Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-10-15
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GEN. SCOTT AND THE PRESIDENCY.

GEN. SCOTT AND THE PRESIDENCY.
Gen. SCOTS chances for the Wing nomination for
the Presidency, are increasing every day. Sew
ard is for him, and he is strongly sustained by the
anti-Slavery influences and sympathes in the free
States. Many of the Southern Wings, it is .rue are
making demonstrations for Fillmore; but they will
be voted down and silenced in their National Con-
vention.
The New York Herald, neutral paper, gives the
following sketch of the Generals position, based
upon letter Of his copied below, written in March
last:
Gen. Seot's position dsfned-More |etter ,Driting.
The following highly important and characteristic
letter from Gen. Scott will be read with uncommon
that eight members of the Pennsy lvania Senate
sed letter to be written to the General early last
spring, as the undoubted whig candidate for 1852,
WASHINGTON, March &c, 1851.
SIR: have received your letter, (marked I" con-
6dential, ~ in which, after committing the of
supposing to be fully before the country the
whg candidate for the presidency" you proceed to
interrogate me in many points of grave public inte
rest.
bly, only have whig candidate for the presidency
through national convention, and that cannot be
its nominee except by the force of the unsolicited
paltality of large masses of my countrymen-
Considering, also, that, if my character or prnci-
pies be not already known, it would be idle to at
tempt to supply the deficient impression By mere pa
per professions Of wisdom and virtue made for the
occasion
And considering that if answer your queries, l
must 60 on and answer others already before me. as
we'll the long series that would inevitably follow,
to the disgust of the public
will beg permission to close this acknowledge
ment Of your letter by subscribing myself with great
WINFIELD SCOTT.
~, Esq. Harrisburg, Pa.
P. S. must add that write and say nothing on
public subjects which am unwilling to see pub
lished. w. S.
The identical platform of Gen. Taylor, with all
the modern Improvements Experience is the mother
of wisdom. Gen. Scotts experience in letter.writ-
ing satia6es him that if he renewed that line of bu
sness, ga long series would inevitably follow, to
the disgust Of the public, and so he bows himself
out " with great respect. your obedent servant"
The fire in the rear of the Mexican war, the ''has
ty plate of soup, the regular pitched battle with
writing is not worth the CANDLE Considering the
aforesaid experiments, the brave old General is gen.
era enough to avoid such ambuscadng for the future.
He says: considering, also, that if his character
principles be not already KNOWN it would be idle
supply the deficient information by paper pro-
no such folly for the future.
But there are also other considerations. In the
letter Of November 10, l84l, to George Washington
Reed and others, of Philadelphia, Gen. Scott says:
Il now hesitate between extending the period Of
residence before naturalization and total repeal OF
all acts Of Congress on the subject. My mind in
clines to the latter
That is to say, between requiring naturalization
of twenty-one years and the total exclusion forever
of the alien from the right to vote, the mind of the
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ing this declaration, it is important to know whether
the General sticks to it abandonsi it. Considering
also the sweeping character of this declaration, MOTH
ing short of new letter this subject will Go. But
again:
ter inclining to the annexation of Canada and
sidering that he is put forward the champion
of the free-so faction of the North for the presden-
cy, one or two additional letters would seem indis-
pensable to place the hero of Mexico upon proper
for consent, what will the French, English Scotch,
Irsh Dutch and other adopted citizens do with the
author of that dreadful letter of 1S4l! No, no !!
Gen. Scott must yet write one or two explanatory let
ters and unless he does that, the Reed letter will
ruin him. hat are his present opinions of ad-
opted citizens! That's the question. -
We agree with the Herald that the General will
be obliged to write. He cannot avoid it. What will
he do with his letter in favor of anncxng Canada.
and against any more Southern territory! And wha'
with his letter arguing against Slavery as an evil
And what with his letter. written under much excite.
ment some years since, in which he proposed by one
broad sweep virtually to prohibit the French, Eng
glish Scotch, Irish, Dutch and other adopted cit'
zens from voting! Depend upon it the General and
his friends will find in these things something worth
considering. :" in case he should be the Whg nom
nee.
SLAVE CASES AT HARRISBURG.
The Harrisburg Keystone gives the following graf
flying account of some fugitive slave cases in tina