Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-07-03
ZONES. SEWARD. AND sTANLY.

Gentlemen, know Winfield Scott. lCheers.)
And they who tell you that he is man to be led by
Seward or any body else, reckon without their host.
am not come here to talk to you about Seward.
despise some of his opinions, but think him. must
say. one of the IS best abused men of his time.'
Gov. Jones " despises some" of Stewards opin-
ions, but he thinks him IS Of the best abused men
of has tinne.'' That will do.
In his recent speech in the House of Representa-
tives Mr.. Gentry, of Tennessee, alluded to the fact
that Seward invited the parties the Syracuse mob
to his house in Auburn, and thus gave countenance
to disorder and rebellion. Mr.. Gentry said
Bot if you want further light upon the subject,
look to the fact that when slave rescued by
mob at Syracuse, and when motley crowd of men,
women, and children, white and black, arrested
for resisting the legal authorities, he [Seward] went
into court, and volunteered to become their bail. HI
invited them his house, and treated them to its ell
egant inequalities. What does all this mean! Is it
not to encourage rebellion, Instruction, and resistance
to law? Is it not to deny that the Constitution
impose any obligation to execute the fugtive-save
law? Is it deny the constitutional validity of
that law Is it not hypocrca claim that there is
higher law which absolves him from that oath of
allie glance which he has taken to his country, and
which binds him to maintain this Constitution OF his
country! Yet this is the doctrine he teaches, and
this man, with that powerful political org anization
which he ontrols. is to be oar leader-is he I'm
der his auspicies Gen. Scott became candidate for
the Presidency and if Gen. Scott is nominated at
Baltimore, he will his nomination to William
H. Seward and, therefore, Gen. SCOTS nomination
cannot, under any circumstances, nationalZe the
Wing party. AS soon the compromise measures
passed, all the papers under Mr.. Stewards control
raised up the name of Scott at their mast head as
the r candidate for the Presidency. Conventions
called at the earliest possible time in New York,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, which formally nominated
him for the Presidency. But resolutions passed
those conventions recognizing the series of measures
to which have referred a compromise, TO be ad-
hered to and executed by the North and the South"
II M
Gentry's Speech, that Mr.. Stanly in his place
in the House and said in reply, that he was autho-
rzed to state that negroes entertained by Mr..
Seward on the OCCASION! Who authorized Mr..
Stanly to make this ststemeLt4 Why, of course,
Mr.. Seward himself; and MIR. Stanly, the Represen-
tative of slaveholding people, becomes his apollo
gist on the floor Of the House!
Scott, Jones, Stany, Seward, and Mangum! How
does Mr.. Graham like his associates =! Can the peo-
pie of North Carolina swallow this pill! Are they
ready support Stewards candidatel If so, and if
their candidate should succeed, the day will be
distant when many of them will be compelled to do
Stewards bidding! What degradation!
The TELEGRAPHIc DESPATCH, published in the
last Standard with reference Mr.. CLAWS opin-
ion the action of the Wing Convention, is as to-
tally destitute of truth, the Correspondent of that
paper has shown himself to be, for some time past.
Register.
That despatch was, in substance, that MIR. Clay
had expressed his displeasure at Gen. SCOTS nom-
nation, and had intimaed that all patriots ought
vote for Gen. Pierce. Our Correspondent of course
gave the rumor for what it WORTH 1t may
be known what Mr.. Clay really did say, for he
confined his room, and his opinions expressed
in confidence, in all probability, to only few friends;
but then undertake to say, and to prove, that the
remarks attributed to him by Correspondent e
substa nally sustained by his recent declarations
his own hand. In March last impression got
abroad that he had said he intended for Gen.
Cass and the New York Express, Wing paper,
in order this IMPRESSION published by per-
mission the following extract of private letter of
his, addressed to of his friends in that City:
\ n L" You rightly understood me in expressing
preference for Mr.. Fillmore the Wing candidate
for the Presidency. This l did before l left home,
and have frequently here in private intercourse, since
my arrival at Washington. l not how gener-
ally the fact may be known, but should not deem
it right to publish any formal avowal of that prefer
ence under my own ignature in the newspapers.
Such course would subject me to the imputation of
supposing that my opinions possessed more weight
with the public than 1apPrehend they do. The foun-
dation of my preference is, that Mr. Fillmore has adj
mnistered the Executive Government with signal
and ability he has been tried and found true.
faithful, honest and conscientious. l wish to say
thing in derogation from his eminent competitors.
They have both rendered great services their
try-the in the field, the other in the cabinet.
They mint possibly administer the government as aceH
Mr.. Fillmore has done. But then neither of then.
has been, tried He has been tried in the elevated po-
sition he now holds, and think that prudence and
wisdom had better restrain from making any change
without necessity for 1.-THE existence of which 1
do not perceive.
am truly your friend and obedient servant,
H. CLAY"
What does that amount to! Does not Mr.. Clay
distinctly say that Gen. Scott has not been tried
in civil station And does he only barely admit
that he IS might POSSIBLY, administer the government
as we'll as Mr.. Fillmore has done''? Again: Hold
ing to the opinions advanced in the above letter. is
it not clear that Mr.. Clay felt and believed when Gen.
Scott's nomination was announced to him, that the
Wing Convention had not been restrained by sspru-
dence and WISDOM" but bad sought to make change
in the head of the government, without necessity
for it's? Answer these questions, will you, Mr..
Register!
tbs not at all wonderful that Mr.. Clay should have
all patriots ought to for Franklin Pierce.
Mr.. Clay rose high above party this Slavery CUES
tion-he had hand in the compromise and he
wished to die in the fixed hope that it would stand
he knew that Gen. Pierce of it's earliest and
6rmest friends, and he knew also the hands into |
which Gen. Scott had fallen and looking at all these
things. and fearing that his Wing friends, with whom
he had been proud associate in all strictly porfu