New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-04
Word on the whis Nomination.

WASHINGTON Wednesday June Q, 1852
Obloquy is the necessary ingredient of
all true glory. So says the great Irishman. We
accept the aphorism. 1t is our present cOnsola-
ton. We are magned without stint, and must
draw consolation from some quarter. We well
come the aid of philosophy 1t is of no use to turn
upon our assailnnts. Personalities have no inter-
est to the general reader, and ill.mannered fell
lows who have got old enough to be writing in the
newspapers, can hardly be improved by fagella-
ton. We shall not, therefore, stop to waste
words upon the Albany, Michigan and New-York
editors who are so liberal in their assaults We
must devote our attentions to persons Of more
consequence, and to matters of really public con-
Germ.
1t is impossible for a man who perceives the true
state Of things, to restrain the expression Of his
Indignation over the efforts Of the President and
his friends to control the Wing nomination. One
may perhaps well abste the energy of his repre-
hension in view Of the fact that these efforts,
however zealously conducted and blisdly pushed,
will, at the last, fail. But the desire to rebuke
such censurabIe proceedings nevertheless exists,
and refuses to be denied expression. Ii is nothing
that one escapes the contents of a loaded pistol,
because it missed fire. 1t is quite difficult to re-
gard the attempt to discharge it with cOmplaceD-
cy, because it happened TO prove unsuccessful.
But We are especially urged to the expression of
osr sentiments because We hear ID daily said that
the President and his friends really expect
in their efforts. Indeed, we even hear of offers to
bet that Mr. FILLMORE will be nominated.
Now, what we have to say, that we think ought
to be said is this We believe it to be fact, that
the patronage of the Government never more
directly and determinedly used to further the per-
sonal aims of the President than now. We do
not think ID will be denied by any unpreudiced,
wel-informed man, that Mr.. FILLMORE would not
get u single vote in Convention from the Free
states, tout Of Astounding iberality we might ex-
cept the Buffalo DISTRICT but for the exercise of
the influence and patronage of the Government to
procure delegates. And we believe it to be equally
true that, but for the same influences, neither
Georgia, nor South Carolina, nor Alabama, and
probably neither Arkansas nor Texas, would send
delegates to the Convention. What, for example,
can be more palpaby the work of custOm-hOuse
officers end agents, and wire -pullers of the Adj
mnistraton, than the recent skeleton caucuses at
| Charleston and Mobile And what more plainly
the offspring Of the agencies, and at the
| time more prepOstcrOus, than the proposed repre-
| ssntatOn from Georgia A most distinguished
former Wing politician ofthat State has lately de-
| clared that the delegation from Georgia in the
Wing National Convention will not represent
constituency of 200 voters in the State all told
by this statement meaning to convey the idea that
| there is no Wing party proper at this moment in
the State, acting Independently of the Union "
organization which party organization declared it
would send no delegates to the Baltimore COnven-
ton.
1t is principally in view OF this state of the case
that We say it is difficult to regard with patience
the daily declarations of the Presidents friends,
that they expect to furnish the Wing party with
q candidate tor the Presidency. TO our apprehen-
sion nothing in political conduct can be more cul-
pable and insulting than the active efforts of the
Presidents friends to nominate him by such means.
| The idea of having a candidate imposed upon the
| party by the agency and influences OF Executive
patronage is so abhorrent TO all notions of pro-
| lrety. and would be such an outrage upon fair
| ealing, that we are as tonished to find men OF
sesse and responsibility engaging in such scheme.
| We should like to ask, suppOsiug such an one
| could be successful with what sort of sentiments
would barely beaten minority regard such re-
suit, and what sort of support would they give TO
| such a candidate Can anything in the world DO
more palpable than that he would be repudated
| with Indignation and derision We do not speak
with reference to any fears entertain OF the re-
| suit of the coming Wing Convention at Baltimore.
| We have none-none whatever. The nomination
| of General SCoTT is g dead certainty, and we be-
| liege Will be made by an overwhelming VOTE and
received with universal approval. But we can
easily imagine a closely balanced Convention,
| where such Ieprehensibe measures as we speak
Of might determine the question between rival
candidates. And we solicit the unbiased judg
| ment of every man upon such supposable case,
| and ask what would be the natural effects of
nomination SO obtained Let the answer which
spontaneously arises to every mans inquiries of
himself upon this subject, suggest fitting rebuke
| to the friends Of the President who have been for
months, and are now, making use of the machinery
of the Government, and directing its patronage to
secure MIR. FnLMoRE's nomination. And let it
| indicate to the President himself the odiu that
such transactions must inevitably attach to him,
even if it could not be positively shown that he
| was ptISondiiN do'tcWs anu uiSbS suSu OouiScS'
| The unavoidable implications in the would
aflix stigma which no explanation and no dis
claimer could ever eflace.
1t is not for us to deny that there are very up
right and conscientious supporters of Mr.. FILL
MORRIS nomination. To all such we make no al
fusion. But because there are such, do not
| feel precluded from commenting upon the conduct
of those Of his supporters who, by their position,
may well be suspected, and by their acts afford
conclusive evidence that they DO not belong with
III this category. They ought not to escape re-
huke The csusa NJ truth and the fsa rlessness of