Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-07-14
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HOW THEY TAKE IT.

HOW THEY TAKE IT.
Oar readers will remember the belief that prevail.
ed all along. before the Scott nomination that no mat.
ter how clearly the Whig Convention nigh, plan.
itself on the. g compromise" measures, Gen. Scott
would no, app~ose the {" conpr ,mise'' in so many
words nor would Greedy, Seward, or any Of his Pc
cuar friends and adherents, up to ts support.
What belief has become certainty. The Ro-
chester Advertiser gives she following account Of
Wing ratification meeting recently held in Auburn,
the home Of Seward
"rHE WHla PLATFORM REPUDiATcD By HIS OWN
Gently held in Aubsrn, the home of Senator Seward,
set of resolutions were reported by committee
chosen for the purpose, and adopted by the meeting.
The first resolution sets forth that the nominations
recently made by the Wing Convention are - entire-
ly acceptable to the whigs of the city of Auburn,
who respond most cordially to the same" The se.
cond resolution is taken up setting forth the trans
cendant and transcendental qualifications of Gen.
Scott "as cirihan, military writer, diphonatist. and
soldier" The next is complimentary to their candidate
TO elect their ticket; and this closes their resolutions
mot s0ord said about their platform any princi
pile whdteuer.
And this, be it remembered, is from MI. Stewards
own home district-the very theatre from which after
becoming bail for the mobocats, who were arrested
officers of the law while in the discharge of their
duty, this same Seward invited the lawless gang,
with their coadiutors, white and black, male and fe
maIe in promiscuous congtomeration. to the bosoms
of his home and family, and bid them God. speed in
their interesting work of rebellion and anarchy This
is the man and this the place where such silent con-
tempt is shown to the principles and platform of the
whig party-a contempt more significant than if he
had followed the example Of his chief fugleman in
the Empire City, who " .pat upon the platform" with
so much holy indignation.
Bot the most characteristic part of the proceedings
is the fact that. while studied and conteWptuous
silence was maintained about the platform, the dis
honest and fraudulent intriguers, fearing the effect
abroad and especially the South, of this significant
insult to the compromise wings, caused a despatch
to be sent to the New York papers, stating that 're
solutions were passed endorsing the nominees and
the platform.
This is only small, petty larceny specimen of the
fraud and trckery which these dishonest demagogues
ready to resort to, in their desperate attempts to
keep themselves from sinking to that bottomess per-
dition Of public scorn and contempt which they So
richly merit"
That will do, for the present, for " the homo Of
Seward" but TO illustrate still further the fidelity Of
Northern Wings the platform adopted at Baltimore,
lay before readers the following from the New
Haven Register:
"A STAMPEDE! The Committee on Federal Re.
laons in the legislature of Connecticut, anxious to
give the Scoites and Grahamites chance stand by
their platform, reported to the Senate series Of
compromise resolutions. operoted like pinch Of
Lyons magnetic po,Uder on nest Of rats! From the
reverend Of the fifth round they all scampered
into the obbies, with the exception of Messrs Goa
lition Dean of the thireenh and Latham, of the
venth, aud they divided on the vote! Mr. Dean
stood solitary and alone, uphoIding the banner of
'o!d-fashioned whig princiPles.' Oh my country.
men! The resolutions were all passed by a vote Of
twelve to one. We were slightly misnformed yes
teday in saying that the body Of the wings stood up
against them. Mr.. Dean was the only one faithful
among the faishless.' The rest shot the pitt"
So much for Connecticut; but to show still further
the desperate gams which is being played BY the
friends Of the Seward candidate, quote follows
from the Albany Argus, a paper Of acknowledged
character and Standing:
"THE WHIe PLATFORM. 1t 10, strange to say, a
matter of difference. if not OF dispute, among the
whix journals, shat the genuine whig platform 10.
Certain it is that tie Northern and Southern ,uhg
gans cling to different versions of the same thing!
AT the South the whig platform is represented 40
recognizing the Compromise az 6naii,y, and as
pledging the whig party to the maintenance of tho
entire series of measures-fugitive law and all
against all attempts TO disturb any or all OF them, OF
to impair their efficacy At the North, another and
q
in which the compromise Is not mentioned, ito
fnaHty recognized N acknowledged"
The Argus goes on to show that tho Albany Eve
ming Journal-Weed's paper. and one of the leading
Scott organs in New York-dis,inc''y repudiates the
Southern version of the platform. The Journal says
"The eighth and last resolution of the series ac-
quiesces in the Compromise Measures, including the
Fugitive-slave Law, a settlement of the question
they embrace, until time and experience shall DEM
onstrate the necessity Of further legislation: does
not affirm their nahly.' for SO long as one Congress
is succeeded by another, with equal powers of ma.
king and repeating laws, the fnaIty Of an enactment
is an absurdity."
Southern Wings, what do you think of such con-
duct as that Can you swallow the Seward pill !
MORE SCOTT ENTHUSIASM"
The Boston Herald, Wing, refuses to be reconeiI-
ed to SCOTS nomination. 1t says:
We believe that his election will throw the COM
promise measures into Congress for renewed discus.
sion and agitation. We think so. notwithstanding
the platform adopted by the Convention. That piss-
g.. nd n