New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-21
THE PRESIDENCY.

nomination, appear :" in fine frenzy roll
ing" as the primary elections show that
their candidate is left in hopeless m;aOr-
ity. Unable to deny that even leaving
out of view the contested districts and
those where no election has yet been made,
Gen. Scott has already t'co thirds of the
whole delegation of the State, they resort
to venemous vituperation and slang whang-
ing, and abuse their opponents with the
choicest epithets in the vocabulary.
1t is true that this way of admitting a
discount ure has not tie merit of original
ity, but it has that of naturalness. There
is nothing forced about it. 1t is the genu-
Inc expression of the parties who employ
it, and we can pardon their heat and malice
in the completeness of the disappointment
they feel themselves obliged to affect at
this more than Waterloo defeat. TIE sup
pose that they counted on securing a ma
jority of Fillmore Delegates would be no
compliment to their discernment. The
idea that Mr.. Fillmore, under any circum
stances now possible, could have received
the vote of this State for Presidential can
dido,e, is so utterly preposterous that no
man could conceive it. save in a state of
complete delusion. Certainly no one of
the shrewd wire-pulling politicians who
have been at work, in his name but for their
own purposes, packing conventions, invent
ing delegations, keeping voters from the
polls, overriding the mass of Wings in a few
districts, is simple enough to imagine that
the object they pretended to struggle for
was other than fetch, gotten up solely for
personal ends and to pay off certain scores
against the majority of New York Wings,
by defeating the party. That was their
real object, and that they hoped to achieve.
But the general unanimity for Gen. Scott
disappoints them bitterly. They see that
his name is the watchword of union and
triumph to party too large, too sincere,
too patriotic, to be ruled by their ntrigues
or to sacrifice itself for the qualification of
their malevoence. This unanimity is in
disputable. The fact that with all the
forces of the Federal Administration at their
command, and with all the tricks and
frauds they have been able to perpetrate
for the suppression of Wing opinion, they
have so small a minority of the uncontested
delegates is conclusive on this head. 1t
cannot be denied that the Wings of New
York have pronounced decisively against
Mr.. Fillmore and in favor of Gen. Scott it
it can as little be denied that Gen. SCOTS
nomination is certain and it can as little be
doubted that the overwhelming mass of the
party will give to their favorite candidate
such enthusiastic support at the polls as
they have not given to any candidate since
the time of Gen. Harrison.
The discounted Silver Grey organs seek
to have it believed that the triumph of
Gen. Scott's friends at the primary elections
is nothing but a triumph of Free Soilism.
They know this to be untrue. They know
that the nomination of Gen. Scott has
never been advocated on Free Soil grounds
or with any reference at all to feelings OF
opposition to slavery. On the contrary,
those who have worked to secure the pres
ent result in the State, have from the first
and throughout earnestly contended against
mixing the slavery question in either the
nomination or the election. 1t has been
their wish, and still is, to fight the battle
on the old Wing grounds, such as the
Wings of the nation can unite upon, and
such as they have always been united upon.
They have said and still say, "Let US
leave this whole matter just where it is.
1t is not TO be expected that all Southern
Wings and all Northern Wings should
agree in their opinions upon slavery. Nor
is it necessary that they should agree.
There is no question involving slavery
now before the country. But there are
other questions of great Importance, as to
which all Wings are agreed, upon which
decision will be made in the approaching
election. Let US unite then as Ameri-
cans and as patriots to secure such de-
cision as we believe will be most con-
ducive to the well-being of the country"
Such is the language and such the aims
of the friends of Gen. Scott in New York.
What an absurdity. then, for The State
Register, The Express, and that class of
papers, to say that the victory we have
achieved is one of distinctive Free Soilism.
These journals must know that what thew
say is not true.