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and of the "conservative and efficient" administration, as the Whigs
of Harrison County put it, of Millard Fillmore. In addition to
Unionism, compromise, and Fillmore, Texas Whigs endorsed federal
internal improvements, state chartering of banks, liquidation of the
national debt, and, less often, the protective tariff. The Texas State
Gazette concluded, "This shows that Texas Whigery [sic] is no coun-
terfeit, but that it is indeed and in fact 'the same old coon,' alive and
ready to fight vigorously for its ancient creed.""
The national convention turned into a three-way struggle among
Fillmore, Daniel Webster, and General Winfield Scott. The Texas
delegation, like the great majority of southern Whigs, supported Fill-
more to the end and were disappointed when Scott received the nom-
ination on the fifty-third ballot. Southern delegations then promised
to support Scott and William Graham of North Carolina, the vice-
presidential nominee, but they were fearful of Scott's friendship with
William Seward and antislavery elements and his refusal to endorse
unequivocally the platform supporting the Compromise of 1850."a
The Galveston Journal and the Marshall Star State Patriot endorsed
Scott and Graham and sought to direct their readers' attention to the
Whig policy of compromise, to their party's emphasis on internal im-
provements such as harbor development at Galveston, and to the need
for tariff protection for such southern interests as sugar production."
Almost immediately, however, the Democratic press began to charge
that Scott was nothing more than a military man and an abolitionist
as well. The antislavery reputation of the northern Whigs who had
nominated Scott gave strength to this charge against him."' The Texas
,Whigs suffered a serious blow in late July when John B. Ashe refused
to serve as an elector primarily on the grounds that Scott was for free
soil and was lukewarm on the compromise. Ashe was replaced by B. F.
Caruthers of Travis County on the electoral ticket."
80Winkler, Platforms of Parties in Texas, 52-53; Marshall Star State Patriot, March 27,
1852.
1Austin Texas State Gazette, May 22, 1852.
82Cole, Whig Party in the South, 245-261; Washington National Intelligencer, June
17, 19, 22, 1852; Houston Weekly Telegraph, July 2, 1852.
88Galveston Journal, July 2, 6, 1852; Marshall Star State Patriot, July 3, 1852.
"Austin Texas State Gazette, July 3, lo, 1852; San Antonio Ledger, July 8, 1852;
Marshall Texas Republican, July 24, 31, September 1o, October g, 1852.
3"Austin Southwestern American, October 13, 1852; Marshall Texas Republican, Octo-
ber 23, 1852. According to Winkler, Platforms of Parties in Texas, 29 n. 6, James Reily
also refused to serve on the Whig electoral ticket because of Scott's antislavery connec-
tions. He was replaced by J. E. Kirby of Austin County. So the party wound up with
the 4 electors named originally at Tyler. Galveston Journal, October 1, 1852.
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