The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-10
From the Macon (Ga.) Citizen.
OF the Scott Convention to the People OF
GeOrafa.

OF the Scott Convention to the People Of
Georgia.
Charged, as a committee of the Wing party
which assembled in Macon on the 18th of Angus.
to ratfy the nominations of the National Wing
party, with the presentation of the electoral ticke
then agreed upon unanimously--as eminently en-
titled. by individual merit and republican prnci.
pies, to your support-we have great pleasure in
submitting the names of the following gentlemen:
Major Joel Crawford. of Early; Judge WIN. Law,
Of Chatham, Electors for the State at Large; and
Colonel George w. Walthour, of Liberty; Judge
Lott Warren, of Baker; Colonel Robert V. Harde-
man, of Jones; Colonel N. Green Foster, of Nor
gan; DR.. Ira 4. Dupree, of Twiggs; Judge Tur.
ner II. Trippe, of Cass; General George w. Evans,
of Richmond, and Colonel Robert w. Simms, of
Coweta, for the seUral Districts of the State, as
composing the National Wing Electoral Ticket of
Georgia.
We congratulate you, fellow citizens, that ano-
Their Presidential campaign has opened under cir
cumstances which would fondly believe prom
ises TO divest the conflicts of opinion between the
two great national parties which seek respectively
your suffrages, OF much of that asperity which is
the usual accompaniment of popular elections.
The great and alarming questions which have
for the few last years excited your apprehensions
aud eInbitered your frnterna relations with other
sections of The Union, have, by the consent OF the
duly authorized Representatives of the two national
and explicit pendnts Of honor entered into that the
series OF measures commonly called the Compro
mise shall be considered and regarded as a final
| settlement Of the disturbing question of slavery.
| Let us cherish with confidence, until compelled
| by unmstakable evidence otherwise, the convic-
| ton that the masses OF both parties of the nom
| slavehodng States mean, in good faith, to fulfil
their solemn and public pledges before the nation.
And whilst we have exacted at their hands this
| evidence of the nationality or the two great par
ties. let US, southern men, becarefM to furnish
4 nf attn <{n
thing ,ohich can legitmatsiy authorize them to rio
late their engagements Stripped OF the subject of
| slavery, the Presidential campaign opens not as
| heretofore with the issues to which we have been
| accustomed Most of those have become obsolete,
or from the changes necessarily incident to the
working of the General Cover nInent and the va
rying condition of the country, have been rendered
| unnecessary, unimportant, impraCticable, of
either present prospective beneficial application.
nearer agreement therefore in the great cardinal
rules of the Interpretation of the CONSTITUTE than
ever heretofore existed, marks the respective plat
| forms OF the two parties This approximation ID a
matter Of no small magnitude to The South, and it
may and ought to be regarded as the harbingcr OF
the restoration of kindly feeling throughout the
Unon-that feeling which is the Unions best and
| strongest bond.
We would be glad could we truly say there were
no differences in the principles prolessed by both
parties.
We are constrained to say that think in the
Democratic platform there is concealed most dan
| gerous principle, family Swallowed forth, yet sc
yelled as to permit denial if directly charged, or
authorize its assertion if denied We allude, OF
plain language, the intermeddling of the United
States in the affairs of other nations.
1t Ia unheconing great party like the Demo
cratic party, ever protesting the honesty of thei
| principles, to shun, for any cause or under any
circumstances, the frank and bold aUo,ual Of tam.
We feel authorized, by the silence of the Demo-
cratic press and Democratic nominees, to regard
the resolution referred to covertly sanctionpg
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southern institutions to attack-a doctrine which
if acted on, would involve the Union in perpetual
wars from the perpetual intsrferencei in the atara
of other nations. The doctrine viewed in the most
favorable light, ia quixoism which should find
no liberation at the hands of patriotic men
The mission of the United States is peace with
all the world Let our example be the light to H.
| lumine the pathway Of nations. Let our chips be
freightcd with the burdens of rich, remunerat-
ing, and increasing commerce.; let those
sengers Of war. instead Of bearing hostile men and
arms to distant shores, be rather lrcightcd with
the corn aud food OF our bounteous land to sustain
struggling freemen or furnishing nations.
People OF GEORGIA! If you regard the present
or feel wise socitude for the future, we invoke
you, by the highest interest involved to arrest at
once, by bestowing your suffrages properly, the
fatal and pernicious doctrine of lNTERvENTIoN, re.
Gently promulgated in fervid and captivating elo-
quence by the Hungarian exile, who prostituted
the asylum we offered him to the distur bance OF
our national tranquility. Rise for a moment su
peror to the allegiance to party-place yourselves
upon the higher elevation of patriotism, and we
persuade ourselves that in thus acting you cannot
but unite ,cita US in the support of General WIN
FIELD ScoTT-the only man Of all the persons who
will receive votes for the Presidency who has en-
phaticaily condemned that doctrine. Upon prin
ciple, them you can support this illustrious man.
We would appeal, alec, to your gratitude as an
| honorable motive to influence your suffrages Ora
titude for series of brilliant military services
beginning on the Canada frontier, and terminal.
ing with the conquest of the city of Mexico-Com
pretending period OF near forty years.
Who Of you that adnres high intellect, invigo-
rated by profound acquaintance with municipal
| and international law-united to very remark =
able familiarity with all the great questions which
annually occupy the attention of Congress can
fuse him support as statesman emnenty quail
fed to adorn the Executive chair of the Unions
The truth is, fellow citizens, that the varied nd
vast attachments Of WINFIELD ScorT would long
since have marked him out a civilian and
statesmen of the fret rank had they not been OBJ
scured from the public view by the dazzling bril-
liancy of his military achievements
His deeds and important civil and military ser.
vices will require volumes to present clearly and
faithfully. They constitute the brightest pages in
American history since the days OF the immorta
Washngton-the great model on which this emf
nent man has framed his own exalted character.
In glorious services rendered to his country, nc
liping man can begin to compare with him. The
brightest intellectual luminary paes it's fires be-
fore the efulgence Of the sun.
II indeed you feel, rs you should, a patriotic
pride for the rank and position OF the United States
as great power among the nations, you sh0tlt
make known your grateful estimation Of it by tht
cheerful support of ham to whom we go largely
indebted tor its consideration In the admiration
which you have so honorably INDUCED for the high
toned diplomacy which has signalized the recen
history of the National Government, let US invit,
you to look behind the mind of the statesman
which has depicted in firm and burning angua q
American sentiment-tO the battle fields Of NJ rieo
We should be false to convictions Of truth
il did not assert that that tone and sentiment
their pareniage chiy to the victorious success Of
arms uadr the mastery conduct Of WINFIELD
SCoTr.
VINES OF GloRcIA We might pretermit will
p"upriety q special address to you, as you are ne
ccssarily included in what we have said, did W,
not feel that are bound to each other by ties o
past association, and would earnestly hope,
are determined noD to unite agnin members U
the National Wing party. We beseech you t.
break, sffectually and forever, every party III
| which may have connected You with that organi
cation recently known the Constitutional Unior
party. However pure (snd it will not be question
ed) were the motives Of the great bulk of the PEG
pie who constituted that party-thc purposes Of IL
formation has been accomplished; the organization
has been dissolved, firstly, by the action of it's
spec'ive constituents, and secondly, by the ofcia
act OF its executive committee. 1t therefore nj
longer remain as an impeachment in your way to re
union with the old Wing party. To the grave let i
, be consigned. II is unworthy Of regret. Die