Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-09-22

/ We haze never beard. Doubtless bis KIDD
friends. the Democrats. fed him with socll
I staff, to rouse him tie more Whether he
believed there was such taik or fsos. H. al
least. was a thing lie thought be could use
advantageously, especially as it furnished TIE
opportunity Of making some complacent allu-
sions to tho troublesome nature Of the job
which any one would have Who would under
take to encounter him. So far as we have
heard, the Wbig talk about Mr. Faulkner
bias been Of different and more appropriate
nature By the way, we are told Dir. Faux
ner himself talked ia Washington OF SKIN
SIxc GrS scorr r Poor old mani
ID lie feebIy and cursorily attempted q
vindication Of bis consistency as Whig
The only facts be alluded to. we win mere
" state, as we mean 70 condemn himself ont
Of bis own mouth. whenever nothing mors is
necessary lie said that VIXEN candidate
for Congress formerly. in '4G perhaps, The
stated in Winchester that he was opposed Ia
protection, ''prr Sc" and in Newtown
svswsd himself opposed to Internal I'm
provcments" by tie General Government
and therefore he got but 300 votes in Frod-
lex lie referred. too, to the shout Of exul-
tation in the Court House here some years
since, when Small was nominated for the
House Of Delegates land to the fact. that as
he iatimated when he was nominated for
Congress formerly. it was done to break him
down as jastifying, we presume, his rcru-
diation Of Wing principles for what other
purpose be alluded to these matters we are
at q loss to conceive. In this connection be
paraded lis distinct announcement last sum
mer, that he was net running as Wing or a
Democrat, but as the "Independeat Union
Candida" las If that fact necessarily de-
prived him Of his Wbiggery. and as if it alb
solved him from the implied faith which bound
him to cast Wing votes upon measures Of
general policy--a faith inyiolably 70 be regar .
eed, as positire promise, because al,rdys
barring been supposed to be a IJ'hig By the
mass IF The Uhigs, thry arould Of course,
as they did, still regard him as such until he
told them otherwise. and as a HAig they
rotrd for him
3D. He then, after saying merely that he
might have voted for Fillmore. quot that be
would bave done so, as lie said in his Con-
gressional spcech--the wind having got
little round)- -assailed Scott as purely mil
ita'y man. a voter asked. in our presence.
why he had not. in 1910, assailed Harrison
lin lS4a, Taylor-and why he could act
with a party that elected jackson Mr..
Faulkner. sadly blinded. or sadly ignorant
knows that he misreprcsents Gen. Scott as
well as other great men, when he represents
him as purely military man he knows
Gen. Scott has been entrusted for his judg-
ment and prudence by The Presidents of the
nation with high Girl ofices--by Jackson
among the number--to settle such compiled
ted difficulties as the "Mainc boundary
question" and the Canadian border rou
blcS srith the British Gorernmeat---the uar-
like demonstrations of Mobilization in South
Cdrolina--the removal of the Creek Indians,
&C., &c. lie knows that SCOTS long resi-
dcnce in Washington has made him as tho
roughly verseJ in politics as some others who
would prcsumptuously question his acquire
mcnts as a politician.
4th. He said lie would prove that General
Scott was a Democrat in 1882 The only
proof we heard from him--and we certainly
never heard it from any other quarter--was
that Democratic paper in New York. the
name Of which lie did no: give, supported him
for the Presidency in 1880.
9th. lie then attacked Scots former
views in reference to modification of the
naturalization laws, and said what any one
who can read the English language, knows to
be an absurd construction to put upon Gen.
scott letter OF acceptance-that,h he there
proposes to qualify the existing laws so as to
coafne the right to citizenship to those for
cigners who should serve the country one
year honorably in time of war. One mo-
ment's examination of she letter will show that
Ges Scott proposes no such thing but to
enend the law to such cases, so as to enlarge
the number Of those who wish to become cit.
izens. As to the authorship Of an anonymous
article which appeared long time ago" in
the National lntelligoncer. referred to By Mr.
Faalkper--as written by Gen. Scott, Mr.
Botclcr emphatically denied that Gen. Scott
was the author Of that article and called for
the proof, which was not Forthcoming, Mr..
Frulkncr bad promisldto provo all his assert
cd facts.
Whatever Gen. Scots sentiments upon
the subject had been, be soon modified them,
honestly and emphatically, as leading citi-
zen of our own County had done the correct