The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-07-01

| u. =. Army, anu lor the vice IreSluenCy, Hull
VIM. A. Graham the present Secretary Of the
Navy. Long before the meeting of the Conven-
ton it was predicted by the Northern Wings that
Gen. Scott would be nominated on the first bal
lot at most on the second /; and when the fact
became known that the Southern Wings were
almost to a man opposed to his nomination for
the reason that they believed and still believe
that Gen. Scott was and is in the keeping and
under the control of the Abolition and Free Soil
parties of the North, headed by VIM. II. Sew
ard of New York, and Gov. Johnsto of Penna.
the Northern Wings hesitated not to say that
they could nominate and elect Scott without
support from the South. This is sufficient proof
that the contest was ever intended to be sec
tional one. The Wing party of the Northern
States was and still is opposed to the Compro-
mise Measures and especially that part of those
Measures which makes provision for the rendi-
ton of Fugitives from labor, but to succeed in
nominating Gen. Scott at Baltimore, the North
ern Wing delegation in that Convention were
ready and willing to sacrifice all principle, pro-
vided the South assisted them to nominate Scott
Such bargain and sale was. made and the act
was consummated. The Wing party of the
North have for years been in favor of a Protee-
tive Tariff but in the late Baltimore Convention
the fifth resolution passed declares that the
with just discrimination for protection. This
is an undeniable abandonment of the former
position assumed by the Wing party and estab-
fishes the truth of Democratic motto, ''that the
Whig party has no settled principles" The
Whig party of the North has been in favor of an
endless and extravagant expenditure of the pub
lie money for the improvement of rivers and
harbors or in true terms for the building of
bridges over every little rivulet in the great
West-for the construction of dams on every
little stream-for the draining and and clearing
of every mud-hole in the country-but now this
| conservative Whig party has charged ground on
this subject and established a new Proviso that
bids fair to become as celebrated as the Wilmot
one, namely, the ''River and Harbor Improve
ment Proviso." The sixth resolution Of the
Baltimore Whig Convention declares the Whig
party to be in favor of the Improvement of ii
vers and harbors, 1ChenereT, (yes acheneper) such
Improvements necessary for the common de
fence The New York Tribune, the acknowl-
edged head and front of the Scott and Seward
party, objects and protests against the resolutions
or platform of the Whig Convention, and states
that this platform ''never was intended to be a
statement of the grounds whereon the Whig
party is united and the ends which it unani-
mously medtates - and further ssit 1.-THE plat
fOrm) was forced upon portion of the dele
gates-was driven through by the argument of
trnaY o,,I+ 4l..
potent intimation, Swallow in silence or we
bolt'-was gross wrong-is not the platform
Of the Wing party and has no binding effect. -
Other influential Wing papers in the North oc-
cupy the same position. Here is Reputation.
The design is TO run Scott in the North without
the Platform and the Platform in the south
without Scott. Can the American people be
humbugged in this manner We think not
Can the Southern States be blindfolded by such
q base scheme? We know they cannot. We
say then that the people will see through the
nefarious designs of the Whig party and will
frustrate the efforts of its leaders. The New
York Courier g. Enquirer Wing paper advoca-
ting different doctrines from those of its social
Isl, Fourierite contempory the Tribune says, sThe
mass of the Wings in this city have received the
intelligence with sullen Indignation. On every
side have we heard determination expressed not
to support the nominee" Said paper supports
the platform but not the nomination Thus We
f notice in the same city two papers of the Whig
party expressing different views the one affirm
ing that the Platform of Principles adopted is
not the sentiment of the Whig party the other
that it is. One at each end of the rope A fire
in the front and one in the rear. Can such a
/ state of affairs lead the Wing party to success
No. The inevitable result is defeat. There is
wide difference on men, still wider difference
on principle and a house divided against itself
t must faI.
As a specimen of Southern Wing sentiment
D in regard to the nomination of Gen Scott Hon
r NJ. P. Gentry, Wing member of Congress from
/ Tennessee, said in a speech delivered q shor
| time since
q ''But if thought one mans vote or one mans
influence were necessary to cast the vote of Ten
q nessee for Pierce and King, my vote should %,
man who dreams that any Southern State viii
: cast her vote for General Scott in the next Pres
4 idential election, dreams, in my opinion dream
Q that will never be realized
And Why does he say so Not because h
has any personal antipathy to Gen. Scott-no
because he would not honor and respect him 70
his great military achievements-but simply fo
the reason that Gen. Scott is connected with an
p is knotcn to be leagted acith VIM. II. Seward an