The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-03-11
THE WINGS OF THE SOUTH.

One day the New York Tribune contained
the confident prediction that the State Wing
| Convention of Tennessee would nominate Gen.
| Scott The same day or the next, the Telegraph
brought intelligence of the unanimous nomina-
ton of Mr. Fillmore. Are Northern Anti-Sla-
very Wings aware of the real state OF their
partyl Is it not studously concealed by their
leading pressesl Have they not been taught
| to believe that General Scott is to be the next
candidate, and that, too. without platform
Will they not be surprised to learn that there
is no Southern Wing who dreams Of such an
event? that the managers Of the Southern wing
of their Party, in connection with their bunker
associates of the North, are industriously per-
fectng their arrangements for securing the alb
solute control of the National Conventiont
! The caucus of the Wing members Of the
present House, as preliminary to its organi-
cation, adopted the Compromise and Fugitive
Law for their platform. Did the Wing press of
the North generally denounce with any earnest
ness this measure? Was it not kept out
of sight as much as possible! The Tribune
affected to attach little Importance to it; but
from that hour the Compromise became the
platform of the Wing portion of the House Of
Representatives. and this fact has been con-
stantly dwelt upon by the Republic, the organ
of the Administration, as emitting the Wing
| Party to the confidence of the South. In this
course it is sustained by many leading Wing
presses at the North and by the united Wings
of the South All the Wing members from the
South and eleven from the North, voted the
other day for suspension of the rules to allow
the introduction of a resolution affirming this
platform. The Louisville Journal the most
moderate of influential Wing papers in the
South, proclaims without ceasing that no can
ddate will be voted for by the Southern Wings
not committed openly to its support There is
but one voice in the South on this subject.
All this is hidden from the rank and file of
the Party at the North, and they are deuded
with the fiction that Gen. Scott is to receive
tbe ,aouljnatiou of the National Convention,
without pledges or conditions Of amy kind .
How will the two wings of the Party stand
in the National Convention The Northern,
divided the Southern, united the latter con-
centrated on one man and one course of policy
the former, agreeing neither on men nor meas
ures. A minority united can control n ajori-
ty distracted, by afhiliatng with the faction
most disposed to consult il wishes The South
ern minority will either force the nomination
of Mr.. Fillmore, or. if it accept General Scott,
compel the adoption of the Compromise. Its
unity will enable it to dictate.
Will Messrs Seward Stevens, and Johnston,
with the Wings they represent prove acquies-
cent! Will they go for the continuance of an
Administration whose special organ is every
day -Whigging" and insulting them by
telling them it wants neither their voices nor
their votes? win they support General Scott,
after he shall have planted himself on precisely
the ground occupied by an Administration
which declares that there can be no Wings
who are AbOlitiOnists and Free Sellers
Time will show.