The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-30

{ From the Richmond Eaamiaer
We DO affirm that the nomination OF General Seou was
certainly the result ol bargain between The northern
and southern delegates the independence OF Ncafa-
rgua is the result oil treaty between Great Britain and
the United States IL was not discussed in the
settled by commissioners chosen fof the
purpose by the parties II neither committed 10 pa
per secured by legal witnesses. But was bargain
and understanding" ior all that The representa-
yes Of the southern whg party in That convention gave
o the country candidate " hom they believed 10 be
(sound upon all the questions which divide The North and
6South and whom they knew TO be under the controlling
Influences OF sectional politicians OF the most objection
able sort WITH the UNDERSTANDING" that The repre-
senlaves OF the North would agree series Of paper
pledges by means oil which they, the southern politicians
aforesaid could shield themselves from the Indignation
OF the outraged and betrayed people who sent them
There.
We propose give brief narrative Of the facts. IL
i had become perfectly evident that il Winfield Scott
should be placed before the country ~ the same attitude
hat he occupied up the time ot The conventions
scnbling whatever might be his sectional strength IN
he North the nomination would disorsanze destroy,
IL %ns r. q s !.
he democratic party u those States, and its leaders
would have been LEFT alone In short, The whig party
Throughout the whole South would have been reduced 10
What identical condition which il occupies in the State OF
South Carolina, and by the operation OF the selfs
1tniuences The cunning leaders at Washington did not
regard this prospect with much anxiety They
perfectly willing lose the small chance for that
he whig party has in North Carolina, Georgia, and
Tennessee for the certainty Of carrying Ohio, Pennsy
yania aud New York. through the help Of the free-soi
party proper This help they were certain TO get IN is
ullest il Scott nominated without any pledge
upon the fugitive slave law; and hence they contem
plated the destruction OF the feeble section o the party
.xant the South. with as little emotion and companc
uon surgeon regards the extraction OF decaycd
1iooth horse boy the strangnlaon OF sick puppy
i But when they got together IN Baltimore, It became
cvden that there two sdes to the bargain and that
the southern wings were not disclosed ~ all 10 come IKE
the principles involved in the matter We do not now be-
Eleve. But they cared great deal about the a,sevfa'
which their national leaders disposed to oler up a.
burnt offering for the success Of the whg ticket next
fall Should General Scott he nominated with no other
guarantee for his future conduct than his past history
ey knew well that the last chance ior any local wing
triumph in The southern States would he gone forever
Should the whg party the southern States be thus dis
and sy ea y hs es oop
State honors and State consequence would be shut on
them forever.
Hence The fell determination to resist the nomination Of
General Scot, which signalized by the whg news
papeIs of the South before the meeting OF the convention
When the delegates began 10 arrive in Baltimore ceased
no be question that the southern wings were actually
about to do there all that they had promised In every
knot and group that collected 10 the streets, in the meet
ing OF every separate delegation aud 10 every individual
con they declared and reiterated the deernna
on to which they had all arrivedthat il the convention
persisted in entering upon the nomination before seinnx
up platform BY which the parys influence should M os
souhern delegation would arise and quit the conventions
IN body and leave the North TO make nomination
patiently sectional.
n Intercourse between the two parties convinced the
aorern delegates that the southern would certainly
10 wha, they said However lltle reliance they might
#haye placed upon be mere word-fo II was enough to
2know that the existence OF the southern politicians de-
pended upon Separating themselves from nomination
nadc in the proposed by the Norh-the secss-
sion OF the South consequence that The northern
Ina ori,y not disposed 10 encounier Tor a nonlna
ion absolutely and avowedy sectional-a nomination
made by local instead OF National Conventon-woud
cary moral force with II IN the North. Hence
hey found themselves compelled 10 TO terms They
wganled Winfield Scott. The South wanted Fillmore
But il platform OF five words about southern rights
.et up, the southern members demanded and should
Scott be placed upon it, the South would not secede from
he convention The southern politicians willing
10 take unsafe ii the means oil sef-support be-
fore the people at home granted to them The North
vas willing TO give the world opportunity for
ng how easily political promises broken, should the
South give way Tor President whom eyery body knew
10 be under bond and security 10 Seward and his sale
Mites.
u All this was as well understood by the contracting
laftes If IT bad been written 10 deed by lawyer
lnd signed in the presence OF magistrate. Ii was dis
ussed every conversation, and was mentioned as a
natter OF by everybody II was bargain com.
peed by instinct oaly and II was iact bargain, but a
bargain II The bargain also sirictly fnhled.
III The South got It's platform and the North go, cand
date The southern people sold by the southern
members Tor the OF hood xinking them, and The
county sacrificed by the northern delegates Tor the
abolition vote IN The northern States.