The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-06-30
The WING Nominee.

| den. Winfield Scott has received the nonina-
ton Of ;he National Wing Convention for the
Presidency. This event has really astonished
no one, yet The announcement fell like shower
baund t6n the ardor Of the Whig party in this
eectts, and it will require more than the ordina-
r appliances, such as blankets, brandy and
number six, 10 produce a reaction. 1t is well
known that Mr.. Fillmore was the choice of
Southern wings, and the reason of this was.
that he showed so far as words and clustering
proclamations were concerned, a disposition to
execute the fugitive slave law. But the very
thing that gave him popularity in the South
with his lar;y, offended his free-soil abolition
friends Of the north, who expected from declara-
ions made previous to his election to The Vice
Pre=idenc that he would use all the power of
his official position in favor of the Abolition
party. But Mr.. Fillmore had taken an oath to
support the Constitution, and he could not avoid
he duty so clearly marked out before him with
out being guilty Of perjury. Yet what he has
dC1e (and God knows he has done little enough)
has rendered him exceedingly unpopular with his
party at the NORTH and they having the power
in the Convention, threw him over board and
took up one who, though born in southern
State, has given utterance to abolition senti-
ments. Against the wishes of the whole south
ern delegation, Scott is nominated because he
thinks II high moral obligation resting upon
slave owners and slave-holding States, to ameli-
crate slavery even to extermination, because he
believes that Congress has the power 10 abolish
slavery in The District Of Columbia and because,
having uttered these sentiments he has the zeal
GUS support of Seward, the notorious abolition.
list, and by his support can probably carry the
great State Of New York. No wonder then that
southern wings are cooled off when man is
nominated on account of his known abolition
efinities. From present appearances, we think
there will be in the South but very faint de-
m0nsration in favor of Scott, and if be is cleo
ted, it viii be By northern votes, for we cannot
conceive how it is possible for him to get the
vote of single southern State under tie cir
cuustances Of his ON nation The fact Of his
having been all the tine Stewards choice for tie
Presidency, is enough TO damn him with tie
Souh, and we doubt not that in The event Of his
election, Seward will be the ruling spirit of the
Government, and under his auspices we cannot
hope that the fugitive slave law will be very
aattfuzy executed. Hence, we say the present
viii more nearly approach contest upon pure
ly sectional grounds, which should be depreca-
tel By all true patriots, than any we have ever
had since the establishment of our Government |
WHo Will IT BE? GEN. ScoTr OR MRs GEN.
scoTr "A writer in the Georgetown Herald ad
,ocates the election of Gen. Scott to the presi-
lency upon the ground of Mrs. Gen. Scott's
The writer close his article
With the following prediction:
:" We now venture the prediction, that her
at the White House will be
ooked to as the Elizabethan age of this Repub-
ic. 10 the end of time -
This is the most sensible View that has yet
,een taken of Gen. Scotts claims to the presi-
ency. If persisted in, we have no idea what
qill become of the democratic candidate He
S too gallant man to beat a woman we are
ure, and il Mrs. Gen. Scott opposes him, we
uspect be will let her walk over the track But
re want to see the thing done fairly and openly
the canvass is to be fought upon Mrs. Gen
qualifications we want the issue to be
aade directly, "and no bobbing or dlodging."
.et Mrs Gen. Scott be nominated by the whig 4
on vention--a woman's rights platform laid s
own-and instead the sword the distaf en-
lazoned on the whig escutcheon. We believe
hat such platform as this would be more ac-
eptable to sensible men than any other the [
thg party can adopt.
Our yvhig friends hereabout who are having
cott uniforms made up had better pause. It
BAY BE- that the Bloomer costume viii suit Ie
hsrn better. We regfet We ara eommitted /