Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-02-21

THE SCOTT PLOT THICKENING.
- 1t is becoming more and more apparent that Gen.
Scott will be the next Wing candidate for the Presi-
dency. We copy below from letter of one the
Washington Correspondents of the New York Her.
ald some speculations and facts D. sne subject, which
may interest our readers
From the developments which have come to light
during the past fortnight, the following deductions
may be made in relation to the prospects of the
wings:
1. That Mr.. Webster is entirely out of the ques-
ton, as his friends now admit unless the ID can be
kicked up generally, between this time and fall,
and Union party marshaled under of the dust,
for the Secretarys special benefit. Probabilities of
this, small.
9. That Mr.. Fillmore has not the most remote in
ually surrender w. H. Seward, for the benefit of
Gen. Scott; and all he now hopes to do, is to sell
out the government influence as high possible to
Seward & Co.
8. That Gen. Scott does expect to be nominated.
Mr.. Fillmore expects he will be; Mr.. Webster ditto ;
Mr.. Seward. ditto Messrs. Jones OF Tenn, Ste
phens and Toombs of Ga, Stanly of North Caro-
ma, ditto Crhe Your last named have agreed to sup
port Scott, it is understood, although he the
ceped candidate of the Northern abolitioniss more
than year ago.) The whig party here, generally,
expect he will be; does likewise your humble
servant.
4. notwithstanding their total rout in the late State
elections, the knowing ones among The Wings
confidently expecting to carry the next Presidency
with General Scott. They are already working a
shrewd game. Depending upon the confidence of
the Democrats for success, and the existing conten-
ton among the Democratic aspirants, they have all
ready gone seriously to work to use them up. Mr..
Seward is, at present. pulling the wires at the Nerh
to conciliae the free soil influence. He rolls him.
self all over in the kossuth excitement, while Gen.
Scott is very carefully kept out of i-not appearing
at the Congressional banquet not calling upon Kos
suth, in any wise committing himself either for
or against his doctrines of Intervention. Seward
takes of all this, and acts committee man No.
at the North. Ex-Governor Jones of Tennessee,
now in Ihis city, electoneeriDg to be the Wing can
didate for the Vice Presidency, has taken upon him
self to act as Gen. SCOTS committee man No. at
the South. The Governor said, in public CONVEX
sation with Senator Douglass at the National Hotel,
the other evening, that he had been to General
Scott, and inquired his views the Compromise,
stating distinctly that he (Gen. 81 could not carry
Tennessee without he endorsed it. General Scott
piled, that he should sustain the Compromise and the
Union. However, he ,0iH probably aoriie no letters
endorsing the Compromise; that IS, if Seacard can
prevent IL. Nor do Messrs Jones, Stephens s. Co. oish
him TO.
have said that Governor Jones was expecting
the whig nomination for the Vice Presidency. He
has already succeeded in procuring nomination from
the Wings in the Maine Legislatures very small
endorsemen to be sure, if they acted independently
of the free soilers-but nevertheless, their number
is large enough to get up caucus. Governor Jones
may therefore be said have been first put in nomi
nation in the East He wil doubtless, have strong
opponent In AOOOu Lawrence, Win the Boston 1EIdS
for his organ. This paper, you will recollect, was
the first in New England to come out for Gen, Scott
more than year ago. Lawrence has the most mon
ey, and Jones the most brains but the wings gen.
orally think of the former than Of the latter,
and MIR. Seward probably fdncies that he himself
possesses brains enough to all the practical
purposes of the next administration, providing it
should be Wing, am rather inclined to predict that
Abbott will come out " first besl, and be the WING
candidate for Vice President
The foregoing contains several statements and
revelations upon which Southern Wings may reflect,
with profit. But the fugive-save law, says the
New Yo.k Tribune-one Of Gen. Scott's organs-is
in the way of electing Wing President How
Why in this, says the Tribune: The Wings Of the
South have made that law test Of soundness Gen.
Scott and the Northern Wings opposed to it; the
strength Of the Wings lies in the free States, and
the Southern Wings must, therefore, give way on
this question, if they expect succeed in the Presi-
Dental contest. The Tribune is firmly of the opin-
ion that Gen. Scott could not carry single free
Whg) State, as the avowed advocate OF this law
Does not that statement, coming as it does from d
press so we'll informed the Tribune is to public
sentiment. speak volumes in relation TO the soundness
of the Wings in that quarter on this law
Under these circumstances and with the almost
absolute certainty staring them in the face that Gen.
Scott will be the nominee, how Southern Wings
reconcile it with their interests and duty to go into
National Convention