The southern press., 1852-06-17

al character, IDOSe anu "NiSh
make the people love him as they loved Jack
son, Harrison, and Taylor, They admire him
"a a military hero, but that is the beginning and
the end of il. The idea of his availability will
| turn out TO be the greatest possible mistake.
He will prove to be the weakest man ever run
for the Presidency He will be more over
whelmingIy defeated, in my opinion, than any
man who has ever been placed in that position
! by any considerable political organization Why
| is it that the Wing party cannot nationalize IT.
self by running him for the Presidency Be-
cause of the auspices under which he has been
| made candidate, and the course h, has thought
proper to pursue,
The distrust of the Southern people cannot
now be overcome, and when il is seen that he
can get no Southern States, no Northern sup
| porter of his will have the slightest confidence
| in his success; and he is indeed tyro in poll
tics, who does not understand that such be-
lief as that would deprive his supporters of that
zeal and energy which is necessary to success,
even in those States at the North, where, under
different state Of things, he might reasonably
hope for success. Sir, | do not claim TO be a
prophet, but | predict with entire confidence,
that as soon It's his Northern supporters see that
he can carry no Southern State, and they can
not hope for go operation in that part OF the
| Union, they will appeal TO the anti-slavery SEN
! timent common to the people of the North, and
give sectional shape to the Presidential can.
vass They will throw him into such canvass
as that, and the cry will be repeal of the fugi.
tive slave law, and the support of General Scott
as the representative Of that idea. Whatever
may be his individual sentiments and purposes,
that will DO the direction of the canvass. Al.
ready we see that the editor Of the New York
| Tribune herads to his readers the nomination
Of General Pierce, by the Democratic convention,
| as follows:
"The Union does not contain bitterer or IL
more proscriptive pro-slayery bunker than
Franklin Pierce For years he has been fore
most in sitting every aspiration for freedom
among the Democracy of New Hampshire. He
insisted that John P. Hale should be ostracised
and crushed because he refused to vote for the
annexation of Texas without stipulation that
some part of its immense unsettled territory
should be secured for free soil The Post has
more recently seen this same Frank Pierce de.
prive John Atwood of his nomination for Gov
ernor, and drive him out of the party for no.
thing else than expressing a repugnance to the
fugitive slave law. In all New England, slavery
and slave catching have had no more unsctuPu
ous thick and thin serytor than this same
Frank Pierce" ..=.
Honor to General Pierce. if the Tribune truly
states his posi- ion, as | believe it doei. Now,
with what face can a Southern man go before Il
Southern audience to oppose the election of
General Pierce to the Pre- ,ideney of the United
States, if he shall be opposed by any man who
does not st.nd as unquivdcally upon the same
ground denounced by Mr., Greedy in the Tribune
and described in the article from which have
read. Why, sir, ycu may talk about Bridgewater.
and Lundy's Lane, and Vera Cruz, and Cerro
Gordo, and all those battles in vain You will
get nothing in reply but a bitter laugh of scorn
and dersion from the Southern people when
you stand up before them and try to reconcile
them to such state of facts, with such misera-
BILE humbuggery as that. They will despise
YOU, laugh at you, and spurn you. You will
fail as badly as Kossuth failed in his Southern
campaign. The people Of the South cannot be
thus humbugged.
| believe, for those and other reasons, which
will endeavor to state if my time allows me,
that the nomination of General Scott, noto,
under existing circumstances, whatever resolu-
ton may be passed by the convention, whatever
letter he may write, will result either in the i'm.
mediate disruption of the Wing party, or in its
final Authorization. | believe he cannot get
The vote of a single Southern State. lie will
be nominated, If nominated at all, by a sectional
vote il, indeed, all the representatives of the
South shall be true 10 the trust confded to
them; and he who fails to represent Southern
sentiment and Southern feelirg in that ccnven.
ton upon those high issues, let him look 70 it,
let him look TO it Ii he has position, hope, or
prospects ut home-if.his hopes are not directed
elsewhere than at home, let him look well TO il.
He who betrays the trust confided 10 him by
any portion Of the Southern people, in that con
venton, and, under existing circumstances---ac.
quiesces in, or gives his consent to the nomina
ton of General Scott-if am not very much
mistaken, will be branded with brand Of infamy
that will dishonor him through his life, and be
a reproach TO his children when be is 10 bis
grave.
But the abolitionizing Of the Wing party will
not be the OILY evil result accomplished by the
nomination Of General Scott at Baltimore II
will place WILLIAM II. SEWARD in the same re-
ation to the Wing party Of the Union that he
now occupies in reference 90 the Wing party OF
New York and the great States sd joining there
TO, and, indeed, to The whole Wing party Of the
NORTH most influential and controlling posi-
ton. Many men, know, are acting under his
nAuence, and guided by the engines which he
controls, who do not know from whence comes
the power that moves them. He has reached a
position Of power and influence at the North,
that gives him an almost absolute control over
the Northern " hig organization. lie is the
focus at which concentrate all the hopes Of that
class Of mercenary politicians, who act in poll
tics only with = view 10 personal and pecuniary
advantages. lie has for yesrs controlled the
patronage Of the great Empire State Of New
York-vast in amount, and has occupied posi-
ton that enabled him, to n very great extent, to
control the patronage Of the federal government
here. in reference 10 citizens Of New York.
lie Is looked to as probable President Of the
United States at some future day, by his parii.
sans, and that fact gives him all the power Incl.
dept to such position. lie can concentrate,
WELD, and command greater number Of ener.
getic men, TO accomplish any object which he
desires, than the President Of the United States,
with all the patronage which he dsposes. That
is his position. Such il his power and influence.
Sir, do not undertake TO judge the motives
and objects Of any man, except so far as those
objects and motives are revealed and displayed
by hi1 acts. Tying him by this rule as public
man, in the performance Of what esteem 10 be
public duty, have a.right'o refer 90 his posi-.