Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-23
The Wing Concention.

/ The Wing Concention.
The closing scenes of the Wing Convention at
Baltimore appear to have been characterised by
the utmost harmony and enthusiasm. The ex-
ctement and anmosities engendered by the pro-
tracted contest seem to have subsidized as soon as
the nomination for President was effected.
The Convention has deserved well of the Wing
party and of the country 1t has laid down a
platform of principles upon which the Wings of
every portion of the Onion can stand together in
the ensuing canvass. 1t has placed the seal of its
reprobation on ali future agitation of the slavery
question, and proclaimed in the name of the
Wings, North, South, East and West, that the
compromise measures, the fugitive slave law in
cluded, must be maintained ''as essential to the
nationality of the Wing party and the integrity of
the Union" This is the ground upon which the
Wings of The South have always stood since the
adoption of those measures, and now that the
Wings of the North have taken the same high
national position we no obstacle to a
| thorough union and Jealous cooperation be-
tween them in the approaching struggle.
The ticket presented by the Convention for the
support of the Wings is strong one, and will be
sustained we have not a doubt, with zeal, energy
and enthusiasm, by the party, with very few ex-
ceptions, either in the North or South. Gen.
Scott was not our first choice for the Presidency.
In common with the great mass of the Wings
of Virginia, we preferred Mr.. Fillmore, and ear
nesty desired his rejection to the station which he
filled with such distinguished ability and In.
swerving devotion to his constitutional duties
But we never, for moment doubted Gen. SCOTS
patriotism, his capacity for the station or his
soundness on the question of Southern rights.
We forbear for the present, to dwell on the
claims, qualifications and public services of the
Wing candidate, OR to contrast them with those
of his Democratic competitor. This task ("par-
"a compnere magnis, , will be ours for the next
four months, and we are in no hurry to enter up
on its execution. Fortunately, the people are not
dependent on newspaper editors for information
| in respect to the private andupublic history of
the man whom the Viii have brought
forward as a candidate for ii frages. They
need not be informed who and what he is, or how
his name is spet. No man in America would so
far argue himself unknown as to ask, ..who is
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written in characters that will forever attest
his yaor his patriotism and his illustrious public
services.
The Democratic papers, and politicians gene
rally, will Of course, open the f1oodgates of vtu-
peration on the head of General Scott There is
| no man in the whole country whom they so cor
daily detest and for tn very simple reason, that
of all others, they fear him most. Twice in the
last dozen years, have our Loo ofoco friends been
most numerically drubbed by the Wing party
under the lead of military chic ftains, and these
two fatal "reminiscences have been painfully
revived by the nomination of Gene raj Scott
They, too. have put forward W az chief as their
candidate, and they dread, not without reason
the comparison which will inevitably be institu-
ted between the warlike deeds of the two rivals
The Democracy were the first to set the example
of electing military men to the Presidency. They
raised General Jackson to that high station, and
for twelve years rode rough-shod over the coun-
try, drowning every appeal to the public judgment
with the cry of g hurrah for Jackson" shurrah
| for the Hero of N ew Orlea u.s." The Wings do
not propose to follow this example, but it is moth
ing more than just retribution that the party
which has done more than any other to foster
popular admiration for military chieftains, and
which was the first to 60 to the battle field to find
President should now be plagued with the
mischief they invented and made to swallow the
chalice which, in times past, they offered to the
lips of others.
Since the foregoing was written, we have re-
ceved the last davis proceedings of the Conven-
ton, to which we invite tn particular attention
of the reader. It will be seen that the nomina-
tions. for President and Vice President were
unanimously ratifedby the Convention. This re-
moves all danger of schism in the Wing
ranks, We cannot permit curse Ives to doubt
that the Wing people Of the Union will emulate
the example Of their representatives at Baltimore,
and rally with all their wonted enthusiasm to the
support of their new standard bearer.