The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-10-19
who is the WING Candidateq

Ills certainly rather late in the day TO moot this ques-
ton nevertheless we observe that wing journals dis
cussng with manifest purpose OF getting al some sat-
isactory solution Practically the question possesses no
importance however interesting il may be as subject OF
abstract debate Be the whig candidate who be may,
Franklin Pierce will be President. This is the will OF
the peope As respects the result OF The election say
j, matters not whether The wing candidate be Daniel
Webster or Winfield Scott; but as concerns the wing
party il is question OF momentous importance II Dan.
ie Webster be the candidate OF the wing party, then does
the wing party maintain lis nationality and contend for
is ancient principles But il Winfield Scott be its
diaxte, then has il degeneraed 10 sectional faction,
impotent for good and capable only OF mischief Who
then, is the wing candidate
Daniel Webster and Winfield Scott are before the
country each claiming through his friends to be the rec
ogused representative and champion OF wing principles
AT q national convention OF the wing party, faction or
gained for the purpose OF warning against the constu
lion and the rights OF the South conlrved, By desperate
efforts and INSCRIPTIONS MEANS 10 ois the representative
Of its own views upon the party against the ofirePeaed
protest OF the only sound and conservative portion OF the
party This 10 the basis OF General Scofs claim TO be
regarded as the candidate OF the wing party The insult
cheney OF he title to the position has provoked Numbers
Of the best and s,aunches wings in the country TO epu
date his nomination The Boston Courier, wing jour.
nal Of established position and extensive influence
tends that General Scott has claim whatever upon the
support Of whgs; and il must be confessed that its argu
men,s are not without force;
CAs WHO work FOR GENERAL Scorr THE wing party
proless certain distinct political prime pies; they profess
support certain distinct system OF public measures An
adhesion these principles, by word and deed, and
actual support these things which afford
the proper criterion Of political character the question
whether is wing not. When II 10 pretended
that Cen Scott wing, ask what has he done prove
hf II he has done any such thing, do not know
wben where how the thing took place. lfhe has
done IT, 10 rational TO scopose that II be upon
record some here least preserved In the memory
omebody We call for the proof wherever whatever il
10. Till such proof be produced, ask " any wing
vote for General Scott 7
II 10 time for people think seriously OF this matter for
regret perceive that thousands OF honest aud well.
ntsnoned In the whg party have acted In this
without thinking They have rushed to the support Of
regular nomination" before asking themselves whether
they giving in reality to whig candi-
date and to whig pripcpl Thousands viii be surprised
find asking the above questions, and ssonshed dis
that they be answered But the spirit OF In
quy" is roused and the trick Of the Baltimore Conven.
ton begins TO he through. Have we whig candi-
date In General Scout Have we whig principles 70 sup
port In sustaining him These questions which the
defenders OF the Baltimore nomination find impossible to
svsde-im possible 10 answer.
The wings have been told that Mt Baltimore everything
done fairly. Was II, indeed The great and para.
duty Of the convention nominate uhfg-a
whose political character was beyond doubt suspi
eion-s whom the parry could trust The convention
did no such thing. They nominated man who was never
known whiga Of whose political prncp Piles or
Of whose notions Of government the county knows nothing
ALA man who might have been caught up and put In
nomination by any OF Of parties factions
in United States with the plsusbtliy ms he
brought before the public in the character OF a
whisl Il impossible deny this the confession must
be upon lips OF every who dsres speak the truth
There whg principles shown in the nomination OF
General scou, and there IL whg principle In sup
porting him There IL total abandonment Of principle Ia
both.
Again. are told that the nomins OF General Scot
must be ,uprosd in order to maintain the integrity OF
@ wing pary-a most erosterous assertion, contradict
Cd BY every rational and com view Of the
ter Give real wing candIdste-s whose life and
actions vouch fof his political eharacera man whose
principles are so well known that repose our con.
hoence IN hm-a man who does require afdavits and
ssunca'es 70 prove him vhiggive such candidate
'n's, sna mere may be hope Of mainta lining the
integrity OF the parry in supporting him Bat what shall we
,h'nk o' political managers who tell rs In their new.
nseo ana tfanscendenial WISDOM that the way 10 pre-.
s '"e Puy w !" integrity Is to pass every eminent
man contansevsy of pacity and ar oerieuoe in
public businessevery well known "a, bs .o,nd ,ybg
prnoiples-evey man Of character note influence and de
ser ss whg-snd place their head an des,i
tne OF all these recommendations selected
because nobody knows what his political prncpie. a.
whether he has any at ALL Is the integrity OF The vh,
party 70 be preserved by such conduct AZ his, /.
on the contrary, the way to ruin the party To b
shvorl's phrase Of certain wings 10 this being Just 10