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ROSIN OIL.
Some time ago we called the attention of our
readers, ami particularly of business men, to the
,3. growing importance of Rosin Oil as a lubricant
of machinery. We copy below from the Wash
ington Union a communication to which we call
the attention of those who may be interested
in the matter.
A NEW BUSINESS ERA FOR N CAROLINA.
We perceive, from exchanges published
in various' sections of the country, that
through the medium of a discovery not
long since made by Louis S. Robinson, of
iiv juiKcuy. iorm Carolina's staple
(rosin-, is rapidly coining to supplant
animal oil entirely for the purpose of
lubricating machinery of every description
The railroads already constructed in New
England alone have heretofore required
the application ofatleasta million dollars
wortl of animal oils annually, while the
u oollen, cotton, flouring, and saw mills,
the tanneries, and indeed the almost end
less list of mills, factories, and workshops,
sreat
ana small, vvita winch the
which the eastern
States are studded, consume an incalcula
ble quantity of sperm and whale oils,
which are now becoming so scarce, and
of course comparatively expensive. The
similar establishments located elsewhere
in the United States, to', require a due
proportion of lubricating material: so it
wiMnut bf o.utMt the way to estimate that
the machinery of our couutry" requires, to
keep it in operation, an expenditure ol
850,009.000 per annum. According to
experiments recently instituted by a com
mittee appointed by proprietors of Lowell
mills, it has b;en made manifest that one
lull less power is requisite to drive heavy
machinery Rubricated with a mixture of
ilis roin oil with it bulk of sperm oil,
the mixture costing but three-eighths of the
price of the sperm required when used
alone. Now, when we estimate the sav
ing thus eir.-cted not only in the cost of
the materia!, but the advantages to result
from the saving of power retjuired when
the mixture is used, it will be perceived
that one of the most important industrial
results known to the present century is
Ixring brought about through the means of
the discovery to which we refer above.
Its effect on the value of property and labor
in the pure-bearing regions of North Caro
lina and Georgia cannot fail to be wonder
ful indeed. While it lend to cheapen the
necessaries and comforts of life in manu
facturing regions, it must eventually quad
ruple the value of lands producing rosin,
which are now or may in time become
accessible. Up to a very recent period,
much the greatest portion of the common
rosin produced in distilling spirits of tur
pentine has been thrown aside as valueless.
Tiiis discovery.at once clothes it with a
value far greater than that possessed by
the spirits. Full five hundred thousand
barrels of such rosin are annually thrown
away, because they will not bear the
cost of transportation. Their applica
tion in this way, rendering them worth
more than so many barrels of the turpen
tine, positively increases the wealth of the
region in which they are produced by the
amount for which they sell.
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find u greater demand for it than they can
supply, at an average pi ice of 40 cents per
gilion two barrels of rosin producing one
of the oil, the expense of the process being
triliiu. There can be little doubt that by
employing their refuse rosin in this way,
North Carolina and Georgia will, together,
add nearly a million of dollars annually to
their receipts from abroad to their sub
btantial wealth. VV.
The Consequence of Scott's Elec
tion'. Gen. Scott is emphatically the can
didate of the abolitionists, for begot the
nomination of the Whig Convention by the
votes of the adherents of Seward, in op
position of the "fifty times repeated'' pro
test of all the delegates, from the South
and of all the compromise Whigs of the
North. And, if elected he will be the
President of the abolitionists; for their
votes must elect him, despite the deter
mined opposition of every Southern State.
1 Gen. Scott insensible to the obligations
of "latitude? Or, would he riot amply re-
ward the fidelity of the abolitionists, who
gave him the nomination and the Presiden
cy? And, would he not make the South
feel th smart of his vengeance, for its
stern resistance to his promotion? Scott
will strengthen the arm upon which he
leans. lie has said as much. They who
support the policy of his administration,
are to be the only recipients of his favors.
Mr Gentry spoke the truth, in saying that
the election of Scott, would be but the
elevation of Seward to the Presidency.
The Petersburg Intelligencer was correct
in the declaration, that the inauguration of
Scott would subject the councils of tile
country to the control of abolition in
fluences. Heed the word, men of the
South!..
Remarkable case of Longevity. An
old lady, named Mrs McElroy, is now liv
ing in Philadelphia, who was 103 years
old on the CSth inst. Twenty-one years
ago she received what is termed second
feight, and cairnow see as clearly and dis
tinctly as ever. She does all her house
work; waits upon her youngest daughter,
fifty-one years of age, who has been blind
for three years past; and attends a store or
shop they keep in the front room She
was married in 1790, when 45 years of
age, and is the mother of seven children,
three of whom are dead. She has distinct
recollection of Gen. Washington, and va
rious scenes of the revolution. Her father,
wno was a German, lived to be 107 years
old. She was born at AlUntnivn Pa:
Sluve Trade Suppressed in Africa.
Rev. J. L,. Wilson, American Missionary
at the Gaboon river, now in this country
for his health, states that the slave trade
I. u1Pf?Iresse1d on the hole African coast.
-Mr ilson Is well known as a reliable au
thority, and the statement comes well authenticated.
THE MEXICAN OUTRAGE UPON MR RICE.
We find the following letter in the
California papers, from iMr Rice, the con
sul at Acapulco, whose arrest and impris
onment we have previously mentioned :
Acapulco, (Prison of the Inzgado,)
June 12th, 1852. J
To the Commander of the Naval Forces
at San Francisco. Sir, 1 was arrested
yesterday morning, at 8 1-2 o'clock, by a
detachment of fifteen soldiers, under com
mand of a sergeant, aud thrown into this
prison, where I have been since, without
any examination or any charge having
been made against me. When 1 was
ordered by the sergeant to go with him,
I asked to see his warrant, when he
refused, saying he was ordered to arrest
me by the Commandante, and if I did
not immediately accompany him he would
drag me from my house, at the same time
using gross and insulting language towards
myself and family.
When brought into the presence of the
Judge of the Court of First Instance, he
said he knew nothing of the cause of my
arrest, and that he would send to the
District Judge for orders. In a short time
the messenger returned with an order
from the District Judge to place me in
close ioufinement in a dirty hole occupied
by tlilowest criminals, and by .persons
brought in from the streets, drunk. &c.
The jailor, however, said he would not
take such a responsibility, and gave me
his own room.
I know no cause why I am here, unless
it be that, returning from the mountains
a few days since, I found that the District
Judge had advertised an American steam
ship for sale, she having been illegally
seized by the authorities here ; and I
immeuiaieiy posted notices, warning per-
sons
against
purchasing her, as she
was
the property of Mr Fritz, who was dis
possessed of her. One of the notices was
torn down from my own door, and I posted
another. The same man who tore down
the first, made an attempt to tear down
the second, when, warning him that it
was my property, and on my own land, I
put a pistol to his head, and told him I
would shoot him if he insisted upon med
dling with my property.
Some say that I was arrested because,
not succeeding in selling the ship, they
wished to get me out of the way, for,
immediately after my arrest, the ship was
sold.
Be this as it may, no American is safe
here; daily insults and abuses are heaped
upon us, aud I have struck my flag, and
shall patiently await the action of the
United States or a naval force. I hope
you will see the necessity of despatching
a national vessel at once.
Sickness prevents me from Writing my
self my friend, Mr Marcus D. Boruck,
now on his way to San Francisco, and the
bearer of this despatch to j'ou, having
written the same for me.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant.
FRANCIS W. RICE, U. S. Consul.
To this note the following resnonse was
b XV.rft S.yti'J 11 1 ' I
Brig Major Easton, 5th June, 1852.
Sir : 1 have this moment received
your communication with enclosure. I re
gret the situation of Mr Rice, but I have
no force at my command, consequently
cannot interfere for his relief. Commo
dore McCauly commands the squadron,
and by last accounts was on the coast of
Peru.
Very respectfully, your obedient serv't.
JOHN D. SLOAT.
To Marcus D. Boruck, Esq., Saa Fran
cisco, Cal.
THE CATHOLIC CASE BRIEFLY STATED.
The Mil waukie News says : let it be
remembered, that the charge that Gen.
Pierce and the democratic party are re
sponsible for the odious test in the New
Hampshire constitution, excluding Cath-
polics from holding ce.tain offices, is false ;
that it requires a two-thirds vote to alter
the constitution of that State ; that the
democratic party there have never been in
a two thirds majority ; that if the ruling
party is responsible for the test, the whigs
and abolitionists, wiio were in power in
1846. and again in 1831, aie to blame for
not abolishing it ; that Franklin Pierce and
Levi Woodbury made eloquent and able
speeches in the constitutional convention
against the religious test ; that they were
opposed by Levi Chamberlain ; that this
same Levi Chamberlain, who spoke and
voted against abolishing the Catholic test,
was rewarded by the whig party of New
Hampshire by being nominated as their
candidate for governor the same year! that
the whig party of New Hampshire indi
rectly endorsed the Catholic exclusion
clause by voting for Levi Chamberlain for
governor ; and, finally, that their appeal
to the religious sentiments of adopted citi
zens at this time comes with bad grace
from a party whose leader, Gen. Scott,
has recorded his deliberate 'conviction that
native Americanism is right, and his in
clination to take away the right of voting
from all foreigners !"
Political Impudence and Effrontery.
The Boston Post, in remarking upon
the attempt of the Republic and kindred
Scott journals to prove Franklin Pierce an
abolitionist says : "We thought we had
seen something of political eftrontery and
impudence iu the course of twenty years ;
but the attempt by the southern Scott press
to prove Genral Pierce an abolitionist is a
touch beyond the sublime in lieing a flight
unequalled by any Roorbach imagination
that ever fertilized the field of falsehood.
And then to pretend to prove this by the
most unscrupulous abolition prints that
ever blackened an honest man's reputation
prints that have applied every opprobri
ous term to General Pierce that malignity
could invent, in reyenge for his unswerv
ing opposition to all their incendiary
schemes is an effort at imposition that we
did not believe tho most desperate political
gamester would undertake."
MR WEBSTER'S POSITION DEFJNEp.
Mr Webster's position is at length' de
fined. ?Tlie Boston journals directly in
his interest have spoken by authority, f He
does not acquiesce in the nomination of
Gen. Scott. He despises the instruments
and the means by which it was accomplish
ed he hates the free soil and abolition
pack by whom he was hunted dowu4-he
scorns alike their blarney and their abfse,
ar.d stands out in open hostility to weir
nomination- lie occupies hardly thehle
bateable ground ot armed neutrality; for he
only waits to take the field at the summons
of his friends, upon an independent Uttion
and constitutional nomination, tie hot
only refuses to support Scott, but is will
ing and evidently desires, to try the issue
with nun, belore the people, ot persoial
availability. The authoritative statements
made in behalf of Mr Webster, simply
amount to a notice to his friends evsVy
wheTe, that if they organize a convention
and nominate him, he will accept the nom
ination and abide by it. - I
Now, what say the friends of Mr Web
ster in response to this manifest desire jto
civ-wiu uiwi-BiAv iiiwiui iiu v iiicj airj w
alternative now than to nominate hin
an independent national Union Candida
and,:if need be, run the election into
House of Representatives? Can.
thej
desert their mah, who has not he
compromise his fealty to the whig party;
for the sake of his friends, and tlitf conser
vative principles for which he and they
have been sacrificed, ' execrate and spit
upon." We apprehend that sincerity and
fair dealing towards Mr Webstel will ad
mit now of but one course on 6e part of
those into whose hands he has committed
his political fortunes; and that course is to
act, and harmonize, and combine, from
Maine to Georgia, and nominate him for
the Presidency, and do their besto eL-ct
him. Why not? What is therebinding
in the action of the Balilmore Contention?
If one party may "execrate and s-nt upon
the platlorm," is not the other sidethereby
absolved from all allegiance to ths nomi
nation? Is not this an incontrovertible
fact? Let the Union whigs, then act, at
once, and vindicate their principlesin vin
dicating the consistency and justict of the
position of Mr Webster.
The provocations of Mr Webster to re
sist the Baltimore nomination, are by no
means facticious or imaginary. For twen
ty years the whig party have deluded, him
with false promises. His great exertions
and personal sacrifices upon the Corgpro
mise measures of 1850 resulted, however,
in such large promises from Union inen,
South, North, East, and West, that Jif be
came perfectly confident, of securing the
Baltimore nomination. He was deceived
egregiously deceived he was deceved,
not only by the strong, inflexible phklnix
of "the higher law," but also by his friends.
His subsequent speech to the Mississippi
delegation at Washington, shows tke ex
tent of his disappointment and chagrin
They told him that his real strength in the
convention had never been developed, and
that a combination of adverse elements
prevented his friends of the South -Ikom
gomVog" uver "to Ins support. 3TF i vie if-"
ster rcgreted it, because the record of the
convention, which, in fifty-three ' ballots,
never carried him beyond some thirty votes,
would stand as a falsification of history;
and, to say the least of it, after having been
set aside, not only as long as Mr Clay was
deemed available, but also tor General
Harrison, because he was a general, and
for Gen. Taylor, because he was a general,
vas it not asking a little too much of Mr
Webster, at this very last possible chance
for himself, that he should again yield the
wall to Gen. Scott, because he was a gen
eral? all glory and gunpowder, all "fuss
and feathers, "all bayonets and bombshells
Was it in human nature to stand this
mockery any longer? Is it any wonder
that Mr Webster should revolt? What
can the Seward whig party give him for his
hopes defered till he has passed beyond the
grand climacteric of three score years and
ten? The party can make no atonement
for all this it has no remedy to offer. It
belongs to Mr Webster to right himself
to correct the record of the Baltimore Con
vention; and it belongs to the Union whig
conservatives to stand by him, to go with
him, and sustain him, independently of the
demoralized whig party. JY. . Herald.
SCOTT'S PROSPECTS IN TENNESSEE.
We learn from the Herald, published at
Columbia, Tennessee, that at a meeting of
the whigs of Knox county the following
among other resolutions were introduced by
William G. Swan, esq. :
Resolved, That, while we freely admit Gen.
Winfield Scott to be illustrious as a military
chieftain, and only as such, in view of political
associations and the manner in which his no
mination as a candidate for the presidency has
been achieved, we cannot but hesitate to yield
him our support
Resolved, That as Gen. Scott n.ia
tha rrpnit Vwtrli r f t ha notinnil nnncanritiua -ft
party, an exceptionable candidate, nominated by
men who would not and do not approve the whig
platform, we will hold ourselves in readiness to
support with zeal any candidate who is neither
unsound himself nor tainted by evil and corrupt
ing associations ; believing, as we do, that we
owe to our country a more sacred allegiance
than to the despotic rule claimed for political
conventions.
O. P. Temple, esq., then introduced,
as a substitute, counter resolutions, agree
ing to support Scott. The official account
thus describes the result :
Thereupon a motion was made to post
pone indefinitely Mr Temple's resolutions;
and a motion being made to adjourn, the
meeting refused to adjourn. The motion
to postpone being withdraw, the question,
in the midst of much confusien and disorder,
was put upon the adoption of Col. Tem
ple's substitute. The chairman being
unable to decide upon viva voce vote, the
meeting was requested to divide.
Great confusion and disorder prevailed
some cheering Scott, some Fillmore,
some Webster, some the whig platform
and a great many present neither voted for
the one or the other. In the midst of this
confusion, and .before the chairman could
announce the result of the vote, the. meet
ing adjourned.
REPUBLICAN WHIGS, READ
The Southern Patriot, published at
Greenville, S. C, contains the proceed
ing of a large public meeting, by which it
appears that Gen. Waddy Thompson, a
distinguished whig, formerly Minister to
Mexico, and a warm supporter of Fillmore's
administration, renounced Gen. Scott, in
consequence of his affiliation with the Seward
parly of abolitionists, and comes up cor
dially to the support of Gen. Pierce and
Col. King. In the proceedings of the meet
ing, signed by F. P. Brockman, Chairman,
and D. Hoke, Secretary, the following
notice of Gen. Thompson's speech is taken:
Gen. Waddy Thompson, said that, be
ing a member of the whig party, it was
perhaps not proper that he should address
the meeting, but that he could not forbear
paying a tribute to the worth of General
Pierce's private and public character, and
his faithfulness to the rights of the South
and the whole of the country. He said
that he admired Gen. Scott above most
men he had known, spoke of their inti
mate acquaintance, the purity of his life,
and his high, social, and moral virtues,
but that he feared he (Scott) had been
seduced within the influence of Northern
men who were hostile to the South, its in
terests and institutions, and he could not
obscibetQ tjie internal improvement arid
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad A special
meeting of the Stockholders of the Raleigh
and Gaston Railroad Company took place
at Henderson, on Thursday last, to take
into consideration the propriety and ex
pediency of authorizing the President and
Directors to negotiate.a loan not exceed
ing 100,000 for the purpose of equipping
the road with the necessary Locomotives,
Coaches and Cars, &c, and connecting
this road with the North Carolina Railroad.
The President and Directors make their
report, as also the Superintendent of the
road, showing fully the present condition
of the work, state of the finances, &c. ;
whereupon the Stockholders, by a unani
mous vote, authorized the proposed loan
on such terms as the President and Direc
tors might think proper. A majority of
the individual stock was represented, and
Li. O. B. Branch. Esq., represented the
State. Raleigh Register.
Wisconsin. A letter from Wisconsin,
to the New Hampshire Patriot, says:
"They say East that Scott will run well in
the West. I speak only for Wisconsin,
which is good for Pierce aud King by ten
thousand majority, beyond any conlingen-
SEIZURE OF AN AMERICAN FISHING
VESSEL.
Boston, July 24. By the arrival of the
steamer Admiral at this port this morning
we have New Brunswick papers to the
22d instant. They bring the intelligence
of the seizure on Tuesday, the 20th inst.,
of the American schooner llyadas, belong
ing to Lubec, Maine, by her Britannic
Majesty's ship Netley, for alleged fishing
the Bay of Fundy, and the vessel carried
into St. John's.
Washington, July 20 Mr Crampton,
the British Minister here, has gone to see
Mr Webster, now at his home in Mas
sachusetts, in reference to our fishing diffi
culty with the British provinces. It is
rumored that they will settle the question
over a chowder and a buttle of port.
Old Point. The company at the Hy
geia Hotel at present is very numerous,
very fashionable and very select. There
is no watering place in the country that
presents greater attractions. Whether we
consider the place itself or the facilities
for reaching it from all parts of the country,
it stands unrivalled.
An arrangement has just been made by
which through tickets to Old Point are is
sued at Washington, via the Bay Line from
Baltimore. The steamer Osceola besides,
makes two trips a week from Washington.
There are aU o daily lines of steamers from
Baltimore and Richmond; a weekly line
from New York and Philadelphia, and a
daily communication with North Carolina
and the South by Railroad to this city.
All these routes are of the first class, and
the fare is very moderate.
Jl Dream Ralized. Some time during
the past Summer, a stranger stopped at
one of the watering places on the muun
tains South of Wanesboro, Pa. After his
arrival there he was taken sick, and for
several days was apparently deranged.
On his recovery he informed the proprietor
of the house that, duringhis illness, he had
dreamed for three nights in succession, that
he had discovered at a certain distance in
I ihp mountain, under a rock, an earthen
crock, containing a large amount of silver.
At this the worthy host expressed his sur
prise, and spoke of it as a mystetious
dream.
Afterward, they were walking together
in that direction, when the dream was
again adverted to by the stranger and the
proprietor at once proposed an examina
tion to satisfy their curiosity. The rock
was soon found, and after carefully brush
ing the leaves away, it was removed, and
to their utter amazement, there set a crock
full of silver. They took it out and
conveyed it to the house, and on examina
it was found to contain g400, all in half
dollars, which was divided equally between
them.
The day after this discovery the strang
er was about to take leave of the mountain,
and complained to his friend, the proprie
tor of the springs, of the inconvenience of
carrying the silver, when an exchange
was proposed and made, the stranger receiv
ing bankable paper for his silver. It was not
long after bis departure, however, that the
proprietor made another discovery his
four hundred dollars in silver was coun
terfeit, and he had thus been ingeniously
swindled out of two hundred dollars.
Norwich Courier,
NORTH CAEQLIW1AN.
Robert K. Bryan, Kclitor and Proprietor
FAYETTE VIIilJE, N.C.
SATURDAY, JlYTi, 1852.
FOR PRESIDENT
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM1R. KLIICG,
. OF ALABAMA.
Election on Monday the 1st of November.
FOR GOVBRXOR,
DAVID S. REID, of Rockingham.
Election on Thursday the 5th of August.
OCT" Democratic Tickets for the ensuing
Governor's election may be obtained at this office
on application, at 50 cents per thousand.
The Election-
On Thursday next the freemen of North Caro
lina will be called on to elect a Governor for
the State and members of the Legislature. It
will be a most important election; for in it are
involved principles of the deepest importance,
principles on which depend to a very great ex
tent the safety and prosperity thiur State and of.
our country. It is for the ireeften of N. Carolina
to say whether they will, in he person ot Mr
Kerr the whig candidate for Governor, endorse
the old and exploded doctrines of tfee Whig
Party. Do they desire a tariff for protection,
by which Northern manufactories will be foster
ed at the expense of the agricultural interests
of the South ? Mr Kerr is a protectionist vote
for him. Do they want the the veto power re
duced so that a bare majority of the votes of the
two Houses of Congress will be sufficient to
overcome it, by which means the North will
have the complete ascendency in the Govern
ment? Mr Kerr is the supporter of Gen. Scott,
and he favors this reduction. Do they want the
patronage of the government dispensed among
the greedy followers of Seward and Horace
Greely ? Gen. Scott, whom Mr Kerr supports,
owes his nomination to these very men, and if
elected will undoubtedly bestow a large share
of the public offices on them.
Do the people of North Carolina desire to go
through the empty form ot voting on the ques
tion of calling a Convention, when it is certain
that their decision will not be binding on the
Legislature legally or morally ? Mr Kerr is for
the measure. Do they wish to express their
acquiescence in the doctrine tbat a bare numeri
cal majority have the right to rule in opposition
to the Constitution ? That is the result of Mr
Kerr's doctrine. Do they wish the present
basis of representation abolished? Mr Kerr's
doctrine that the majority of the voters have the
right to rule, will surely pave the way to that
result. It is true that Mr Kerr declares him
self in favor of the present basis. But he ad
vocates a doctrine which every reflecting man
must see, strikes at the very foundation of that
basis. He is, therefoie, either a very insincere
or a very short-sighted man. Neither is fit to
be Governor of North Carolina.
And what shall we say in behalf of David S.
Reid ? He needs no high-wrought eulogium at
our hands. For two years he has faithfully dis
charged the duties of the office of Governor.
Since his inauguration into that office he has done
nothing to forfeit the confidence of the people.
If he was worthy of their confidence then, he
ought now to be re-elected. Battling for the
principles of the Democratic Party, and especial
ly for Equal Suffrage, it becomes all Democrats,
all friends of Equal Suffrage, to sustain him in
this conflict.
If the people of North Carolina desire that
Free Suffrage should be enacted if they wish
the present basis of representation to be pre
served if they wish the guaranties of the Con
stitution, protecting the rights of minorities, to
be respected if they desire to cut loose from all
association with the supporters of Gen. Scott
(who, if elected, must owe it to abolitionists)
if they wish to place a good and tried man in
the Gubernatorial chair, RALLY TO THE
POLLS & ELECT DAVID S. REID.
And look to it that you send the right kind of
men to the Legislature. There will be the great
battle ground of Free Suffrage. A U. S. Senator
will be elected, and other matters of the great
est importance transacted. Let no divisions in
the democratic ranks bring about the election of
whigs. Concentrate your forces on those who
will represent your political sentiments, and
elect them if you can. Let the democrats
throughout the State but do their duty, and
Reid, Free-Suffrage and Democracy will have a
glorious triumph.
ELECTION RETURNS.
Our friends in the different counties are re
quested to transmit to us, by the earliest oppor
tunity, the election returns of their respective
Counties.
According to all rules of disputation, the
party who brings a charge is required to prove
-it. With regard to the " blanileaf " matter,
the Observer seems disposed to reverse the rule.
At any rate it is very careful not to attempt any
thing like proof of its assertion. The Observer
thinks the whole matter somewhat curious. We
don't. We have got so used to seeing whig pa
pers bring charges against democrats which they
could not sustain, that the spectacle has become
now a matter neither rare nor curious.
We learn from the Washington correspon
dence of the New York Tribune that " the
Whig members and the central committee of the
friends of Old Chepultepec continue to receive
the most flattering and cheering intelligence
from alt parts of the country, but more particu
larly from JVorth Carolina, Ohio and Indiana."
We infer from this that Gen. Scott's prospects
are probably as flattering in North Carolina
as they are anywhere. His must, therefore,
be a slim chance indeed. In North Carolina,
from the mountains to the seaboard, there is a
vide spread defection in the Whig ranks.
Already have two leading and influential journals
of that Party declared their determination not to
support Gen. Sctt, and many gentlemen of the
highest respectability in that party have an.
nounced the same determination. If North
Carolina is to be set down at the head of the list
of States in which Gen. Scott's chances are very
flattering, the result of the election is not very
problematical ...
THE ENSUING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The ensuing Presidential election is one of the
most important that the people of this country
have ever been called on to decide. It is in our
judgment a question of union or ultimate dis
union a question whether the existence of this
glorious confederacy shall be perpetuated, or
whether it shall ere long crumble into frag
ments. Involving this vital issue, it demands
at the hands of the people a calm and impartial
consideration, independent of any mere question
of party success. - -
Previous to the nomination of General Scott,
southern whigs were loud in their protestations
that he could not be regarded as a safe man for
the South, on account of his close connexion
with and dependence on Seward and his coadju
tors. Has this objection ever been removed? Is
not Gen. Scott as closely connected with that
hateful division of whig abolitionists as ever?..
Have not his obligations to them been rather in
creased by the circumstance of his owing his
nomination to their pertinacious eflorts in his
behalf? If elected, wiil he not owe his election
mainly to them ? and has he not already declared
in his letter of acceptance, not expressly, but by
implication, that they shall come in for a full
share of the loaves and the fishes ? If Gen. Scott
was objectionable to southern whigs before his
nomination, we ask, in view of these facts, if lie
is not now equally objectionable ? If he has Hone
anything which hs iftaterMlly changed his posii
tion and obviated those objections which were
justly entertained by the whigs of the South, we
'should like to he informed what it is. lie per
sisted in maintaining silence on the subject of
the Fugitive Slave Law until his nomination,
and when by that nomination he was put to
his election either to reject it or to acqui
esce in the whig platform, he chose the
latter, but took good care that his language
should be sufficiently cold and guarded as not
to oMend the sensibilities of his abolition allies.
If elected, there can be no doubt that Gen. Scott
would till the public offices with hordes of abo
litionists. He has himself said as much in his
letter of acceptance. That hateful party would
thus be encouraged. Are the whigs of the South
prepared to give them aid and comfort? Are
they prepared to reward the assassins who would
stab to the heart the glorious Confederacy built
up by the wisdom and cemented by the blood of
a venerated ancestry ? If so, let them elect
Winfield Scott. His election would be hailed
by the abolitionists as an auspicious event, fore
shadowing the extinction of slavery, and would
incite them to renewed eflorts.
And whom are those southern men opposing
who advocate the election of Gen. Scott? A
man who has under all circumstances shown
himself a friend to the Constitutional lights of
the South a man who has manfully battled v ith
Free-soilsm in its stronghold at the North, and
who, in that contest, came out victorious. Will
the people of the South inflict an injury upon
themselves by assisting in putting down a man
who ho3 proved himself their friend? by elevat
ing a man whose councils will be governfd to
a great extent by their bitterest enemies ? Let
them answer at the ballot box.
Jd- The w hig papers .have, upon the authority
of two abolition sheets, accused Gen. Pierce of
expressing sentiments of repugnance and loath
rngTorVne rirgiVive 6Yuv? iaw." WTTaC will they
say then in reply to the following little scrap of
intelligence :
Gen. Scolt gone over to Seward bodily.
The whigs of Ohio held a Uatilication
meeting at Ravenna on the 10th instant.
The Scott Club at that place was addressed
at night by the Hon. Daniel R. Tilden, a
Whig free soiler, who ii. the course of his
speech, introduced and read a letter just
received from Hon. B. F. Wade, Whig
Senator at Washington, in which Senatur
Wade writes:
66 I Iiavc this day liart a con
versation witli ficn. Scott, in
wliicli lie declared, lie would
sooner cut off liis right hand
than lend it to the support of
slavery'
The authority upon which these sentiments
in regard to slavery is attributed to Gen. Scott
is, we admit, abolition authority, but will it not
be pronounced good by all whig journals who
have circulated the slander above alluded to
against Gen. Pierce? We shall see whether
they will prove themselves consistent or not.
GEN. SCOTT BEFORE AND AFTER HIS
NOMINATION.
Before the nomination of Gen. Scott for the
office of the Presidency, there seemed to be a
well-settled conviction among southern whigs
that his non-committalism in regard to those
issues arising out of the slavery agitation would
render hi3 nomination by the Whig National
Convention highly improper and altogether dan
gerous to the interests of the southern people.
When it was declared that the policy of Gen.
Scott was to write no letter on public questions
unless the Whig National Convention should of
fer him the nomination far the Presidency,
southern whig journals intimated pretty strong
ly that such a course would prevent the whijis
of the South from giving him their support. We
submit an extract from the editorial correspon
dence of the Petersburg Intelligencer, a whig
paper, whose editor was at the time of this writ
ing an active member of the Whig National Con
vention :
"One of our Delegation, it is said, received a
telegraphic dispatch yesterday morning from
Gen. Scott, stating that if nominated he would
express his opinions. When this report was
noised about among the Southern members, there
was an almost universal exclamation of
" too late," "too late." Every southern State is
represented here, and many of them by distin
guished and intelligent men, from all of whom.
I learn that Gen. Seott cannot, under any
circumstances, get a single southern electoral
vote, and that the effect of his nomination would
be to break up the Whig Party at the South."
It was then almost the universal opinion
among the southern whig members of the Con
vention that if Gen. Scott waited until he re
ceiyed the nomination, any expression of opin
ion by him, however sound aud proper in itself,
would then be too late." Gen. Scott main
tained a dogged silence until after he received
the nomination, when he expressed a frigid ac
quiescence in the Platform of the Whig Conven
tion, carefully avoiding any expression which
might seem to denote that be cordially endorsed
a series of resolutions, one of which (that in re
ation to the Compromise) was to distasteful to