The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-08-12
From the Boston Courier,
Mr.. Webster and the Wing Party.


We see it constantly asserted in various
whig papers, in different parts of the coun-
try, that Mr.. Webster will support the nom
ination of General Scott Declarations of
his are quoted to the effect that he has al
ways been whig, and always will be one,
to the end Of his days We have no doubt
of it, in the sense in which such declarations
were evidently made by him; but we enter
tain great doubt whether those declarations
will bear the construction which some per-
sons now attempt to put upon them. That
Mr.. Webster will ever change his views as
to the great principles on which the general
! government ought to be administered-pri
ciples which were settled as the policy of
the wing party in the days of its purity and
integrity, and which it owes, in a very large
degree, to his infuence-it were absurd to
suppose. That he will ever do anything to
cause orinduce his friends to support or sane
ton doctrines which he and they have al
: ways opposed, or that he will ever retract
7 any political sentiment that he has ever ut
} tered, would be simply ridiculous assertion.
But that he is to promote or aid the success
of the wing party under the lead of the
D men who are now its assumed leaders, not
] outstanding the manner in which he has
= been treated that he is to use his great in
r fuence to give power and consequence to
class Of politicians who have been the bit
? ter opponents of the great policy of the
Compromise, which he perilled so much to
: establish and perpetuate; that he will thus
e enable these men to overturn what it has
/
S that he will consider himself bound to do so,
: because he has said that he is and always
:. will be a whig-are suppostions, in our
), judgment, quite as improbable as the idea Of
l. his changing his political opinions.
J. If, as we maintain the truth to be- set
e of men, nominally belonging to the wing
II party, have succeeded in obtaining the con
n troll Of its organization; who are known to
IS be hostile to the policy of President Fill
If mOre's administration; who have done all
y they possibly could to destroy the influence
of that administration, and to prevent eth
lie err of its principal members from receiving
u the formally confidence of the
4 party; and who have treacherously accepted
IN a platform, solely in order that they m CHI
Of get their candidate, and intending all the
ct while not to be bound by tiff, we say
in these men now represent the wing party
n and act for the wing party, We believe Mr.
g Webster will not be found countenancine
f. their exertions. We think his influences
is and sanction will be withheld from them
at and we believe that the country will thanl
IS him for not allowing himself, upon the poo
he pretence of party allegiance, to be driven t
lie such disqualification.
H. For what else could it be? Did not Nj
ot Webster, in his great 7th-of- March effor
at for the peace and safety of the Union, thro,
in himself into the breach for a course of pull
be lie policy which these men have always BIZ
u terly opposed? Did not the presses whic
are now foremost and loudest for Generi
Scott resist to the utmost and have they nc
always resisted, the measures which Nj
Webster advocated? 1t is thought, we al
- aware by some honest persons, that the Ell
dorsement of the compromise measures
the whig platform may be considered as
ew change on the part of these politicians
JUS Mr.. Webster's policy, we are told, has TT
in umphed, although he has been defeated
zen We do not believe that his policy has II
ect umphed with that section of the wing par
er, by whom General Scott has been procure
ion to be made the party candidate, We b
the leive that the formal assent, as far as it "
J. given to the platform, was hollow farce
be- a trick to procure votes for their candidate
GER and not an honest declaration of the since
ties, convictions and firm determinations
in Straightforward men. We think that, apa
from all other signs, the mere selection
the the candidate is ground for the strongt
ices suspicion of insincerity in this matter of t
2 so of the Compromise. Who ever heard
lar- fore of political party sincerely and hea
hey lily DESTROYS of perpetrating particul
Gre course of policy undertaking to do it by p
y of sing by, in the formation of an administ
ous ton which is to be brought into existen
bod by popular election, all the principal stat
of men identified with that policy, and the {
ting man whose gigantic influence created a
'ity; has hitherto sustained it, and selecting as
hey leader in the canvass az officer of the arm
ting who had nothing to do with its enactme
a to and whose personal orthodoxy of sentimC
gan his supporters are obliged to prove sub
rom quently by affidavit?
w A Fearful Peril.