The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-07-21
More of :. the Fire I'm the Rear"

& Sentinel. We now continue the chapter by
extracts from two other erleading Georgia journals,
the Savannah Republican and the Macon Jour
nal & Messenger. These people show spirit and
spunk worthy Of old Georgia. There is some Of
the " true FIRE of the flint" in these editorials
which we would recommend TO our whig con-
temporaries here. Seward is not yet omnpo-
tent in the whig party, we are happy to find
Read Read! the following from the Savannah
Republican.-Memphis Appeal
NoMINATIoN OF GEN. ScoTT.-The National
Convention has nominated Gen. Winfield Scott
for President, and the Hon. VIM. A. Graham Of
North Carolina, the present Secretary of the Ma
Wy for Vice President
We deeply regret to have TO make this an
nouncement, so far as the first officer is con-
cerned. We had hoped that Millard Fillmore,
the model statesman, or Daniel Webster, the
great American, would have received the nomi-
nation. We could have supported either Of
these men with no less pride than pleasure
But Gen. Scott is very different person. He
has played the part of silent candidate--and we
have had enough of silent candidates. Nay,
more-he has been kept before the people for
months, with paddock upon his lips, and his
principles in Mr.. Stewards breeches pocket. AS
such, it is needless to say, that neither we nor
the wings of Georgia can support him.
1t viii not answer for the free-soil advocates
of Gen. Scott to point to the platform of the
Convention. The platform is piece of patri-
otic workmanship 1t was built by Southern
hands. But what care they or he for that or
any other platform? Their abolition organs
have already repudiated it. Listen to the New
York Tribune of Saturday last the most bitter
and relentless mouth-piece Of the abolition
horde:
''The next job was the platform thoroughly
Hunkerish piece of joiner-work, concocted Of
Southern pine, and rather awkwardly polished.
Our friends were advised and urged by the South
ern Scott men to let it pass quietly, as the Web
ster and Fillmore men had joined hands to pass
it any how, and any violent, determined resist
ance to its adoption by the northern friends of
Scott would subject them to odium, and per-
hsps defeat old Chippewa's nomination. So af-
ter Rufus Choate had been allowed SO make one
of his peculior exhibitions of pyrotechnic elo-
quence in his support, the platform was let slide
(under the previous question: by 227 yeas TO sc
nays. (Put US down NO, Mr.. Secretarv.')
No-the supporters of Gen. Scott care moth
ing for the platform of the Convention. They
consented to its adoption because they could not
help themselves and because they feared that "a
violent, determined resistance" would damage
his prospects. The platform is but transcript,
an embodiment of the principles aud practices
of Mr.. Fillmore and Mr.. Webster; and yet they
were overslaughed, and man taken up who
never dared openly to give his adhesion to the
Compromise measures. These tried and faithful
men--these northern men, if you please-are
thrust aside for no other reason than because
they maintained the principles set forth in the
platform. To place Gen. Scott upon the plat
form, therefore, and present him to Southern
Wings, is trick of his soil supporters, too
shallow to be successful.
To make Gen. Scott president would be to
place the reins of government in the hands of
Mr. Seward, and to keep up his all powerful
free-soil organization in the Northern States. 1t
would be furnishing him club with which TO
beat out our brains four or eight years hence,
when he should be brought forward himself as
candidate for the presidency. Southern whigs
can never thus stultify themselves. They can
never tamely submit to the ferocious sacrifice Of
such men as Fillmore and Webster, nor be be-
guiled into the support of puppet in the hands
of an infamous faction. In times past, they
have yielded much to their northern brethren-
They have fought for protection when their man-
ufactures needed protection, and for internal i'm
provements, and northern enterprises and nor
thern men. They have done all this and more
al the sacrifice not unfreqaently of local power
if not of local interests. But they cannot sup
port Gen. Scott---we mean Mr. Seward. That
is asking too much of us.
No party, in any period of the history of this
Union, has made more sacrifice to a liberal and
catholic spirit of nationality than the whig par
! ty of Georgia. In return, they have been cheat-
ed and betrayed. They cannot withouH aban-
doning the conservative principles in which they
4 have so long been educated, associate with the
abolitionistsof of the New York, Pennsylvania and
4 Ohio. who long since resolved upon the nomi-
nation of Gen. Scott
The Macon Journal & Messenger oe the 23rd
ult., contained the following remarks in refer
ence to the nomination Of Gen. Scott, written
after the news of Saturdays ballottings, and be-
fore the news of the nomination had reached
Macon. After alluding to the pertinacity with
which the delegates adheared to their respective
favorites, and expressing the fear that General
Scott would be nominated, the editor says:
sFree-soilers would control the administration
of Gen. Scott, and dispense the patronage Of the