Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-08

-1rooo IN caucus Gov. Seward, fresh from
can pIannnor ant-slavery demonstrations of Au-
tn0 - Tbad Stevens with hands red with the
Vi g tho Gorsuch murder in Christiana, with
DlU0u definition of principles--nay, declaring
ou' o.. III as ont of order why cannot you, the
e LES of the Express l see reason why
,.ou Northern Wings, who, as forlorn hopes have
Ii ON even the Democratic columns from the
srrors of the Wilmot proviso to the defence of
the Constitution and the laws, should act as for
Iorn hopes any more. When the Southern gen.
erals-in-chef are deserving you on the field of
hattie, you would be fools to be leading forlorn
hopes in their behalf. There are periods in poll
ties as in war, when to surrender is duty we'll
as discretion. | counsel no surrender now, how
ever, but more yigilant action than ever, until IL
is settled whether Mr.. Mangum leads, or even oil,
yides the South. New York and New England
Wings of the national faith should stand by their
principles, and such opponents OF them as MT
Fillmore and Mr.. Webster, as long as the South
ern Wings are true in mass but II the southern
WHO regiment stagger, or begin to stagger, Sduve
ami 1enf be the cry. Mr. Mangum, however, it
IS believed. will soon be put hOrs de combat.
General Scott will certainly be nominated Presi-
don't in the Wing National Convention if the
Southern Wings divide between him and any
Nortberp man, and of that there can be no doubt;
or rice verSa, if the Southern Wings are united,
Mr.. Fillmore or Mr.. Webster will be the man.
If General Scott is nominated on Mr.. Mangum' s
programme it is wisely calculated, IN these dinner
or supper caucuses of which | have been speak
ing that he can carry the Northern States with
some Zone, only Southern State. Even such a
State as Maryland is given up the canvass
have seen Ohio! Pennsylvania and N, York,
with their solid columns, set down for him
sure North Carolina, Tennessee, and Louisiana
are utterly sacrificed in this calculation. 1t is felt
and known that, with such able men from Ten
nessee speaking, as Mr. Gentry is reported to have
spoken the other night, in the Wing caucus, or
such as Mr.. Outlaw, of n. c., speaking with the
energy he is reported to have done, there can be
no possible hope of these States.
Mr.. Mangum's programme, therefore, is wise
one utter abandonment Of the Compromise bills
and the permission to ram General Scott IN the FREE
States agM the repeal or virtuaE annuzment of Mt
fugitive SLAVE lar upon every Wig banner. His
strength in the free States will be determined by
the candidate the Democracy run against him
but its obvious already that in Ohio, Central anC
Western New York, Abolition Democracy viii
beat Wing Abolition in this scheme two to one
The best Wing districts in Ohio have been cut gu
by demagoguing Democratic Abolition; and il
this of demagoguing there is nothing that Cal
equal, much less eclipse, such Rantoul il
New England or the Chase and Giddings free De
mocracy of Ohio.
have no right to advise you, Messrs. Editors
but the programme l have marked out for mysel
l may ask you to publish for others to see. As
Northern man l shall go, nay, / must go, will
the Northern Wing party, even with this threat
ened new inscription on it The practical multi
fcation of the fugitive-save section of the Con
sttution - simply because [ have nowhere else t.
90, save into the arms of a Democracy, three
fourths of whose presses in the State in which
reside, for the very same thing, and almost ever
thing else besides. No single man. or single set c
men, can breast the flood of Abolitionism whe
such men as Mr.. Mangum take away their dykes
He who attempts it would only be drowned i
some Zuyder Zee. The Wing party is dear to me
and | cannot abandon it now, even with thes
its great faults, to cling to something worse. Ger
Scott, if nominated and elected by us, is a ma
whom, of himself, can trust ; and we must liv
as well as we can in the malaria amid the inf1u
enceS that will have nominated and elected hin
They doom all to prescription, to utter proscriE
ton, we see, know, and feel, like influences di
under General Taylor; but what suffer al
things unimportant, as long as principle can b
maintained. Parties never perfect, and ma
must make choice Of the best of them. Unde
General Scott, as under Gen. Taylor, if Gen. SEQ
is faithful to the influences that make him Pres
dent, Mr.. Webster must hang again around ante
chambers, as he hung before, repulsed frozer
and Mr.. Fillmore must be sneered at as not havin
the power to get even clerkship for a friend,
Mr.. Clay be denounced, as denounced he Wa
when he introduced his Omnibus bill.
The future is big with events. No human ben
can forsee or control them Itseems to me an u
ter disruption of all old parties is portending.
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