Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-07-14
Cen, Scott as n CiyiIian

AS General Scott has become the wing
candidate for the Presidency, (by a small
majority, his fitness for that highest CiVV
station on earth becomes matter of most
serious inquiry. With his character as
general we have nothing to do. AS
commander of our armies he has been
successful, and so, as general thing,
have all other commanders of our Amerl-
can troops. If it would be important to
canvass the merits Of mere civilian who
should aspire 10 The chief command OF our
armies in time of war, it certainly is inn
imperative on the American people now
to seriously examine the claims OF an eX-
clusively military man who aepires to the
chief dictatorship of the civil affairs of our
nation. General SCOTS name has sevc-
raj times been mentioned in connection
with the presidency, when the wing party
have been casting about for purely an
available candidate, and as often has the
old General sat down and in "haste''
scrubbed his opinions to somebody. Last
October, the 9Th day, he issued from
Washington a general circular in answer
to numerous questions, giving his views
on civil affairs IN ertenso. We shall from
time to time make extracts from his Iugu-
6rious documents. For the present we will
give our readers his views in his own
words on Gland distributions" "bankrups
law" and United States Bank"
Extract from the Circutar
LEADING MEASURES OF THE LATE EXTRA
sEssIoN.-It | had the honor of vote on
the occasion, it would have been given in
favor of the ldna distribution bill, the bank
rupt bill, and the second bill Tor creating
a FISCAL rPoration-having long been I'M
der conviction that in peace, as in war,
something efficient, in the nature of Bank
of the United States, is not only "neces-
sary and proper" but indispensable to
the successful operations of the treasury,
as well 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 1910, at which an cold
fashioned United States bank" was al
tempted to be thrust upon the country,
but was three times vetoed, in different
shapes and under different names, by
John Tyler. Gland distribution" was one
of the same nefarious schemes-a meas
ure to arrest the increase of new States by
giving the monopoly of the public lands
to the old States, cutting of all homestead
bills and all revenue arising therefrom to
the general government. The bankrupt
law" got up for the benefit of sLockjob-
bers, defunct bankers, and unsuccessful
SPECTATORS, which did more to doom and
damn that administration than all other
schemes put together-a measure OF gem
eral reputation which even now stluks
in the nostrils OF the peOple-to this now
or as late as last October, Gen. Scott gives
his entire sanction.
This is all the democratic party want
to know of Gen. SCOTS ideas of civil
government. a ranker blue-b ellied old
tederalist and fogy does not live than he,
and the honest portion of the whig party
will yet endorse Greeley's opinion of him,
as expressed in private letter to friend
just before the Wing Convention in l848. !
The extract reads thus
''Send delegate to the convention, if /
YOU can, for Clay if not for Clay, for Cor /
win if not for Corwin. for Seward if not
for Seward, for Taylor. But last of all for
Scott. Scott is a vain, conceded coxcomb .
of man. His brains-all that he has
are in his epaulets ; and it he should be
elected President, lie would tear the wing {
party into tatters in less than six months. "
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