The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-09-02

Gen. Scott as a Civilian--In favor of the
old Land distribution bill, United states
AS General Scott has become the whig candi-
date for the presidency, (by small majority,)
his fitness for that highest cica station on earth
becomes a matter of most serious inouiry.-
With his character general we have nothing
to do. As commander of our armies he has
been successful, and SO, as a general thing, have
all other commanders of our American troops
1t it would be important to canvass the merits
chief command of our armies in time of war, it
certainly is imperative on the American people
now to seriously examine the claims of an ex-
clusively military man who aspires to the chief
directorship of the civil affairs of our nation
General Scott's name has several times been
mentioned in connexion with the presidency,
when the whig party have been casting about
for purely an available candidate, and as often
has the old General sat down and in s'haste''
scribbled his opinions to somebody. Last Oc-
tober, the 9th day, he issued from Washington
a.-general circular in answer to numerous ques-
tions giving his views civil affairs IN extenso.
We shall from time to time make extracts from
lugu6rious document. For the present we will
give our readers his views in his words on
stland distribution s'bankrupt law" and a GU
nited States Bank
Extract from the Circular.
"Leading measures of the late extra session.-IfI
had the honor of vote on the occasion, it would
have been given in favor Of the land distribution
III fIo
ting fiscal co7poration-baving long been under
a conviction that in peace, as in war, something
efficient in the nature of Bank of the United
States, is not only necessary and proper" but
Indispensable to the successful operations of the
treasury, as to many of the wants of our
commerce and currency.
WINFIELD SCOTT"
Here we have it. The extra session referred
to was that called soon after the coon campaign
of 1S4O at which an sold-fashioned United
States bank was attempted to be thrust upon
the country but was three times vetoed, in diff
ferent shapes and under Gifferentnames by John
Tyler s'Land distribution" was one of the
same nefarious Schemes measure to arrest
the increase of new States by giving the monop-
poly of the public lands To the old States, cut
ting off all homestead bills and all revenue ari-
sing therefrom to the ganeral government. The
ssbankrupt law" got up for the benefit of stock
iiobbers, defunct bankers, and unsuccessful spec
ulators, which did more to doom and damn
that administration than all other schemes put
together measure OF general reputation
which even now stinksi in the nostrils Of the
people-to this now, or as late as last October,
1S41, Gen. Scott gives his entire sanction.
| This is all the democraicsparty want to know
of Gen. Scott's ideas Of civil government. A
ranker blue -bellied old federalist and fogy does
fs haR h. spe tbs he9sss opinion of
him, as expressed in private lester 10 friend
just before the Whig Convention in 1S48. The
extract reads thus
s'Send a delegate to the convention, if you
can, for Clay if not for Clay, for COrwin /; if
not for Corwin, for Seward; if not for Seward,
for Taylor. But last of all for Scott. Scott is
a.vain, conceited coxcomb of a man. His brains
all that he has-are in his epaulets; and if
he should be elected President, he would tear
the whig party into tatters in less than six
months. "-C CleaUeland Plaidealer.