Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-11-27
NUMBER "A.
The Cause Of Gen. SCOTS Defeat.

The Academy of Scott editors ere holding a
post-moftem examination over the body of their
late party. and pretend to be ignorant Of the dis
ease OF Whi;h 1t died so suddenly. They know
luil well hat 1t was fatally poisoned with Seward
ism, and that before any impartial iurv he would
surely be convicted of the killing; but the necessi
ties of their case before the people have nut them
TO speculation and recrimination, and as political.
as well as other doctors differ, there is no telling
where the family quarrel will end One rails out
against the detection of Mr.. WEBSTER; another
Ieigns qualmishness over the lukewarmness of Mr.
FILLMORE; third, calls for ':plague upon all
towards aud mutters something about pusani-
u''ly' ana crouchmg to old Spain; whilst GREELEY
comes out hat-footed and tells the conservatives
that they played traitor to kill SEWARD, but that.
MI or miss they must make up their minds to ac-
kno" ledge him as their leader, or else fight with
Out nlm and his freesoil recruits The fact is the
If'0"ne has made the Southern politicians swal-
low soaalueh more than he ever hoped for that he
has grown bold and afford to keep his bristles
up yet awhile Here's how he talks
but" says one, chow does all this prove the
whlg party annihilated? Why may it not regain
Its former strength by eschewing or avoiding Sew
ardism 90
We answer-If you mean simply that the whie
party can rally and regain its former power by
merely purging itself of all that is stigmatzed as
Sewardlsm," we entreat you to go ahead with the
experiment. There is nothing more to risk or
lose now, and there can be no harm in trying this
on, and trying it out. We whom you call ''Se-
wardites'' are tired, and will gladly rest awhile
a d let you go ahead you see fit. Whether
your progressive, pro-slavery wing party
would be stronger than that which has been rout-
ed or acoald on trial 1.-THE tragedy of Ham
let with the part of Hamlet omitted, " can better be
determined after than before a trial There can
be no reasonable objection To that
But II you mean that those to spite and de-
stroy whom you have just broken down the par
ty, will ollow and sustain you in restoring and
re-estabishing It, with the understanding that they
are to be aliens and servitors therein until they
consent TO suppress their own convictions and pro-
tess your views, would advise you not to invest
either efforts hopes in so wild speculation
They are in no hurry to move at ALI when they
do take part with you in another canvass, it will
be as ysur equals and nothing short of it. They
are not going into convention with you again, to
have your notions foised into the party creed and
their candidate then beaten by you, Eo:withstand-
ing his acceptance of your platform. They will
not consent that candidates avowed determine
ton to regard and treat all wings with equal favor,
whatever their views of the last Baltimore plat
form, shall be deemed sufficient reason for his
defeat at your hands If they to be prescribed,
they prefer to suffer at the hands of their avowed
and consistent adversaries rather than at those of
superficial but treacherous compauiots.
os, Southern wings, if You expect to use ST.
WARD and GREELEY without giving Them place and
power you have mistaken your men. They have
no idea Of doing all the dirty work, necessary to
keeping the Free Sellers in file, without being well
paid for it. When they conspred to galvinize
SCoTT into life by killing off WEBSTER and FILL
MORE, they expected their reward from the party,
and now that the game has lost, they will enter no
other without the prospect of large share in the
winning .-Southern Standard