The daily union., 1852-09-07
The southern whig Press.

| The Southern Whig Press.
The most curious and edyng spectacle in The political
drama now being enacted is the line of attack and
defence adopted by the whg press Of the South to slim
uale the whg party Of that quarter now so Indifferent,
to his cause, into the support Of Scott Greeley, OF the
New York Tribune, and his sectional echoes find no DIFF
hcuy in squaring their advocacy OF Scott with their
proclaimed hostility to the institutions of the slave States
their socialist notions, and their sconu reputation of
the whig platform adopted at Baltimore because thew
know and feel that General Scott was nominated alone
through the influence which they had excited and organ
lied. southern whig editor has necessarily different
sort OF task to fulfil when called upon champion Gen.
Scott II is most suggestive sight. however, to see how
reckessy and unscrupuously many Of the leading whig
papers OF the slave States fulfil the repulsve duty assigned
TO them We have only TO look back and to recall the
manner in which these very whg presses rallied against
the man whom they applaud. and applauded those
whom now they rail at, to appreciate the full the de-
grading attitude which they occupy Who does not re-
fmember the manner in which the Baltimore American
mathematical Seward and Johnston. declaring substan.
tally that if Scott in their hands, and followed
their teachings, there was an end OF him This same
Baltimore American saw that Seward and Johnston did
secure Scolts nomination to the exclusion of the favor
lies OF national wings in all regions; and yet that paper
exhausts argument in opposing the party without
which the Compromise would not have passed. and in
endorsing the candidates forced upon the wings by the
soil and abolition influences in the whg party To
break the force of the noble national sentiment encoar
aged and advocated in the North by The democratic party
until it became ress!less, the American now retals
the miserable stories OF the aboionsts OF New Hamp-
SHIRE in order that PIERCE the gallant and ndeatgable
champion of the constitution from the beginning, may be
damaged in southern esteem
! The Richmond Wing, another paper that denounced
the whig influences which assailed and retarded the
Compromise and raised the cry OF repea" after that
series OF measures had passed. exces in the advo
cacy of Scott, and in dsegading the evidences of his
abolition associations heretofore bitterly denounced in
the newspaper 1t exces also in the oHe nsive
assaults upon the ruest friends OF the South in the free
| S, ,ates.
Equally bitter against the northern whg adversaries
Of the Compromise the Louisville Journal. the
New Orleans Bulletin, the New Orleans Bee the Nash
vile Tennessee) Banner the Nashville Whg-all lead
log whig prints aud now the advocates Of Scott in the
hands OF Seward, Greeley, Johnston, Tuck Sevens-the
very influences they denounced as fatal TO whg nation
ay few short months ago.
Nearly every one of these whig prints, while denounc
ing the controlling power in the wing party OF these abo
luton leaders, admitted, with gratitude and with praise
the earnest steady, and unequvoca support OF southern
rights by the great and commanding majority OF the
democratic party OF the North Their readiness 10 forget
and their magniy in proscbing, those they were then
eager 10 honor present them in most disgraceul po
sltlon, aud suggests some most remarkable reflections
The movement in favor OF Scott IN the South encour
aged as is BY sach auxiiaes these, proves concu-
svey that the Scott leaders in the South wiling for
the meres party purposes prescribe and TO destroy the
best friends OF their interests in the North proued those
friends democrats and at the same time to take into
their confidence, and TO strengthen by their votes the
foes OF the South in the North, proUdsd they are oiigs
Had the South depended upon the present followers Of
Scott in the last great struggle for southern exsence
there would have been short struggle and an easy VIC
tory for fanaticism. Happily Jor the South however the
men against whom The Stanlys, the Mangums, the
Prences the Moreheads. the Joneses and the Culoms
have now drawn their dagges, and upon whom they pour
down unmeasured msedctions--happily for the South.
the men now assaed by the Scott leaders were in the
van of the conflict, and with courage that never was
equaed in political history, defeated and routed the forces
that had been rallied 10 overthrow the institutions Of the
slave States History records the triumph OF these men,
the undaunted democracy OF the North and also the
praise and the thanks awarded them by all parties
in the South To the shame OF our country betit spo
ken, however, that the friends OF Scott in iat part OF the
their base ngaode 10 the persecution Of those who
protected them from the abolition masters at whose
| feet they now submssivey kneeIt ~
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