Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-09-04
Webster in North Carolina.

WEBSTER III NOTlA CdEOIlnds
The Commercial, published at Wilmington,
which supported Kerr for governor, and which,
since the election, has hoisted the names of Web
ster and Graham for president and vice president,
has been appointed publisher of the lars of the
United States. That paper, when it hoisted the.
names of Webster and Graham, had the following
scathing article on Scott
"What was truth in May last, is truth at the
present time; what was correct principles then
will certainly be till November. We all recollect
how violently Mr.. Mangnm was denounced for
giving the State of North Carolina to Scott, Sew
ard d Co. We believe every wing paper in the
State condemned him in severe terms. And yet,
because a few Southern men betrayed the trust
reposed in them by their constituents, and sold
their birth right for mess of potage, we are re-
qured to do just as Mr.. Mangum did. We are
required to swell the free-so and abolition tri-
umph, though obtained by treachery and defec-
tion in order to sustain candidate for the presi-
dency supposed to be available And now all
that the Scott wings can justly say to our friends
is, goa mast change because changed It can
not be that any principle is desecIated because it
was a principle with the wing party, before the
nomination, that southern institutions should be
made secure by resisting the influences of the free
soilism and abolitionism that nominated Scott
No one pretended to deny, before the nomination,
pOllIchl
godfathers of Scott. VIVA: has changed the char
acter of SCOTS supporters, altered tn, nature of
his affnities ? Nothing. These are all in life
and being, and are only clouded and smothered
By the office seekers and spoils hunters ofthe whig
party and their supporters, who more anx-
ious about the success ofthe party than the desti
ny ofthe Republic, or the safety of southern in
situations.
I 1t is said that the friends of Scott, in the con-
vention, did not care so much about him. but only
wanted him as the available instrument in crushing
Fillmore And for what did they desire to crush
that good, and great, and glorious nan Be-
cause he stood up for the constitution and the COM
promise sustained the laws that prott cted south
ern rights, and was favorite of the South. That
was all nothing else, good people of North Caro-
lina-ony because he was your friend. And now
that the victim is laid upon the altar of northern
fanaticism, are required to feed the fame that
consumes the sacrifice, and worship with the abo-
lition priesthood with Seward and Greeley at then
| head
But the supporters of Scott say, went into
the convention, and are bound by its decision, be
cause that body has the compromise in its plat
= form. Where two parties are bound in a matter
are they not mutually obliged to comply with the
obligations The Scott wings openly and shame
lessy avow that they will not be bound by thai
platform that they will not be bound by any o.
its provisions. Having sacrificed Fillmore. they
spit upon the PLATFORM and will vote for Scot
because they can elect him, they think, by militia
ny displays, platform or no platform. And how il
the name of common sense can southern wings b,
bound by the decision of the Baltimore Convention
while the Northern wings are not ? Yet We arr
called upon to be co-workers with them in making
him the president who has been used to promot
their unhallowed designs upon the rights and hon
or of the south. But now they intend to be very
friendly, and will do the clean thing if the Soutl
will vote for them. They told lies before the con
:. vention in the convention, and after the conven
ton, but they will be very veritable gentle
men, and we must consider them such. If this i
not coming it pretty strong over our creduty, W
know not what will be-
We invite our friends throughout the State t
: select candidates for electors, and forward then
= for Publication. We believe it requires but littl
. exertion to bring forward respectable array 70
. Webster and Graham, in November