Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-10-26

"Resolved THAT GENERAL WINFIELD ScoTT WE REcoo.
SIzE PATRloT," &c.
True all this might have happened and you have had
thing do with it, Knowledge Of it, but the wri.
ter does stop there but brings both the knowledge and
the appruba ton OF quite home 10 Won. Henri him =
"Thu the political principles protessed by Cen Scott al
the time covered by these proceedings were strictly iden
ca with those indicated by his and by the resolutions
above quoted there is The most abundant and irreagabc
proof He received and read "lhe SUM- regularly, and il
The only out and out Scott paper in the United States
&c "6ut he visited this city nchesic in that year 10 look
after his presidential interests in He sent for the
prominent members of the Scott organizaton and they
accordingly called upon him al the Eagle Hotel He there
expressed them dsnciy and eupdticaHy his unqualified
appreciation Of the choe Increment by nhch he had been put
forrard Democratic candidate for The Presdency and
he urged them to pcrscrcr and dectared in the iedrmest
terms his gratitude 10 these gentlemen for rhat They had
done for him" &c.
He stated them without ceuivocation reservation,
that HE WAS DEMocRAT, HAD ALWAYS BEEN a DEMOCRAT;
THAT SUSTAINED ASp EVERY DEMOCRATIC
ADMINISTRATIONS SINCE FIELD ACTION
THAT HE LOOKED To THAT PARTY FOR HIS POLITICAL
AND THAT ITS PRINCIPLES WERE HIS PRINCIPLES
"These facts Gen Scott will not have the hadhood TO
deny They vouchcd for by whose integrity will
Their at the service of any body who wishes 10
enquire as 10 their credbility. II will be found unim
peachube the documentary evidence which comedies with
and curroborates their testimony"
The writer describes your foregoing avowa Of Democratic
principles being very satisfactory the Democracy Of
Rochester, and had you stopped there that they would
went many steps further 10 your own andaon and ir.
etriev3y ovedd and spoiled everything when you told
them mat you had carried Gen. Jacssons administration
thrOH"h your back ~
Heuv-n help you General What blasting ndscretion
was hcr Why these people adored and almost woshpped
the Oh: Hero the greatest of dead living statesmen
and ne told. that he had needed your help carry
hrouc his admnistrution-and while he the man OF Iron
rye, still alive the Hermitage, with muscle brawn
ind bones enough still left him. to have horne whole polt
caI Moun, Atlas bis shouder-why, it quite
much for them They regarded the presumpuous annoy
of the assumption hardly less amazing and often
sive than garng PROCLAMATION of the truth OF history
wonder they you in marvel and aazemen and
with instructive and simultaneous conslernaon they stan,
peded and never stopped take breath unit, they had
bounced back Into The folds OF the real Democracy And
thus ended your first striving for the Presidency.
Nothing daunted, however, under this discontinue YOU
rallied your energies and appliances with prompute
more and piled them defy and amain bur this Time
among the DEMOCRATS, but among the WHO'S. Thus.
In 1870 you candidate for nomination before The
Wing National Convention, which assembled Harrisburg
Pa, May of shat year. need oirr no proof OF this be-
II is known every body WE'LL you mustered there
10 considerable strength but you had recently from
your daiance and embraces wiki the democracy Roches
ter scarcely nine months having elapsed tina, fell below
that Of either Of your competitors Resolving however
that The mory prestige should not be los, sight Of you
dexteousy wheeled into column with your military compe
and contrivng among 10 the melee shuttle old
Harry Clay down the bottom of the pack up turned