Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-05-21

selves may be called on IN a lew weeks 10 re-
move, when. III the meantime, We have put me
weapon il the h1nds of our adyersarles to be
aaed against us. The truth ia, oil the Demo
cratic candidates, and all their friends want
the vote, and because they can't get II, they
unite III a complaint against Scott, because he
can. They know that none of them can be
elected without II. These same gentlemen
could do great deal to ret It Tor Mr.. lllnore,
and the Democrats would move the very stones
of Rome to carry it for their candidate, shock
ed as they profess to be, that the Wings should
trust any man for whom they would vote For
my part, hope Mr.. Fillmore, Gen. Scott, or
Mr.. Webster, whichever may be the candidate,
may get every Free Soil and Abolition vote IN
the country. with smlll sprnkling Of the
Democracy and should not apprehend that
either OF them would thereby become either
Aboliiions's Or Democrats But So far from
Mr.. Seward'+ leading and managing this mat
ter, he 10 Guy following 4 currcnt OF public
sentiment jhat he has not the power to resist,
and he Is striving hy this means to get back
himself inln the Wing ranks.
By tie way, let me ask tct9 are The dgjtators
nClO} NJ mltur which section presents tins
quns ion. the other must, AMI will oppose 1t ;
now suppose those in favor of the repeal OF the
law were TO omit no opportunity when North
crn and southern men were collected together,
to introduce resolutions declaring the fugitive
slave law unconstitutional and unsatisfactory
and that it ought to b. repealed would they
not be denounced bv the south as agitators and
dstur5er; Of nc public peace? And if, Oh ev
cry like occasion, ihc south will persist in pre-
santing resolution, nf ny opposite character, do
they not Themselves become agtators and dis
turbe,. OF pablo rapose AS long as we have
The law, and it is executed, we should be salts
fed " hat more should we ask? What moro
have we right to demand
o: one thing | feel perfectly assured, and
that is, that we could have no safer man on the
Colnproms, than Gen. Scott not because he
is more in favor of ii than some others, but be-
cause he is rs much in favor of it rs any other a;
and because he is as fixed and stable in his
opinions, (selfwlIled, If You choose, and as !lt-
tic Ii ely to be under improper anl undue in
! tlucnces as any man now before the country.
The illrc-uD of the secedcrs here IS OF no
great MON ,nt; but must die an early and nat
nrul death. 1t en- produce no serious effect.
! " hat consequence can rejecting men attach
t'it? In the first pllce, they give no satls:ac-
,0ry reason IN their address for the course they
have pursued, and there are very few Of them
: that are known to have been at any time partlc-
ular'y friendly to the COMPROMISE. Take Nor
ton, of Florida, for example. he voted in the
Senate from frs. to last, against the Compro
!ni.e; and he proposes to make, not the Com
promise Itself test, but the written and pub
llshed declaration Of Gen. Scott IN its favor q
test Of his orthodoxy. Take Clingman, Of
| North Carolina, for another He not only vot-
ed against the Compromise, out and cut, but
within the last two weeks he voted against
ol,,.,. mi
settlement of the questions involved, and that
they ought not to be ngitated or disturbed. He
then goes into Wing caucus called for the
sole purpose Of fixing the time and place o.
holding the National Convention: and because
a resoluto on similar 10 that he had voted agains
is ruled out Of order, he Indignantly seoedes
and untcs in the publication of manifesto
against the " hg party. Again: how oaI
Cabcll throw suspicion on the character o
Scott, when, in his speech, made only few
weeks since, he said che happened to knou
Gen. SCOTS views on the Compromise, and hi
was entitled to the support of every Compro
mise man in the country 2"
My Impression Is, that it is quite time enough
to disband the Wing party. and throw the Al
ministration Of Government into the hands o
the so-caled nemocracy-when it Shall have
done something essentially wrong, and not 70
refusing TO agitatc the question otslavcry agar
for whenever ard wherever that subject /
Introduced hereafter, by either section to Il,
Other. II must lead to agitation; for while TIT
North is for the most part willing to acquiesce
they are not prepared in a body, leyen thos
WAC do acGuiesce,l to endorse ali the principle
Of the Compromise; AMI fer ore, | am satisfied
with northern acQuiescence, though from tn
S0Hth would ask for something more. Ii
my Judgment they should approve
You are not to infer from an; hing that
have said, that write MS the partlzan of Gen
Scott. write as wing, to do justice to tn
!, position of true Whi- that has been traduce
ana slandered one that VIC may be called up
on in a few weeks to support a. the candldat
, the party; or against whom prejudice ha
been lierccly at work, and one who will receiv
my ardent and earnest support if nominated b
the National Convention. rs a delegate 10 tia
! Conrention, / shall support the man, that u2o
, consultation Nth Wig, from eutry pat ofH
, Union, ShnN be'iere 10 be the str ngsSt, an
most certain to bring rictory 10 oar .fag, an
} defeat 10 the Other side. am parizan Of n
, mani 20 TO- The party, and the principles
the party, and not for men. If Fillmore il til
= strongest man, shall 90 for him--so for Wet
ster, and 50 for Scott; and if either of the TO
t mcr had been RS much misrcprescn'ed md a.
} sailed in the south, should with equal alucrl
s ty have undertaken their vindication.
= |. is little strange, hut have not yet sec
tho first man ofnny party who insisted on Scott
} wiring, that would say he entertained any doul
! about his opinions; and, if Il Whg was NJ
: clamorous for Taylor, in iS, without pledge
! while everybody knows Scott and nobody knc
a Taylor. Bnt the most interesting feature
? this general strife, is the extreme solcitudc
/ the Democratic party generally, and Of the LEI
= ter-wrtots in particular, that General SEQ
, should be required to write, for fear he may ia
, into the jaws Of Democracy. When will trio
cry and intrigue run It's course and when w
4 Wings become wise? Now is the acceptt
, time now It is that we can beat Democracy
G bad that they will be ready to abandon the
h organization, as they were in 1916, Ill Jol
Q Tyler came to their aid and now Is the tin
II that the Wings select for quarreling over me
e AMI defeating the perty, for the sake of a fave
il tie man.
5 | am, very truly, yours, &C.,
! JOHN NJ. BOTTS.
u William II. Seward.