Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-08-07
Gen. Scott and the Mississippi Delegates.

We find in the last Vicksburg Wing detailed his
tory of the visit Gen Scott by the delegates to the
Wing National Convention from Mississippi. This
visit detailed by the Hon. D. w. Adams, of Kinds
county, very circumstana and therefore, very sug-
gestve 1t appears that the delegates stated to the
General that they voted for Mr.. Fillmore ty-three
times, &c. &c. and that to this address the General
replied follows
Il feel gratifed, gentlemen, at the unexpected
call, and am glad to see before me the accredited
men of Mississippi. The nomination which has
been conferred upon me by the convention of which
you were members, is an honor greater than | de-
serve and whether defeated or elected, l shall al
ways regard it as the highest compliment which
could be bestowed upon me, and as more than re-
paying me for the little service | have rendered
my country. l am well pleased, too, gentlemen
with the platform you have adopted it meets my
hearty and cordial approval and let me assure
you, gentlemen, that this is new born faith with
me. Years ago | entertained the sentiments ex-
pressed in that platform on the subject of South
ern rights. [ can assure you that was one of the
first to give in my hearty and cordial approval
and endorsement of those measures, when they
were before Congress. There were but two others
ahead of me in point of time in their advocacy
and approval of those measures-I mean Mr..
Clay and Senator Foote, of your State. AS early
as 1850, when first brought before Congress,
openly avowed myself the friend of those meas
ures, and then, and SINCE as many think as an
average of FIVE times a day. have | openly and
publicly declared my sentiments to every man, wo-
man and child who has approached me on the sub
Ject. have not sought nor have desired any
concealment of my views and opinions in refer
enee to them, and it is matter of profound aston
ishment and regret to me that my sentiments have
been so grossly misrepresented, and that | have
been made the subject of such unjust and mali
cious SANDER My name has been coupled with
that of Mr.. VIM. II. Seward, and | have been
charged with entertaining sentiments in common
with him in reference to Southern institutions
Nothing can be more unjust and false. 1t is true
am personally acquainted with Mr. Seward, and
that he is personally my friend, but not
sponsible for his peculiar sentiments, those Of
any other man who may proper to support me,
and living knows better than he what my
opinion are and always have been. | made his
acquaintance some time in the year Sc Z. |
had not met with him, correspondent with or in
terchanged communication with him, however du-
ring the interval from the year AZ to So In the
latter year. during the pending ofthe compromise
measures before Congress, met with him in trav-
cling through New Jersey He approached me
upon the subject of those measures, and asked my
opinion in reference thereto. | replied to him in
these words Sir. am dead for the Constitution
| dead for the Union-dead for the Compromise
and dead against any man who is opposed to
them or either of them The language used by
myself on that occasion SO positive and en-
phatic that in aludng 10 it since, for he well re-
members the conversation, he has even charged
me with rudeness.''
Without intending to question the accuracy of this
reply, which the reader will note is quite long, very
explicit, and remarkably crcumstantial we must be
permitted to ask whether it was taken down by Ste
nographer at the time did the delegates write it
out after they left the presence Of Gen. Scott relying upon
their memory of what be did say on the occasiona 1t
very natural presume that this address was drawn
up from memory for there is nothing in it to prove the
reverse, and lift was drawn up, may be stated IN
general terms, that the Mississippi delegation was
composed ofvery remarkable men-men whose mem
org may well pass into miracle if not fable This
speech purports to be exact in words, and it will