Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1852-07-10
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wEDNEsDAY,.::::.:...:"JULY 7, 1852
SECTIONAL CONTEST.

From the signs Of the times, the tone Of Ii
whig press. and especially from the proceeding
of the whig national convention, we are induce
10 think that the coming contest for the Presiden
cy, so far as the whig party are concerned, vii
10 a great measure, be sectional one--th'
North against the South, anti-,lavery and fanati
cisu, against Southern slavery and lhe Constitu
tion. Let not the reader suppose we speak a
random, or from the mere impulse Of the moment
We have examined the subject with much care
and deliberation, and we think we have the fact,
before US to justify our opinion.
In the first place, the nomination of Scott BY
the whig convention is clearly attributable to the
anli.slavery influence. The 53rd and la, ballo,
abuudantly proves this. In that ballot, Scott got
in tho non- slaveholding States l4l to bu, 10
agains, him and he got majority Of the votes in
s of thoss States except Wisconsin. In the
slaveholding States he got but II votes to "a
against him. In the earlier ballots the majority
against him in the South was still larger.
In the second place, all Of SCOTS leading sup
porers-all who urged and secured his nomina.
ton were Northern men, opposed to Southern
Institutions, opposed to the fugitive slave law. op.
posed to the admission of any more slave States
into the Union, and in favor Of the continued az.
itatior of the slavery question. They scout at
the idea of the compromise measures being a
'fnality," and as to the platform, which was
adopted by the whig convention in order to catch
Southern votes, some Of them now avow that Il
was all sham, and means nothing-s ofno obga
tory force. One of their papers, the mos, influ-
that as 10 this same compromise, they "srecrdte it,
spurn IL, spit on IT," notwithstanding the original
draft as il came from the hands Of the Southern
wings was emasculated modified to
suit the demands of the North. Among the lead :.
ers, who forced Scott on ths Southern whig party
as their candidate, stand prominent the names of
Sewar1, Johnston, Greely Of the N. Y. Tribune
and Webb Of the Albany Evening JournaI--sbo
lhionists all. Should Scott be elected, It is by
such men that bis administration will be sur.
rounded and they will guide and direct its
course, for,
In the third place, Scott himself is an anti.
slavery man; he has go avowed himself 10 one
d his letters in terms not to be mistaken, and all
his feelings and sympabes are. and will contin.
ue 10 be, with the anti-slavery party Of the
North, upon whose aid chiefly be must rely for
success IN the coming election. In the South, |
be has no original supporters, ws mean none
who suppor, him as their first choice. If there
are any such Of prominence among US. we have
not heard Of them, we know them not. Bot we
do know that very many Of the wings Of the Souih
I'VE believe a majority Of them. deprecated his
Nomination as the greatest calamity that could
have befallen their pary--at least, the votes Of
four-ifths of their delegates in the national con.
Nenion, from the first to the last ballot, clearly
show their invincible opposition to the uomina.
hon' dictated as they must have known it to be,
oy Northern managers and abolition leaders
Nor will all the wings al the South vote for the
nominee Far from Il; many. very many Of
hem will spurn il as Horace Greely has done The
platform. The esprit de eorps-ihe spirit Of par
" feeling and the attachment to old party ssso-
Gallons would induce them TO overlook many mi
nor objections, but they cannot be made 10 ac-
snesce in a nomination made by their bitter Sec
'ional enemes--the nomination Of a man too Z
Who is known to be at hear opposed to their pc .
cslisr institutions. and who, if elected. would ?
nseesssrily be under Northern and abolition in ,
fOenee.
The nomination Of General Scott. under n
'ns circumstances of The case has, in fact. de-
aahOnalirsd the whig psry. and confined all,
'f nearly all, iis available strength to the an i
Nslavery section Of the Union. But with al
as cunning appliances and tact of their leaders o.
.asy cannot carry the whole Of that section. - !.
very far from Il. We are persuaded they csnao, :
;" one half Perhsp, not one third Of the anti b
'''sry sisiss, for large usiorI,y Of the people