The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-24
WING NOMINATIONS.
For President,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
For Vice President,
WILLIAM \. GRAHAM
The Pierce Paradox


sellers, and on another as the ''creaton and
choice" of the Secessioniss; and II is argued
that the positions are too paradoxical TO be re-
concileabe with truth or with each other. We
deal only with established facts, and exhibit
them they are patent to the country. IL
they involve contradiction absurdlty.
we are not to be called upon to harmonlze them
or to mitigate their folly. The points as We
have put them, however paradoXical, are liter
ally true.
General PIERCE has the hearty support Of 4
large proportion of the Freesoilers in majority
of The States where the Freesoil faction occu
pies prominent position. In Pennsylvania, Mr..
WILMoT is earnestly engaged in his behalf,
and those who, under Mr.. WILMor's leader
ship, voted for MARTIN VAN buren, in 1913.
are doing their utmost to elect PIERCE in 1852.
In New York, the VAN BURENs occupy posts
of honor and influence in the list of PIERCE
campaigners; b. f. BUTLER, their old ally of
the Buffalo organization, Is out for PIERCE.
while deriding the platform on which he pro-
fesses to stand; the New York Erening Post
the ablest and most influential paper ia the
PIERCE interest, ridicues the platform as
worse than farcical in its origin, and repudates
it of no binding obligation whatever; and the
Albany .7tlas, the mouthpiece of the Barnburn
ers, follows the example of the Post, with an
explicit declaration that the agitation against the
South will be renewed 50 soon as the PIes
dental campaign shall be ended. In Ohio and
Wisconsin, the noticeable Freesol journals
are working with the Democratic party as
that most likely to serve their ulterior pur
poses; regarding PIERCE as committed by
his local associations and home declarations
to views thai are separabe from the Free
soil agitation. So it is in a greater or less de-
gree in the other Northern States. PIERCE
is the Freesoil favorite as leading Democrat,
Of State whose Democracy have been always
hostile to the South, and as the candidate of
party ready at all times to coalesce with the
most fanatical enemies of constitutional Obliga
tions when such a coalition tends, as in Massa
chusetts, to the advancement of cherished in
terests and objects. The nomination of HALE
is no proof to the contrary. twas made against
the expressed wishes of Freesoilers now openly
fighting under the banner Of PIERCE, and it is
regarded at this moment as pregnant with peril
to the PIERCE prospect in Freesol districts.
This is one half of the paradox. Now for
the other.
General PIERCE was barely nominated when
MIR. FoRYTH proclaimed him the "creation
and choice'' Of the extreme Southern Rights
party. The task Of formally conveying a no.
tice of the nomination to Concord was CON
fided to Mr.. SoULE, who subsequently rat-
fed the FORSYTH avowal by declaring that
the Secessionsts voted for Mr.. PIERCE with
full knowledge of the man. In Alabama,
Judge CLAY, a PIERCE elector recommends
the nominee as Secessionist; Colonel Sci
BLEs, another eector in the same State,
does the same; and Mr.. YANCEY and Colonel
terry endorse the recommendation as the
ground of their preference for PIERCE. In
South Carolina the Secessi0nists are for PIERCE.
He has JEFFERSON DAVIS for an advocate in
Mississippi, and DAvIs's friends control the
State ticket. In Georgia, the same faction d.
rect the movements of the party, and the
active workers on that side in the canvass.
The press throughout the far South demon
strate the prevalence of this state Of things.
The journals most actively enlisted in the
PIERCE cause. and most extravagant in their
eulogies of PlERcE's merits, are the journals
which, until recently, devoted themselves to
the reasonable service of the Secessionists--
which sgnaized themselves by their attacks on
the Compromise at every stage Of It's pro-
gress-and which systematically and with
language of fierce hate denounced every
Union Democrat as unworthy Of political fell
Iowship. The PIERCE organs of to-day in the
South were the Secessonst organs of yester-
dav. inst as the active out-ofdoo workers for
PIrRcE wee the active out-of door workers for
dsunion. The pens that plead for help from
Union Democrats are the pens that were EN-
ployed in ostraclzing 6very man suspected OF
being friendly to the Union. The nomination
of a separate Secessionist ticket in no respect
weakens the force of these facts 1t Is con-
demned as folly by ninety-n out Of every
hundred of the Secessionists, who manifest
their anxiety for the success OF General PIERCE
in way that must stagger every thinking
lover Of the Union. 1t is known, moreover,
that TRoup ard 4UIrMAN, the nominees OF the
by extremists as incarnations Of extreme South
ern Rights opnions-are themselves favorable
70 the election of PIERCE.
We repeat that these are established tacls,
and the recapituation Of them proves the exist
ence of the apparent anomaly which ComPro-
mise Democrats ridIcule as impossible. There
il no doubt, so far as we know, about any one
Of the points. Their precise accuracy admits
Of demonstration by reference to the passing
records of the localities particularly concerned;
and the grouping Of them adds to t.S:e'r force.
Looked at they stand. they show thai
PIERCE is essentially a sectional candidate He
is the candidate Of the fanatics and mischief
makers North and South, and could never have
obtained the nomination if the Union members
of the Baltimore Convention had constituted
majority. The known, tried, Compromise can
didates were rejected again and again; and
when at length the prospect Of complete disor
ganization presented itself, the freesoilers and
,,or, an, hlod IN unita tbair fnrcas