The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-05-28

lowing announcement:
THg order to allow time for all the
gentlemen, who have been written to the subject TO
spend, shall defer until the publication of all
the correspondence between Robert c. Scott the dem
ocratic eecor of this district, and several gentlemen pom
neny named in xion with the presidency, which has
been placed in hands We have letters from eleven
Of those gentlemen, who all up to the mark
proud say Other expect TO receive prior
the time of publication Of the whole correspondence"
We hope place the whole correspondence before
readers on Saturday morning.
Mr.. Gentry's Card.-The Position OF Mr.. Man
gum and the Southern Scott wings.
We publish in another column, and commend to the
special attention Of our readers, the further explanation
which the Hon. Mr.. Gentry, OF Tennessee, has deemed
il his duty TO make in regard to the ruling Of the Compro
mise out OF the late wing caucus The statement should
be read in the light OF the following ndsputable truths
First. The maintenance Of the compromise measures as
an adjustment not be disturbed of the sectional issues
Is the present time the hope OF peace and safety
to the South under the protection Of the federal constiiu
ton.
Secondly The whig vote on the resolutions of Messrs
Jackson and Hllyer in the House of Representatives,
conforming as that vote did, to the policy adopted by the
northern whig State conventions had given the clearcs
indication that the wings of the North, as party, were
Opposed 10 Sucn maintenance OF oSe measures even
they had been opposed party 10 their adoption.
Tirdly 1t thus became too evident for dispute in any
quarter, that nothing but the most prompt demonstration
and the fullest pressure OF the undivided wing force at
the South could give any chance OF preventing the wing
national organization from placing itself substantially
upon the ground Of open opposition to the Compromise,
in obedience to the known will OF the northern wing
majority.
Foarthfy. The resolutions offered by Messrs Gentry
and Marshall, to which the southern chairman of the
wing caucus peremptorily refused either vote or a
hearing that assembly. only demanded that the south
ern whig members. n aiding 10 fix time and place for
the Wing National Convention, should not be deemed to
commit themselves TO the support OF IFS nominees, unless
they and the convention should be also and in the first
place. fully and unequivocallyI committed 10 the main
enance OF all the compromise final adjust
ment
Thus il is plain that Mr. Mangum and his southern
coaduors in the no, only took the ground that
the southern wing members should in far as was
possible by preliminary action, be dragooned ensnared
into the support OF the nominee OF the Wing Convention
without any preceding compromise pledge from that body
but they took and maintained the further and still
Objectionable position ,ha, the precautionary policy OF in
sstng upon such pledge from the convention should not
be debated and voted on by the Mr. Gentrys
card shows that this most extraordinary and indefens
Bile position against the compromise wings OF the South
taken and maintained by the CHAIRMAN OF the caucus
in plain defiance of we'll settled parliamentary rule and
practice In this state OF facts il appears ndsputa
BILE that the compromise wings forced to choose
whether they would abandon the Compromise, or aban
don the whg party represented in that caucus The
question, then, whether Mr. Gentry and his friends acted
wisely the they have taken depends entirely upoa
the question whether southern wings what they say
when they talk OF the supreme importance to their sec
lion OF the maintenance OF the Compromise as bar 10
further anti-savery aggression or agitation.
But there is another important point 10 the case. The
dongs OF that caucus proved il to be Scott caucus
just clearly il it had been called in his name To
make this point clear, il not at all necessary for The
chairman OF that TO make, he did make, the
extraordinary subsequent declaration, in open Senate
that he was for Scott though he well knew tina, the
wings OF his State not for Scott, but pre-.
ferred another candidate. With this decaraiion--,he
srangest that ever such subject came from the
lips OF a man in Mr. Mangum's posion--we have
nothing TO do, save as it goes TO show the pur.
pose-the quo animo--with which the caucus was
convened, organized and conducted as a preliminary
movement looking 10 General Scoit's nomination Con-
sder ia this point Of view. whose friends they who
wished in the caucus to throw the Compromise over
board The northern Scott wings were in majority.
and were determined that single point should be
lost in the Scott game. BY way OF improving Cen
eral Scolts chance for the nomination, and by way
at the same time Of defring ms position and signal
ising his political a1niiss before he nom
mated, these seized upon the Compromise, and
made j, an altar which 10 immediate, in advance,
his two chief rivals. To do this deed at all in their
preliminary organization, against the southern whig
prayer and protest, hgh-banded bu, to get few
southern wings TO help them do IT, and TO take leading
part in doing H. the very refinement Of crueltyor
say, rather. ofLinsult-toths South
interruptions men-very INSCRIPTIONS and unmerciful
mcndid these northern Scott wings and their few south
ern Scott wing allies prove themselves be- in 80 doing
towards the Of their southern whg brethren There
was no sort Of need for them press far and 40
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