Weekly North Carolina Standard

THE SCOTT GAME.

The New York Tribune, a leading Whig paper, holds the following language in relation to General Scott and the proposed National Whig Convention:

"We do not believe there need be any Whig National Convention held: we believe any one which may be held will be productive of mischief alone.—All the States which are likely to go Whig at all—including Kentucky and Tennessee—will nominate Winfield Scott by State conventions, if necessary, and choose electors to vote for him. And no matter how the delegates to a Whig National Convention may be chosen, it will nominate Gen. Scott for President. Such a convention may do sundry foolish and mischievous things—things calculated to embarrass the party in the canvass and reduce Gen. Scott's majority—but no convention can be got together of which a majority will vote to run the ship on the rocks when they might just as well carry her gallantly into port with the signal of triumph streaming at the mast head."

It is here distinctly stated that there is no need of a Whig National Convention—that the thing has already been determined by the Whigs of the free States, who have the strength—that a Convention, Gen. Scott having been finally settled on as the Whig nominee, would be productive of nothing but "mischief," and might diminish his vote; and the Southern Whigs are coolly told that they must take the medicine just as it has been prepared for them. Will they do it? Time will show.