The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-09-22
Mr.. John Van Ruran.

MI. John van bufon.
The chief argument Of the southern Scott wings Just
now is Mr.. John Van Buren, He is the theme Of miles
OF wing edlioralshe burden Of elaborate wing speech
es-the text OF every village politician that opposes the
democratic candidates 10 the southern States We hardly
know how they would get along without him-leit so
completely, as they would be- al the mercy OF remorse
less Gentys and mpaeabe Jeniiers who will not yield
70 Gen. Scott even with the apparton Of John Van
buren supporting Pierce before their eyes The Repub
nc IS especially eloquent when referring to John Van
Buren,; while the Louisville Journal. the Richmond
Wing, the Nashville Banner. and other Scott oracles
write OF him with as much emphasis il he were
now at the head of army, ready to invade the South
and put its people 10 the sword.
II is edifyng to how the whig press OF the slave
States try reconcile the people OF that region TO the
support OF Gen. Scott whom only recently they abused
in the hands of their foes. and whose nomination was
subsequently effected against the protest OF the united
southern wing press One of their favorle expedens
10 assert that the democracy have proved false to their
obligations to the constitution, because Mr. John Van
Buren, supports Franklin Pierce. Knowing well how
frankly and fully this gentleman accepted the recent
platform OF the democracy, il becomes subject for in
vesgaton how they render themselves acceptable
to general national sentiment, il they quote Mr.
Van Buren, with any justice against the democracy
And in this place few plain facts submitted the
whole southern press for successful denial satisfactory
explanation.
II the Overwhelming majority of the northern democ-
acy had not faithfully and constantly supported the
South in their just rights, the present Scott organization
IN the free Safes whioh Dictated Mr. Fillmore and Mr.
Webster, ,ooud haze kept open our domestic discussions
10 this day
II the Stewards. Greeleys, Governor Johnstons, and
Thaddeus Sevenses Of the North, and the voters they
control, now abandoned the wing party, there would
hardly be a corporal's guard of wings left in single
northern State.
And this second proposition being unanswerable, it
proves that these leaders expect to control the wing
northern States for Sco,tindeed, they that Scott
elected, must be chosen by sectional northern vote
and against the Souih-hence, and by irresistible infer
ence, General Scott falls into their hands, and secures
their schemes if he is elected.
We often estimate the future by the past. The or
ganizaton Of the present Scott leaders in the North
,hatwhich oiled with fanaical energy to defeat the
Co npromse and they did this deliberately Indifferent 10
the threatening crisis in which the republic was placed
and were stimulated in their efforts the they saw the
danger which threatened The Union 1t follows, them
Southor if he is elected all be without the
South-they will not be prevented from carrying out
their schemes against the constitution by the eminence
they have achieved by abolition wing votes
These propositions based not upon individual data
not because man here ana there may oppose national
principles in the wing party-as here and there may
select instances in the democratic par,ybu, because The
wing OF the North, taken in body, have been
implicitly aboltonized by the example OF their leaders,
and have proved this by the in which they OPP
pressed prosecuted and prescribed the only northern
who had stood by the South, and preferred the only
man who was Objectionable 10 the South.
How utterly beneath contempt it is for the south
ern wing presses, which only few months ago admitted
this very argument, and loud grateful tributes
to the rmness OF the northern democrats now TO select
individual instances in the democratic ranks help Scott
and Seward and 10 siulufy themselves Such men do
more TO degrade the southern character and to be-
little southern rights than the worst fanatics OF the
| North.