The daily union., 1852-09-30
The Pay Per Diem out Of the Public Treasury
4 or the Seward Candidate for President

4 u thc H0ward Cun0l0atc Tor president f.
II appears that General Scott. on bis grand cleo
oneenng tour. receives SIS os per diem! The Wash
irgon Republic Of yesterday, which has been cpbering
out the fact gives this the amounts thai the public
treasury is called upon to pay The expenses OF candi
date whose associations with the abolition wings OF the
free States public and notorious the designs
Of those agatos.
EicnrEEs DOLLARS BAY to be paid out Of the public
treasury TO General Scott order that, by his elevation
TO the presidency, the unscrupulous of the whg
party may be restored to power, TO inaugurae, in all
probability, another era OF Galphins and Gardners.
EIoHTErs DOLLARS DAY TO be paid out Of the public
treasury the expenses OF the Seward nominee, who
travels through the country asking votes like candi-
date for sheriff ot county, and who makes speeches 10
any crowd he meets like an itineran lecturer
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS DAY to be paid out Of the pub
lie treasury candidate for President. that he may the
more efiecually arouse the abolition ele,ents of the
North against the South.
EioHTEES DOLLARS DAY TO be paid out OF the pub
lie treasury a candidate for President in his efforts TO
convince the adopted citizens that he is not nativst any
longer, notwithstanding the natives decidedly advocate
his election.
EIoHrEEN DOLLARS DAY to be paid out OF the pub.
lie treasury TO candidate for President for making
speeches in hotels. denouncng the accusation of po-
tca opponent as "a le-a e--a false and groundess
lie
We should like TO hear Of the democratic candidate
for President who has attempted any such perform
this Nay, should like TO be pointed to the
whig who has ever hazarded his reputation by attempt.
ing candidacy for the presidency under such crcum
stances. There absence of all dignity, of all prope
, OF good aste of ordinary respect for the feelings of
the people, in the whole affair." well calculated to
The Indignation of the masses, and to every lover
OF his country TO blush at The spectacle it presents
Gen Scott is resolved TO be exception 10 every
other candidate for the presidency who has preceded
him and TO stand alone the only who lived
in this country that accepted nomination at the head Of
the army, that threw himself into the hands of the foes
OF one half OF the States, and that paid himself out Of
The national treasury for The most public and humil
iatng eleciioneerng.
General Washington resigned his position Com
manderin- chief OF the army before he accepted the
presidency, and another soldier appointed to the
place he had filed.
General jackson was not at the head Of the army when
he was elected.
General Harrison had long resigned his position in
the army before he was elected to the presidency.
Henry Clay resigned his place in the Senate OF the
United States, when, in ls44, he became the whg candi
dale for President.
General Cass resigned his place in the Senate of the
United States as soon as he nominated for the pres
idency by the democratic party
In violent and repulsive contrast TO all these exam
Piles, Gen Scott holds on to his commission as the Com
mander in chief OF the American army uses its patron
age as may be used travels about the country in the
hands of abolition agtators and partisan slanderers and
pays himself of the treasury al the rale OF eighteen
dollars day Shades Of Washington Adams. Jefferson,
Madison Monroe jackson, Harrison. and Polk, what
comment is this upon the examples you presented to the
country