Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-02-27

Cen Scott will be the next wing cahuluate' "'
least the chances in his favor are two to one great
or than those against him. 1t is true Fillmore and
Graham may receive the vote of this and some other
Southern States in convention but this VIII welgh
little. The South generally speaking, gives very
few votes for whig Presidential candidate; and as
the strength of the party lies at the North SO also
doos tho Influence Gen. Scott is the choice OF the
North-he will be supported by Seward-he Will
oon,n . nrudent reserve so as to secure the North
orn 1oderodoes and most of the Union wings of the
South will support him also. Such being the case
and such being the risk the country runs we would
duIge 1T any cUurs0 Oon~.-.I-ILn time to in
prejudice, personal feeling dissent from
opinions held by several prominent democratic as
pirants Is there one on the democratic side to
whom the nomination is at all possible, who is not
more reliable upon the States rights question than
Gen. Scott Is there one who is as much mixed up
with Sewardism and higher law ism? Is there one
who has not infinitely political talent. and more
statesmanlike knowledge? Why. Gen. Cass, who
has, perhaps, been more censured by some Southern
democrats than any other equally prominent men,
Der of the national party was defeated four years
by that very influence in the State of New York,
to which Gen. Scott will owe his nomination. What
prudence, what propriey there is then, in as a
party, patriots, allowing strength to be
weakened by any pickering want of harmony
We must be united. We owe it to ourselves and to
the country.
We have before us speech of Hon. Abraham Ven
able, made in the House of Representatives on the
26th ult., on the subject of the census printing.
which we would publish as requested, if our limits
allowed, but it, in fact neither involves nor eluci-
dates any important question of party politics.
of discipline we are unwilling to exclude everything
else in order to give it place. MIR. Venable is a
good and true Democrat and although impusive and
at times hayward, will be found, when the struggle
does come standing upin defence and furtherance of
the good cause; but unable to the good
which possibly be expected to flow from his re-
marks, and cannot possibly sympathise with the tone
of some Of them. The proposition to give the print
ing to the Union Office is opposed by Mr.. Venable
mainly account of private feeling, and there is
plainly running through the whole the remembrance
of the excitements and divisions which charac-
terised the " crisis" ust past. 1t is time that some
personal feelings and some minor differences OF
opinion, were sacrificed by all who do not wish to
see Scott president who prefer the of the
Democratic party before the qualification of their
own private spleen. We don't begin to like the
Washington Union. We don't begin to follow its
course. Hardly any Democrat at the South does
but it does not follow that men and things must ne
cessarily be wrong because the Union may happier
to approve of them; yet we fear such would be thu
only inference drawable from Mr.. Venable's speech
and his evident disrustfu alluson to eminent mem
bers of the Democratic party
We must be united and harmonious-n not simpl,
in name. but in truth and in fact and persona
feelings of our own-no courtesy to party friends
however respected, shall induce us, in our littl
sphere to publish anything calculated to weaken tn
union disturb the harmony of the party-so es
sental in view of the coming contest against Gen
Scott.