The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-24

New York and New England Wings of the ma
tional faith should stand by their principles and
such opponents of them as Mr.. Fillmore and MIR.
Webeter, as long as the Southern Wings are true
in mass; but if the Southern Wing regiment stag
ger, or begin to sagger, sa''re qua pent be the
cry. Mr.. Mangum, however, it is believed, will
soon be put horS du combat.
General Scott will certainly be nominated Presl-
dent in the Wing National convention if the
Southern Wings divide between him and any
Northern man. and of that there can be no doubt;
or, pice uersa if the Southern Wings are united,
Mr.. Fillmore or Mr. Webster will be the man. If
General Scott is nominated on Mr.. Mangum S
programme, it is wisely calculated, in these din
ner or supper caucuses of which have been
speaking, that he can carry the Northern States,
with some Zone, only) Southern State. Even
such State as Maryland is given up on the can
vass ] have seen Ohio Pennsylvania 4! and
New York, with their solid columns, are set
down for him sure North Carolina, Tennessee,
and Louisiana are utterly sacrificed in this calcu-
lation. 1t is felt and known that, with such able
men from Tennessee speaking, as Mr. Gentry is
rerorted to have spoken the other night in the
Wing caucus, or such as Mr.. Outlaw, of N C.,
speaking with the energy he is reported to have
done, there can he no possible hope of these
States. .a.
Mr., Mangums programme, therefore, is a
wise one; utter abandonment Of The Compromise bills,
and the permission to run General Scott in The fl
States ,cith The repeal on uirtuaL annulment Cf
fugitive Sare lac upon epery Wing banner. ...
strength in the free States will be determined
the candidate the Democracy run against h,a.
but it is obvious already that in Ohio, Central and
Western New York, Abolition Democracy will
beat Wing Abolition in this scheme two to one.
The best Wing districts in Ohio have been cut
out by demagogung Democratic Abolition; and
in this race OF demagogulng there Is nothing that
can equal, much less eclipse, such men as Ran
toul in New England or the Chase and Giddngs
free Democracy of Ohio.
| have no right to advise you, Messrs. Editors,
but the programme | tave marked out for myself
| may ask you to publish for others to see As a
Northern man | shall go, nay, | must go, with
the Northern Wing party, even with this threat
ened new inscription on it 'The practical NULL
fcaton Of the fugtlve-sIave section of the Constl-
tuition - simply because | have nowhere else to
go, save into the arms of Democracy, three
fourths OF whose presses IN the State IN which !
reside, go for the very same thing, and almost
everything else besides. No single man, or sin
gle set of men, can breast the food of Abolition.
ism when sach men as Mr.. Mangum take away
their dykes. He who attempts it would only be
drowned in some Zuyder Zee. The Wing party
is dear TO me, and | cannot abandon II now, even
with these its great faults, to cling to something
worse. General Scott, If nominated and elected
by us, is a man whom, of himself, we can trust
and we must live as well as we can in the malaria
or amid the influences that will have nominated
and elected him. They doom us all to proscrp-
ton, to utter prescription, we see, know, and
feel, as like influences did under General Taylor;
but what men suffer are things unimportant, as
long as principle can be maintained. Parties
are never perfect, and man must make a choice
of the best of them Under General Scott as
under General Taylor, if General Scost is faithful
to the influences that make him President, Mr.
Webster must hang again around ante-chambers,
as he Lung before, repulsed or frozen, and Mr.
Fillmore must. be sneered at as not having the
power to get even a clerkship for friend, or Mr.
Clay be denounced, as denounced he was when
he introduced his Omnibus bill.
The future is big with events. No human be-
ing can foresee or control them. 1t seems to me
an utter disruption Of all old parties is portend
ing,