Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-07-07
JONES. SEWARD, AND STANLY...
Gov. James G. Jones, in his speech before the late


Gov James @. Jones. in his speech before the late
Wing Ratification Meeting in New York, said
d" Gentlemen, l know Winfield Scott. tCheers.)
And they who tell you that he is man to be led BY
Seward or any body else, reckon without their host
l am not come here to talk to you. about Seward.
say. one OF the best abused men - of his ,ime.''
Gov. Jones "despises some - of Stewards opin-
ions, but he :hinks him Of the best abused men
Of has time.'' Tia, will do. 49,: ...: =.
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:
But if you want further light upon the subject,
look to the fact that when slave was rescued by
mob at Syracuse, and when a motley crowd Of men,
women, and children, white and black, were arrested
for resisting the legal authorities he Seward1 went
into court. and volunteered to become their BAIL. He
invited them to his house, and treated them it's ell.
egant hospltaties. What does all this mean! Is it
not to encourage rebellion, nsurrecon, and resistance
to law! Is it not to deny that the Constitution can
impose any obligation to execute the ugitiveslave
law! Is it not to deny the constitutional validity of
that law Is it not hypocrcal coam that there is
higher law which absoives' him from that oath of
allegiance which he has taken to his country, and
which binds him TO maintain this Constt ution OF his
country? Yet this is the doctrine he teaches, and
this man, with that powerful political org ganiza:on
which he ontrols, is to be our leaders, he! Un.'
der his auspices Gen. Scott became candidate for
the Presidency and if Gen. Scott is nominated at
Baltimore, he will owe his nomination to William
H. Seward and, therefore, Gen. Scott's nomination
cannot, under any circumstances, nationalize the
Wing party. AS soon as the compromise measures
passed, all the papers under Mr. Stewards control
raised up the name Of Scott at their mast head as
their candidate for the Presidency. Conventions
called at the earliest possible time in New York,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, (which formally nominated
him for the Presidency. Bot resolutions passed
those conventions recognizing the series of measures
to which have referred as a compromise. to be ad.
hered to and executed by the North and the South.
And we perceive, from note appended to MI.
Gentry's Speech, that Mr.. Ssanly rose in his place
in the House and Is said in reply that he autho-
rzed state that negroes were entertained by Mr..
Seward on the occasion''! Who authorized Mr..
Stanly to make this statement! Why, Of course,
Mr.. Seward himself; and Mr.. Stanly, the Represen-
ative of Slaveholding people, becomes his apollo
gst on the floor Of the House!
Scott, Jones, Stanly, Seward, and Mangum! How
does Mr.. Graham like his associates! Can the peo-
pie Of North Carolina swallow this pill! Are they
ready to support Stewards candidate! If so, and if
their candidate should succeed. the day will not be
distant when many of them will be compelled to do
THE TELEeaApHlc DESPATCH. published in the
last "Standard,'' with reference Nh. Clays opin-
ion on the action of the Wing Convention, is as to-
tally destitute of truth, as the Correspondent of that
paper has shoYn himself to be, for some time past.
Register.
That despatch was, in substance, that Mr. Clay
had expressed his dspleasure at Gen. Scotts nomi-
nation, and had intmated that all patriots to
vote for Gen. Pierce. Our Correspondent Of course
gave the rumor for what it was worth. II may new
be knowa what Mr.. Clay really did say, for he was
conine his reom and his opinions expressed
in confidence, in all probability to only few friends
bet then undertake to say. and to prove, that the
remarks attributed to him by Correspondent are
substantially sustained his recent declarations over
his own hand. In March last an impression got
abroad that he had said he intended vote for Gen.
Cass; and the New York Express, Wing paper,
in order to correct this impression, published BY per-
mission the following extract of private letter OF
his, addressed TO one of his friends in that City:
=. You rightly understood me in expressing
preference for Mr.. Fillmore as the Whig candidate
for the Presidency. This i did before left home'
and have frequently here in private intercourse, since
my arrival at W Washington. l care not how gener-
ally the fact may be known, but should not deem
it right to publish any formal avowal OF that prefer
!
Such course would subject me to the imPutatlon OF
supposng that my opinions possessed more weight
with the public than apPrehend they do The foun-
dation of nv preference is that MIR. Fillmore has dd.
| ministered the Executive Government with signal
and ability he has been tried and found true.
| faithful, honest and conscientious. wish to say
nothing in derogation from his eminent competitors.
They have both rendered great services to their coon'
uy-the one in the field. the other In the cahnetii
Ieu mi hi possibly anin;ser tie government as apeH
as Mr.. Fillmore has done. But then, neither g them
has been tried He has been tried in the elevated Po.
sition he now holds, and think that prudence and
wisdom had better restrain US from making any change
without necessity for 1.-THE existence of which
do not perceive. am truly your tileno ana ooeo''
ent servant, .... ... -, II. CLA1.
What does that amount to! Does not Mr.. Clay
distinctly say that Gen. Scot, has not been " tried
in civil station And does he not only barely admit
that he might POSSIBLY, administer hegovernment
las we'll as Mr.. Fillmore has done''! Again Hold
ing to the opinions advanced n the above letter. is
it no. clear that Mr.. Clay felt and believed when Gen.
Sco,,'s nominn,ion was announced 10 him, that the
Wbig Convention had not been restrained BY "pra'
dence and WISDOM but bad sought onake change
in the head of the government. without anecessi.y
for it"1 Answer these questions, will you, Mr..
Register! =, ... S..... y
Ills not at all wonderful that Mr.. Clay should have
said tina. all patriots ought to vote for franklin Pierce
Mr. Clay rose high above party on this Slavery ques'
tion--he had a hand in the 81 compromise, and ne
wished to die in the fixed hope that it would stand
hs knew that Gen. Pierce was one of its 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 who"
he had been proud to associate n all s'rlc' party
matters, had nevertheless not Ac'ed on this absorbing
question with either "prudence or wisdom, it
was bu. natural that he should speak as it is said he