Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-29

for the man who could best unite the Wing par
ty,-a man who we Know is deserving OF the re-
spect and gratitude Of our country. | was at the
Wing National Convention at Baltimore; for the
last six nights | have had but three four hours
sleep, and on any other occasion than this could
not have accepted the call kindly made upon me-,
when arrived at two o'clock o-day, to come here
and address you this evening. When | received
that CALL feow-citizens, felt as General Scott
felt through the whole of his life, that want
of sleep nothing when he could aid in advan-
cling the prosperity, the honor, and glory of the
land. (Cheers.)
We had, at the Baltimore convention, fierce,
hot, but not an unkind fight There were good,
honest, true and sterling Wings who pointed to
the patriotic administration of the government
by Willard Fillmore (cheers) and asked as BROTH
ers that he should receive the nomination.
There were others who, in the language of the
resolutions which have just been read, pointed to
the great man of the nation, Daniel W ebster
CHEERS, and hoped, and asked, that he who had
been the life blood of the present administration
should be chosen to post which he would dignity
and adorn And there were others, teoW-citizens
OF whom was one, who pointed to man who
receiv ed his first commission from Thomas Jeiier-
son,-a man, who, when the honor Of arms
was furnished by the dsgracefu surrender Of Hull,
sprang up (mere boy that he was) before the gaze
OF our people, and Lundy's Lane aud. Chippewa
showed that American volunteers could stand up
before British Regulars. We pointed to man
whose whole life had been marked by devotion to
his country, who had sealed his attachment to the
country by the blood he freely poured out at
Lundy's Lane,-who still wears about him the
proud and honorable marks of the mutlation of
his body by British bullets. (Cheers.)
We pointed to who, in every act of his
life, had shown himself worthy of our gratitude
man who in Georgia had effected the removal of
the Cherokee Indians from their hunting grounds,
and from the graves of their sres, in u manner
which commended itself even to the spirit of
philanthropy on the Northern frontier,
had paciied the country had averted war by the
discretion and prudence of his mind--who, in
South Carolina, selected by General Jackson for
the most delicate of all MISSIONS by his firmness
and common sense had made the spirit of the
law accord even to the disunionsm of South
Carolina; man who, in the recent war with
Mexico. called to lead our armies, had performed
the most splendid military feats In the annals of
any land; who led less than fourteen thousand
men from the fortress of Vera Cruz, until he
planted the American banners upon the pinnaces
of the Halls of Montezuma; man whose whole
course there had been marked by kindness and de-
votion; who was the soldiers friend; who
slept until the humblest soldier in the camp was
provided with blanket; man whose sword
never saked in the blood of the defenceless; who,
while victor of the empire was seen conciliating
the rejudices and soothing the passions of
conquered people; who, though Protestant him
self, showed his federation in matters of con-
science by protecting the Roman Catholic Church
and the ministers Of the Almighty God no mat
ter to what persuasion they mi .ht boiong.
We pointed moreover to a man who had gone
into Mexico poor man, WHO was offered the dia
dem of an empire there, who was asked to be-
come their President, but who spurned them chat
he mi ht return to his own dear native land; of
a man who, in these times of fraud and corrup-
ton, went to Mexico poor, | said before and
came out Of it, lin the midst Of the nexhaustbe
treasures of that country,) without single Mexi-
can dollar sticking to his palm. We pointed to a
man on whose table may be spread the
sword given to him by this state after the war of
1912-the swords voted to him by almost every
state in the Union, with the medals from Con-
gress, and from his own mother, the common
wealth of Virgil lia, when Gov. Floyd, who,
though politically opposed to him, introduced him
to the Legislature, the most distinguished living
son of Virginia. There they are.-spread out
in his own private mansion-and there have
heard him say (not with ostentation) these,
gentlemen, my only riches, the only gold and
silver that possess, as the grateful remembran-
ces of my country's greatness"
Fellow citizens, such man we presented to
the national convention. The contest between
him and the other candidates, have said was
fierce, but not unkind. It was the valley of Mex
leo over again. We fought-slowly but steadily
We never tired. At length, fortress after for
tress gave way, until on the memorable SD ballot,
we marched right on to victory and placed our
standard on the citadel. From that moment all
luminosity was gone, and it would have pleased
you, gentlemen, to see the general congratuation
which followed, and in which every body partici-
pated. We then felt that the great Wing party
no South, no West, nothing but the country.''-
Cheers. From New York the cry went up, it
was echoed back by North Carolina, Arkansas,
and Alabama joined in the general chorus
ave shall eject Winfield Scott!' Agreed
Agreed''
VIM. Graham of North Carolina, as pure as
true, and as sterling Wing ever lived, was
nominated for the Vice Presidency of the United
States. (Cheers.) And it may be referred to
singular evidence corroboratlve of the fact that
the contest not contest for men bat for prin
cples, (and that in opposing Willard Fillmore
we did not oppose the man, but because we be-
lieved that the old scared veteran, Gen. Scott,
was entitled to the nomination. -as evidence of
this fact say one Of the iustrious members of
Willard Fillmores own Cabinet was the choice
of the Convention. When it was announced that
Scott and Graham were the nominees, Joy sat
upon the brow of every Wing in the convention
and there was conviction in every mind that the
choice there made would be ratified by the peo-
pie in November next. North Carolina prom
ised fifteen thousand majority; New<York said son
Ter frontier the blood OF General Scott was poured
out for our protection, and we shall not deserthim
now" And we challenged them to the friendly
contest, as to which should be the banner Wing
state of the Union.
Fellow citizens: the deed is done, our standard
bearer is selected, and if there be any one in the
Wing party who, claiming to be a Wing, turns
from us because the man of his choice has not
been selected say to him, and toall such, 'your
professions have been false, your faith unreal
Let him turn and flee. Let the old Wing party,
that rallied for principles and not for men, be unit