The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-07-08
From the Washington Union.
rhe Architects Of fhs wing Platform.

The Boston Courier the home organ OF
Mr. Webster an explanation Of the
position Uf affairs which enabled the aboli-
Iiion portion oF the Whie party to force the
Inflammation Of General Scott, and describes
the manner il which that result was accom-
Plishcd. The author Of the explanation in
che Courier was in Baltimore during the sit
, ting Of the convention, and was an active
participated 10 is proceedings until the NOM
lnatlon was elected; and bis statements are
made with that dlstinetness aad particularly
lof circumstance which carry conviction.
General Scott Went into the convention
with one hundred and thirty-one votes
eighteen less than majority. These votes
were headed by the New York delegation.
which entertained, according 10 the article
in the Courier, bitter and malignant person
al hatred and viruLent hostility to Mr. Fill
more, which not only led them to resist bis
nomination, and pass over Mr.. Webster be-
cause he stood on somewhat the same plat
form, but induced them to sustain General
| Scott throughout, s.for no other reason than
that he stood in the furthest line Of antago-
mist position from the object of their bitter
cnvenomed hostility" Besides those who
. cast their votes for General Scott in the be-
: ginning, there were men among the south
ern delegation instructed for Mr.. Fillmore
who were determined to vote for General
|, Scott as their second choice; and after it be-
came apparent that Mr.. Fillmore would not
, receive the nomination, they were ready to
leave the bulk of the southern delegates who
desired to go over TO Mr. Webster. Accor-
/ ding to the article already alluded to, LOG
: OF the Fillmore men were ready on Satur-
! day evening to cast their votes for Mr.. Web
| ster, if his New England friends could OBJ
) tain 40 votes for him in addition to three
votes from Wisconsin and one from Califor-
, MIA which had already been cast for him.
! But the Northern wings we're inexorable;
and although the South was ready to give
, Mr.. Webster one hundred and six votes
/ aoheneUer they cond accomplish anything,
| yet the North would not give him the requi-
site forty votes, because the nomination of
r Mr. Webster would not have been triumph
of Mr.. Seward and the higher law. The
statement of the Mississippi delegation, in
its recent interview with Mr. Webster in
this city, adds confirmation to this point of
the statement in the Boston Courier.
1t will now be easily seen why the north
ern wing party permitted the passage of the
f Compromise. Any one who is familiar with
the events of the last few years must be a.
ware that the northern wing party had be-
J come thoroughly tainted and demoralized
J by the abolition sentiment. Its leading
: men and leading presses made common cause
with the anti-slavery agitators Even after
the passage of the compromise, the wing
-lV1gw ~ RaL.
sustained it. Every northern wing conven-
ton which spoke upon the subject denoune-
ed the fugitive slave law, and in many in
stances prominent members of the whig par
ty openly sanctioned forcible resistance to
the execution of that law. When it was
first proposed through the public prints that
a resolution approving the Compromise
should be offered IN the Wing National Con-
ventiOn, the idea was hooted at. When the
proposition was insisted on, the southern
wings were told of their acedkneSs; they
were informed that they could bring but lit |
tie strength to the wing ticket, and that their |
demands were entitled to but little consider
alton at the hands of the dominant portion
of the party. This language was maintained
by the abolition wings until it became appa-
rent that the North would not sustain Gen
eral Scott with sufficient unanimity to give
him the nomination. 1t then became neces-
sary to look to the contest to come off in the
National Hall at Baltimore, and to make the
first step by obtaining the nomination. The
necessary number of southern votes could
not be obtained without platform which
they might use to protect themselves against
f the consequences of giving to the candidate
of the abolitioHists the nomination to the
highest Office in the gift of the American
people. The Webster wings we're not suffi-
GENTLY alive'to the evil effects of the slavery
agitation, or of the danger to be apprehend-
ed from an abolition triumph, to defeat Gen
Scott by voting for Mr.. Fillmore Among
the friends of Mr. Fillmore there was par
ty perfectly willing to repudiate the admin
istration and sustain General Scott, when
they were shielded from the consequences of
such an act by adopting resolution affirm
, ing principles which their allies had always
repudiated. The belief was general that
their support of Mr.. Fillmore was only al
pretence, and that they were ready to betray
him at the first indication of purpose on
the part of the Webster men to give him
t their vote. One ofthe couspirators exposed
the trick by which pretended platform was
to be palmed off upon the public, and tes-
: titles that the compromise resolution of the
Wing Convention was a mere political ar
rangement-a shrewd device to enable abo-
litionists to obtain their candidate, and not
the expression of a principle honestly enter
: tanned by the whig party. Mr.. Raymond
said distinctly that the northern wings gave
= way on the platform "with the understand
ing" that certain delegates-thOse to whom
we have alluded-wOuId give Scott the NOM
nation; and he adds, that if Gen. Scott
was not nominated, they would charge
"breach of faith on the South" Even lead
ing whig journals denounce this conduct
IS We have one before us which afirms that
, Mr.. RaymOnd's statement sis as full and ex.
3 plicit an exposition of the conditions Of q
e corrupt bargain as was ever placed on pa,
per-" We are much mistaken if the friends
. of the constitution will be duped by the
J. trick which the Wing Convention has at
is tempted to play, They can easily perceive
c. that if the Wing Convention had fully es
timated the dangers to be apprehended from
a continuance of the slavery agitation, Gen
eral SCOTS nomination would have been i'm
" possible. The people of the South hav
IN too much intelligence to believe that Their