The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-02-05

their sentry boxes il they dared must perloree nu th
coming danger in The air, and with reluctant hands ring
out the alarum Hear the Louisville Journal sprng ~
rattle
"We have at no time doubted the fact OF Gen SCOTS
fiendlness TO the Compromise for we have learned ,ba,
fact from gentlemen oil high standing and character who
proessed TO know his views and who certainly could not
be ignorant OF them Still have all along insisted and
yet insist thai he haze no rational hone OF
support for me p,sssdsaey .ss hs shau yabey STATE Ats
pos"@" o ns "j"mai.o" Of the iehoie country Il is
enough for the wings 70 ksoo is oyiaio
Of thsT candidate in relation great ea sua of har
mony and Union. but they oil require thai he shall stana
p.oiiely pledged before the uhols ,oorid
Gen Scott IS certainly 6rs choice for the presl.
dency but uaquestonably no has elements OF very
great strength and ~ he shall properly upon me
compromise qsssfio and obtain the nomination OF the Wing
Sauonai convention the wings will in all probability be
aoie, with due energy and prudence, 10 elect him
The South is sick, it would seem, OF the no pledges
game that was tried with General Taylor They will
have atfooted public pledge to maintain the Compro
mise, or there is no rational hope of southern support
But how is it 10 be given That is the question The
wings of Oho have resolved that the Compromise must
be an "open question:" and Senator Wade" always
wing. and nothing but whig'--is deadly hostile to
the fugitive law. The wings OF Pennsylvania hold with
Governor Johnston, that law TO be open to modifca
ton repeal the tariff Of 1916 p and the wings Of New
York, with Mr. Seward, utterly refuse to recognise the
fact that there has been any adjustment realm the Will
mot proviso, and "urge the right and duty of every
voter" 10 agitae for the repeal modification OF any
law" The statute book And for the wings Of Yer
mont what says Governor Modification Williams Ii is
bad look for any coalition that will hold water with the
wings OF the South
/ And now what says Mr. Cabell, of Florida, on the
floor OF Congress- speaking in the report of yesterdays
Inegeneer for the whigs Of the South as he understands
them He said:
"There was moral obligation resting upon all men who
desired the peace and queude of the country and
in favor of these as final settlement Of The
slave question, 10 rally around The present Prssidem The
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captain OF the age and that had lived who had
achieved so much aud been lightly for his ser
vices He however, could not and ooud not in HE present
condition Of things, give his vote him for President and
he believed spoke the sentiments of the southern eig party
Unless General Scott would do what been demanded of
him. and place his views clearly before the country they
would not give him their support When General Scott was
acting Secretary of War; he exerted himself secure the
passage OF the compromise measures and he was there
fore entitled to the support Of all compomse men but he
M " was dee rmined never to go into again
and elect man whom the aboioniss could say occupied
their ground IL General Scott should be nominated as
candidate for the presidency he did not believe he ood re-
esps the poie Of southern Stale. The southern wings
We're determined that no man should be elected by their
woes PRESIDENT Oh the United States ose opinions tpere
capable OF being miHspresenfsd,"
Perfectly clear and explicit all lhis-true too if there
be any faith in the public pledges OF public men And
the question uppermost in the mind OF every leading
whg politician North and South must now be, how he
shall contrve pauslby TO coalioze himself out of this
scrape and go himself and bring up his party, in con-
junction with Messrs Seward Johnston Wade, and
Williams whose votes and voters can by no means be
dispensed with for the election Of this one inevitable
man Of the party who mbodies in his name even the
shadow. to say nothing OF the substance OF availability
In the gigantic frame OF this coming Coalition of the
wing party-ts huge bulk floating many a rood'-the
Republic will find ample opportunity pursue its studies
in the morbid anatomy of political combinations and con
spraces. 1t will present admirable field for the in
vestgalion of what may be "dshones and disgraceul"
in such movements, and of that endorsement of alb
horred and mschevous dogmas" which is to unite in the
amalgam Of harmonious wing party "two hostile fac
tons, bitterly hating and denouncing each other"
In The prosecution of such extensive and interesting
researches the Republic presume will find but little
time hereafter TO point out the urgent necessity of dis
solving the great democratic party OF Jefferson Madison
Jackson, and Polk, because of difference OF opinion
among some OF Its members 10 what was or was not
the legitimate and expedent action OF congressional eau
caus in regard to laws already passed. and which no
democrat proposes 10 disturb.