New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-14
CABELL AND WILMOT.


The Evening Post thinks Mr.. Cabell
cannot vote for Scott because, in speech
few days before the nomination, he said:
"Knowing the influence around General Scott, the
set of men who will be brought into power with him,
the complete triumph his will be othe Free Soil
and AnSavery party and the baneful consequences Of
an election effected by organization, Iould feel just
" chdrgeabk nth wHgness sacrifice The good Of my
country for party Advantage and to barter my princi
pies for votes, speak but for MYSELF nere 70 g've
aid and comfort TO The lors enemies Of the Cons.i-
tuition and the rights Of the South by yielding 10 their i'm
pvious d,ndad to sacrifice such men as Fillmore and
Webster for one whom they think they can use, and
whom they have used effectively up TO the present
time SIR could not respect myself If, In such con-
test as Is now wagpg in the Northern States could
consentto abar don those rights OF my section regard
The election Of Scott as the aRnhdtion Of all our Northern
friends"
So it says that Messrs. Schermerhom and
Martin, of our Wing, rs. g. Delegation,
"made no concealment Of their hostility to Scott i'm
ediatey after his nomination. and If the editor OF The
Tribune had been at Washington at the time he might
have heard that hostility ayOwed from their own lips.
Now, we could understand this as af
fording THE Post some encouragement to
hope for Wing aid toward the cleo ton Of
Pierce, if the same paper did not proceed to
say,
ave had right to suppose that Gen. Scott would
continue TO occupy that position the Slavery ques
ton which had procured for him his strength In the
Wing Convention. We had right TO suppose that The
Tribune and EUening Journal were pressing his
baton in good faith as candidate who reflected their
opinions upon the peculiar institution We admit that
we were mistaken in both of these assumptions
"If Gen. Scott and bis friends had continued TO stand
where they stood when we wrote and If he had
cepteda nomination on fnaliy platform, there Is no
doubt thatAny Of the prominent candidates before the
Democratic Convention would have been defeated by
him Blu, now he s presented as the express champion
Of fnality, Of which there lie not word In the Demo-
cratic platform. The very sentiment which would have
civ en- Scott strength II he had adhered 10 the princ
pies Of the party which presented him, viii s7d
ought to TO the benefit of Pierce, whose abstract
notions Of Slavery quite liberal and just any
ever proiessed by Gen. Scott"
So, you see, The Post shoots to hit if
it is deer, and to miss if it is q calf
Gen. Scott can't be supported by Cabell,
Scbermerhorn, Martin, Il Co., because his
election would be complete triumph to
the Free Soil and Anti-Slavery party; )" his
acceptance Of the nomination "with the res
olutions annexed is not worth straw on
this side it has not altered his position
hair in so far as the alteration might make
it more acceptable to Pro- slavery Wings;
but has completely transformed it with re-
spect to Anti- slavery Wings, who must be
wholly repealed by it ! Cabell & Co. must
continue to oppose him, notwithstanding
the Platform, because his election would
be triumph of the Free Soil and Anti
Slavery party but Hunter, Howe, &C.,
must now turn against him, because the
Platform has rendered their farther sup
port of him impossible, and the very SEN
timent' that formerly commended him
ought now ito enure to the benefit OF
Pierce" There are a great many gud-
geons, but can any be soft enough to be
duped by The Posts elf-conhadictions
The Post has no warrant for its asser-
ton that we ever pressed Gen. Scott as a
candidate who reflected our opinions on
Slavery and the Fugitive Law. On the
contrary, we expressly disclaimed any such
presumption. We did not require candi-
date whose opinions on this subject re-
Elected our own. What we sought was a
candidate who would not denounce and
persecute his own supporters and Political
brethren for their opinions respecting
Slavery, as Frank Pierce has for seven
years been prescribing Democratic de-
priving them of regular nominations and
hunting them out of the party, for holding
the opinions of The Post. We were per-
fectly willing that the Wing candidate,
whoever he might be, should cherish and
av0w his own convictions respecting
Slavery and the Compromises, if he would
allow us the same liberty, and not distract
and destroy the Wing party by proscrip-
ton impelled by factious intolerance and
characterized by bad faith. We are salts
fed with our candidate, with his sab
stract notions of Slavery" (now ten years
on record,) and with his public avowal that
he will not make honest differences of opin-
ion respecting the Compromises ground
OF division and prescription among Wings.
And If there be any honest, earnest, con-
sistent Free Soiler who believes that South
Carolina and the entire State Rights or
ultra Slavery interest in the South, don't
know which side they are voting, let him
take The Post for his oracle and see where
he comes out.