The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-10

uISut 1 cannot hslp thinking that the Baltimore
placed the whg party in degraded condition General
Scott refused be its candidate He professed indeed
be whig but he so snveloped himself in the drapery
Of qualification and conditions that 1t is extremely diff
fcut TO discern his real politics. He and yet Is,
willing to receive any and every nomination matter
from what quarter might proceed In his letter to the
Richmond Republican Of the Goth Of April last, he de-
cared his purpose to remain no matter what
nomination might be made by the Wing Convention.
know what was said and done by the Louisiana deega
tionin the conventions but there is veil about that
matter which have not penetrated The letter from
him. which il stated Of that delegation possessed
has been publshed and letter the SUBJ
ject addressed the independent party OF Maryland
has his instance been withheld from the public II
quite natural that otter receiving the nomination he
should approve the means by which he obtained it,
What should be glad to Is some revocation OF the
declaration in the Richmond Republican letter before the
On the great leading national which have
long divided parties If he has any fixed opinions they
are not publicly known. Exclusivelya military man
without the least experience in civil afars-ored up
and always living in the camp with his sword by bis
side and his epsuettes on his shouldersi is proposed
TO trapffer him from his actual position of second ia
command Of the army to the Chief Magitracy of this
great and model republic y
If cannot come out in the active support of such
candidate hope that those who know any hing of my
opinions deliberately formed and repeatedly avowcd
will To those opinions shaa adhere with
increased instead of diminished confidence; and think
that my friends ought 10 be reconoed to the silence
which have imposed ON myself from difference to them
well from strong objections which entertain 10 the
competitor of General Scott, Ii wish to lead mis-
lead but 10 leave all to the unbiased dictates of
their own Judgment
know. and feel all that can be urged in the actual
posture of the present contest.
entertain With you the strongest apprehensons from
the election of General Pierce but 10 not seeenougb
Of hope and confidence in that of General Scott 10
stimulate my exertiops and animate my zeal 1 deeply
fear that his lead to the formation OF
personal party There is chance. indeed that he may
give the country better administration Of the
tive government than his competitor would but II is not
such chance az arouse my enthusiasm or induce
TO the responsibility of recommending auy
course or Offering any advice to others
With great respect, your friend and obt servant
To James Lynch, A. H. Bradford, Charles Chamber
lain, Henry U. Merritt &c, &C.
That letter now takes broad and statesmanlike
view Of General Scott as candidate for the Pres-
dency 1t sticks 10 the esitimate points of mis- I'M
fitness for the office. He is mere military chief
tain, and though, like Timour the Tartar, he may
have piled up a military pyramid of seventy
thousand human skulls as an evidence of his
claims to popular support, such not satisfac-
tory recommendation to Mr.. Clay, and is not to us.
Like Mr.. Clay, too, with respect to General Taylor,
We have very little faith in General Scotts princi
pies before his nomination, or in his professions
after his nomination. From time to time, during
the last twenty years. he has laid down his doctrines
loI tuc VI UuC SuScIulucuUs duu u
rigid, stiff, and impractcable system has never
been dreamed ofsnce the time Of the elder Adams
1t smacks of the tight rein Of military despotism.
Moreover, he has changed and modified his views so
often that there is more chance Of predicting his
policy if elected than there was Of foretelling the
policy of General Taylor.
But, far beyond all other objections. we object to
General Scott because Of his political affiliations
with Seward and the Socialists, and other cliques
and factions Of our Northern fanatics and incendi-
aries. We know that the ultimate object, rule or
ruin, of Seward and his rty, is the extermina.
ton Of Southern slavery, root and branch and
that he calculates, in this upon the South, to
build up great Northern party, which 8 all be
strong enough and fanatical enough to say to the
South, "thus far shalt thou go, and no farther
and this shall be the President, and help it if
you can. We know, also, that Fillmore and Webster
were sacrificed at Baltimore BECAUSE in sustaining
the constitutional rights of the South, they had dis
pleased Seward and his organs and his allies. tits
equally notorious that General Scott was nomina
ted because he was the favorite Of the anti-sayery
section OF the wing party, and because the friends
Of Seward in the convention desired to have it so,
and willed it so. Upon these grounds, and recol
Letting too, that through the kitchen cabinet iafu
epoes Of Seward, the administration of General
Taylor brought the country, on the Texas boundary
question, to the very verge Of civil war; VIC have
70 disposition to trust the same influences 10 the
kitchen cabinet of the next administration We
want the Union to stand-we want to see it pei
mapently harmonized-we want to see the rights of
the South blended with every department of the
government-we want to see the country going for
ward, and not backward, and its rights and in.
torests and duties firmly maintained in its foreign
policy, especially with Great Britain. We want a
positive and not negative governmental national
and not sectional administration and these views
and the objections Of Henry Clay to mere military
chieftan, constitute the comprehensive measure of
our objections to General Scott.
We commend these views to the Washington
Union. AS the central organ of the democratic
party, it ought to be above the mean and pitfu
warfare of trumping up General Scott's pay as an
argument against his election as if in being poorly
paid for great services, man becomes disqualified
for public employment tits particularly in bad TASTE
and ungenerous in General Armstrong to pursue
this course against General Scott, after the Union
has received sort of bonus from the treasury
worth at least hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Let the battle be fought upon the honest plan laid
down by Henry Clay. Let the mere party journals
on all sides try if hey cannot do it, and adopt the
plain, fair, legitimate, comprehensive, RATIONAL ma
tional and common sense policy of the New YORK
HERALD.
JOHN VAN buren, ON THE Cove see by the
country newspapers and the telegraph, that our
dstir guisbed favorite John Van Buren,, is trampng
through Pennsylvania on q political tour, making
speeches in favor of Pierce and his platform, and
occasionally ruf1ng the feathers Of General Scott in
the present dull campaign for the Presidency. We
are glad to see that John is engaged in this bust
ness, and is making up for past sins. He may pro-
baby, if he shews little more consistency and
courage, come out perfectly qualified to be admitted
full private in the democratic ranks, to serve
in the present campaign and will be entitled at the