Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-07-31

Iprnvtstr. July II. 1853.

Hoa. T. G. Davidson
sth--f had The honor to address you
note on the 9th inst, calling your attentio
10 a portion Of your speech, delivered q
Baton Retee, pn the occasion OF The Stat
Democratic Ratification meeting. M
objpet was TO induce you to retrset tn
odious rem,rks | then, will, many others
understood you To make. or TO give me al
opportunities disprove them.
Ia replyLou say that | have challenged
you to a controversy upon an issue | tnaks
myself ale that yon "nepsy said any
uheye IN puy speech that Gen. Scott sea'
an ~abotRbntst." You however admit
that, you Did say, and undertook to prove
by bic letters, aud his Castle Garden
Speech, thlt his settled convictions Of the
Contribution, and his published policy, ia.
vorel the ~freesoil OF abolition party
Nov | state upon your " issue, that
Geefal Scott has neither said or done any
thiE that will justify YOU IN charging him
viii iavoribg the ~freesoil or abolition par.
", nd this charge | am willing and fully
| preated to combat You assert that
yotaiever said any where IN your address
tina General Scott was all a~bolitionist."
The why seek 10 induce others TO believe
hitnons, az you certainly acknowledge
yotido, when You say that his settled
connections of the Constitution, aud his
puislled policy, favored the freesoil or
abolion party 7 Do you wish to incul.
cHtaootrines that you yourself do not be.
lieva Surely il the evidences you have
Of Gnefal SCOTS u%nsoundness upon the
insthtion Of slavery are sufficient to con.
viet Tiers. your mind is not composed Of
suelmaterials rs to reject the proof, espe.
eisllwhen II would prove 40 very palata.
ble. ar. Davidson, do you believe that II
Genri SCOTS "eettlej convictions Of
the C%astitution. aud his published policy,
favore the abolition party that there il
any nn In his Ranses who would hesitate
to nuber him among them? Settled
oorvieens are surely principles. But you
any ",u never said anywhere that Gen.
Scott ss ali abolitionist." Then here 10
the solion Of your position /.
Thmlthough yon know Gen. Scott to
be trueo the South, true 70 the Constitu. |
ton, tr to tue Union, you are perfectly
willing, induce others to believe the con.
ttary. Rout of your W mouth ye shall
b. iudg, You took occasion TO eulagise
Mr. FfIlere. and say that you for one
take bat oil you had ever said against
him on B subject OF hts sectional or abo.
lition nolns. You are sincere, no doubt
but, my end. you'd his course have eli.
cited an ually frank avowal had he been
the Whipandidate for the Presidency
You havever been All unfortunate pro.
phet. / sll remember in lS40 General
Harrisongss denounced by you as an
aboIitioni and Ma,tin Van Buren, was
Landed byou as the true friend Of the
Sonth--',e embodiment Of Southern
Democree--the Northern man with
Southern inciples"--" the life, soul aud
nerve Of ppnblicanism'--" the young
Hickory oae North the model Pre-.
s'dent,' Iione lived down your charge,
aud was gafed with honor to his ia.
theirs; while other, crowned with De.
rnocrat'e la,s. has been gathered TO the
folds of abobn,sm ; and you have been
LEFT with yosrfophetic mantle to bewail
the falsisy oieur oft.repeated prophecy.
But this didt stop your cry In 1874,
the palriarclphose glory WINS only full
when he SAWS country moving onward
and upward; ,om a nation now mourns,
aud all men knowledge to have been
the pufest stbest of men, was abused
and eilitied ms abolitionist, and a traitor
to the Sonthl suppose, however, you
have seen yoerror, and ere this have 4
taken back allsu said. And more re-.
Gently. who so Oh abused the immortal
Taylor, and threat and good Fillmore,
who looked Mi'nch prophetic foresight
into the dark hhls Of the future? Who
painted, IN sushi coIors, the result +
of Mr.. Fill,hortelection-predicting a
reign Of abolition and encroachmen, /
Oh the %institutionf the South = Who (
declared that thelrtford Conyeutionist.
as you were rleaso announce him, (but
the intellectual giiof the world. as you
now term him. Md use Taylor and
Fillmorees bcsoms exterminate slavery
from the iaudfs I who, oh who has
proved so false a phet as my old friend @
Thomas Green Dason, elector for the
fifth district of Laana! And yet it
seems you still gar the ta.sered rem.
of your old bhetic mantle, and
open the pfesent oass with the same
old tune, that the WIS have sent forth Z
q candidate who iss the abolition of :
Surely eveou ought to be "a.
with charginNVhir candidates y
with iavorlng aoolits when by subse-
aae,tt investigations 4 are induced to Oh