North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-24
SCOTT AND FILLMORE

A correspondent of the New York Herald Css w.
nondae Springs Va, thus happily hits off the rapid
~ succeeding pilgrimage of these distinguished Pres
DENTAL candidates to the Old Dominion. The writer
holds spirited and free pen, but the good and
humor OF his sPeculatons do away with any objec-
lions to certain expressions which far from
being understood as willing to endorse:
Seen Scott, ast'week, passed up the Valley on his
is long and tedious journey of stage riding, for
late in the season. Two hundred and fifty miles
olng in stage coach, for days benefit of White
Sulphur water, in September would hardly pay. The
inducement of the journey must be commensurate
with the enterprise. We have suspect that
Gen. Scott is candidate for the Presidency. Good
| Wings Scott Wings, if they can INVOKE him from
Gov. Seward, do say that the General takes little
fattery about the Presidency very kindy-that he
talks as comPlacenty the subject Gen. Sam
Houston, just as if his nomination affair pre-
determined, and his election thing, provided
always that the party can be united and they further
say that Gen. Scott deeply regrets the dissentions
existing in the wing party, and the continued agia-
tion of the niger question: it is very natural that
he should. But the way in which the Highland
Chief has been following in the wake of President
tillmore's Virginia pleasure excursions is little Gu
rious.
A fortnight ago, Gen. Scott was luxuriating upon
salt water, hog fish, and tie smiles of the ladies',
Old Point Comfort. The President there last
July. Now we find the General-in-C Chief passing up
the Valley of Virginia. and received a lion of the
first magnitude, name and all, at the White Sulphur.
near Winchester, and at Winchester, and New
Market, In the tenth legion, among the Suabian
Duch and at Harrissonburg, and at Stanton espe-
cIaliy; indeed, all the way Greenbrer up the val
ley, among the descendants of the Cavaliers, and the
wIry-mbed Scotch Irish, and the sturdy Germans,
famous for their fine FARMS cabbage and sour-krout
and buxom daughters, and those 1.-the and powerful
seven feet mountainers in word all the way the
real White Sulphur Of Greenbrier, Gen. Scott
to have covered the tracks of the Commande-in-
Chief Of the Army and Navy, and neutrallized all
the advantages promised to Mr.. Fillmore from his
journey.
General Scott will get great deal of useful infor
uIatlon at the White Sulphur. This summer more
than at preceding those Springs have been the re-
sort of Southern pleasure-seekers, particularly the
fiery secessonists of South Carolina, Georgia, Alaba
ma, and Mississippi Some of them still here ;
and few conversations with of these leading
spirits will post up completely Southern
wings, North and South, in the grand steeple chase
General, into the heart of Virginia. will do much pu
him recfus an curia in his native State. But what
will it all avail? The State is democratc-the storm
of 1876 did not change her and when the con-
stitution is ratified by the people, as il will be next
month, by sweeping majority, and the popular vote
is thus increased by the addition of some 25 900,
what can the wings expect but increase of the
jority against them! Yet the of Virginia may
be worth contending for in wing convention, if
they have convention; and this may account for the
industry with which General Scott is tracking the
President. Through political spectacles this
wild goose chase is curious affair." On both sides,
we fear, it will be - loves labor lost.''