The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-10-28
From the New York Herald.
Mr. Webster's Lamentable Situation-The
Sins of the Wing Party.

The great statesman of Marshfeld has O
late been quite ILL., The labors Of a long life
sthe Entertainments of disease, the infrmitie,
sof age, and, last, though not least, the dupi'
Scity and treachery of housing politicians
1 have almost brought the old giant to th
Eground. He is passing away, another bril-.
siant but melancholy example of the folly
sdeceptions and ingratitude of the whig par
ETY.. When be shall have disappeared frur
9among the walks nf men-when his uam
shis services, and his reputation shall has
become the common property of the Aur.f
can peOple-then will stand out, in ;a,a
strue relief, the repeated mockeries and hr
Civilizations which he has received fr n
sperjured and faithIess party; then
hin their true light, the low ani ~cuss .s
sof the paltry political hucksters } wa.s. .
has been destroyed.
In the meantime, as we notified our rea
ders yesterday, letter has been extorte'
from the sick man, by committee of our
New York political pedlers, either by threa
or persuasions-by fair means or by foul
suggesting -humbly suggesting-from BIZ
bed of pain and agony, that his friends in
New York should drop his name in the can
vass. But nothing more. Neither physi-
cal anguish nor the natural desire to be rid
of his unwelcome tOrmentOrs, nor the thick
ening convictions of the vanity of all earth
/ ly things, could wiring from the victim of
whig deception a recommendation to 90 over
to the support of Gen. Scott He simply
asks the committee to leave him, and he will
sign the letter which they have written-frst
enjOining that it shall contain no recommen-
dation to his friends to surrender to Seward
and his ticket for the Presidency. The let
ter is thus prepared; and the secret commit
i tee, like chuekling assassins from the body
of an enemy finally disposed of, steal in tri-
umph away. This is the extent of our in
formation upon the subject, for the present.
In day or two, we presume this extraordi-
nary letter of Mr.. Webster will be duly pa
raded before the public in his Wall street or
gan-the loudest in his praise, and, as usual,
the first to betray him, National banks and
bankrupt laws have made sad work of the
Wall street standard of consistency, honor,
and fidelity. Yet, we shall expect our CO.
temporary with tears in his eyes, to groan
lover the lamentable condition of Mr. Web
ster, and to denounce, in good set terms,
"The deep damnation of his taking off,"
The most remarkable point in this lettel
from Mr. Webster is the perfect blank which
he leaves in regard to Gen Scott. He give
his friends a carte blanche If they choost
to go over to the Seward ticket, so be it; o
|if they are predetermined to vote for Gen
Pierce, we'll and good. Mr.. Webster is sick
exhausted, and disguised Age, disease, de
Icay, deception, and treachery, have done thei
work. What to him now is the Presidency
or all the feeting honors of this world? No
thing Yet he sternly refuses to give in hi
adhesion to Gen. Scott. Neither intimida
tons nor entreaties can shake his resolution
here.
The circumstances under which Mr.. Wei
ster was superseded, by the nomination c
\ Gen. Scott in the late Baltimore wing CONVEX
l ton, were exasperating. Mr. Webster an
President Fillmore had been industrious an
highly infuentialin passing and in enforcin
the compromise acts, including the fugitiv
slave law. They had thus given mortal o
fence to Vim. II. Seward and his extensiv
gang of philosophers, infdels, socialists, an
! abolition nulli6ers. Mr.. Fillmore and Nj
Webster must both be sacrificed SeWar
faction required it, and they were sacrificed
: Mr.. Webster's claims were treated with pc
culiar contempt and ribaldry, and the stand
! the manly stand, which he had taken on th
/ compromise, was thus thrown into bis teet
with mockery and derision. Now, was il j
Human nature to submit to such proceeding
and to second and support another gunpoV
| der candidate, thus nominated? 1T was th
7 last and only chance for Mr.. Webster for
fair trial before the people, 1t was the fri
: and last opportunity for fair and impartis
popular judgment upon bis high claims, sel