New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-21
SCOTT IN LOUISIANA.


SCOTT IN LOUISIANA.
ere are every day new and cheering indi
rms Of the growing popularity Of Gen. Scot
;this State. His supporters-and even tn,
at cautious and intelligent Of them-are con
lent that the voice Of Louisiana will be no
he least hearty and enthusiastic in the thront
Of her sister States uniting in common phalan!
to call him to the Presidential chair, and, unde
his lead to win for him, in November next,
new victory.
Letters from every section of the State speal
in the most cheerful and hopeful tone Ever,
where the friends of g Old Chippewa counting
in their host not few Of their democratic fel.
low-citizens, are moving in his behalf, and the
opposition to him is totally wanting in energy
and zeal We scarcely open single exchange
from the parishes, which, whether wing OF demo-
cratic, is not filled with notices or announce
ments Of Scott and Graham rallies.
There is plain contrast between the two OPP
posing political bodies the friends Of Scott and
Graham, full Of zeal, fire and enthusiastic
demonstration, and their opponents lifeless
spiritless and quiescent. The spirit of 40 and
of AS is abroad, and in its workings will be
realized its triumphs-the vindication Of a ma
tional patriot and hero from unjust aspersions
and unlneasured denunciation
The attack has been too violent and reckless,
and not one missile has done its designed work.
When papers and declamatory orators have as
sailed Gen. Scott as an abolitionist; as coward,
seeking duels with the least dangerous and
stunning them with the tried as peculator,
for petty sum, upon the public funds as
proud, heartless, soulless, selfish aristocrat;
rs a morose, reyengeful, unscrupulous foe; as
an ignorant tool Of the evilly and traitorous
plotters of Northern sectionalism as one with
out intelligence or capacity 10 appreciate and
act upon great national questions; as fore
sworn traitor. assembling only to gain high
office and large power, and then betray his oath
to the Constitution, infame scctionalism, imperil
the Union, and sell himself to utter infamy and
approbrium in the future--when they have
thus spoken, they have rudely shocked the gem
erous sympathies natural to every true republic
can, and their work has been done to their own
ruin. Cass, Quitman and Armstrong have
placed upon record sentiments of admiration
and respect, before which these SANDERS are re-
buked, and the people of Louisiana, not less
gengerous than they, will be prepared to record
their belief and feeling in the premises
The best proof of this is found in the slender
heed given to the ridiculous charges made, and
in the general censure of the rude outrage,
which prefers accusations against Scott, which,
if true, would prove the American Hero but
little, if any, better than Catalina or Arnold
Indeed, We have even seen one paper in which
there was such an argument as this: The wing
organs argue that Scott cannot prove traitor,
because he is hero and brave man; but Arnold
was brave man and hero, and proved a tritor
after all. Scott and Arnold 1t might Just as
we'll have said, intelligent and honored men
have finally committed felony therefore, we
have right to flaunt out causeless suspicion
that your friend may do likewise. This is the
whole force, after all, of the continued opera
lions that Scotts pledged fidelity to the COM
promise will probably be forsworn, at last
This style Of argument will have no effect
upon the intelligent people of Louisiana, unless
to arouse a generous and well deserved indig-
nation Both parties organs may as we'll for
bear to pursue SO hurtful course, which will
find no sympathy in either ranks. Violent abuse
may look very effective in the waste of italics
and large capitals, and sound largely in the
vociferations of partisan orators; but the people
OF Louisiana are too sensible, too accustomed to
the graceful courtesies of life and practised in
social amenities, to believe that either the COM
mon sense or honor of any great portion of their
1ellow-citizens would permit them to support for
me presidency any man dsgraeed in his life,
and bankrupt Of principle, honor and honesty
In both parties, there have been and are re-.
representatives., who do censurable things But
the great mass Of the people have no sympathy
with war of personal abuse But we must
say, that the extreme violence of the democratic
press and orators, finding no sympathy even in
the mass of the democratic party, and contrast
ing in favor Of the comparatively more mild and
respectful course of their opponents, "a contrast
most strikingly shown in the two ratification
meetings on Canal street, has, more than aught
else, advanced and strengthened the cause of
Scott IN Louisiana. We do not speak unkindly,
or IN censorious denunciation But the course
we condemn is really utterly nonsensical, and
even worse. Morning after morning we open
democratc papers, and read that the wings are
aaipnlnites and Gardinerites-by which they
mean rascals and swindlers-and vet dov after
day. hour after hour, those who write and s,oo,
such stuff, are shaking hands, walking. talkino
and associating intimately and pleasantly with
wings. The farce is too broad, and tho mock
tragedy has not even sufficient seeming of reality
to deceive any but the veriest gulls We believe
it has already won Louisiana to the cause Of
Scott.
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