The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-08

Mr.. Wehstsr and she Prssss ensy-Pelasy II
an independent National Coaveasson.
The policy which the friends Of Mr.. Webster in
New York intend to pursue, in this Presidential
test is becoming very interesting question. They
have still sufficient time for efficient action. but
they have no time to spare
Upon this subject, the Courier and Enquirer
says:-
We repeat that Mr. Webster has neither said writ
ten line de oeatory Gen Scott; and long before
the 10Th Of sept mber hs may for aught know urge
biz friends vote for HIM IL is equally that he
has neither asksd for accepted separate nomina
ton there the least evidence that he has directly
indirectly encouraged any m1vsment in favor OF
mot assurediy, less liable than that Of
Mr.. Clay updsr similar circumstances. in lS4S.
10 reply to this, it is only necessary 10 say that
Mr. Webster is waiting for his friends here in New
York to act. He has publicly said that g the time
has not yet Gomez for him to speak upon the Presi
Dental question; and it never will come, and he,
probably, never will speak, until his friends in New
York shall have acted deanitively, either for him
against him. Let Wall street, then, up to the
rescue, and strike while yet the iron is hot.
We are within two months of the election. All
the parties in the struggle have appointed their
leaders, have laid down their platforms, and have
great National Webster Conservative Union party,
NJ the Woman's Rights party The Seward branch
OF the whig party have Gen Scott their cham
piOn; the united democracy, North and South, are
rallied upon Gen. Pierce; the free sellers have en-
tered John p Hsle the Fred Douglass abolition,
agrarian, and amalgamation party, have brought
out certain William Goodell. Yea, in few days
shall probably have, also, Womans Rights
-icket in the field. In addition to all these, the
Union wings of Georgia, in the most formal manner
have nominated Mr. Webster their man, and
strong Webster electoral ticket the independent
Webster wings of North Carolina have been moving
IN a SIMILAR direction; and the protracted meetings
ii the Webster men" the solid men of Boston
have, as yet, resulted in nothing decisive, because
the-e has been no co operative movement in New
York.
Now, why should not the friends Of Mr. Webster
here in New York-the great conservative CONNER
ciai metropolis ofthe Union-why should they not or
game and carry OUT in this city, and in this State, an
III epeDd.nt Webster movement! Nay, more-a-
though is very the eleventh hour of the day tor
effective labor in the political vinsyard-what is
theIe to prevent the calling together of grand Ma
tions Conservative Webster Convention, in hisvery
city and the formal, independent. national nomiua
lion Of Mr. Webster for the Presidency 1t wants
but the thirteen thousand who signed the call for
a meeting of the friends of Mr. Webster at Metro
poiitan Hall, favorable TO his nomination over any
other man, and all other men. We are info .med,
too by Mr.. Webster's leading organ in Wall street,
thet G large portion. if not majority Of these
thirteen thousand Union wings, are determined, in
shy event, not to vote for Cen Scott. In the
sbssrce of Webster ticket, they will remain at
home or vote for Pierce and King. It due, then,
to the Union wigs of New York. that they should
act for themselves, and in cooperation with the
Wehs'er men of Georgia, North Carolina, and Mas
s1chusetts, put up their own national ticket, in
national convention of their own, and upon the
broad national principles SO splendidly illustrated
by Mr. Webster ia these latter days.
1t is idle to say that Mr. Webster cannet be elected
over the heads of Pierce, Scott, Hale, Goodell,
ana the women's Rights Convention. OF course he
cannot be He hardly be expected to run
all, ad even of General Scott, let the Webster
do he best they can But great moral victory
can be gained, scarcely second in Importance to DR.
webster's election, by independent movement
The demagogues of military glory, abolition, multi
6cation, and the higher law, who controlled the
Baltimore Wing Convention, and dragoonsd it into
the nomination of General Scott, will receive
wholesome rebuke, which will last them for many
long day. 1t will be the last tins that able and
tried statesmen-true to the constitution and the
Union--wll be kicked out, because they offea-
siye to Northern iocendiaries This, too, viii be
the last experiment of mere gunpowder and aboli-
ton availability, and the last occasion for the mi
nation Of any because he is the choice and the
champion of the free SOIL nullifcation, aud abolition
cques and factions of the North. Let the friends
of Nr Webster achieve q moral triumph like this
let the ''fxed fact" be made manifest, that the
compromise measures are too strong to be shaken
by the willy tricks and ntrigues of Seward and his
traitorous action-let it be proved that even here
in the North the constitution overrides the higher
law-and the of Mr.. Webster, and the political
course he has pursued, will be vindcated before this
generation, and for all posterity
The two platforms laid down by the two great
parties ut Baltimore, are good as far as they go
But here in the North the leading organs of Seward
and General Scott "execra;e and spit upon the
wing platform, although they work with the energy
OF desperation for their Baltimore candidate They
take him as the representative of their princi-
pies, which go far beyond the limits of the consti-
tuition and the Union. On the other side, the Ere
ming Post, 40 organ of the late barnburner wing
OF the democratic party, continues as violent
in its assaults upon Southern slavery, and pub
fishes, in a few days, the abolition nulliica
ton speech Of Sumner in the United States Senate,
rs an electoneeIing document for General Pierce.
In its INSCRIPTIONS Inconsistency, therefore, the
Post is on a par with the Tribune; but while the
former is almost left standing alone the ruins of
the old Buffalo platform, the latter, as organ of
ale Oh III.
Abominable schemes ofmodern philosophy, socialism,
and infdelty is still an organ Of the controlling
branch Of the whig party of the North Thus,
while the democratic party is substantially nation
allied upon it. Baltimore platform, the Northern
whig party is infected to the very bones with the
eprosy of anti-slavsry, notification, and all the
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