The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-30

ry, and that he courageoosly volunteered, with
many other brave spirits, to serve his country
From what we know of him, he is also a man gen
orally respected by those who know him. Allow
all this; and we think this is fully as much as Mr.
Haw thorne has made out; and yet IL ID not proved
| to US that Franklin Pierce is a man Of sufficient
cabre to be elected TO the rulershp OF this great
people.
Our author speaks glowingly Of the man Who
left his civil and peaceful pursuits to take up arms
for his country; and, in truth, citizen soldier Is
IA proud title. But il seems to US equally sublime
To old and tried veteran Of the camp lay
aside his rms, assume the civilians garb, and con
duct, with wisdom, the most intricate and elaborate
| civil negotiations. MIR. Monroe--it is a matter of
history-took Winfield Scott from his military post
and sent him to Europe to learn what to be the
| conduct Of the continental governments as to the
South American States. Here case in which
| the incest Judgment to be exercised, and
the incest discrimination. He carried IL through,
| and MIR. Monroe's letter Of high commentator
| is still preserved. He was sent by Jackson to
calm the Nullifers in South Carolina, and he
| performed it well and truly. Like success crowned
his mission TO the northern frontier And many
other cases like these might be produced where
| Winfield Scott has laid aside the soldier, and
| william has, with wisdom, discretion, and judg
| ment, successfully completed the most arduous
| negotiations, such Franklin Pierce has never
had occasion to grApple with in the whole course
| OF his much-vaunted political career. We defy
| his friends to dsprove this statement
Once more MIR. Hawthorne says his nine years
in Congress we're like school for him, in which
his views and feelings nationalired and purged
from all sectionalisms whatever. 1t is the first time
have heard Of the halls OF Congress serving
this useful purpose since slavery has been agitated
1t is there that sectional feeling is from every
quarter in its rifest forms; and MIR. Pierce was
more likely to have his northern prejudices
| frmed and strengthened by the intercourse.
A decidedly better shoot for this kind of instruc-
| ton is the army. There, above all other places,
are sections forgotten. Regular soldiers stand
there, shoulder to shoulder, and no man cares what
| is his neighbor's comrades State or section. The
| only inquiry is, does he belong to common
America? Winfield Scott has been identified with
| this army since the time of Mr.. Madison. Over
and over again he has led it; over and over again
he has fought with it, North, South, East and
West, with soldiers from every Section under the
common flag of our Union. If an one be thorough
ly Americanzed, it must be this old hero, who has
| never known defeat.
| Who is looked for the future President of this
great empire? Will any moderate. sized politician
serve turn? Is all we want man of good sound
sense and of common honesty? If so, Franklin
Pierce, and thousand others we could find, would
be sufficient for u.s. But, in seeking for an &C.
cupant for this high office, we must search
| for man of great force and breadth and scope Of
mind-for of tried couragc-for one of the
| highest integrity-whose character has come out of
many severe ordeaIs pure and unscathed Such
character find in Winfield Scott. His enemies
allow he is perhaps the greatest captain alive; yet
they pretend to deny him any qualifications for
civil business. This is contrary TO the philosophy
of the human mind. man who can rise to the
| highest emincnce in the art military-who
plan battles under all circumstances and against
| all manner of cnemies-a man who has planned
| and fought and gloriously won many and many
| conflict-such an one, would say, is man Of
| vast intellectual power, and OF capacity for i'm
mense mental excrtion, in any sphere. But Cen
eral Scott has shown himself a civilian; and his
long familiarity with the forms and practical
workings of our Government render him as fami
liar with its Constitution almost any living
man. His tried valor ii is not necessary to speak
of; no more need we dilate on his onfnching in
tegrity, that has left his hands pure after the
continuous stream of treasure that has passed
through them, has reached it's rghtful destination.
No scrutiny be too severe, no investigation too
strict for his good fame and his untarnished name
His whole career marks him out prc-eminenty
man; man of force, of true power, "of genu
| inc ability" of well-tesed integrity.
II remains yet few weeks to be seen whether
the American people will reward his incalculable
services in one line of duty, by employing his pow
ers in another-or will call to their chair of State
man who till lately was lost in the crowd of other
ordinary individuals, and whose chief merit is his
obscurity.
OF Mr.. Hawthorne's talents and success q
life-w writer it is almost unfair to judge from this
frst effort. Just from his romances-accustomed
to endeavors draw his characters perfect in their
way-he has laid down standard of politician
and statesman, and has striven to write up Frank
lin Pierce thereto He has entered into it with all
the fervor of novelist, partisan, and friend.
He is evidently too much wrapped up in his hero
to be able to judge impartially and honestly of
facts. His efforts to make up for what Mr.. Pierce
has not left on the page of history, by declaiming
against certain latent power in him, ia snguarly
unfortunate; and, we said before, he has only
made him out, at best, to be a man of fair parts,
but not of great powers"
In conclusion, we think this general remark is
applicable to the Champaign Biographies" that
are every day appearing Those of General Pierce
embrace all of his actions, civil and military, that
| it ia possible to find, besides much editorial de-
clamaton. Those of General Scott are character
lied by effort to compress in reasonable space
list of deeds that volumes would not exhaust, so
as to say a word two at least of the most promi
| nent among them.
His narrative portions are lively and entertain
ing, but his differences betray mind unaccustom.
ed to such speculations, and his reflections mat
tiers of political philosophy are often weak and
| baseless
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to be able to state that the work this road is ad
vancipg with great rapidly. The engineer en-
gagged in laying the railroad track has completed
his work this side Of the great tunnel, about one
| hundred and sixty miles beyond Cumberland, and