Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-07-14
Manifesto OF southern whiEs.

hhhAASSeo. VI 7outHtfn WhtSSs
ai2l9ad W2sn1NeToN, July 3,l852,
To prevent all mistake and misappre-
hension, We, the undersigned, Members
ofCongress, adopt this method of making
joint statement, to our constituents, re-
spectively, and to all who take an interest
in the subject, that we cannot and will not
support Gen. Scott for the Presidency, as
he now stands before the American ,Peo-
pie, for the following amongst other rea-
sons: ssa 'r0.,aii II
He obstinately refused, up to the time
OF his nomination, to give any public opin.
ion in favor of that series of measures of
the last Congress known as the Compro-
mise /; the permanent maintenance OF
which with us is question OF paramount
Importance. Nor has he since his nomi-
nation made any declaration of his APP
moral of those measures as final adjust
tnent of the issues in controversy.
1t is true the resolutions of the Conven-
ton that nominated him arc as clear and
as explicit upon this question as need be /;
but Gen, Scott, in his letter of acceptance,
which contains all that we have from him
on that matter, does not give them the
approval of his Judgment This he seems
studiously to have avoided. He accepts
the nomination, "wth the resolutions an
nexed." That is, he takes the nomina-
ton CAN onere, as an individual takes an
estate, with whatever circumference it may
be loaded with. And the only pledge and
guaranty he offers for his " adherence to
the principles Of the resolutions" are " the
known incidents of long public life" &c.
Amongst these " knOpn incidents" of
his life there is not one, so far as we are
aware of, in favor of the principles OF the
compromises one, at least, of his pub
lie letters he has expressed sentiments
inimical TO the institutions OF fifteen
States of the Union. Since the passage
of tho compromise he has suffered his
name to be held up before the people of
the States rs candidate for the Presi-
dency by the open and avowed enemies
of those measures. And in the Cunvcn-
ton that conferred this nomination upon
him he permitted himselfto be used by
the Free s0i(erS in that body to defeat Mr..
F1LLMoRE and Mr.. WEBSTER, because OF
their advocacy of these measures and
their firm adherence TO the policy that
sustained them.
TO ioin such men, and aid them in com
plctinet their triumph over, and S0cT!Fce
Of the true and tried friends of the con-
stitution, and the faithful discharge of all
it's obligations, is what we can never do.
The dictates of duty and patriotism sternIy
forbid it,
We consider Gen, Scott rs the .tdrorie
candidate of the Frce-soN wing of the
Wing party. That his policy, if he
should be elected, would be warped and
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elevate them to power i'll the admnlstra'
ton of the Government, can but be con-
sidcrcd as n legitimate and probable re-
suit. And believing as we do, that the
views of that faction Of mischievous men
are dangerous not only to the Just and
constitutional rights Of tho Southern
States, (Which VIC represent in part but
to the peace and quiet of the whole coun'
try, and to the permanent union OF the
States, we regard it rs The highest duty
Of the wcl-wishrrs of the country every
where, whatever else they may do, to at
least wi hhod from Ajm their support
This we intend To do.
ALEXANDER I'll. SrEruENS, OF Ga.
CHARLES JAS. FACLNNER, of Va.
w. BHooKE, of Miss.
ALEX. WHITE, of Ala
JAMES AnEncRoMnE, of Ala.
II. TooMus, Of Ga.
JAMES JouNsoN, of Ga.
For reasons to some extent indicated ii
speeches and addresses. heretofore made
bv the undersigned, they deem it to be
their duty to withhold their support from
Gen. Scorr as a candidate Tor tho Prcsi
dcncy. lit should seem to beneccssary
we will hereafter, in some form, exhibit
more fully to our constituents the facts
and reasons which have brought us tc
this determination.
NJ. p. GENrRY, Tenn.
G. II. WILLIAMS, Tenn.