Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-05-08
Gen. Scott ana his Friends.

: The Southern Democrats seem dete
mined to nominate Cen Scott as the viii
: candidate for the presidery-to Whic
end, most of their papers are efnlea vofiu
TO impress the belief upon the publ mine
! that Gen. Scott Ii certain TO receive tn
nomination. Tlhsre Ia, and can be no high
ct eulogy or the administration Of Millar
Fillmore, end M stronger evidence OF th
firm hold which he has upon the affection
Of the Southern people, tllah the anxipt,
Of his opponents to get him of OF the track
II they eau only defeat the nomination 0
M. Fillmore, and secure that Of Genera
stott, victory and the spoils are theirs
IF the democrats con only create IN The
minds Of the Southern Wings a belle
tlinl Gen, Scott will be the nominee, be
You'd all doubt, q sufficient number d
southern States will be without represen.
~iatiyes iii the Convention, to secure the
defeat OF MIR. Fillmore, aud thu Bomina.
tion OF Gen. Scott, whom they think. and
know to be o less formidable candidate.
They well know that II every southern
State is representated in the Convention.
that Willard Fillmore win be the nominee
and that with the nomination his election
10 certainty prevent this, they cordially
unite with the aholitionists of the North
IN opposing his nomination. VIZ sincere.
~ trust that the wing party will see
through this rnse Of Our opponents, that
every southern State will be represented,
and the nomination Of Mr.. Fillmore Ne.
cured.
But have the democratic party weighed
well the chances Of Gen, Scott for election
III the event of Ibis nomination 7 We
think not. Should Gen. Scott receive the
nomination of the wing National Conven-
tion, that Convention will either endorse
the Compromise LAWS of 1850, or 1t will
hot--if ii endorses the Compromise Laws
and Gen, Scott places himself upon that
platform, is there a whtg who will not cor
daily unite in the support Of the hero,
statesman and patriot I. No, not one, Will
mol the prestige Of his services to his coun.
try III the tented field, at Lnndy's Lane,
Vera Cruz, Mexico, etc. make an appeal
to the American heart, at once irrisistable 7
Let the euccess of Jackson, Harrison and
furnish the reply.
IL the Convention should not endorse
the Compromise, II, as one Of its planks,
Compromise Is no, declared to be a H.
nality, what is to be the consequences =
Every trae southern wing will leave the
Convention. What then Is to be the
OF the wings! Are they to quietly
permit tho election to go by default ? Ger.
not, IL the democratic Convention
places themselves upon the Compromise
IF the Compromise IL made d r prominent
plank IN their platform, the Southern
wings will abandon the nominee Of the
vhig National Convention, and support
the democratic candidate, OF, a
SOUTHERN Candidate. This course, how.
,ver. will not be able to defeat General
Scott, Northern wings, democrats and
rec %soilera, win rally around the nominee
II the Convention which refused to en-.
the fugitive slave la~w---sufloient at
TO carry every Northern State. The
ssue will then be, the Nortl, against the
'outh--aud as the Northern States have
majority Of tho electoral. votes, the in.
consequence must DO the success
{ the North. We trust. then, that the
'oatl, will be fully represented In the /.
thig% convention. and that with The Ma.
DUAL and Conservative portion OF the
Northern Wings, the Webster and Fill.
tote Wings, they may succeed iii secur. ;
4
ig the nomN ation OF one or the other Of
ne two, FtLLMoRg OF Webster, aud then. !
they should fail in this, that they may '
scnrc the approval Of the fugitive slave
w by the Convention, and thus, preserve
lr country from the necessity of making :
he coming election a sectional one, one :
'hich must result in disaster to our coun. :
", :,
We wish il understood that we do not !.
that Gen. Scot, is opposed to the {
ompromise. We think he IS a friend TO 9
'e laws, but, we may be mistaken--he :
moi sufficiently shown his hand, and !
1til he does the people will doubt him D
q is certainly in bad company, aud we g
wonder that he Is doubted but J
hen he does show his hand, and If it il :;
IRE, the wing party will b. ready to vote /.
ID to work for him, in The event Of his Il
the nominee, but not until then. !
JuDcg BuRK.-The fact that DR.. Will Y
ms has declined to stand the canvass foe &
9 Convention, places the nan Of Judge 81
irk before the people Of this Parish as
> regular democratic nominee for 4 seat
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