New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-16
Letter from Senator Badger.

Club Of Raleigh by the Hon. George L. Badger,
IT, S. Senator from North Carolina, and one of
the most distinguished and able wings in the
Union We commend it to the particular atten-
ton of wings who may have preferred another |
candidate for the Presidency to the one who re-
ceived the nomination of the National Conyen-
tion !: RALEIGH, September q, 1852.
SHIT was my purpose, when | returned |
from Washington, to attend and address the
Club of your city upon the pending Presidential
election. Having been prevented, by cause
beyond my control, from doing what had thus
proposed, deem it proper, in order to prevent
or correct mistake or misstatement respecting
my position and views, to submit this commune
cation to you, and ask that it may be read to
the Club.
| am a decided and rery earnest supporter of
| the whig national nominations for the Presi-
dency and ice-Presidency. 1t is. known to
| you, sir, as well as to many others of my
| friends, that Gen Scott was not my first choice
| for the Presidency; that preferred Mr.. Fill
more, and greatly desired his nomination by
the Convention, | will add, i'll all frankness,
that probably no man in the United States was
more disappointed, not to say dissatisfied. than
[ was when that gentleman was passed over.
| But what have these preferences, disappoint-
ments and dissatisfactions to do with the i'm
! peIltIt lssue HoW supHlttS't W tHe -hiletlS'lii
people, and by them soon to be decideds The
question is not between Millard Fillmore and
| Winfield Scott, but between Winfield Scott and
Franklin Pierce; and, assuming the supe-
riority, in point of qualifications. of Mr. Fill
more over Gen. Scott, it by no means follows
that the latter is not immeasurably above Gen.
Pierce in his claims upon the nation, and espe-
cially the whig party For Fillmore wings to
retire in gloomy discomfort from the contest
because the whig of their choice not selected
by the Convention, is to give preference to
men over principle. to names over things; for
such wings to JON our opponents and make war
on the nominee of the party, is to desert MI
Fillmore himself, to repudiate the course he
recommends and pursues, and to involve them
selves in the pitiabe absurdity of supporting
democratic men and measures, out Of an eN-
treme and exclusive zeal for wliig measures and
for decided whig supporter Of whig measures.
Is not this so Let us see Winfield Scott
was nominated by a general convention Of wings
from all the States. The Convention, previous
70 his nomination, had adopted IA set of resou-
tiG ,Nhodying the principles of the wing
p.1 ~. Gen. Scott has accepted both the NOM
nation and the resolutions. To these resou-
'ic1s no wing, at least no Southern whig so far
/. as know, takes any exception. 10 abandon
the Nomination then, so far this contest is
l.. concerned, is clearly to abandon the principles
+ themselves. 1t is to prefer democratic meas
!, ures, to be carried out by a democratic Presi-
dent, to whig measures to be carried out by a
whig named Scott, when tifesc salffe~ measures
are admitted to be altogether excellent, and to
be greatly desired, if carried out by whie
bearing the name of Fillmore. Now, if amy
man prefers tue principles of the democratic
party, then it is his duty to support the nomi
nees of that party; but how, in the name o
| reason and patriotism, can Il whig support tol
President one who WILL i'll the administration o
the Government, opposewhat the whig believe
right and support what he, believes wrong
merely because different whig has been cho
sen by the representatives of his party iron
the one he preferred, to support the right am
oppose the wrong:
Again: The Southern wings were repre-
sented in the Convention, A platform of prin
ciples was proposed and adopted which me
their entire approval Gen. Scott was nomi
mated, and that nomination was then rattle
and confirmed by those Southern whig repre-
sentatives How then in honor can we, South
ern wings, refuse to support this nomination
1t was known to all before the Convention TIL;
Gen. Scott's name would be presented to thi
l., body. No wlig State Convention entered an
,,s caueat, interposed any objection against h
cs nomination, or instructed or intimated to the
h. delegates that his rejection should be lnsistc
"a %. on All that Southern wings deemed indispel
} sable was, that their candidate should be a tr1
ass. as whig and pledged to support the Comproms
-. These conditions fulfilled, they every whe
II pledged the nominees their support. The
La conditions are found in the nominee; and he
i'm can we, with good faith, refuse to sustain hill
~. any more than his friends could have refused
atlk support Mr.. Fillmore, had he been selected
'a' the Convention Such refusal on their pa
ell we should have regarded and denounced as
ii. act of treachery and baseness; and from Il
- we may learn to estimate the true character
such refusal on part.
1t has been said that Gen. Scott has
- heartily adopted, does not approve, the platto
GsI GSY' laid down by the Convention. How is this
se' certaned? Not from anything he has WIFI
or spoken In his letter to the President OF !
Convention he accepts the nomination "a, anu
declaration of principles annexed, Mhae
saws of the nomination he says OF the aecliii
-. ration, and no more. If, therefore what
' or says amounts to an approval OF one' why does
- not also of the other'
Fu- But, in fact, no man was more decidedly
Baths BS fvo, of the measures of Compromise, one Il
eGgm. MI. than Winfield Scott; and when he pleds
plieM @ himself to that series of resolutions, one
il, +, which asserts the final character of the Comp
yth Of mise, the Fugitive Slave law included, he o
CON- pledged himself to what he had always approx
with and had exerted himself to pass OF this
IT. proof before the public is ample--so full {
- ample that no ground is left for denial Or dou
sA 1t has been made an objection to Gen. Sc
~ that he wrote nothing on the Compromise bel
:. ~. his nomination. If this be an objection, doe
5 city, not apply with at least equal force to G
ss ysss Pierce He was specially Intercepted by
i'h0u Scott, of Richmond, and made no reply, O
ivss he replied, that reply has been withheld II
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