Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-06-25

The Wing National Convention at Baltimore yes
terday, nominated the following ticket /
For President !
WINFIELD SCOTT, of New Jersey;
For Vice President,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, ofNorth Carolina.
The nomination for President was effected on the
SD ballot: that for Vice President the Cd. The
nomination of Gen Scott was essentially SECTIONAL
portion of the Virginia delegation having cast the
only votes he received from Southern State,-and
r.Botts had been sleeping with Governor Johnston
of Pennsylvana, which accounts for the phenomenon.
North Carolina Invariably voted for Fillmore, and
against Scott. An incident occurred on the 18th
ballot, forcibly illustrating this fact:
In announcing the vote of North Carolina. the
clerk inadvertently gave it to Windfeld Scott where
upon the delegation started up in panic if touch
ed by q galvanc stroke. Fillmore Fillmore"
was the cry, and the clerk apologized.
But this did not suffice, and the chairman OF the
delegation rose and said with peculiar emphasis -
North Carolina gives 10 votes for Nillard Fill
more, and none for Gen. Scott"
It seems, that after the adjournment on Saturday
night, a despatch was sent to Mr. Webster by his
friends, who lie ;red to know what they should do,
as the Convention had failed to make nomination.
Mr.. Websters answer was ~ have nothing to
say" similar despatch sent to Mr.. Fillmore.
His answer was:-" Go and vote for Webster by all
means, and thus save the Wing party" Mr.. Fill
more thus seemed to attach great Importance, amour
ting even to the salvation of the Wing party to the
defeat of Gen. Scott, for such is the unmistakeabe
meaning of his words.
To say that Gen. Scott's nomination has been re-
ceived here with coldness nay, with anger and dis
gust, would be to state but the simple truth, in which
will be borne out by all parties. We know the
power of party associations, and the efforts that will
be made to bring the Wing party in North Carroll
ma up to the support of the ticket, and we have
doubt but that these efforts will be successful in very
many instances; still we kno,r that there many
intelligent and rejecting Wings who cannot either
be whipped inc the traces, wheedled round to
vote for Gen Scott. The strictly sectional vote by
which he was nominated-the fact that Mr.. Fillmore
deemed it necessary to request his friends 60 for
MIR. Webster and the Wing party from Scott
and the still more startling fact that the Generals
most devoted body guard of &c votes from his strong
holds refused to sustain the platform-all these
facts will weigh heavily against any electioneering
efforts that may hereafter be made in his favour.
It is evident that the Northern Wings who forced
Scott upon the party in opposition to the united
South must calculate largely upon support from the
ant-Southern element, with, perhaps, from Is to 20
Southern votes, ten of which they hope to secure in
North Carolina by throwing her the Vice Presiden.
cy as 81 sop. Tt will not, then do for to despse
our enemy, because he isnot strong in immediate
neighborhood since the very causes which produce
his weakness here are calculated upon to procure
his election through the votes of sectional oppo
nents 1t will require the united South to defea
We Sk no friendS-nOt TO 10
sert their party-although should be happy to re
ceive and cooperate with them in one fold, blu
we ask of them to work with at this time, for thu
attainment of an object dear to ll,-even par
fy men. The defeat of Gen. Scott will rebuke tn
spirit of sectional domination, ohtrusively appa
rent in his nomination and will show that no ticket
gotten up only without the of the South blu
in opposition to her Wishes can hope for success.
is only by thus showing our power, that we can hop
to secure respect or justice And further it wou
have the effect of making future Presidential con
tests really political campaigns and not mere glad
atorial contests. in which the man who has had tn
least civil experience is to be called to the hlghes
civil station, because as it would seem, he has TO
lowed life. the best calculated of any, to unfit bill
for the duties of the Office he aspires to fill.
marking the comparative sectional influences in th
nominations of the Democratic and Wing candidate
it is worthy of notice that it was the South whic
took the lead in favor of Pierce. 1t Virgini
and North Carolina, and Mississippi and Alabam
and all the most ultra slave States Of the South
Every vote of the South cast for him unhesit'
tingly. With Scott, the case was different. 1t W;
the North, and the North alone, which nominate
Scott. The South had neither act nor part in it
he was crammed down her throat: whether he wi
stay crammed down. is another question. Time wi
show.