Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-12

port oil Gen Scott, ii he should be the nominee o
the party For myself can say, however i
| may be with others) that when I hive been ;
candtdate, was never so proud or so foolish a
to object to any good vote | could get. This ab
surd cry IN the South against the Abolition vote
Tor scott, indicates want of candor that is with
out pdraiei OF IL oetrays want of reason tina
amounts TO foolery. 1t only serves to create pre-
| ladices' that we ourselves may BIO called on in ;
lew weeks to remove, when, in the mean time
we nave put the weapon in the hands of our adj
versares to be used against us. The truth is. all
| the Dehlocfatlc candidates, and all their friends
want the vote, and because they can't get it. thew
unite in complaint against Scott because he can.
lhey Know that none of them can be elected with
OUT IL. lhese same gentlemen would do great
deal to get it for Mr.. Fillmore and the Democrats
would move the very stones of Rome to carry it fol
their candidate, shocked they profess to be that
the Wings should trust any man for whom they
| would vote. For my part, L hope Mr.. Fillmore,
| zen. Scott, or Mr.. Webster, whichever may be
| the candidate, may get every Free Soil and Abo-
lltlon vote in the country, with smart sprinkling
OF the Democracy, and l should not apprehend
that either OF them would thereby become either
| Apoiitlonlsts or Democrats. But so far from Mr.
| Stewards leading and managing this matter. he
is only following a current of public sentiment
that he has not the power to resist, and he is str
wing by this means to get back himself into the
| Wing ranks.
By the way, let me ask, who are the aetators
! now! No matter which section presents this
question, the other must, and will oppose it now
suppose those in favor of the repeal of the law
were to omit no opportunity when Northern and
southern men were collected together, to introduce
resolutions declaring the Fugitive Slave Law un-
constitutional and unsatisfactory and that it ought
to be repealed-would they not be denounced bv
the South as agtators and dsturbers of the public
peace And if, on every like occasion, the South
will persist In presenting resolutions of an oppo-
site character, do they not themselves become the
agltators and disturbers of public repose As
long as we have the law and it is executed, we
should be satisfied. What more should we ask .
What more have right to demand!
vi one thingl feel perfectly assured, and that
| Is, that we could have no safer man OH the Com.
promise than Gen. Scott; not because he is more
In favor OF 1t than some others, but because he is
as much in favor of it as ana other and because
he IS as fixed and stable in his opinions, (sef-will-
ed If you choose) and as little likely to be under
improper and undue Influences as anv man now
before the country.
The flare up of the Seceders here is of no grea
| moment-it must die an early and natural death.
1t can produce no serious effect. What conse-
quence can rejecting men attach to it! In the
trst place, they give no satisfactory reason in their
address for the course they have pursued, and
there are few of them that are known to have
been at any time particularly friendly to the
Compromise. Take Morton of Florida for ex-
ample. He voted in the Senate from first to
the last, against the Compromise, and he propo
ses to make, not the Compromise itself test, but
the written aud published declaration of General
Scott in its favor test Of his political orthodoxy
Take Clingman, of North Carolina, for another.
He not only voted against the Compromise out
and out, but within the last two weeks, he voted
against Hillyer's resolution declaring it a perma-
nent settlement OF the questions involved and that
they ought not to be agtated or disturbed He then
goes into Wing caucus called for the sole DUR
pose of fixing the time and place of holding the
National Convention, and because resolution
similar to that he had just voted against is ruled
out OF order, he indignantly secedes and unites in
| the publication OF manifesto against the Wing
party. Again, how can Cabell throw suspicion
on the character Of Scott, when in his speech
made only few weeks since, he said he happen
ed to know General SCOTS views on the Compro-
mise, and he was entitled to the support of every
| Compromise man in the country.
My own Impression is, that it is quite time
enough to disband the Wing party, and throw the
administration OF government into the hands of
the so-called Democracy when it shall have
done something essentially wrong and not for re-
tuslng to agitate the question of slavery again,
Tor whenever and wherever the subject is intro
must lead to agitation for while the North is for
the most part willing to acquiesce they are net
prepared In body, (even those who do acuui-
esce,) to endorse all the principles of the Com
promise; and for one, am satisfied with Northern
acquiescence, thong h from the South / would ask
tor something more. In my judgment thew
should approve it.
4ouFre not to infer from anything that have
said, that | write the partizan of General Scott.
| write as Wing, to do Justice to the position of
true Wing, who has been traduced and SANDER
ed; one that we may be called upon in few
weeks to support as the candidate of the party:
one against whom prejudice has been fercey at
work, and one who will receive my ardent and
earnest support if nominated by the Nation
al Convention. AS delegate to that Convention,
l shall support the man. that upon consultation
with Wings from every part of the Union, I shall
believe to be the strongest, and most certain to
bring victory to our flag, and defeat to the other
slde am partizan of no mail go for the
party, and the principles of the party and not for
men. 1T Fillmore is the strongest man, shall
go for him-so for Webster, and so for Scott and
if either of the former had been as much misrep-
resented and assailed in the South, I should with
equal alacrity have undertaken their vndcation
1t is little strange, but have not yet seen the
first man OF any party who insisted on SCOTS wr-
ting that would say he entertained any doubt
about his opinions; and, if Whig was not clam
orous for Taylor in 48 without pledges, while ev-
erybody knows Scott and nobody knew Tay
But the most interesting feature in this generel
strife is the extreme solicitude of the Democratic
party generally and of the letter writers in partic
uart General Scottsho berequired to write,
for fear he may tall into the jaws of Democracy
When will trickery and intrigue run is course
and when will Wings become wise? Now is the
accepted time; now it is that we can beat Demo-
cracy so bad that they will be ready to abandon