The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-26
From the Washington Union
The Wing Candidate Judged by Wings
The Restoration Of the Galphins.

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Ilation to Gen. Scott and his present position
from the Boston Courier staunch whil
journal known to stand high in the conf
dence of Mr.. Webster and Mr. Fillmore
and which, if we mistake not, now publishes
"by authority" the laws Of the U. States
The Courier shows conclusively that the
nomination of Gen Scott was ga nomination
not fit to be made" and that be is destitute
of suitable qualifications for the leadership o.
the wing party and for the presidency. We
have seen no attempt in any Scott journal
to anssoer the Courier's arguments They
are unauswerable.
But this is not the precise point which
we now wish to make. It is conceded that
a very large and most influential portion Of
the wing press, as oeH at the North as at the
South, protested against Gen. SCOTS nomi.
nation on grounds Of principle. Among
these protesting wing journals at the North
were tho Boston Daily Advertiser, the BOs
ton Courier, the Boston Bee, the New York
Express, the New York Courier and En-.
quirer, the New York Mirror, the New
York Day Book, the Albany State Register,
the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, and
many other journals, like the Syracuse Star,
we'll known in their respective localities,
though less influential abroad than those we
have named. The position of the Washing
ton Republic in regard to Gen. SCOTS NOM
ination before it took place is we'll known.
At the South almost the whole wing press,
with the exception Of the Louisville Journal,
the Nashville Banner, and the Richmond
Wing, were against Gen. SCOTS nomination.
Such wing papers as the New Orleans Bull
letin and Bee, the Savannah Republican,
the Macon Messenger, the Mobile Advertiser,
the Petersburg Intelligencer, the Whining
ton Commercial, the Richmond Republican,
and the Louisville Courier were loud and
strenuous in their opposition to the Scott
men.
Several of these papers at the North, and
some at the the South, still openly continue
their opposition to Gen. Scott. Almost the
entire neutral press of the country, North
and South, is now and has been against him.
Now, we concede, or rather we claim, that
part of this wing opposition to General
Scott grew out of a well-tounded fear that
his canvass and election would, through the
inevitable control of his administration by
the ''higher law" men Of the wing party,
reopen and renew the sectional controversy
in all it's bitterness and peril.
But his friends now claim that the whig
RESOLUTIONS annexed" to his nomination
have removed that fear We think their
opinion not well-founded But suppose them
to be right, and what is the explanation of
the present widespread hostility to the
Scott nomination among wings and wing
journals, both at the North and South?
To answer this question, VIC must look to
the position originally taken by these wing
journals against Gen. Scott. Almost with
out an exception, they, in the first place,
denied his qualifications for the presidency
In this they were sustained by the recently
recorded opinions of the leading Scott men
Grceley's very coarse and offensive expires
sion was quoted, to the effect that General
SCOTS "brains were in his epaulcts >
Thurlow Weeds more guarded declaration,
to the effect that there was "Weakness iii
all Gen. Scott wrote about the presidency,
was also remembered and cited But still
want of qualification could not be the man
reason upon which these journals opposed
Gen. Scott. Most of them were fresh from
the support of Gen. Taylor; and having
swallowed that "camel," in the way of dis
qualification, they were not men to "strain
very violently at anything else of the same
sort.
There was something else in their opposi-
ton; and that was, an drOired apprehension
that Gen. SCOTS election 1roald be the rest0-
ration Of the GaiphinS! The New York
Express took the lead in this avowal, and
said, in terms, that if Gen. Scott were nomi-
mated and elected, ga Galphin tall would
come into power with him and rule his adj
ministration. Tho Albany State Register
followed up this declaration, and pointed to
the nine million canal loan as a "villany''
perpetratcd, in defiance of the State constitu-
ton, by the "higher-law" wings, and as
} showing the real political objects of that
r wing of the whig party leaders who made
t sectionalism their instrument to gain power,
e and Galphinism their use of power when it
: aoas gained. The Express made the appli-
t cation of its Galphin prediction still closer
d by announcing, that if Gen. Scott were
J. elected, his administration, like Gen. Tay-
: lor's, would be at the same time, and by the
C same men, both abolitionized and Galphin-
l. lied. The anti-Scott southern wing jour.
k nails named above took up this cry simulta
% neously, and heaped upon the leaders of the
,e Scott wing of the northern whig party every
epithet descriptive of political reeklessnes
D. and prohigaey.
is This was the wing case, on tohig shouting
: when Gen. Scott was nominated. We in
d sist that it proved widespread conviction
ID among the leaders of the wing party tina
N Gen. Scott was the very man under whom
in the presidential chair Galphinism woul
TT prosper and flourish, even as it did unde
ic Gen Taylor. This conviction impute
st neither to Gen. Taylor nor to Gen. Scot
f. any tendency to corrupt personal partle
s. patton in such practices. But the conclI
a. sion rested upon the circumstances in whic
both were placed. Both were men take
n into politics, out of their own chosen wal
is in life, by scheming and inscriptions pol
er ticians. Both were without suitable exp
to rience, training, and qualification for Il
" Presidency. Both were to rely mainly u
ID on other men in their administration. Bot
we're accustomed to that military manag
r. ment of affairs which makes but too Ofte
IL the statute and the established regulate
90 Weld at the discretion Of the commander
D. the exigencies or the policy of the hour.
of Gen. SCOTS case, too, there was what d
to not appear in Gen. TaylOr's-a positive al
IL gratuitous commitment to all the worst &C
~ Of vh;0 financial ahuse Scott was on I