The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-06-03
More Warning to the South.

The New York "Herald of Union" a.
paper friendly to Fillmore and Webster,
thus discourses in regard to Gen. Scott, and
National Whiggery:
Gen. Scott is now agitating the country
with his claims from one ocean to the other.
The only claim that his friends lay or that
he lays to the Presidency is that he has
fought calamity and well the battles of his
country. Our own opinion is, that so long
as he lives, he will be the man upon whom
the confidence of the nation would repose to
lead the chivalry of her intelligent people.
But we have not seen any evidence adduced
from any quarter that Gen. SCOTS civic
qualities offer any guarantee for wise, ju-
dicious, and successful administration of the
civil government. His greatness seems all
to lie in one direction-soldiership, and in
this republic in times of peace pre-eminent-
ly, and also in times Of battle, we want some
thing more than this.
For ourselves, we have simply to say that
we are committed TO an unrelenting battle
against Northern fanaticism id favor of the
constitutional rights of the South. If the
South itself turns its batteries against us
and the Southern States cast their votes fol
Gen. Scott they lose the confidence of the
North and friends of good order and the
Constitution. It is bad enough that seces
sionists and disunionists of the South should
join without Fred Douglass party in Con
gress in every measure to consort with Gid
dings, and Seward, and Mann, to stanC
shoulder to shoulder with those brand bear
: ers against law and order, but it would b
far worse to see a Southern State make issu
against the friends of the Constitution, b,
, voting for Horace Greeley's candidate. Tn
very supposition of such thing is prepos
, ferrous therefore the nomination of Genera
Scott seems to us impossible-his election
the most profound absurdity. =
The same paper in speaking of the Demo
! cratic party, sayss
:, Here is an army ofcandidates. It may NJ
:, be SO easy matter to form clear opinio
of the prospects of this party, but it is ge
e orally safe to start out on any calculation
o this kind with the assumption that the der
d ocrats have in fair political issue, a majc
,. ity of the votes of the American people, al
n it has always been under the most favorab
IS auspices only that the wings have won I
d election. Since the time Of John Quin
e. Adams, they have never triumphed on d
is tinct party issue, or Mr.. Clay would ha
m been elected. The hard cider and log ca
7e ms of the Harrison campaign, with a gem
Gus interlarding Of manufactured and fC
:. tious heroism turned the scales in 1910. {
- too, the recent victories in Mexico, and /
4 well-knoyn honesty Of Gen. Taylor, vi
i the per6dy and treachery of Martin V
AZ Buren,, gave the field once more to the whig
IF but between their bad fortune in losi
n these generals soon after the moment Of Y
er tory, and their incapacity to administer
at government of the country, they soon w
re- put to general rout; and now, with the c.
81 troll of q hundred thousand Offices, and
II spending Of nearly two hundred million
dollars, Mr.. Fillmore has witnessed the
II feat Of his party in almost nine out Of ten
A. - the elections that have taken place since
Installation.