Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-08-26
no 81.

: who voted against the PLATFORM, VINO
trampled upon it and sdorned it,
raised th ! shout Of exultation. Sc
ward himself issued lis circular to
! them congratulating them ''that in
voting for Scott, they had preserved
fidelity to him and to their sacred
f principles of freedom and toleration. "
What did Seward mean in this ex-
ulting eongratulation? Why should
they be faithful to Scott? Because
he had been faithful to them in not
coming out publicly against them as
Fillmore and Webster had done
How had they been faithful to their
principles Of freedom and liberation?
BY voting against the fugitive slave
bill as put down in the platform =
Here is the true key to unlock the
secret connection between the aboh-
ton party and Gen. Scott, He need
ed their votes to outnumber blr.
Fillmore and Mr. Webster in the
convention, and they needed lis
great name and reputation to drag
them upward to the level Of one Of
the regular national parties of tLo
nation. Sirs, this connection of facts
lorght to make the blood eurdle in
your veins. 1t tells you, l fear, in
Ike l.pgaago Of Sir Robert Peel,
that your doom Is sealed
'.Do you ask how the nomination
election of Gen. Scott can seal the
doom Of the South? :, Hear me 81
lently and thoughtfulG and l wiz
tell you. Whose candidate would
NilIard Fillmore have been? The
candidate Of the Southern wings
Why? Because a rs!ioiity OF his
friends were such. Whose candi-
date would DanieI Webster have
been? OF the Northern whigs-
Why? Because a majority of his
friends were such. Whose candi-
date is Gen. Scott? OF the aboli-
florists and free 4soil9rs. Why? Be-
cause amaiority OF his friends wero
;iboiitionists and freesoilers With
out them he COZ I'D not have been the
candidate, but with them he is
He lad 131 votes, G6 Of these, be-
ing majority, voted against the
platform even emaScalated as it was.
1t was to these sixty-six, that Sc
ward addressed the circular letter Of
congratulation, that they lad pre-
served their sacred principles Of free-
dom and liberation. Thus it is that
If there is truth ii records and power
in logic, he is the Aboiitlonist and
frees {oil candidate.
j "Now what follows this great fac,?
That you have Lifted up and given
rank and Importance TO this dan
gerou$ party. In social Fife he who
marries awoman lifts her MP at once
to his own rank and condition. So
Gen Scott having allied himself 10
this party, comes up with it leaning
On bis arm, and demands its recoglli-
ton as one Of the gre eat ana respect
able parties Of TIE country. The
South may protest 4 gainst it. She
may protest ever Sd solemnly; but
amid the war plulncs of the soldier
and the cunning SOP phistry Of those
who have solemnizdd the unh0ly
banns, she may b6sluf He'd in TO an ac-
quiescence, which mi st prove to her
fatal as the sleep of DEATH tits ar
gucd that, notwithst; ndins all these
facts, poisoning the Fery fountain Of
his nomination, tlrat Gen. Scott is in
fact a friend to the South, with 10
dangerous afIinitics fdr the free-soil-
ers and abolitionists. ] deny it; eve
ny word of it. They have not given
him this nomination without. cause.
lie has for year? been fbilaing for
the Presidency--to the anti-Masons
10 the u;.tiye American party
against foreigners; and to nib faction
and to no party has he pRid court
more assiduously than 20 the aboll-
tonists and free-soilers' -
After giving n brieF history OF abb
litionisn and the introduction Of alb
clifton petitions into Congress, Gov.
, Bropn refers to Gen, Pierre in this
connection, by saying
eTr4e assteel and with heart IS
! b;o rs the constitution he stood by
! nsto tbe last. That man was Gen.
:. Tr,ntlin Pierce. For that deed
islone 1Ie South owes him debt Of
; leveIl9s:iag gratitude. Day after
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