6 10 territory. As each year
rolled over. Messsrs. Clay and Webster
have been pushed nearer and nearer TO the
end of the log; he great expounder has
just seen Mr.. Clay pushed entirely of,
without receiving his promised reward
and at his advanced age, his proximity to
;he same fatal point, he cannot hazard to
be pushed four years further. Now is the
time, or never; the inirmities Of 2 from
which he is already suffering, will, after
this canvass, forever seal his hopes of the
Presidency. He know. this, and his friends
know il, and they are determined, and they
are Iesolvd, if they cannot win the race
themselves, that no other wing shall.
Whether Mr.. Webster runs through or
declines. the movement in his behalf must
result in favor Of Gen Pierce. Should he
run, he will get only that portion OF the
wing vote. which never has nor never
would go for a democrat should he de.
cline, four.fifths of that vote will not be
cast at all, and the other fifth will be about
divided between Pierce and Scott.
There is no possibility that, at this advanced
period OF the canvass, his friends can effect
any material change in the determination
OF the free.soilers to support Scott even
at the South, where Mr.. Webster had
many friends previous to the meeting of
wing convention, there would De no
hope OF effecting a material change; for
those wings who have declared in favor of
Scott have done so, mostly, at the expense
'f feelings aud consistency--and men
who can thus easily and suddenly blow from
to cold, could not be calculated upon ;
besides, we honestly believe that General
Scott represents the heartfelt principles OF
large portion of his Southern supporters,
On. the slavery question. The manner in
which the Southern Scott faction has truck.
ed TO the North, in this canvass, is enough
% satisfy any rational mind, that 1t either
sympathies with his slavery opinions, or
It is SO devoted to party, that it is ready
% sacrifice everything for party. If we
give offence, in speaking thus plainly, we
help it, we speak what we honestly
believe.
II is now to be seen whether any very
considerable portion of southern wings
will go for Scott; every day we hear of
honorable and intelligent members of the
party, renouncing Scott, and we do
hope, for the good of the country, that he
may receive such a niggardly vote as to
the North that the South feels and
resents the insult and wrong she has done to
the orthodox wing party.