Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-08-28
advantageous to the party which permits it to pass
without a rebuke.
What the Whig Papers say of Gen. Scott,

wing paper, says
To say that Gen. Scott's nomination has been
received here with coolness-nay, with anger and
dsgust-would be but to state the simple truth,
in which we will be borne out by ali parties
The New York Courier and Enquirer says:
We feel that success cannot crown our labors
but we shall labor honestly, Notwithstanding, in
the whig cause while it continues to be such. 4
But if the wings of this State thrust
aside the platform, and sustain the candidate only,
we may feel it incumbent upon to abandon the
candidate and adhere to the platform.
The Macon Ga, } Journal and Messenger
says:
We view the nomination of Gen Scott as tri-
umph of the enemies of the South and it now re-
mains for our own political friends in the State,
to take such as will best insure the great
interests of the country.
The Savannah Republican has the following
paragraphs
We are surprised that Mr.. Dawson should have
promised ''that Georgia would do her best to Sc
cure Gen. SCOTS election All the promises IN
the world will never give Georgia to Gen. Scott
The people did not send delegates to Baltimore to
endorse his nomination, already PREDETERMINED
upon by Seward andhis friends, and they will have
none of it. See the extracts below, from two of
the most influential whig journals in the State
In addition to this we havea private despatch
from Washington, stating that Mr.. Toombs and
Mr.. Stephens denounce the nomination, and that
they will oppose it,
The endorsement of the administration of Mr..
Fillmore, and cheers for Mr.. Webster, both of
whom the convention had repudiated was dust
thrown into the eyes of Southern delegates, to re-
concile them to the nomination.
The Bridgeport Conn. Farmer, edited by DR..
J. G. Aff1eck, who has stood in the whig ranks
from boyhood, says:
OF Gen. Scott we shall say little. His qualif-
cations for the presidency are purely military !;
and were he in that department greater than the
conqueror of Napoleon, we should hesitate to ap-
proach the ballot-box in his favor. Nature sell
dom bestows two great gifts upon one person. If
she has given him the ''art of war;" which is gen
orally acknowled, we think his consummate wan
ty should be satisfied
The Boston Courier, the especial organ of Mr..
Webster, referring to Greeley's splitting upon the
platform, says
Now, these splitting cats, in whose amiable com
pany we are desired to go into the struggle, are
the very men who surround Gen. Scott who man
aged the convention so as to bring about his nom-
nation, and who will possess his ear and direct his
counsels in whatever public station he may occupy.
He is emphatcally their candidate, and it is idle
to say he will not be used for their special purpo
ses. Can the wings have any confidence in such
men, any hope for a business carried on under
such auspices 20
The Mobile Advertiser holds forth thus:
Itis amusing to witness the confusion into which
the recent movement of the southern wings has
thrown some of the northern journals peculiarly
friendly to the nomination of Gen. Scott, and pc
culiarly inimica to the south and her institutions
1t was certainly very annoying to the would b
dictators of the whig party, to find that after al
their subtlety and impertinent arrogance they wer
in fair way to have their game blocked and thei.
anticipated victory quietly taken from them.
The certainty that the south will be fully repre-
sented at Baltimore, and the nearly equal assur-
ance of their unanimity in favor of Mr.. Fillmore,
has fallen like bombshel into the camp of Seward
ism and aroused his adherents to unusual activity
to counteract, if possible, this unexpected infu-
ence. The Philadelphia Gazette and the New
York Times and Tribune may be regarded as the
exponents of the Seward Scott wing of the party,
(there are many Scott men who have no sympa-
thy with Seward or his doctrines and it may
not be improbable to consider briefly the tactics
indicated by these journals.
But then Sewardism was not quite so rampant
at the north, rather Strengthened, for we re-
gard it as approaching its death struggle, as now.
Millard Fillmore not then to have been thrown
overheard by miserable demagogues to whose per-
ver.ed senses constitutional administration is a
thing Of evil, an unpleasant contemplation.
The Fredericksburg (Va.) News, leading
whig paper, holds forth as follows:
We should not think Scott ''can come it." He
is military chieftain, and the people tired of
military chieftains. We have had enough of them
for the next half century But this is not the only
objection to Gen. Scott. He has committed alb
surdities which have dsgusted the people. His
hasty plate of soup, connected with other incidents
in his ridiculous Marcy correspondence, prove hin.
unfit for any elevated civil station
The Lafayette Alabama, Chambers Tribune,
says:
| Col McLemore brought the affecting intelli-
gence to this town, from West Point, yesterday,
of the nomination of General Winfield Scott for
president, and Graham, of North Carolina, for
vice president
Of course no expectation is entertained of get
ting the Southern vote with this ticket. Not one
half of the party in the South will vote for Scott
and in opinion it is great pity that any South
ern whig should.
We shall not support Gen. Scott. He has been
thrust upon the South by set of men who are at
heart her enemies. He has not the confidence OF
any portion of the whig party here; and he holds,
or held opinions, which the South cannot safely
sent to.
The New York Mirror adds
! Gen. Scott cannot come within sight of the
White House in popular election
The Augusta lGa.) Chronicle and Sentinel
says:
| Gen. Scott is everywhere regarded as mere
tool in the hands of that intriguer Seward, on
whom and his free-soil friends he believed to be
pledged to confer the control of the government
and the distribution Of the spoils if he should be