Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-18

of those States and staked their fortunes upon him.
But they were still in lifeless minority. The
Union or conservative Wings were too many Tor
them yet; but unfortunately they were divided
some were for Fillmore and some for Webster. To
keep up this division was the peculiar aim of Sew
ard and Johnston and in this they not only sue
ceeded but so embittered the partizans of these
two great men, that some of them, just enough
for Stewards purpose, went over to Scott and he
was nominated. 1t is, therefore, Seward and
Johnston triumph over the South
8. Of the same opinion the New York Ex-
press, another leading whig paper of the North, as
were also other journals in the free States, who
favored Mr.. Filmore's or Webster's nomination.
The former paper had the following:
s' Do you know that If Gen. Scott is elected every
person appointed to Office under his administration
must be favorable to Stewards nomination in 1856
Do they know that men of the Gidding's'' stamp
acquesce in the nomination! Why is it? They do
so, because in the event of SCOTS election, they will
come in for share of the spoils, thereby gain add
whg party into abolition party, and W. H. Seward
will be their candidate for the Presidency in 1885,.
4. In plain English, it was well understood, and
must be admitted, that the supporters of Scott
in the free States opposed the nomination of Fill
more, on the ground that he had approved the
Compromise, and enforced the execution of the
fugitive slave law.
5. The northern Conventions that presented
Gen. SCOTS name for the Presidency, did not en-
dorse the Compromise measures as final dust
ment of sectional differences.
6. The Southern Wing Conventions unanimously
nominated Fillmore for reelection and declared as
did the Wing Convention of this State, that they
would not support any candidate who was not
"unequigocalZy committed" to these measures as a
fnality. Certainly they did not mean by "un-
equivocally one whose position it should take four
columns in a newspaper and Dictionaries" to de-
fine
I. It was well understood that large and in
fiuential body of Southern Wing delegates in Con-
gress, believed that Gen. Scott, who was known to
be the preferred candidate of Seward, Johnston and
their party, was under the advice and control of
Mr.. Seward.
8. Gen. Scott, though he had been repeatedly
written to for his opinions on the Compromise
measures and fugitive slave law, declined to an
in writing, in his letter of March 26, 1851
he did, when he said, {" and considering, if an
swer your queries, I must go on and answer others
already before me, we'll as the long series which
would inevitably follow, to the disgust of the
public"
Nor could he be prevailed upon by his South
ern friends, under any circumstances, to say,
his own name, that he endorsed the Compromise,
including the fugitive slave law, as fnality. Five
words would have answered-yet he was mute.
9. Pending disputes between Wing members of
IL
the influence of the Seward party over him, in
April May last, the Wings of Congress held
caucus, over which MIR. Mangum, supporter of
Scott, presided; and in that caucus, motion being
made by Hon. Mr.. Marshall, of Kentucky, to en-
dorse the Compromise measures, the same acas
ruled out Of order by the said presiding officer
and the ruling of the chair was sustained by the
caucus, large majority of whom were Scott men
whereupon large number of Southern members
Indignantly denounced the whole proceeding as a
direct evasion of the issue upon the Compro-
mise.
TO- General Scott, so far as the public eye has
seen, has never in his life, written the word Com
PROMISE" or committed himself to these measures
except on one occasion, and that was when, after
declaring he would not write, he yet did write to
Mr.. Archer in the Baltimore Convention and pend
ing the ballotings that if nominated he would in
his letter of acceptance, give his views of the Com
promise measures in terms at least as strong in
their favor as those he read to Mr. Archer two days
before
IL. These views given to Mr.. Archer two days
before, were embraced in Resolution of the New |
Jersey Wing Convention in which the words aCom-
promise" and fugitive slave law" do not once oc-
cur, and which, if intended as portion of his
PLATFORM would be utterly unsatisfactory and insult
ing 10 the Southern people all portions ofthem.
These are some of the circumstances attending
the nomination of Gen. Scott, and which, if known
to Mr.. Doub, seem to have made no impression
his mind, that Gen. Scott is the candidate of the
Seward influence, or that his conduct has been at
all exceptionable." From them how could he
possibly have drawn the conclusion, that " he (Gen
Scott) was not under the influence or control of
Seward or his party 2" Should he not have stated,
and will he not now come out boldly and admit,
hat Gen. Scott, though renowned warrior, did
yet withhold from the public the expression of his
opinion upon most delicate and important ques- s
ion, affecting his position before the Wing Con- I
7enton-a question of absorbing interest to the
South. and in which the nrosnaritv tho bonor =