The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-20
THE REPU BLIC.
WASH N GTO n:
FRIDAY MORNING, AUG UsT 20 1852
WING NOMINATIONS.
For President,
WINFIELD SCOT.'.
For Tice President.
WILLIAM A. GKAiIA vi.
Congress.


WILLIAM A. GRAHAM.
Congress.
In the Senate. yesterday. the Civil and
Diplomatic Appropriation bill WAS considered
and amended during The morning hour; after
which the River and Harbor bill was consid
cred ill the time of adjournment.
The House Of Representatives passed bill
declaring the Wheeling bridges to be legal
structures; and afterwards considered the Navy
Appropriation bill.
The Presidential Canvass OF Is4O and Of 1864.
We publish this morning the speech Of the
Hon. DANIEL WEIsIGER ADAMS, Of Missis-
sippi, made before a WHIG meeting at jackson,
in that State, on the 10th Of July. and invite
to it the particular attention Of our readers.
"Mr. ADAMS" says the Kentucky Common
,cealih Of the 18th instant, "is a native OF
Frankfort-he is known here-his word will
carry conviction in this community. There
cannot he the least question Of the truthfuIness
Of his report of what General Scorr said" on
the occasion to which he refers--the interview
between the Mississippi delegation and Gene
raj SooTT at Washington. A portion Of this
speech we have already published. but the
whole Of it deserves universal circulation and
an attentive perusal BY all g"od Vines.
The game which the Democratic party are
playing in the present canvass is but repeti-
ton Of that Of 1910. MARTIN VAN buren,
was then held up to the country as "the
Northern man with Southern principles" Gen.
eral HARRlsoN was denounced as the nominee
and associate of Abolitionsts In the debate in
the House Of Representatives in March. 1910,
on the proper mode Of disposing of aboli-
ton petitions, every Locofoco speaker charged
General HARRISON with being an Abolition
ist or with strongly favoring the views
Of the Abolitionists; and eulogized MARTIN
VAN buren, as the great friend and champiun
Of Southern rights, Southern institutions, and
Southern principles. One member alleged that
Mr.. CLAY was defeated at the Harrisburg
Convention because he was stakeholder and
was orthodox on the question Of slavery. Ano-
Their member averred that General HARRISON
was nominated by the influence Of the Abo-
lionists in that convention. So it is now al
lodged that MIR. WEBSTER and Mr. FILLMORE
were defeated in the Baltimore Convention on
account Of their position on the slavery ques-
ton; and that General Scorr was nominated
by the influence OF the Aboltionis.s. Who
doubts that if Mr.. FILLMORE or Mr.. WEBSTER
had been nominated, we should have heard
the same stale old story, and that the country
would have been flooded with pamphlets on
the Erie letter of Mr.. FILLMORE, and the
Marshfeld and Buffalo speeches Of Mr.. WEE
srER, to show that they were both "unsound
on the slavery" question as in comparison with
this new "Northern man with Suuthern prin-
ciples"-,he Hon. FRANKLIN PiERcE?
At the time that these charges were made
against General HARRISON, and these eulogies
pronounced upon Mr.. VAN buren,. in the
House of Representatives, it was perfectly we'll
known that the latter had voted for instruc-
tons, as member of the Senate of New York ,
to the Senators and Representatives. of that
State in Congress to vote against the admission
of Missouri into the Union; and tina, General
HARRisoN, when a member of the House from
Ohio, had voted with the South for the admis-
sion of Missouri, and was sacrificed for his vote
by his constituents. When again candidate
for reelection in 1922, General HARRISON de-
Tended his vote on that occasion, and declared
his readiness on such question at all times to
sacrifice his seat to his principles, because he
could see nothing in the Constitution which he
had sworn to support to warrant such an interfer-
ence with the rights Of the States, which had
never been attempted before. Notwithstand-
ing these well known facts, the GLOBE news
paper, the Albany Argus, the Charleston yNer-
curry. the Richmond Enquirer. and all the
presses Of the then administration, North and
South, were filled with labored editorials de-
signed to identify the WAIG cause and the
WHls candidate with abolition. Amos KEN
DALI, it will be remembered, addressed half a
dozen long letters to Mr.. Boris, of Virginia
assailing him for an union with the Northern
Abolitionists. The Richmond ENQUIRER loaded
about half its columns with articles of this de-
scription, and charged that there weIr Thirty
Aboltionists in the Harrisburg Conv en.on that
nominated HARRISON and TyLER." Mr.. CAL
HOUN anu WI. MCDUFFIE unlteO tnelT powerful
efforts with those Of Mr.. BLAIR and Amos KEN
DALI, and the main object Of the canvass was TO
persuade the people Of the South that the Harris
burg Convention was an assembly of Abolition
lists, and that the nomination Of Gen. HARRISON
and Mr.. TYLER was triumph Of Aboltionism.
If we recur to the newspapers Of that day, we
shall be struck at every step with the identity
OF the means that were employed in 1910 to
break down General HARRISON with those that
are now employed to impair public confidence
in General ScOTr.
The people passed upon the issue thus made
up, aud elected General HARRISON to the Pre-
sidency in spite Of the calumnies and clamors
of his opponents. No one believes at this day
that the old man was either an Abolitionist or
the tool Of Abolitionism. But what is the history
of the "Northern man with Southern princi-
plesP Where have we since found the BLAIRs,
DIxEs, BurLERs, VAN BuRENs, and the host