The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-01

casons in conversation, for the prompt mainten-
ance and execution Of all the Compromise mea-
sures"
Gen. Scott must. therefore, even in the opinion Of
his now especial personal friends, come up to the
Compromise measures, one and all Of them the
Fugitive Slave law included-before he can hope
to unite the Wing party In SO doing, he will put his
seal Of reprobation upon the course OF the men who
would only use his name to further their own ambi
ousaims Tor the Presidency. Even when he does that
he will have been exceedingly damaged by the at
tempt of misnamed friends ''to slide Mr.. Fillmore
gu. Of the tail of The cart" and the false position
in which he has SO long stood but unless he does
it, the Whig party will be divided North. and there
therefore, either to nominate to elect him, should
not only cease assaling other Wing candidates. but
hasten to have him put on this high ground.
Tho ITibune's remark 70 have prompted thus much
by way of fair statement of the to the
Wing party Of the country. When il says that the
Express plants its candidate solely adherence
to the Compromise, it does not state all tho truth
We support oil other Wing measures and require
a candidate TO be in favor of all other Wing
sures. and simply demand that this anti-savcry
agitation shall cease by pledging the candidate we
support to public acknowledgment Of the bind
ing efficacy of that clause OF the Constitution, and
the law framed under il, which provides for the
surrender OF fugitive from service. And what 10
tho objection to doing this, if there ia purpose to
defraud the country and violate the law! Nobody
asks that slavery shall be endorsed, approved, glo
rfed, or honored in any way; but it is demanded
that the Constitution shall be maintained and the
laws sustained.
But the Tribune adds
"Now we most emphatically deny, and ask tho
Erpre" to justify is assertion that General Scott
has been thrust forward in the three States
named (Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York;
the ground that he would lend the influence OF his
administration to reopen, in order to modify or re-
peal, the Fugitive Slave law"
We meet the denial Who then, are the sup.
porters Of General Scott in these three States? Arc
they not Mr.. Seward and his supporters here in
Now York, and the Freesoil Wings with him in
body! Are they not, in Pennsy lvana, OK. Governor
Johnston, Thaddeus Stevens, and their followers?
Are they not, in Ohio, the same class of politicians?
A man is known by the company he keeps; and tho
Scott in these and other States, no have thrust
him forward. embrace the agtating, freesol,
sace-disurbing portion OF the party. But for such
men, General Scott would now, of ha own volition.
stand before the country upon the proud level with
MIR. Fillmore and MIR. Webster. When we see the
foremast man among his friends in a neighboring
Compromise measures into effect, and the foremost
man of that wing Of the party in this State asking
TO disturb the measures the day they were passed.
writing such letters as MIR. Seward wrote to Bos
ton against the law of Congress, and entertaining
publicly and conspicuously the Syracuse rioters
the evidence is too pslpabe that there is something
wrong in support from such a quarter, especially
when it enforccs the silence Of the grave in another.
One extract more from the Tribune:
owe have earnestly opposed the nomination Of
MIR. Fillmore, because believe him deficient IN those
qualities and elements Of popularity ,Dhieh tooud
sure success, and because we believe nc has wnrred
upon and prescribed a large portion Of the Wings
of the free States until he has rendered impossible
such concentration cf the Wing votes upon him
az 10 essential TO bis election"
In the first place, it is not true that "Mr. Fill
more has warred upon and prescribed large por-
ton of the Wings of the free States." A bakers
dozen would cover all his Wing removals and in
their places not only good Wings were put, but
The removals mado with cause. They were
The Keoggs, the Benedicts, and tho like and
pray tell us If the Wing party is to be sacrificed at
such q shrine this But all this show and pre-
fence ia rather after thought, than truth felt
Or believed in. Let the editor Of the Tribune in
1852 be answered by the editor in 1885, and. in
and for that purpose, we now give the
following extract from Horace Greeley's Wing
Almanac for 1851. See page 81
'He appointed a new Cabinet, with Daniel Web
'ter at its head and varied far from the course
pursued by General Taylor to throw the nfu.
enco Of the Administration in favor Of the Compro-
miss measures before Congress. At the same time
he rebuked with frmness and decision the threats
made by Texas against New Mexico. His course
has been governed by sarnet dtsps TO conoitais the
Lcarr'ng actions and RfsToRE HARMONY TO rns
UsIor."