Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-09-08

Southern States, and giving 10 the sec
tional Northern majority irresistible pow :
er.
His opinions on Naturalization are
crude and contradictory. at one time de-
nying the right altogether, or requiring
twenty-one years residence; at another,
one years service in the army or navy
in time of war, with an honorable dis
charge, to give the rights of citizenship.
1t is hardly possible that any one but a
professional soldier could have conceived
such a school for education in the cha
racter, of our Institutions, and for learn
ing the duties of a republican free citizen.
Military service IA time Of loar. when our
ships of war will be abroad, and the
strictest discipline enforced in our army,
is the best training, in the opinion of our
General, for the duties of civil life, and
the enlisted soldier is to be preferred
over the man of letters, the merchant,
the apriculturist and the mechanic, who
would daily observe the practical working
of our complex but beautiful system of
government. The ayowal of such an
opinion would seem to indicate an undue
preference of the military over the civil,
or that in politics as well as in war there
is such thing as strategy.
The circumstances under which Gene
raj SCOTS nomination was made, are
worthy of your serious examination
Eminent public men of the Wing party
have denounced it as sectional, and etfec-
ted mainly by the non-slaveholding vote.
He who is now the Chief Executive of
the United States, performing his duties
under his election as Vice President, who
has been called by his party the Model
Presesident, and he who has been called
the great expounder of the Constitution,
after long and distinguished public SER
vice in the Senate and the Cabinet, were
set aside under an influence which we do
not characterize, but which leading Wings
have denounced as originating with, and
welded to controlling extent by those
whose consciences will not permit them to
support, approve or execute the act of
Congress which carries out the plain in
functions of the Constitution, by return.
ing fugitive slaves to their lawful own
erS.
1t is unsual for the friends of General
Scott to refer to his efforts in South Caro-
lima, when notification and a collision be-
tween the State and Federal Governments
were apprehended, in proof of his ability
as civilian. To show the nature of the
duty with which he was intrusted at that
time by the General Government and
and required of him, under instructions,
we insert the following extract from a
letter to him, taken from the Message of
the President of the United States, on the
18th of February, 1888, transmitting, in
compliance with a resolution of the Sen
ate, the orders given to the land and ma
val forces at Charleston +:
"Your duty will be one of great inn
! portanee, and Of great delicacy. You
will consult fully and freely with the Col
lector of the port of Charleston, and with
the District Attorney of South Carolina,
and you will take no step except what re-
lates to the immediate defence and secu-
rity of the post, without their order and
concurrence. The execution of the laws
will be enforced through the civil autho-
rity, and by the mode pointed out by the
acts of Congress. Should, unfortunately,
crisis arise, when the ordinary power
i'll the hands of the civil officers shall not
be sufficient for this purpose, the Presi-
dent will determine the course to be ia
1
Till, therefore, you are otherwise instruc-
ted, you will act in obedience to the le-
gal acquisitions of the proper civil officers
oft the United States"
From this extract il will be seen that
! General SCOTS duty was wholly military,
that be yond this he was to do nothing with
out ''the order and concurrence" Of the
civil authorities, and that even in the
event of crisis, the president" was to
determine the course to be taken AMI the
measures to be adopted.
Viewing, then, the history of General
SCOTS life, devoid of experience in any
civil capacity. trained in a military school
where rigid discipline and strict subordi-
dination to the will of the military chief,
constitutute the great fundamental prin-
ciple; scanning his political creed, at war
as it is with all the doctrines entertained
and reyerred by the Democratic party,
and, as we believe, with the best interests
of the country,-seriously deprecating the
malign influences which have brought
about his nomination, and believing that,
to great extent, these influences must
predominant in his administration if he
should be successful, we call upon you
solemnly to exert the great power you
possess to avert the calamity. Virginia
has the honor of having made the nOmi-
nation of Franklin Pierce. Let her give
him a.majority that shall approve him good
and true. Other States will follow her
lead, and a glorious triumph will be en-
sured.
The voice of North Carolina has been
heard, and cheering intelligence comes up
from every quarter, that the Southern
States probably unanimously, will repu-
date the Wing nomination.; and we have
nvor,, ,ooso, p bol;ova thok tho demo.