The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-03-21

gafded as subject 10 any stfoDg party oas WINS IA
recent letter as follows:
.sIt is considered that General SCOTS chance for
nomination by die wing convention Is growing less very
fast The will insist Fillmore Webster ia pref
erence 10 General Scott and not single wing Delegation
tom the South will offer Ia toe convention any assurance
that General Scott win obtain any southern support
Mr. Fillmore should Withdraw his name from the can
diare he will the nomination OF all the southern
states and ultimately he Mr.. Webster must be noni
mated Many suppose that the choice OF the latter would
be good that OF the iormer nu' as 70 'nis he' arg
different opinions As the whg Vice President IL Is
now a question whether Mr.. Cruenden General Jones
shall be the nominee but IL must. think, be the ione
II is not 10 be denied that while almost all the south
ern wings declare that General Scott cannot receive then
support without frank declaration OF his position IN
favor of maintaining the Compromise, not lew OF them
are beginning TO feel that the fit time for such DECLARE
ton to produce its full effect upon the public mind OF the
South has already passed Several months ago we no
tced the as vet Of the Richmond
Enquirer of an understanding between Gen. Scott and MT
Senator Seward the effect that such declaration was
TO be given TO the public Whether any such statement be
we'll founded or not is clear that the northern wing
conventions which have nominated Gen. Scott appear 10
have acted precisely II such an understanding were
known TO them If these conventions know or suppose
Gen Scott 10 be in favor OF maintaining the Adjustment
their unanimous refusal to take that ground for them
selves when they nominate him. appears nexpllcabe at
least, il not sef-csnradictory The democratic State
conventions OF the same States have in several instan
ces, nominated each for itself, prominent democrat
for the presidency the understanding that the nominee
was unequvocally in favor of maintaining the Compro
mise In so doing, those democratic conventions have
in every case taken the ground for themselves,
and have thus at preserved their own consistency
as the representatives Of party, and left entirely open
to their delegates at Baltimore the whole question OF the
form in which the purpose TO maintain the Compromise
shall be either expressed or implied by the National
Democratic Convention. We submit that il the demo-
cratic State conventions making their several nomina
TONS had failed to pursue this they would
they selected for their nominee man not committed to
the Compromise have plainly indicated their unwilling
ness to abide by that measure, and their conviction that
their candidate sympathized with them in that feeling
Such would undoubtedly be the judgment which every
whig would pronounce-and with every show OF justice
upon their conduct.
And now add that this is precisely the position IN
which every northern wing State convention stands.
which has made General Scott its nominee and al the
same time been silent TO the Compromise II is true
that in the of two very conspicuous State con-
ventions-those OF Ohio and Pennsylvania-in which
General Scott received the nomination. the aspect OF the
matter sl worse for OF these bodies expressly
dsclamed and repudiated the whole Of the compromise
measures while the other rejected only the fugitive
law Can the idea be tolerated for moment that the
nomination OF these conventions was given TO General
Scott upon any other conviction than that he
opposed to the maint enance OF the Adjustment Was
not that inference necessarily and truly drawn TO every
other State nomination which made by these bodies
at the same time Was il not and necessary infer
ence as TO Governor Johnston and MIR. vinton And
il true and necessary TO them why less true
cessary as TO General Scott
In this brief statement oil the attitude in which General
Scott is presented TO the country, it is not so much
our purpose explain the grounds of the general disrs,
OF his position and associations now prevalent at the
South fix attention upon the serious difficulties
which have accumulated 10 the way OF any eleventh
hour change of his position understood. Sup
pose that General Scott shall declare that he ia
vored the passage OF the Compromise, and is in
favor OF maintaining it must not such declaration
from him, however adroity timed or phrased, awaken
in all rejecting minds a new and special distrust
OF its own Will not plan-dealing people all the
country be forced to ask-why, this being So did Gene
raj Scott permit his be thus presented? If
at heart friendly 10 the maintenance OF the Compromise,
why seem TO stand so long in false positions Why
permit Governor Johnston in Pennsylvania war the
knife upon the fugitive law, under the shadow and sane
ton OF his namei Was not something different from this
and better than this. due from General Scott his coun.
try when. in addition 10 all the democratic statesmen OF
national name, such OF his peers in public station, in
his own party, Messrs. Fillmore, Clay, and Web
s,er were, in great crisis OF public opinion, and
their great peril as party men, rushing
fully TO the rescue OF the Union, and courageously
breasiing the storm Of anii-savery agitation Was
II fit for General Scott, being friend OF the Com
promise, at such time TO stand SILENT and with folded
arms, while the leading anti slavery wings OF the North
fastened on him the odum and dscred OF their political
friendship, and made Of bis great military the
very tower OF their strength
II il shall appear hereafter that General Scott has been
and is blend OF the Compromise, these questions.
and others like them, which we forbear now to press,
will demand an answer. And it will be hard to answer
them 10 show that such support OF the Compromise
is much better than opposition to it-ihat such friend
ship is much more trustworthy than open enmi,y. We
go further, and we say-let General Scott write
public letter in favor of maintaining the Compromise, and
not few Of his best friends will say that, view of the
events Of the past twevemonth. his reputation pub
lie man will be best consulted by suppyesung it, 1--WE
riumph!" shouted Talleyrand, when he heard the