The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-09-12
Mr., douglas Draws his own Picture.

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Those familiar with the political history o
the country, will recollect that in the Whie
! Convention at Baltimore in 1852, the NORTH
demanded the nomination of Gen. Scott, and
the South resisted his nomination. The
| South, however, was voted down, and Gen
Scott was placed before the country as the
Wing candidate for the Presidency. 1t was
sectional contest IN which one section de-
manded the nomination of particular man
just exactly as it was in the Charleston
Convention when the Northern States re-
quired the nomination of Mr.. Douglas. In
July, 1852, Mr.. Douglas delivered an address
to the Democracy Of Richmond, Va, inwhieh
he animadverted upon Gen. Scott as caiidi-
date forced upon the Whig party and the ma
ton, by the North, in defiance Of the loud
protestations of an almost unanimous South.
In that address he pictures his own position
SO truthfully that we cannot refrain from CIV
ing it to our readers. Substitute 'Judgs
Douglas" for "Gen. Scottn and the picture is
complete
"Well, General Scott received the norniua-
ton 'undnimously,' according to the official
proceedings of the Convention, Laughter.
Fellow citizens, did you ever hear of unan.
imous nomination which was made in def
ance of the filty-tmes repeated protest and
remonstrances of the delegations from one
half the States of the Union represented in
the Convention? Every Southern State in
the Union voted against him more than fiftv
times, day after day and night after night and
yet the nomination was unanimous. GGreat
laughter. The nomination of Gen. Scott
therefore, presents to the American peopIe
this extraordinary anomaly. For the first
time in the history of our party contests has
sectional nomination ever been forced upon
either of the two great parties You NAV
talk of the dangers TO the American Union.
growing out of partisan strife and political
contests; you may tremble at the scenes
through which we all recently passed, con-
nected with the slavery agitation; yet there
was nothing in all that SO perilous to the
safety of the Union as a sectional nomination
for the Presidency, where the North demand
ed the nomination of particular man on
sectional issue. And the delegation from
every Southern State, without exception, re-
sisted the nomination as dangerous to their
rights and institutions A nomination forced
upon the South by the E'eesoiz wing of the
Wing party North, is now presented to the
American people as unanimous nomination.
1t matters not whether the North forced |
the nomination upon the South, or the South |
upon the North, the danger consists in the
TACT that territorial line divided mems opin-
ions, that Northern men were one way and |
Southern men another. But after the NOM
nation is made we are told that it was fair
compromise, because the South received the
platform, and the North obtained the candi-
late, under the direction of men who ''defy'
Ind "spit upon'' the platform. Thus we
have Winfield Scott before MS for the Presi-
lency. After mature deliberation, he pro-
'eeds to accept the platform, and to write the
etter which he had promised Mr.. Archer in
he private note which was found in Botts'
'reeches pocket" Laughter.1