Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-08-14


fact. sayira that nc Gaesenre existed between his
We've and tAoAe eil31s:nad By Mr. Fillmore. marty
in the Northern States formed. andsthe President
and Mr. Webs.er were recognized "a It's leaders The
party opposed 70 the Fugitive Slave act and pledged
TO agtate its Modification repeal, regarded Mr.
Seward ef Now York i,s leeaer, and he as the expo
neht Of tia, party, selected Gen Scott as its candidate
in oppoeitiont 70 either Mr. Fillmore Or NJ. Webster
Mr.. Fillmore means then, when he speaks OF these
friends who would besacrificed by his Withdrawing
bis NAME, those. wha1e hinRelf, had determined to
stand by the Compromise acts, the law for the recla
nation Of Fngitse Slaves included, Final settle
ment of the subjects they embraced. The contest
among Northern men and the struggle to be this,
Whether these who supported Dir. Fillmore and the
Fugitive Slave law as FINAL settlement or whether
Mr. Seward and the party who opposed it and announc
ed their determination to agtate for its repeal
rs control the nominating convention. If Fillmore or
Webster obtained the nomination, then Seward and
his party-were "sacriiced.p If Seward succeeded in
procuring the nomination fer Gen. Scott, then Mr.
Fillmore and his friends were SACRIFICED and the
'perpetuity of those measures were endangered" 3
We need not say, that Mr. Fillmore and his friends
were sacrifced-and he asserted with sort<of pro-
phetc spirit before the nomination. that he should re-
had sin the estimation Of majority of the convention,
rendered me (him) an unavailable candidate" Again
he says that sit should at all times be subject Of IL
licitation to any man that he has been enabed&o
serve his country by sacrificing hmself." And n Ee
gard to his action he says, that, upon his
the Presidency, we were divided on questions 81 81
tai Importance, and that it impossible to pursXe
coursed which would satisfy all' He says"I have bot
attempted it. l have sought more anxiousiy do
what right than what would please" For ding
what was right-that is, enforcing the fugitive lave
aw-he has not pleased the Northern wing party Ind
has been sacrificed by it. Now, why was he sa&ri-
feed, and what it that rendered him unavailable
in the estimation of majority of the convention" In
view of the fact, that he wasthe unanimous choic 81
fourteen Southern States, and because he was "a
approver of the Compromise which saved the Unid&
las the wing State convention of Mississippi says
vast for this Let it be remembered that no char
has been urged against him, North South, for uI
aithulness in the discharge of his Executive Duty or
that he is not true whig that he is personally
Objectionable than he four years ago--noth-
ing of this sort is urged Let be remembered that
the unanimous choice of fourteen slave States,
fact we believe which has never happened before in
this country, for do not remember that any candi-
date for the Presidency has before been backed
up by Fourteen Slave States in solid column and vo-
ted for, ballot after ballot without scarcely any change
we say, that remember no such instance in our
hStoryit stands upon record BY ITSELF solitary and a.
lone Why was hedefeated. Let the conscientious
wing answer The very reason that made him the
candidate of the Slave States defeated him in the Free
States. His devotion to the Compromise acts, caus-
ed his sacrifice, this who regards truth dare
deny. His devotion to the Compromise acts rendered
him unpopular at the North, and he was defeated be-
fore the convention by the Northern vote-being un
able to muster in convention butll Northern votes.
We defy the friends of Gen. Scott here or elsewhere
to point to any objection urged against Mr. Fillmores
denomination They cannot do it. If any objection
existed, dare they name it ! If they name the obiec
ton they but confess the very thing for which we are
here contendings IF they say that it was for his
devotion to the Compromise, we shall agree with
them But shall then ask them if they are practic
/ ing. fraud upon the people, the Northern
States duping the South They will not contene
that Seward and Greeley, and Raymond and johnson
are better Compromise men than Fillmore and Web
ster that Scott is better wing than either of the
last named gentlemen. We shall ask them then, how
it happens that these succeeded in bringing for
ward their candidate, crushing the fourteen Slave
States by almost solid array of Non-Slaye States in
convention : We shall ask them if the like of it has
ever before happened, and if it is not very like sec
ona struggle for the supremacy of section over
the other and where andin what are such contests
end
But we shall not stop here with our queries We
shall want to know which wing the whg party North
in the ascendant tits not that portion represent
ing the Compromise opinions of Messrs Webster ant
Fillmore, surely for they have both been sacrificed
not by the vote of the South but by Northern votes
Having been sacrificed by Northern votes let US ask il
the opinions they represent have not been sacrificed
with them, and ifso, is not Sewardism triumphant
Without saying it is SO, there some very rugged
facts in the way to any who may desire to form
contrary opinion.
/ Assuming the ground that Sewardism is in the as
cendant, we take up another train of reflection. The
Southern wings have proclaimed that they were fol
the Finaty of the Compromise acts. Ifthey are sin.
cere do they not present remarkable spectacle t.
the world in sustaining for the Presidency who
was forced on themby a party VIGOROUSLY known tc
be opposed to those acts-sustanng a man who holds
his position by an almost exclusive sectional VOTE ane
that section very abolition in sentiment Now mos
men would say that this is singular predicament fol
Southern Compromise whigsto be placed in particular
y when it is known that they sustain the very mar
selected months agony Seward and his coadutors sus
taned, defended and controlled by him and his myr
midons alone who has adhered to their advice sub