The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15

1916 he was bWIC0 ucI0d6Ou IA OAO
conventions of his party when his
p~uccessful competitors were elected,
and in 1874, when he was nominated
in the Wing national convention
amidst deafening cheers, and sup
ported with an enthusiasm that has
rarely been equaled and never sur
passed he was defeated by the aboli-
ton diversion of New York. He ap-
parently bore himself in this terrible
adversely with more than Roman
grandeur, but he was crushed in
heart and hope, and thereafter the
Clay over whose defeat untold thous-
ands wept soalding tears was only a
shadow Of himself in the dark shad
ows that hung like a pail over him.
returned TO the Senate|hut he
could not bow to the sceptre welded
by another and he was soon in jar
ring discord with the administration
of his party. When the slavery is
sue arose after the Mexican war, he
girded up his loins and again became
the p~acifoator that he had been in
the earlier trials of the Republic.
The death of Taylor brought the
Fillmore administration, which was
in harmony with his views, and his
final triumph in craftsmanship was
the passage of the Compromise Meas
ures of 1850, which utterly wrecked
hia party, which was practically I'M
known and entirely unfelt after the
terrible defeat of 1852. He lived only
to see the head of the administration
that he had so ardently supported
rejected by his party in its national
convention, but before the election
that obliterated his great party from
the list of political factors of the ma
ton his weary spirit found rest in
the sleep that knows no awakening.
DANIEL WEBSTER
Webster wasted his life in his rural
home in Massachusetts because of the
ingratitude of the Republic. He had
thrown himself into the struggle for
the Compromise Measures which he
believed saved the country from civil
strife, and confidently expected the
Wing nomination for the Presidency
in 1852. He knew that he was re-
gsrded by the country as the great
expounder of the Constitution and
the first in intellectual force in our
craftsmanship, and he yearned for
the appreoiative recognition that an
election to the Presidency would give
him. Is was not only denied him,
but he was not permitted to figure as
a formidable candidate in the oon-
vention that adopted as it's platform
the Compromise Measures to which
he had given success by his powerful
support, and like the captive eagle
in gilded bars he fretted through the
crushing of disappointment
to repose beyond the dark river.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
General SCOTT was a candidate for
the Presidency before the Wing con.
vention of 1889, of 1848 and of 1852,
when he was finally nominated. Like
Clay, he was q prominent candidate
before two conventions whose nomi-
tions for the Presidency were con
firmed by the people. His chief in
trinity was his belief that the poll.
tioians of his party conspired TO pre-
vent the people from eleoting him TO
the Chief Magistracy of the nation.
His autobiography exhibits this pain
full weakness on various pagee. He
was finally nominated in 1852, and
fought the last battle for the Wing
party in our national struggles. His
competitor was a subordinate briga
der from civil life in Scott's Mexican
campaign, and SCOTT believed that he
would be elected by an Overwhelming
majority. Even after the disasters
of the October elections, which
pointed unerringly TO his defeat, he
never for a moment faltered in his
faith that the people would rise above
all political prejudice and make him
President {; and when the final blow
came, giving him but two States in
the North and but two in the South,
he was utterly crushed by the disas-
ter that left him in the s~tarless mid
night of political despair. He lived
for more than a decade after his
defeat, but he was only waiting IN.
til the coming shadows gathered into
night.