The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-09
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"6cett leeds the column" We nd
onhding old soid'er LED 50 o 1dly into the jaws Of
destruction befOre' He ms - his calculations it is
low evident, upon Aiss basis Estimating the
seward faction "a dew York, Pennsylvania and
)ho. TO be ID rAins element OF the whig party in
'nese state, 70 unfortunately believed tn at in hav
ng secV.sd their support as tho starting point the
rest Of the wsrk would be comparatively easy
with these three States at his back, he and his
friends went into the Baltimore Con ventisn sure Of
the nomination, and rather sure Of their power to
knock Gown any platform upon which the South
might attempt TO plant him. But for once the we'll
devised plans Of Seward, Johnston, aud Truman
Smith, were frustrated The wings of the South
had placed themselves in ATTITUDE from which
sbsre was no retreat but in disgrace. And they
went into the convention resolved to bring Governor
Johnston and company to q distinct understanding
in advance Of any nomination. They would have,
and they dia have the vhig platform laid down be.
fore they nominated the whg candidate The
sixty, six votes-nearly all from New York, Pennsyl
vsnia and Ohio-against the platform, openly dis
closed the real seat of the fatal disease of the wing
party 1t was Sewerdism Without the platform,
the party would have been split into two conven-
tiono on the spot; hut with the platform the 6aal
rupture was postponed to the day of the election.
'yish the adoption of the platform, and the SC
eeptance Of the nomination by General Scott with
Tie resolutions annexed, portion Of the South were
recoDciled to the sacrifice Of Mr.. Webster and Mr.
Fillmore. Bot the subsequent Webster movements
in Georgia, North Carolina, Massachusetts,, and
New York, soon betrayed the fact that the expe-
dent had come too late for any practical purpose.
1t was pts aNer-the last resort, The last expe-
dent Of sheer necessity and ceased to be regarded
~ little better than iddler's oath n. a irolic,
when the leading organs Of Seward did "execrate
it AID spit upon it, with that vindictive bitterness
which admitted of no reconciliation.
Thus the platform, in connection with the ma
licious rejection of Webster and Fillmore, for mill
tary and anti alavery availability, operated as
dead letter in the South But it was different in
the North. General Scott had endorsed the Com
promise platform. With the honest anti slavery
fanatics Of the North, with whom principles are
matter of conscience, and conscience the supreme
law, that was enough If General Scott was sincere
he with the South; if not sincere in his written
word, then he was no. to be trusted. Hence, in
spite of the hopes of Seward the schemes of John
son, and the wishes of Greeley, the anti slavery or
free soil party set up ticket Of their own; and the
result in Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania, will
do much to explain the astonishing majoritss in
those States for Pierce and King. "Between two
stools" is musty old proverb, but in this way has
General Scott and the whig platform fallen to the
ground. II was soon enough to ALLEVIATE the sincere
whg free sellers of the North, but too late to re-
move the distrust and suspicion of the South. In
that quarter Seward overshadowed the platform,
xrb; ~ L.
and file of Seward in spite Of all his efforts aud all
the efforts of his organs to dram them back
Now, what is to be done? Sewardism, in a fair
open trial before the people, has broken up the whig
party, root and branch. This is the entertainment
which he has been preparing for them for the last
twenty five years. 1t is the inevitable reward Of
corrupt affiliations with abolition and dsunion agi-
tators, continued and perssvered in despite our
warnings repeated athousand times. What next
There is no longer o national whig party. What
next 1t is announced that the life of W. Sc Yard
is to be published or, what is nearly the same
thing, collection of all his speeches. from his rise
in this State with the hobby horse of anti masonry
quarter of century ago. Perhaps this pubica-
tion ofthese precious speeches il intended for
organization of Sewardism in the orh, preparatory
to the campaign of 1856. It is the last chance and
We may therefore expect before long reconcilia-
tion between Seward and the Hale free sellers, un
less indeed Hale should prefer to stand his ground
upon his own footing.
For the present, let il suffice that the whig party
is defunct-dead beyond all hope of resuscitation-
stone dead; and that Sewardism has killed it and cut
it up into fragments. Let it suffice that the leading
organ Of the arch agtator proclaims the whg party
annihilated and announces to the public that Sew
ards speeches are soon to be published, to show
them exactly, perhaps, that he is the great North
ern anti slavery whig candidate for 1885, and if he
should absorb all the anti slavery factions, and all
the ragged isms of the North into his ranks let the
South look well to their defences. The whg partyis
dead, but Seward is still alive, though little the
worse for the late earthquake. Let US watch his
What next!