Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-09-08

107, and it will make I'll subtract these "a from
III, and it will leave only 1877, thus showing, that
if the endorsement Of the compromise in the
Convention had been left to the pure Wing strength
IN that body as its exclusive work, 1t s0ould haze
failed by te" votes-l47 being majority. What
does this prove? 1t proves that if the Whi1 party
had been consulted, and not the States as States
without reference to theside upon which they would
throw their votes the platform of principles so tri-
umphantly alluded to by Mr.. Graham, soould not
have been adopted. Mr.. Graham can make the
calculation for himself if he chooses he will find
the foregoing to be correct.
9th. A sectional battle was fought over this
nomination of Gen. Scott for four or five days, all
the free State Wings voting for Gen. Scott and all
the slaveholding Wings for Mr.. Fillmore or Mr.
Webster. Is this what Mr.. Graham calls the re-
gular action of his party9 And the Southern
Delegates yielded at last upon the following ex-
treme grounds: 1st, because they hoped that as
platform endorsing the " compromise" had been
squeezed through, and as the free States had there
by secured their favorite candidate, they would ad
here to the platform in good faith; and secondly,
because as partizans they preferred almost any al
tentative to that Of breaking up in confusion, and of
thus notoriously denationalilng the Wing party.
Well, how has this platform been treated by the
free State Scott men? Greedy "defes, execrates,
and spits upon it-Thurlow Weed goes for Scott
but protests against the platform-the New York
Times does the same-while not the first Whig
meeting in the free States has, to this day, en-
phatically or cordially approved it. Does not Mr..
Graham know these things to be so? How, then,
can he say that the action of the Convention was
either Irregular" or unanimous" or that the
Southern people are bound by the nomination
Is not bargain broken on one side bargain
broken on both sides
The compromise " measures have been regarded
by Mr.. Graham and by those who have heretofore
acted with him in the South, indispensable to the
repose and the preservation of the Union. Twelve
months ago, judging him and his party in this re-
gion by what they said and by what they did, one
would have inferred, and most justly inferred, that
they would have staked every thing for these mea
sures, and would have supported no man for the
Presidency whose position in relation to them was
in the least degree doubtful; but now we are pre-
sented with the extraordinary spectacle of this
same gentleman occupying position on the ticke
with candidate for President who had absolutely
refused to give his opinions on these measures W
to the time of his nomination, and whose character
as compromise" man is so much in doubt thai
it is necessary to resort to arguments, dictionaries
and private conversations to show where and wha
he is! More than this: His colleague on tht
ticket is compelled, by the pressure of circumstan
ces, to come forward and over his own name declare
or certify that he believes him to be sound
But for the present we forbear.