Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-07-24
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MY Itssr sls--ln Your "stswaf.anias
Of 10th B~nstans. dated and pablisi,ed IN g
days AAvooass, yeu make see,s assertions
'tn regard 10 Scott. Seward. Gfesly, stca
and the Whigs generally, which I pfepots
10 examine. ! do mol. doubt the ability 81
your Rev. Correspondent to Hnswsr yotr
note In full. nor do | thrust IN n blow on
his behalf; bit ! will FIRE away, like ibs
old weods,nen nj the battle Of Yorktown.
=" entirely on my own hook. You say
tina. yen attempted 10 prone, by Gen.
Scots Castle Garden speech aud letters.
that "his convictions favored The, Free.
soil aid Abolition patty and that oil his
letters and writings were mere 'fbids
made by him for the Presidency. etc. etc.
How you arrive at such conclusions. OF by
what process OF analysis and reasoning
you work yourself Into such u state Of
mind. you do not state; moi do yen elsarly
say 1ehy your. mind takes that singular
course. W. are left thsn 10 conclude that
you were badly driven to find tame objeo.
ton TO the Wing nominee, and That such
an one, though baseless as q vision. and
light as d shadow, was ~ good as my.
And IN fact 30 1t may 10 but did II ever
occur 10 yon MI. Davidson. that this bug.
bear Of F~rsesoilism hns lost much Of Its
,errors lately 10 the people Of shs South.
especially since Bryant and Van Buren,
struck hands for Pisroe and King. snd ntl
their rabid followers shouted. ANN ?
You think Fillmore should have been the
Wing nomipee. because be "bad made
himself particularly odious 10 the Freesoil
and. Abolition agiistefs. headed by Seward
Of NewYork, and Johnson OF pa,"'--and
then you think that the preference Of Sew.
ard 81 Co, IN a msfo matter Of cl'eies
for the Presidency. should be- "a solemn
warning 10 tbs Wing party Of .hs South ="
Now. MI Davidson. let ma ask You. II
The supper. Of Seward DC Co. whom yo,.
say are Fressoiiefs. should weaken the
Wing support Of their On ndids.es a. The
South. and ye. ihs aiitiation aud support
OF Van Buren, &c Co. OF Pierce. should
not effect the Democratic party South 7
You knew, Or onght 10 know, that Jno,
Van Buren, and Co. went Of ON . tangent
In 40 and founded tho FyeesoiI party.
and by that means defeated your MI. Cass.
while Seward IL Co, on the contrary,
supported and powerfully aided the cleo.
ton Of Taylor, n Southern pro slavery
man and an extensive slaVehotdev. You
know Mr.. Davidson, that Seward kept
elenr entirely OF that red.mopthsd faction,
Ill Of whom now are hot for Pierce and
King; and never has bolted aud never aoilI
bolt the regular Wing nominees, be they
s~laveholdeys or not. Can YOU say ~
much for yopr close sllies. tho Messrs.
vnn Buren,, Bryant. Chase GCo?T No
siv, yon easn,ot. Let me ask yon sehy
your wrath Is particularly directed sgains.
Scot. and Seward, at the SAME time you
give M. Fillmore . few pats, and weep
oyer his defeat before the Convention !
II It because YOU, SEQ in the tall fellow
with tbs. white plume" the ominons
OF Piercs's defeat? Besides.
/" what 10 Fillmore to you, Or you to Fill.
more.' that yon should find fault with the
nomination Of Scott and Graham! II
they suit the WAigs, Is 1t for yon to shy
who they shall support? No. sir. We
dom. ask you to support the Wing ticket,
and what 10 more. we care nothing abou.
your ticket. II IL 10 satisfactory 10 the
II Is nc our business to en-
quire why you laid aside Cass and b.
chanan, and Marcy, ETC., ETC., 70 take up
Pierce and King. II your party car unite
Nil its parts and fragments, divisions snd
upon Pierce and King, well u
not. well. The Wings are very well sat
isfed, and are far from complaining and
shedding tears over the old Fogies Of your
pure Democratic party. Can't you accord
much liberalisy TO us poor Wings!
would you feel dissatisfied and IN
quiet. IL all the liberal factions in the land.
Freesoilers and Aboltionists, Native Amer
leans and Unionists, Secessiopists aud non.
resisaants, should rally to. the Pierce stan.
dard Thus assuring q victory to your
Oh no-In that case il wonId be
" my bull that gored your OK" and conss.
il would be all right. ss1eY1 ;.
! Now. If Jno. Van Bnreny & Co. are.
80 acceptable At this time to your party,
would no all the other fragments be-
acceptable under the Pierce and
King banner Another objection TO Scott
ii your /" SteUnysania'' is. that he had In
early life read Judge fuckers letters. and
hence bad formed an impression favorable
TO emancipation in Virginia. II Scott IS
Questionable on that ground, the whole
party At the North is objec-
tionable on the anne grounds; because.
not one are against the principles laid
down in those letter., which produced
such IN effect on the public mind in Wiz
ginis. that in 81 and '32 the project for