The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-07-15
The Aspect OF the WING Canvass.

General SCOTS nomination was accomplished by men
who live in agation--by men who had rather control
defeated faction and take the chances OF future aggran
dizement by means OF dsreputable alliances, than inge
with the great mass OF enlightened and patriotic party
They must fight, even when defeat is inevitable, in or
der to preserve force with which enter the market
when mercenarles wanted in future campaigns No
matter what straits they may be reduced to- nor how
destructive the FIRE which is opened upon them they can
not yield for their resistance springs from desperation
and not courage, like that Of too criminal TO hope
for pardon They will, OF course, feel no scruples in
resorting TO any 10 carry their purposes; nor
will they be checked in their career by patriotic re-.
sainls. Having repudiaed all faternal feelings at the
shrine of a narrow and contracted seclionasm. and
ramped the constitution at the command of higher
law, they would destroy the Union in their eagerness for
power and the spoils OF Office
The entire wing party Of the North became i'm.
bued with the anti slavery sentiment so that a wing
cabinet controlled by it forced the country to the verge
OF civil war; When the prospect Of losing the Union
staring US In the face, Sho had been reckless
of consequences began appreciate the blessings
ferred them. The commercial interests at the North
saw the ruin which menaced them in the continuance of
agitation, and they aided the democratic party sustain
ing the Compromise and assisted it in checking
dency of the popular mind to which the tactics OF the
whg party had gven vast and fearful strength AT one
period of the contest there WAS not prominent wing
leader nor prominent wing paper in the North the
Northwest which advocated non intervention. But the
increasing peril OF the country party exgencies, and the
different aspect which The question after the pas
cage OF the Compromise, induced such as Mr. Fill
more and Mr.. Webster 10 change their position, and op-
pose further continuance of agitation. But the great
body of the northern wing party refused TO change its
position. 1t turned upon Mr.. Fillmore and MIR. Web
sier, and, rallying under the name OF Winfield Scott
bore them to the wall, and gained such controlling
Influence the wing party Of the Union to force the
nomination at Baltimore. There are abolition organiza-
tons in the northern States outside OF the wing party
which look solely TO abolition results These organza-
lions separate and distinct from the old parties, and
recognise but dea and hold that TO be paramount 10
all other IDEAS The men who compose them are the
friends and followers OF Lloyd Garrison and Wendell
Phillips, who denounce everything sacred profane
which stands in the way of their hesh purposes The
followers of VIM. H. Seward, having trumpbed over, or
driven off the manliness OF the wing party. and made ii
homogeneous by destroying its respectable element
are making every effort consolidate ii with the organi-
cations have mentioned, under the banner OF Winfield
Scott To that end the whg managers this city have
endorsed the National Era's attack on General Pierce,
and have circulated through the North 10 induce CARR.
son, Phillips, and their followers TO abandon all ideas OF
separate existence and unite with them in the bonds OF
close fellowship TO prevent democratic triumph, and
subject the Union TO the inevitable pers OF sectional
election