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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAUTJL B. CRAFTON,
COUNTY PRINTER.
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T*e Atlanta Mass meeting
Atlanta
Sept.
18—4 P. M.
The Union Democratic Mass Meeting
convened in Paris Hall at 10 o’clock A. M
President, Hon. R. M. Charlton: Secreta
ries John W. Burke and A. W. Jones. Ap
pointed a committee of thirteen, consisting
of John H. Lumpkin, Henry R. Jackson
J. J. SingletOD, W. B. Wofford, Lewis Tum-
lin, T. H. Saftold, J. U. Horne, M. Sheats
J. H. Welborn, Chas. J. Murphey, E. W
Chastain, S. W. Bnrney, to report business
Adjourned to two o’clock. Met pursu-
an t to adjournment. Adopted report of ma
jority committee with few dissenting voices
which condemns the policy of the Southern
Rights wing of the party in refusing to
compromise the electoral ticket. Report is
also against the nomination of another tick
et. Capt. Wofford presented a minority
report in favor of a new electoral ticket
which was voted down almost unanimous
ly. Judge Jackson made an eloquent ad
dress in favor of the majority report and re
union. Meeting was thin, not more than
two hundred and fifty persons being in at
tendance.—Sav. News.
SAUDERSVILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY SEPT. 31, 1853.
St. Mary’s Money
In bills under $5 will be received in pay
ment of demands due this office.
To Correspondents.—We frequently
receive communications containing an
nouncements of deaths, marriages, &c. with
a request to publish, without accompanying
the same with the name of the writers. It
ought to be well understood that we never
admit such things in the paper unless re
sponsible names are sent. This will account
for the non-appearance of an obituary no
tice from Burke.
Letter of tbe Hon- A. Graham to
fbe Southern Rights Committee
of Alabama.
Hillsborough, (N. C.) Aug. 25,1852.
Gentlemen:—Your letter, propounding a
series of interrogatories, at the instance of
the Southern Rights Convention, of the
State of Alabama, which assembled at Mont
gomery on the 12th alt,, has been receiv
ed.
In reply, I have the honor to say, that 1
am by birth, education, residence, associa
tion and interest, identified with the South.
These, with roy past life, afford, in my opin
ion, a better guarantee of fidelity to all her
just rights than any declarations of abstract
or speculative opinions, after I have been,
by a Convention of my political friends,
placed before the nation as a candidate for a
high station. I desire to see an end to the
agitation of slavery in connection with na
tional politics, and I believe that by a faith
ful adherence to the adjustment made by
the Compromise of 1850, and the execution
of Law as it has been carried out by the pres
ent Executive Head of the Government, the
country is destined to a repose and security
on this exciting topic, such as it has not en
joyed since the agitation commenced.
While this appears to be the general state
of public feeling in all sections, I can per
ceive neither a necessity nor utility, on the
part of the South, for a discussion o? the ex
treme cases of apprehended injury comprised
in your interrogatories, as among the prac
tical questions of the times; such was the
unanimous opinions of those patriotic citizens
of the South who were delegated to the
Convention by which I was nominated, and
who require only an acquiescence in the
compromise, as a security for their rights
in the present juncture; and in that opinion
I concur. I shall undertake to establish no
new tests of orthodoxy, to fan the flame of
local excitement in the one section or the
other, hut, if elected will assume the powers
devolved on me with an impartial mind, and
a purpose to maintain the integrity of the
Union, upon principles just, constitutional,
and liberal towards all its parts.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM.
Messrs. Thos. Williams, J. A. Elmore, &c.,
Committee
P. S.—The reception of your letter in the
midst of my preparations for departure from
Washington, and necessary engagements
in the removal and establishment of my
family at home, has occasioned a delay in
its acknowledgement, which, I trust, will be
ascribed to no feeling of disrespect.
A friend in our office yesterday,
who proposes great distinction for himself
in the future, has taken the preliminary
steps of giving a little boy a stick of candy.
We note.the fact for the purpose of making
the reference, should his hopes be realised.
Our Merchants.
Our merchants are receiving large and
full supplies of fall and winter Goods, all of
them from the Northern markets, and se
lected with a skill and taste which their ex
perience in the business, and knowledge of
the wants of this market eminently befit
them. It begins to look like busy times
again, and we hope it will work profitably
to all hands. In the Dry Goods and Gro-
cerv trade we do not believe that this place
is surpassed by any village in the State,
both as to cheapness and style of goods.
The citizens of the county besides numbers
of persons from adjacent counties do all of
their trading here, and we have no doubt
but that they find it to their interest to do
We notice that Maj. Hodges is getting
into his uew Store, and filling it up with a
large supply of Dry Goods and Groceries.
The store room is large and well arranged,
and. well adapted to the transaction of his
large and increasing business. See his ad-
vertisement with those of Messrs. N. W,
Haines & Bro., Lazeron & Newman, Ains.
worth & Slager, and Z. Brantley. The
latter deals altogether in family and far
mers supplies, all of whom are worthy the
notice of purchasers.
Contemplated Revolution of Lower
California.—The San Francisco Herald
learns upon reliable authority that active
preparations are on foot to proclaim the in
dependence of Lower California and hoist
the “Bear flag.” Don Manuel Castro, a
native of Monterey, and late an officer in
Mexican army, it is said, has been silently
engaged of late in enlisting men in San Die
go and the county of Los Angels, to proceed
to Lower California and to proclaim the
independence of that territory. Rumor
has it that he has been quite successful, and
that his followers are now daily making
their way over the line in small parties, in
tending to unite at some given point and
march upon Santo Tomas and La paz. Ne
grete, the head of the Mexican authorities
in that country, is represented as a timid
man, incapable of resisting a well organ-
ed effort. His family have taken refuge in
San Francisco from the impending storm.
Castro is of the opinion that the few Mex
ican troops in garrison at Santo Tomas and
La Paz will join his standard so soon as he
unfurls it.
Counterfeit Notes—The Augusta Con
stitutionalist & Republic of Wednesday
last says ;—“Counterfeit notes of the South-
Western Rail Road Bank of Charleston, of
the denomination of $20, were received here
yesterday, in a remittance from the country.
In the genuine note the vignette is a ship.
In this counterfeit the vignette is a female
figure in a sitting posture, with a sheaf of
wheat immediately on her right, and on the
left end of the note a full length figure of
Gen.. Washington, which is noton the true
one.
Maine Elections.—There was no elec
tion for Governor in this State by the peo
ple. The Liquor Law excitement is 3aid to
have created great confusion in the candi
dacy for that office. The Legislature is
said to be democratic, and three Whigs and
three Democrats elected to Congress. The
N. Y. Tribune thinks this is good enough
for Maine.
Godey’s Ladv’s Book.—We have the
October No. before us. It is a double num-
The Wheat Crop.—We have reason to
believe (says the Baltimore Clipper,) that
the Wheat crop of Maryland this year, will
not be much more than half that of last
year. Various causes are assigned for this
diminution. The long and severe winter,
the fly, rust, &c. In some cases not ten
bushels to the acre have been raised—in
fact, scarcelv enough to cover actual ex.
penses. But if the Wheat crop be defi
cient, the vield of corn will be most abun
dant—largely over that of the last year.
But the most serious evil likely to be en
countered by farmers, is the potatoe rot.
We hear of large filds which have been en
tirely destroyed and abandoned. In some
cases the potatoes have been dug, in the
hope to preserve them from the rot, but
the effort has failed. In fact it was an in
judicious course, as potatoes are more lia
ble to rot in the atmosphere than in the
ground.
Mr. Webster’s Position.—In regard to
the statement made in various quarters that
Mr. Webster contemplates publishing an
address to his friends, advising them as to
the course which they ought to pursue, and
urging them to refrain from using his name
in connection with the Presidency, the
Boston Courier says:
“These statements are put forth by edi
tors of Scott papers—gentlemen who op
posed Mr. Webster’s interests at Baltimore,
on grounds of private malice, and after
wards exhulted in the result of tbe doings
of the Convention. Mr. Webster has writ
ten no letter upon the subject of tbe Presi
dential election, nor will he do so in a “few
days.” His friends have not solicited his
advice as to how they should vote in No
vember next, and as they have not, he will
hardly volunteer it. All speculation and
threats on the part of Mr. Webster’s ene
mies are useless; they cannot break his
silence.”
Alabama Southern Rights Conven
tion.—The Hon. Geo. M. Troup of this
BY TELEGRPH FOR THE REPUBLICAN.
Arrival of the Niagara.
New-York, Sept. 14.
The Royal Mail steamship Niagara has
arrived at Halifax from Liverpool, whence
she sailed on the 4th inst.
LIVERPOOL MARKET.
Cotton—The sales for the three days,
from tbe 1st of September, amounted to 20,-
000 bales, and for the week to 50,850 bales
of which speculators took 13,000 and expor
ters 5,450—leaving the balance, 32,400, to
the trade. Dennistown’s Circular quotes
Fair Orleans 6 l-2d, Middling Orleans 5
7-8d, Fair Mobile 6 l-8d, Middling Mobile
0 5-8d, Fair Uplands 6d, and Middling Up
land l-2d. The stock in Liverpool, ex-
eltwivepf that on shipboard, was 617,400
Imports of the week 27,400 bales
Hancock Manufacturing Company.—
We notice in our market some cotton fab
rics from this establishment, which bear a
fine comparison with any of the same sort
that are offered for sale. Maj. Hodges has
some 7-8 of unbleached shirting from this
Factory, which is a fine, well made article.
We are pleased to see^this Company
going ahead with their work. Wagon loads
of their goods pass through this place oc
casionally. We hope that the intelligent
and enterprising citizens of Hancock, who
have put this work on foot, will meet with
ample returns for the benefit they have con
ferred on their State, by extending its field
of industry in their community.
If the same spirit which actuated our
Hancock friends, in this matter could take
hold of our people, it would add much to
the industry and wealth of the county.—
There is a plenty of capital in the county
that could be called together for a purpose
of this sort, if persons who admit the utility
and benefit that such an enterprise would
confer on the county, would get together
and canvass the matter. A few industrious
and enterprising men could do much for
their county in this particular; besides
greatly subserving their own interest. Will
no one move iu the matter ?
ber, accompanied with several fine engrav
ings. We have not had time to examine
its contents, but dare say they sustain the
usual interest of the book. Price $3 per
year in advance. Address L. A. Godey,
Philadelphia.
Laurens County.—A correspondent of
the Milledgeville Recorder, puts down the
majority in Laurens county for Webster
and Jenkins, at between four and five hund
red. They will receive the usual Whig vote
of the county.
Declined—Judge Law of Savannah has
declined the position of Scott Elector, as
signed him by the Macon Convention. His
reasons are personal and private however,
and he will give the ticket his support His
place will be filled in a few days.
State, has been nominated for tbe Presi
dency, and Gen. Quitman of Miss., for the
Vice Presidency, by the Southern Rights
convention of Alabama which met at Mont
gomery. The nomination was subsequent-
ly ratified with great enthusiasm, and an
electoral ticket appointed.
All sides are represented now, by candi
dates and resolutions, except the “Woman’s
Rights conventionists.” When will they
get their candidates out ? If they did not
scout gallantry as too effeminate to be con
sidered as a part of their rights, we should
suggest that some of the numerous candi
dates on the field, see them to their pla
ces.
>
Additional per Niagara*
, r ;v^ New-York, Sept. 14.
ENGLAND.
The fishery excitement is over.
The harvest in England is said to be pro
greying satisfactorily.
The steamship South Carolina is offered
for sale in Liverpool.
FRANCE..
France announces to the French Merch
ants that the Government will not protect
them in loading Guano at the Lobos Island?.
Louis Napoleon is about publishing a
pamphlet defending himself against the as
per.sicns of the English press.
The French troops are Hot to be with
drawn from Rome.
Louis Napoleon has transferred his
matrimonial attentions to the daughter of
Prince Czartortsk.
CHOLERA.
The Cholera Unmade its appearance in
Germany.
. RUSSIA.
' .. Russians have burnt three Caucasian
villages.
Scott Mass Meeting at Atlanta.—As
we expected, this turned out to be a slim
affair, only a few hundred persons attending.
The Citizen commenting upon it, says that
the time was unpropitious, the Superior
Courts being in session in a number of the
counties, and the Rail Road Companies re
fusing to reduce fare, &c. But the Citizen
adds, and very justly we think, the main
cause of the thinness of the attendance is
doubtless owing to the fact that General
Apathy has the chief command in the field
of Georgia politics. The fact is, the peo
ple are acting sensibly in this campaign ;
thev are attending to their personal affairs^
investigating the claims of the candidates
calmly and quietly at home, and will go to
the ballot box in November all the better
informed for it.
We have always looked upon these mass
meetings as senseless affairs, their party ef
ficiency depending in the main upon the
amount of ill feeling and bitter prejudice
that could be engendered. If the same
amount of money that is spent in getting
them up, was laid out in documents and
distributed among the people, the interest
of parties and the country, would be much
more rationally reached.
Professor Mott.—Professor Valentine
Mott, of New York, was recently honored
by an election, unanimously, as an Honora
ry Fellow of King’s and Queen’s College of
Physicians, Dublin, Ireland. This is a great
honor—Professor Mott is the twenty-sev
enth recipient since its foundation in 1667.
He is the only American among the Hon
orary Fellows of that College.
Duty of Turk’s Island Salt Reduced.
—The Legislative Council ofTurk’s Island,
at the last session, passed an ordinance to
educe the export duty on salt from one
cent to half a cent per bushel, which will
go into effect on the first of January next.
This, it is thought, will give a new impetus
to the trade of this colony iu its great sta
pie, salt, in addition to that which the com
pletion of the light house at the north point
of Grand Turk will give. Salt is said to be
abundant at Turk’s Island at nine cents.
Mr. William M. Thackeiy, the au
thor of “Vanity Fair,” has been engaged to
deliver a course of lectures at the Mercan
tile Library, iu New York, during the com
ing winter. He is expected to arrive from
Europe in a few weeks, in company with
the Hon. Abbott Lawrence. The course
which he proposes to deliver, will be that
which delighted the London public two
winters ago. A brilliant humorist himself,
his sketches of the “British Humorists,” his
predecessors, are characteristic and accu
rate, kindled and brightened by the clans of
his own kindred genius.
J3T The Webster mass meeting iu Bos
ton, on the 15th, turned out to be a small
affair, only about 300 congregated to honor
the call.
[communicated.]
Re-Union of the Democratic
Party.
The Democratic canvass in Georgia has
progressed, or been carried on, more upon
the propriety of the present Electoral tick
et, than upon the merits of the eminent
statesmen whose names head the ticket.—
For the success of the party, it is a lament
able state of affairs, and the question is very
naturally suggested, whose fault is it ? It
is no part of my purpose to criminate or to
deal harshly with those calling themselves
Democrats, who did not see proper to join
in the movement by which the present
The Atlanta Reveille states that the
Hon. Jno. McPherson Berrien, will support
Scott audGrahara for President and Vice
President.
The Hon. A. J. Miller.—A letter from
the Hon. A. J. Miller appears in the Ath
ens Banner in whieh he declines being pla
ced ou the electoral ticket proposed to be
formed at Atlanta, and declares his deter
mination to vote for Pierce and King “if a
ticket be made at Atlanta.”
Georgia Bonds in Demand.—The New
York correspondent of the Savannah Re
publican, states that $150,000 of Georgia
6 per cent bonds were sold in New York
on the 11th inst., at 108, or 8 per cent pre
mium. The same was offered for more,
but holders would not part with them at
that price.
Cassius M. Clay has taken the field
for Hale and Julian, the Free-soii candi
dates in Kentucky.
ticket was put forward, but to deal fairly
with the question, and to submit a few sug
gestions which it seems to me should strike
the mind of every person with force and
conviction. From the confusion consequent
upon the campaigns of 1850 and 1851, the
Democratic party was called to meet at
Milledgeville on the 31st of March last.—
No particular clique, or clan, or set of men
were specified in the call, but Democrats—
those who were bound to that party by ties
of association and principle, and all who
saw in that party the avowal and declara
tion of principles long cherished and held
sacred and paramount to every considera
tion of previous party affinities, were called
together to consult and advise upon the ap
proaching Presidential compaigb. This was
all fair and open-handed. The call was
necessary to bring out the reliable elements
of the party from the chaos which prevail
ed, and it was urgently demanded by the
necessities of the party, which by the ac
tion of leading and influential men calling
themselves Democrats, but in every way,
doing tbeir utmost to destroy the party by
raising the Union party over its honored
head, by combining and conniving at the
election of a Whig U. S. Senator in pre
ference to able, Jong tried and deserving
Democratsat the same time the official
head of the State Government, claiming to
be a Democrat, was attempting to organ
ize Jbe party upon new tests, combining in
its organization the destracting elements of
what was then thought to be tbe disbanded
Whig party. It was circumstances like
these that impelled tbe call ; and subse
quent events has proven it to have been a
wise movement. In obedience to it county
meetings werejjealled, and all who were not
under the influences of the Executive and
Legislative caucuses of the last session of
the Legislature, attended, and sent dele
gates to Milledgeville fully empowered to
do everything to advauce the interest of the
party. No one was proscribed from the
meetings or from the delegations. Indeed
in this county the leading movers in the
the matter were Union Democrats. They
declared that they had never yielded their
allegiance to the Democratic party, but
held its principles as sacredly to heart as
though no cause of disturbance had ever
occurred. Witness the action and remarks
of Col. R. W. Flournoy and Gen. Samuel
Robison, of this county, about that time. I
presume that other counties did likewise.—
Was it not, then, a fair representation of the
Democratic party ? The Democratic party
was then re-organized.
If compromises were to be made, then
was the time to have offered them. The
door was wide open, the invitation ample
and liberal, and he who could not then en
ter its councils, was not a democrat at heart
but was covertly seeking to destroy it, and
rear another in its stead, as after events
most clearly showed, else why the clamor
in the Union pafty on the 22nd of April,
when a democratic representation was dis
cussed. and its subsequent disbanding
upon the proposition to support Pierce and
King.' I ask in all candor where would
the democratic party be now, had its fate
been left with those who are so loud for a
reconstruction of the ticket ? Let the kis-
torv of their political actions speak. They
did every thing to embarrass the action of
the party, and but for the prudent forecast
of the convention of the 31st of March
would now have triumphed upon its ruins*
successive efforts were made to destroy it,
but the National convention put their seal
on its favor, this it was thought would be
sufficient to condemn this crowd to silence
aud if they were democrats, point them to
their duty, but they return home only to re
new their attempts to destroy the party, and
having failed in every attempt to use the
Union party for that purpose, they propose
an armistice with terms of compromise,
whether this will be acceded to, I know not.
I trnstit will not. If it is, it will breed in
calculable mischief, such as these men can
not repair. The democratic ticket has sur
vived their shnders, and if firmly pressed
before the people will triumph over their
machinations and apostacy If democrats
refuse to vote for the present ticket, they
do not act upon principle, and if tbeir wish
es were acceded to would leave the field as
soon as their anxieties for spoils could be
satisfied in another quarter. Is there any
prospect sir, that these men will co-oper
ate with tbe democratic party in ihe can
vass next year for Governor ? They may
do it, but their past idiosyncrasies give a
just cause of suspicion. Against the ac
tion of the democratic party they have no
just cause of complaint, if they are in an un
likely predicament it is the work of their
own hands, a misfortune from which they
can retrieve tneraselves only by honest ser
vice in the cause of democracy.
SCIO.
Washington co., Sept. 15, 1852.
[communicated.]
Wliat Meanelh these Things ?
A few weeks ago, Mr. Editor, when
Scott’s nomination was telegraphed to this
State,; the Whigs swore lustily, and with
fiery indignation scouted the thought that
they should ever vote for him, a mere mili
tary chieftain, and who was put forward by
the Free-soil wing of the party. In vain
were they implored by their more consider
ate, and less perturbed brethren, to hold ou
a little; not to grow so desperate, nor to
make such rash promises, before they knew
more about the General; in other words
before they found out his good points ;—
but they were restless fellows, aud swore
the more terribly, and many even periled
They no sooner get into this^ position than
a subject of distracting interest is presented,
and that was the “unity of the Whig party.”
In the language of those who had been de
ploying the forces, they wished them to be
left in such a position after the canvass is
over, that they could be got together under
the old war-cry. We must not fight against
each other say they, but let us all turn loose
upon the common enemy. Accordingly
the “independent” Editors— men who would
forsake everythingjfor principle—come out
in a bold and fearless way for Webster, ex
haust all eulogy upon his intellect, and with
a proud, self-complacent air, eall for a com
parison between him and the other candi
dates. Finding, however, that no body,
cared enough about him to dispute or con
firm what was said in his favor, and that
they were really tilting against the wind,
these self-same men—who recently thought
Gen. Scott so horribly unfit and unsound—
turn from the advocacy of the great de
fender of Ihe Constitution, as he has been
termed in latter days, to defend Gen. Scott
from the assaults of his enemies; the mere
military chieftain, whom they professe d to
believe to have been nominated by the Free-
soil wing of the Whig party. Why has
this change come over them ? I know ©A
but one reason, and that is tho “unity of
the VVhig party.” They are willing that free-
soilism (for so they must look upon Scot^
or they belie their professions) should tri
umph to maintain the “unity of the Whig
party.” They dare not advocate the claims
of Scott, but are willing to defend him
against charges which they themselves
brought forward and preferred against him
in ike most solemn and formal manner. If
this ain’t whipping the devil aroundi the
stump, I should like to know what yon
would call it.
But these EcKtors have one excuse for
this inconsistency, and which is somewhat
singular, considering that the General has
been so long knotvn to the country, and that
js, that they did’nt know all of his good
points, while they were honestly inveighing
against his general bod character; they
diu’nt frequent Washington City, and had
not, therefore, learned that he was the
THIRD man in the U. S. who advocated
and approved of the compromise- measures.
While they were abusing him so lustily,
they did’nt know that he had made a speech
to the Mississippi delegation. These things
make a difference, of course, no matter how
fraudulent the lie may have been by which
this speech was coucocted, it would have
served as a pretext for deceiving the people.
Even uow, they publish it as a solemn truth,
but for consistency’s sake they won’t advo
cate the General’s claims for the presidency;
yet they will defend him by that, speech
whenever assailed, as being unsound on
the compromise. That the General ever
made such a speech I have no sort of con
fidence ; it is a bare-faceci and unmitigated
falsehood—one of the fables of the cam
paign—and was intended to deceive tbe
Southern people ; and they who publish it,
know it.
Mr. Stephens, who is now canvassing the
State for Webster, and on that account is
obliged to give his friends the reason for his
refusal to support Scott, does not believe
that Scott ever made such a speech, aud it
seems to me that no candid man could be
lieve it to be a genuine production; if it
was, why did it not make its appearance at
Washington City • There are papers there
ready to puuiioii anything that would ben
efit the sinking prospects of Scott, at tbe
South. Why was it not known at Wash
ington that Scott had made such a speech i
The fact is, it was one of those “incidents
iu his long life that underwent the strictest
scrutiny,” without being found out, until the
exigencies of the Whig party, in Tennessee
and Mississippi, brought it to light. It will
deceive no body but those who blindly be
lieve. Mr. Stephens, in speaking of his ob
jections to Gen. Scott, says:
“His objection to General Scott, the whig
nominee, was founded upon the reason of
their souls upon the chances of casting such
a ballot.
It was then/ sir/ the day of Conventions,
and a host of timid editors and popinjay
politicians were ready to seek such places,
where opinions could be manufactured to
order ; indeed, they eagerly sought to raise
any joint stock concern where political prin
ciples and campaign tenets, could be had
on easier terms than the usual honest home
made stuff that men are apt to get at home.
Accordingly they “meet and resolve, and
resolve to meet again.” At first they were
exceedingly alarmed for fear Gen. Scott
would be elected and the efficiency of the
Union party destroyed. They straightway
say “there is no difference between Whigs
and Democrats now ; all old issues are ob
solete, and Gen. Pierce is as good a man
as we could get,”—but the millennium
had’nt come. The robes from this factory
were not pure enough for a portion of the
stockholders; they pull out, and set up
business on the “independent” principle.—
his nomination, upon the fact of his nomina
tion under the circumstances under which is
was effected. With regard to General Scott’t
personal opinion upon the Compromise, he
believed that he had very little, if any. His
opinions, if he had any, were shaped and
controlled by stronger feelings, and princi
pally by his desire to be elected President.
A Compromise platform was adopted by the
Convention which nominated him—-Sixty-
six men in that Convention voted against
that platform. But Mr. Stephens regarded
the records of Congress better evidence of
the views of the party which nominated
General Scott, than the action of an irre
sponsible nominating Convention. In Con
gress there was not a single Scott man from
the North in favor of the execution of the
fugitive slave law, or willing to regard the
Compromise as a final settlement of the
questions it embraced. Every Webster and
Fillmore man, on the contrary, either voted
for it, or was willing to acquiesce in it as a
part of the great Plan of Adjustment. These
facts show the tone and temper of the Par
ty which nominated Gen. Scott. He receiv
ed the nomination because he was not com
mitted against this party. Gen Scott’s o-
pinions upon the Compromise never were
known in Washington City, before or ader
