Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-10-13
From the Baltimore Patriot
The Opposition 10 Gen. Scott.


The Opposition 40 Gen. scott.
II is something for the friends of Gen Scott
to boast Of, that, in the ranks Of his opponents,
are found the extreme of the Free Soil party OF
tho North. and Secession party Of the SoLth--
the former led on by no less parsonage than
Martin Van Buren,, and the latter by Mr. Sene-
tor Soule, Of Louisiana. There is this difference
however. In their objectionable Fee Soil
factionhave never ventnredt TO attack Gen. Scott
on the ground Of his opinions being even doubt
ful on the Compromise-they attack him and
oppose INN because as the Boston Common
wealth (the leading journal Of the party in tho
New England States) well insists, he Is proven
to have been more en- phatically IN favor of
those measures ihan Gen Pierce, and mny
more securely be reli ID on to uphold and sup
port them.
The Free Soil faction are honest in this
they do Gen Scott but simple justice in so OPP
posing him. aud their opposition ought TO re-
commend him 10 the friends of the Union eve y
where. And yet Mr. SouIe, and others Of his
school, arc uniting with these Free Soilers to
defeat Gen. SCOTS election, they insisting, In
the face ofihesc words OF the Free soilers, that
Gen. Scott is mol sound On the Compromised
But We do M. Soule injustice in thus rank
ing him among the friends Of the Union. He
Is Scces,onlst, an opponent OF the Union as
1t is-nnd. therefore, his opposition 10 Gen.
Scott, who Is prepared to risk lis all for the
perpetuation Of that Union, is natural, and can
only be ascribed, from the motive that controls
him, TO his unfriendliness 10 the union. When,
however, he deceves his own mnd-we must
suppose that it is NOT mere aliectaton-nto
the belief that Gen. Scottis not the man that
the South can rely on. in any emergency that
may arise involving her constitutional ri his.
he puts himself against the record of facts, and
undertakes 70 mpugn the testimony of men of
the South, who have shown Ivy their whole
lives TINT they deserve the confidence of that
people, and have received it.
The public mind at the South. which for a
time seemed TO be disturbed and unsettled by
the bold face with which these imputa tons
upon Gen. Scott were mnde, has patiently III
vestigated the facts for ITSELF and we SEQ the
result in the enthusiasm and earnestness with
which Gen. SCOTS election is now supported
IN States, where, but two months ago. his OPP
ponents boosted that he had nothing to expect.
How this feeling is showing itself we have
gratifying evidence in letter from Senator
Motion, Of Florida. addressed to the Wings of
that State. Senator Morton, when lie wrote
the letter, was in Washington, and after de-
monstrating by argument and an array of facts
that the South would be doing injury to itself
| fit did not vote for Gcn.Scott, he then speaks
of the prospect before us:
1t affords me much qualification to assure
you that at this place, the great focus of inlor-
nation, We receive from NIL sections of the
Union the most cheering news as to the pros
poet of the election oil our ticket The spirit
Of 40 and iS animates the Wings of sill sec.
tons of the country; dssensions if any there
were, have been healed personal jealouses
have been buried aud forgotten; their march is
onward to success in the pending canvass, with
the watch.words. "the Union of the Wings for
he sake of the Union"
, Thus is it, there is an Union of the Wings for
4 he sake Of the Union, and they will triumph
rs they did in 1910 and lS4S.