The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-03

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and asked him whether Rufus Choate intended sup
porting Scott. Mr.. Harvey answered, Il 90 not
tnoU. Init think not" WE'LL" said the lamented
Webster. Choate has youth and talents, and tell
him for me not 70 mar his future prospects by taking
step in support Of Scotland tell him, as s,y dy-
ing messogeto him, that after the ID day Of Novem-
Der next, the whig party, national party, viii
exist only in history"
This prophecy is precisely the opinion which the
New YORK HERALD has entertained since the nomi-
nation Of General Scott at Baltimore, and even as
ances by which that nomination was effected, the
ruling spirits by which it was forced upon the ma
tioDal wings, and the consemptuous treatment
which marked the repudistion Of the claims Of Mr.
Fillmore and Mr. Webster, were in the outset scom.
bination Of drawbacks fatal to the prospects Of
General Scott, and the unity Of the whig party
Its dissolution was thus decreed st Baltimore.
The compromise platform which the Convention
put forth to concilate the South, notwithstanding
its prompt and even "hasty'' acceptance by Con-
Scott, was extensively regarded as . mere act Of
necessity, from which there was no escape, for the
rejection Of the platform would have been the dis
solution of the Convention. But whatever good
might have resulted from the principles laid down
by the Convention, in recopcilipg the South and
the conservative wings of the North to
their military availability candidate, was de-
stroyed in the very outset, by the leading
Seward organs, Tin splitting upon and execra-
ting" the platform, while they seized upon their
man victory Of their faction, and as ouch
boldly thrust him upon the country. Not all the
splendid achievements of General SCOTS glorious
career in Canada and in Mexico, nor all the admit
ration and gratitude of the American people for
successful military services such his, could
tain the dead weight Of the seditious s'hgher law
faction, who seized upon him as their champion,
and, as such, sustained him to the bitter end.
1t had been less Objectionable to reward General
Scott with the Presidency, had it not been SO i'm
portant-sO infinitely important-to break up
and dispense the nest Of unclsan birds into
which he had been betrayed And it is due to
him in common Justice to say, that it was
not so much from his want Of Qualifications for the
Presidential oiice-not so mush from his antece-
dents of Native Americanism, and other rigid
and hard sbslled federal prineiples-not much
from the bad repute into which whg military Pres
idsntial candidates had fallen-it was not 50 much
from any Of these causes OF ali combined, that Gen.
Scott is SO signally vanquished, as from this
incubus OF Sewardism, which crushed him down,
ard held him down, in spite of ali bic efforts to
rise to his feet. The election in fact, wac made
an issue with the people between the "higher
laws and the Constitution - between the
revival OF the slavery agitation ard disuuion
on the one hand, and the restoration of harmony
and Fraternity with the North and the South. The
voice of the people, like voice Of thunder, from
all points Of the compass, has INDICATED their
devotion to the Union, and has re affirmed their
sound JUDGMENT and enlightened convictions with
the emphasis Of an earthquake.
The prophecy of Mr. Webster, that " after the
second of November the whig party, as national
party, will exist only in history we apprehend,
begins its fulflment from this morning. The ties
which have heretofore bound the wing na-
tional party together are riven in twain
In truth, there has been but a nominal co-opera-
ton between the several great divisions of the
party, since the last fatal Baltimore Convention
N,,uy nr nj h.
North. by Seward and his instruments Of abolition
seditOn, he'd produced it's bitter fruits chasm,
too deep and wide to be closed Up bridgsd over.
had been made between the Seward faction and the
wings of the south and their conservative brethren
Of the North, and their final separation was inev.
table. II has come. The national whg party is
dissolved. Z" 1t exists only in history It was,
but is no more.
We may, therefore, anticipate, as the next thing
in order, the re organization Of the shattered ele
ments of tie late whig party. There can be no
more fraternizing, on their Baltimore resolutions,
between Southern wigs and the cohorts or Seward
ism. The former have only now to rally upon some
independent platform, together with the conssrya-
tive wings Of the North, for they are now too late
to fall in with the national democratic party. The
Seward faction may be expected to show the cloTen
foot. Their natural alternative is to join the
free soil and abolition factions Of sll shades
n the formation Of great, overshadowing
Northern snti-sisvery party, with Seward at the
head, and Greeley at the tail. But the back Of the
serpent is broken, and few more lus.y blows will
kill it outright.
The democratic party have now splendid career
opened before them, and If they fail appropriate
it to the proper advance Of all the great in