The daily union., 1852-09-18
Gen. scott's Extra AiIowances--A Change OF
Tactics.

Gen. Scotts Extra AllOwances.-A Change OF
Tactics.
The heaviest blows which General Scott receives
inflicted by his friends The trepidation manifested by
them when Mr. Meriwether, OF Kentucky. called for
General SCOTS accounts with the government could not
fail to create suspicion that they feared the result Of
investigation. The bullying manner in which The whig
press has received the publication of the facts communl
Gated 10 the Senate in reply to that call, have
strong tendency to confirm those suspicious and prevent
calm and impartial judgment The Scott party may de-
mand that their candidate be considered above the cr
csm OF the people they may claim for him the preroga
tives and mmunies Of sovereign prince but such de-
liberate iasult will excite nothing but contempt and
disgust, and must provoke strict scrutiny into the
character and conduct OF the who presented to the
people with much nsoence and arrogant pre,enson
the part OF his friends. Gen. Pierce is modest citizen.
He has sought preferment He had no agency
in bringing forward his name for the presidency, yet
every act of his life has been scrunized in search of
food for defamation General Scott, the other hand,
has never been considered by his warmest friends a
modest and retiring citizen For years he has been be-
fore The country an eager and mporunae seeker for
advancement yet his acts, forsooh must not be scrut-
nized by the people; and although the country has
been alternately amused and mortified by the exhibition OF
the weaknesses which his character, yet the cit-
zen who has the temery to intimate doubt Of the
perfection of his wisdom, purity, virtues, or temper,
is once assailed by the base pack Of whg bandogs
We have no respect for the disgusting bigory and
fear OF the despotc temper of the whg party. 1t claims
impuny while it ouirages decency, and spurns
the restraints Of honesty, honor, and truth We will not
recognise such preposerous and insulting claim for
e., nd
their true light regardless alike of their EXPLANATIONS
of rage and their cries of pain.
The special organ of General Scott seems TO have as
certained that it did not appreciate the intelligence Of tie
people when it commenced the defence OF its leader
from the facts disclosed by the executive officers made
in obedience to Mr.. Meriweihers call Ii finds that
personal defamation will not answer, when whig Sec.
etay OF War reports that wing candidate for the presi
dency withholds large of public money without
authority of law When whg register reports that he
has received pay for two offices the same time in
defiance OF law-when whig auditor reports tina, he
has received large sum of money, which remains un-
accounted for from ls4S 10 the present time, and charged
the government with quarters in Washington when he
was absent in Mexico-personal denunciaon will not
answer, The people have right to demand an expla
nation. The Infamous treatment The democratic cand-
date in ls4s received at the hands OF the wings, and
the foul abuse which beapei upon him be-
he had received compensation for services which
his Office did not impose upon him, have not been fof
gotten. We have before the speech which was
made by Mr.. Stewart, OF Pennsylvania, on that subject,
and which scattered throughout the country by the
whig leaders a campaign document While the mem
ory Of that production and the which made Of il
are fresh in the public mind the people will listen
the idea OF General Scofs immunity from all accounta-
by The Scott organ has found ou, that fact and has
changed its tactics II has for time abandoned its bull
lying denuncalions and its pfu appeals TO public sym.
pahy and has resorted instead plain and direct false
hood /, does not deny that the law OF Is42 forbds the
receipt OF extra compensation without special &C, OF
Congress IL Hdoes not affirm that there is any law which
ustifes tho retention OF commissions disbursements in
Mexico II abandons its attempt 10 distort the law OF last
month so 10 cover the II gives no account
Of the large claimed to have been expended in secret
services while in Mexico. But it falsely charges us
with retaining the documents reported to Congress- and
presenting gabled and uncandd abstract through our
columns. This is wilul calumny We commenced
our labors public printer only five days ago, and
there vast number OF documents which have pece-
dence OF that relating General Scors accounts But
will be ready for delivery to-day and when it is de.
liyered. will be charged by the whig journals with
avaing ourselves OF position public printer 10
throw before the public such documents as bear upon
the whig candidate. As TO the charge OF General Scots
ogan that have garbled the report call upon that
journal make good its charge or stand convicted as
wlful and deliberate sanderer. We defy il to show
that stated single point even the most minute,
in an unfair We defy it to specify single
item which we did not state specially or in the
aggregate, to mention single pertinent part in
the whole report which we have no, given its due
weight in favor Of General Scott The commission
charged by General Scott on contributions Sc. &c,
collected in Mexico, is mentioned by the Scott organ.
We did state that commission as money retained with
out authority OF law. The Republic does not deny that
it was so retained We defy it TO point to law which
juslihes its retention We did quote the entire let
ter Of the Secretary OF War; but did quote that por-
ton Of which showed that moneys were retained and
that part which showed that there no law to Justify
the retention The balance Of the letter had nothing do
with the point The destination which should be given
TO the fund received from contributions Sc, &c, in
Mexico, an entirely different matter Whether it
should have been placed in the treasury should have
awaited the special action Of Congress, been given to
the army, questions which in no manner affected
the issue No one pretends ha, il belongs TO Gen Scott
the only question being as to whether there is any
law which gives him three and half per cent commits