Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-10-28

hundred votes in our Congressional
district. But in 1910, when bis
panty presented Martin Van Buren,
as b candidate for detection, there
was a majority of four thousand four
hundred votes against him. That
wl$ an exhibition of independence
wofthy of A merican freemen, who
ought always to prefer the interests
of their count ry to mere party sue
cess. If the whig convention has
no ", as | thiIl TX, made, under the Cir
cui Instances, an worthy nomina-
tioh, ought " b not to repudiate it,
do not at present see any particu-
klT issue pending between the parties
I Of sufficient magnitude, to sustain
ting whig nom inee at all hazards
All the wings appear to be satisfied
with Mr. Fillmore's Administration.
Aid yet, since he came into office,
th&re has been no new measure of a
patty character passed. The Sub
Treasury, Ia Tiff, and other general
laws passed in Mr.. Folks time, have
not been changed. There is but one
Of Them Mr.. Fillmore recommended
cha nge in, viz: the Tariff. With ref
erdnce to that, however, the last Lee
gislature of ohr own State, with una
nil pity both among the wings and
del hocrats, passed strong rd solutions
against any increase Of duties.
The ERE seems in fact, Their fore, no
re; son to suppose that Under MIR.
Pi$ rce, if he should come in, there
NO pld be any material change in
Ithd se respects.
But it is said that the Van Bu-
frell IS and other frees Tiers are sup
porting Pierce. 1t must BID remem-
befed, however, that he was not nom
mated through their in influence, but
in Elirect opposition to them i was
th{ South, with the aid of the con-
SENTATIVE DID mocrats of t4e North
thht effected his nominate on The
rde-soilers, therefore, being overpow-
cred, merely for the sake Of keeping
i'm with their party, fell into the rear
{ of the move ment. But in the case
ofl Gen. Scot t the re vel Sc was true
LIZ was nominated by The influence
OF Seward, Johnston, an d other anti
sldVery leaders, agains t the united
AMI determined efforts pf the whole
Sduth, and the compton Iise men OF
thP North, and if we support him, we
mi st expect to constit lutte tail to
thb army of abolitionis IS in front. =
1t may be said that as the Van Bu-
rehs, &C., have yielded, we ought to
fol- low their example. But they
haEe In reality surrend4 bred nothing
prh ctical, because thew had no IN
tefest in this questio N. Their anti
SID very, if not merely taken up to
defeat Cass, was at least only a fancy
matter, and in giving it up they
la he only to sacrifice some pride Of
co sistency. We of the South, on
the contrary, have practical inter-
est great stake in the slavery
qq estion. Should we abandon it and
THROW ourselves into the embraces of
ithP abolitionists, who from the North
wi Il be able to extrieate Us? | pass
ver, Sir, many grave points Of OBJ
jeftion to Gen Scott that have been
'urg ed by others, especially his con-
tehptuous manner of slurring over
-thP platform by accepting the nc m
ind ton with the resolltionsannexed.' y
H$ not only fails to follow the exa M
pie of Gen. Pierce BY declaring that
the pri nciples meet his appreciation,
but inasmuch as there was a great
pressure upon him t get him up to
the work, bis failure is ominous.-
Fairly cons rued, his language, I'M
def all the q circumstances, only seems
to imply that he Xix ed the no NINA
tioh so much that lie was willing to
take it, notwithstan ding the objec-
tiohable resolutions tied on to it
Soils he construed throughout the
North; and be must, when he wrote
thd words, h lave felt a contempt for
OUT understandings, il he thought we
could put any other constructip on on
thdm ] am sorry that his Import
ers, instead of ende avoring to meet
Those issues, are mer ely endeaYoring
to get up an excitement IN re lation
I'd bis military services by the exbi-
Bit on of pictures, &C. Brilliant mil
it;llV services, like his, are a great
feather in the cap Of any man; but
our people have not deemed them
alone sufficient to qualify one for
the Presidential office, in despite of
greAt political objections.
| make no reference to the peri
sonal charges against the candidates. /