The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-07-10
The WIG DEsERTERs. BY a card


in another part of our paper, it will b
seen that nine members OF Congress, VIII
have generally been counted among tn
wings, have refused to support Genera
Scott, the nominee of the Wing Nationa
Convention. Any person who will
read this card, cannot fail to see the
iilmslness, the utter lack of argument
and, we are sorry to add, in many point.
the lack of truth, which it exhibits.
In our remarks upon this subject we
shall keep steadily in view the principle
that she who is not for us is against
u.s." and that in their desertion of the
wing candidate, these gentlemen have
ranged themselves-for the time at least
under the banner of Pierce and King.
In this position we are sustained not
only by the irrevocable laws of sequence,
but by the assertion of Mr.. Toombs in
his speech on the floor of the House OF
Representatives few days before the
appearance of the card.
Having left the Wing organization
and gone over to the Locofocos, let US
examine the ground upon which these
gentlemen stand-.let us see how much
nearer their new utilization accords with
their peculiar views, than did the old
one.
The first exception taken to General
Scott is, that he refused to give his pub
lie opinion upon the compromise previ-
Gus to the nomination. Now we ask
does not Gen. Pierce stand IN precisely
the same condition Of some seventeen
gentlemen addressed by Mr.. Ii. G. Scott,
Gen. Pierce is almost the only one who
does not answer, and declare his adhe-
renee to the compromise. And, of the
nine or ten candidates named IN the
Baltimore Convention Gen. Pierce was
the only one who had not come out
openly in favor of the compromise, and
yet he was the only one whom the Con-
vention thought fit TO be the nominee.
The next objection is, that Gen. Scott
is not explicit enough in his letter of
acceptance. SO far as this objection is
intended as a charge, that Gen. Scott
avoids declaring openly and positively
his position in regard to the compro.
mise, it is nothing more or less than
false. His position is made as clear as
it is possible for words to make it. and
it is beyond the power Of any man, ex-
cept by manifest perversion of Ian
guage, to show the slightest attempt at
equivocation upon this point. But
while these gentlemen complain that
Gen. SCOTS letter is not clear enough,
Mr.. L oombs, one of the Dcsel tiers, de-
clares in a speech on the floor of
Congress that the Locofoco candidates
by their letters "have put them
selves fully, plainly and distinctly" upon
the platform. Let US see: Gen. Scott
says: 81 except the nomination with
the resolutions annexed" Gen. Pierce
says: II except the nomination upon
the platform adopted blythe convention"
Gen. Scott says, he will discountenance
call political agitation injurious to the
interests of society and dangerous to the
Union" and points to the acts of "a long
public life" as the best pledge he can
give. Gen. Pierce says: that the prin-
ciples of the platform command the
appr obation of his judgment and with
them no act or word of his life has been
in conflict"
'.Strange snch difference there should be
'TwiXt tweedledum and tweededee."
But Mr.. Toombs sharp seeing statesman
tina, he is has at length found it.
The assertion made in the card that
"among the known incidents Of Gen.
SCOTS past life, there is not one in favor
OF the principles Of the compromise" is
faisehood, so black and disgraceful,
that it should cause every man who SUBJ
scribed TO it to hang his head in shame
the balance of his days. To come d.
rectly to the point now in hand, Gen.
Scott exerted himself to the utmost to
procure the passage of the compromise
measures, and was the means of effecting
a great deal in favor of them. And
none know this fact better than these